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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ... the bride and bridegroom, who turned their backs to the King. Cardinal de Bouillon, in full robes, married them, and said Mass. From the chapel all t... ...ircumstances. The benediction of the bed was pronounced by the Cardinal de Bouillon, who kept us all waiting for a quarter of an hour; which made peop... ...nts. With this state one day she met in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to thei...

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...e middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement o...

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...e Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun,... ...assengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest Fr... ...the tongue to ex- press, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returning from hunting.” And that was all. Whilst, however, th... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ...e prince, every maneuver of her august husband. Raoul, impassible, and a little disengaged by the atten- tion of his hosts, looked from his place thro... ...had waited for it impa- tiently. This time, therefore, he had all the honors due, if not to his rank, at least to his appetite As to the cardinal, he ... ...least my dispensations.” And he rubbed his hands. “Decidedly,” said D’Artagnan to himself, “there will be no means of uprooting these people. Get me s...

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...pt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of...

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...6, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to... ...s on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the... ...ll strewn with the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. When we contemplate from that quay so many commemorating scenes, when the soul has grasped the ... ...not accepted. In the first place, his former career seemed to these worthy people profoundly immoral; then, during this very year, he had made still f... ...f the trees; it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one day to give a... ...he remoteness of a memory. He asked himself, “Shall I to-morrow find those people there?” III THE HOUSE OF MONGENOD THE NEXT DAY, as Godefroid rose am... ...ou enough to make the pot boil, you can call me, if you like, Godefroid de Bouillon.” The old man was far too moved to laugh at a joke. He held out hi...

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...Excerpt: On Being Found Out? and ?The Notch on the Ax? by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories -- Old Time English, ed. Julian Hawthowrne....

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...Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian H... ...Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian H... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray From The Lock and Key Library Julian Hawthorne, Ed.* Classic Mystery and De... ... circulation.* Hundreds and hundreds of thousands—why not say a million of people at once?—well, say a million, read it. And among these count- less r... ... a chair to reach it. I am found out. And in the days of my triumphs, when people were yet afraid of me, and were taken in by my swag- ger, I always k... ...reary house, and you will have but a chilly fire- side. Do you suppose the people round it don’t see your homely face as under a glamour, and, as it w... ...hing I have in the world, but don’t ask the third question.’ “‘Godfroid de Bouillon, Comte de Bechamel, Grandee of Spain and Prince of V olovento, in ...

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...olicy of Louis XI., by which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by ... ... peasantry, since the clergy and the nobles to all generations were exempt from taxation. The trade and all the resources of the country were taking s... ...he succession to their sons on the payment of a tariff called La Paulette, from the magistrate who invented it. In the next reign, however, an effort ... ...d the Queen and Mazarin that they caused him, his brother, and the Duke of Bouillon, to be arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes. His wife, though a cr... ..., so that she held out four months against the Queen. T urenne, brother to Bouillon, and as great a gen- eral as Conde, obtained the aid of Spaniards,... ...th their chatter, which I could hardly follow, for it was about things and people of which I knew nothing, so that I could not un- derstand their laug... ...de by any decision except my father’s, which I daily expected. I overheard people saying how much M. de Bellaise was improved by his marriage, and how... ...n, hung and draped with blue velvet, divided by lines of gold, was full of people ranged in a circle, listen- ing eagerly to the recital of poem by th... ...marched into the house to arrest him, he was sitting at dinner, eating his bouillon, in dress- ing-gown and slippers. His daughter cried out that he w...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe... ...ances Diane had made in marrying one daughter to Robert de la Mark, Duc de Bouillon, Prince of Sedan, and the other to Claude de Lorraine, Duc d’Aumal... ...ois in 1559. Diane, whose sons-in-law were the Duc d’Aumale and the Duc de Bouillon (then a sovereign prince), kept her wealth, and died in 1566 aged ... ...the Guises, the Montmorencys, the Scottish princes, the cardinals, and the Bouillons, he distinguished himself by his graceful bearing, his manners, h...

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...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from t... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...ad to console myself with that of the beacon in the bay, as well as with a bouillon of which I partook at the buffet afore-said; for, since the mornin... ...n, which, at the station, is hawked at the windows of the train) and for a bouillon, very much later, at Lyons. The journey beside the Rhone—past Vale... ...gain readjusting the balance after I have given it an honest tip, that the bouillon at Lyons, which I spoke of above, was, though by no means an ideal...

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...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... seemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom than a living creature— from the corridors deserted by courtiers, and courts crowded with ... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ...is difficulties. Discontent had long pervaded the lower ranks of society in France. Crushed and impoverished by taxation—imposed by Mazarin, whose ava... ...lieutenant on the spot.” “So I presume,” said Athos, “that you have a large num- ber of the nobles with you?” “Certainly. There are the Prince de Cont... ...out this.” “Yes, but on one condition—that we begin by the coad- jutor. He is a priest, learned in cases of conscience, and we will tell him ours.” It... ... of siege. Athos and Aramis did not proceed a hundred steps without being stopped by sentinels placed before the barricades, who demanded the watchwor...

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...a tall figure, thin, or perhaps wasted, like that of a man just recovering from illness, and finally, a bearing that was midway between the indolence ... ...hat he might have been taken for an Englishman on the road to his embassy. From these general signs you will readily discern a family man, harassed by... ...found it; an honest man, loving his country and serving it, not concealing from himself the obstacles in the way of those who seek to do right; pruden... ...the scantiness of her pecuniary means. No matter what foolish declarations people make about money, they one and all, if they live in Paris, must grov... ... is becoming mature. Like Madame de Stael, who exclaimed in a room full of people, addressing, as we may say, a greater man than herself, “Do you know... ...vention of a new system for the Civil Service of government. Know- ing the people with whom he had to do, he maintained the machine as it then worked,... ...d down- stairs, and the next morning reappears smiling with an ex- cellent bouillon. No matter how high a statesman may stand, he is certain to have s...

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... said they, “that King Rich- ard is on the track, that you stray so wildly from it?” The most curious register of the history of King Richard is an an... ...f the history of King Richard is an ancient romance, translated originally from the Norman; and at first certainly having a pretence to be termed a wo... ...as an ogre, or literal cannibal. A principal incident in the story is that from which the title is derived. Of all people who ever lived, the Persians... ...ipal incident in the story is that from which the title is derived. Of all people who ever lived, the Persians were perhaps most remarkable for their ... ...e condescended to recruit their diminished resources at the expense of the people of Palestine—he exacted no gifts from the wretched natives for spari... ...ich were so well cal- culated to charm the minds of a proud and conquering people. They had their tournaments and games of chivalry; they had even the... ...ike something,” said the Marquis, “and yet it rings but hollow. Godfrey of Bouillon might well choose the crown of thorns for his emblem. Grand Master...

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...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...carefully with the original will have little doubt that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...brothers contrived to inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father dispo... ...tered Jerusalem with the cross and won the Holy Sepulchre, like Godfrey of Bouillon, there being years innumerable between the one and 373 Cervantes ...

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...nce; for we are all of us distinctly marked to get back what we give, even from the thing named inanimate nature. The ‘Leaves from the Diary of Henry ... ...arm- ers—returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour’s harvest-home, eased their bub- bling breasts with a read... ... laugh is an excellent progenitorial founda- tion for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is wi... ...te of the selecter missionary lieutenants of Satan. We pray to be defended from her cleverness: she flashes bits of speech that catch men in their ung... ...lows there.’ But she would have us away with sentimentalism. Senti- mental people, in her phrase, ‘fiddle harmonics on the strings of sensualism,’ to ... ...enants! They can’t have my feeling for the place where I was born. They’re people of tolerably good connections, middling wealthy, I suppose, of the n... ...on of what was wanted, and smart service: within ten minutes an appetizing bouillon sent its odour over the bed- room. Tony, days back, had said her l... ...ping at the spoon and expressing satisfaction, was a pleasant picture. The bouillon smelt pleasantly. ‘Your servants love you,’ Emma said. ‘Ah, poor g...

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...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...have little doubt that it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...brothers contrived to inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father dispo... ...tered Jerusalem with the cross and won the Holy Sepulchre, like Godfrey of Bouillon, there being years innumerable between the one and the other? or, ...

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...neaded by a hand more daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used thes... ...ment that I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it fo... ...was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “ A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present momen... ...constitution which the least toil wearied. She was truly a daughter of the people of Paris, where children, seldom handsome, and of no vigor, the prod... ...ceably too small and ending in a point like the nose of a mouse, made some people fear she would become, sooner or later, imbecile. Her eyes, which we... ...a new dynasty, a royalty of its own, and behold how it treats it! When the people allowed Napoleon to rise to power, it created with him a splendid an... ...,” she said naively, “is stronger than reason.” The soup was a rather pale bouillon; for, even on an occa- sion like this, the cook had been enjoined ... ...n occa- sion like this, the cook had been enjoined to make a great deal of bouillon out of the beef supplied. Then, as the said beef was to feed the f... ... on the next day and the day after that, the less juice it expended in the bouillon, the more substantial were the subsequent dinners. The beef, littl...

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...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ...th, the two months or so were only just enough to keep poor Florence alive from year to year. The reason for his heart was, approximately, polo, or to... ...ing more particularly what in England it is the custom to call “quite good people”. They were descended, as you will probably expect, from the Ashburn... ...isted. He was at ease; he was even radiantly happy when he carried cups of bouillon for Maisie Maidan along the deck. One night, when he was leaning b...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...: And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, ‘scap’d from sea to shore, Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze; ... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...t hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came... ...of Orange, and his kinsman Raimbaud, two of the crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon, (Maimbourg, Hist. des Croisades, ed. Par. 1682. 12mo. t. i. p. ... ...ated by Ariosto, under the name of Rinaldo. v. 43. Duke Godfey.] Godfrey of Bouillon. v. 46. Robert Guiscard.] See Hell, Canto XXVIII. v. 12. v. 81....

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...men; but have they not taken the world in exchange?” Mused thus Godfrey de Bouillon, Marquis of Codlingsby, as he debouched from Wych Street into the ... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...enjoyed in Syria with lion-hearted Richard; with his coadjutor, Godfrey of Bouillon; nay, with the dauntless Saladin himself. “Y ou knew Gottfried in ...

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... most of its light I have been, and have seen things which he who descends from thereabove neither knows how nor is able to recount; because, drawing ... ...into my breast, and breathe thou in such wise as when thou drewest Marsyas from out the sheath of his limbs. O divine Power, if thou lend thyself to m... ...nd. The lamp of the world rises to mortals through different passages, but from that which joins four circles with three crosses it issues with better... ... me what are the dusky marks of this body, which there below on earth make people fable about Cain?” 6 She smiled somewhat, and then she said, “If the... ...lown to the sorrow of Lucretia, in seven kings, conquering the neighboring peoples round about. Thou knowest what it did when borne by the illustri- o... ... revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacrifice an... ..., ii-ix. 4 T wo heroes of romance, paladins of Charlemagne. 5 Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the first crusade. 6 The founder of the Norman kin...

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..., Witness of things, which to relate again Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence; For that, so near approaching its desire Our intellect is to... ...y bosom, and there breathe So, as when Marsyas by thy hand was dragg’d Forth from his limbs unsheath’d. O power divine! If thou to me of shine impart ... ...ard (more shame for human wills Deprav’d) joy to the Delphic god must spring From the Pierian foliage, when one breast Is with such thirst inspir’d. F... ...gh me from Charles and Rodolph; had not ill lording which doth spirit up The people ever, in Palermo rais’d The shout of ‘death,’ re echo’d loud and l... ... spouse He sent, who by their deeds and words might join Again his scatter’d people. In that clime, Where springs the pleasant west wind to unfold The... ... reflected back The scripture image, by distortion marr’d. “Let not the people be too swift to judge, As one who reckons on the blades in field, ... ...of Orange, and his kinsman Raimbaud, two of the crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon, (Maimbourg, Hist. des Croisades, ed. Par. 1682. 12mo. t. i. p. ... ...ated by Ariosto, under the name of Rinaldo. v. 43. Duke Godfey.] Godfrey of Bouillon. v. 46. Robert Guiscard.] See Hell, Canto XXVIII. v. 12. v. 81....

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...ing. He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in a wicker ... ...beard was neatly and closely trimmed. Once in a while he withdrew his glance from the newspaper and looked about him. There was more noise than ever o... ...er at the house. The main building was called “the house,” to distinguish it from the cottages. The chattering and whistling birds were still at it. T... ...over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet’s lugger to hear mass. Some young people were out under the wateroaks playing cro quet. Mr. Pontellier’s t... ...it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Cheniere; about the children playing croquet u... ...e, and you would be unfit to asso ciate with the wives and daughters of the people who trust you.” Madame Ratignolle had spoken what she believed to ... ...evoir. But you look tired,” he added, solicitously. “Would you like a cup of bouillon? Shall I stir you a toddy? Let me mix you a toddy with a drop of... ... mix you a toddy with a drop of Angostura.” She acceded to the suggestion of bouillon, which was grateful and acceptable. He went himself to the kitch... ... lying to the rear of the house. And he himself brought her the golden brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the sauc...

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.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ .......................... ...................................... 231 Extract from Adam’s Diary ............................................................ ...bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a... ...llars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck’s grip had been upon the... ...uld you wanting to talk in that dreadful way? How would you like to have people talk so about you, and you not cold yet?” “Not likely to be, for o... ...hat he cut a Moslem in two in broad daylight in Jerusalem, with Godfrey de Bouillon’s sword, and would have shed more blood if he had had a graveyard...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ... with the great tooth was a tinder-maker and seller of matches. Godfrey de Bouillon, a hood-maker. Jason was a bracelet- maker. Don Pietro de Castille...