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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig... ...zarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow: This is the road that leads to Constantinople. 70 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc met from the hos...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...em to be an artist here? Constantine, son of Helena, founded the empire of Constantinople, and so many ages after, Constantine, the son of Helen, put ... ...pe’s tricks, which he got his living by. There has been seen in my time at Constantinople two men upon one horse, who, in the height of its speed, wou...

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...ume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...lzac Droll Stories Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERT... ...nguage of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, ... ...ge the hyperbolic title of your bud- get. You will never finish it.” These people are neither mis- anthropes nor cannibals; whether they are ruffians ... ...and in the hour of extreme unction, all their worth will be known. If such people would only keep these sad kindnesses; but they will not. When their ... ...e their minds easy, assures them that he has, legally protected and exempt from seizure, seventy droll stories, in that reservoir of nature, his brain... ...ncient usage, as it appears in the profane histories of Narsez, general of Constantinople, and others. On the morrow after mass has appeared before us...

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...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

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...Excerpt: Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and se...

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...ge, while casting a reflected radi- ance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which ha... ...ed at my too prolific pen, as though it could rival in fertility the world from which I draw my models! Would it not be a fine thing, George, if the f... ...ng on like this, you will say, but tell me rather how you made your escape from the convent where you were to take your vows. Well, dear, I don’t know... ...ht to have been removed. Their presence showed the carelessness with which people, busy with the affairs of state, may treat their own, and also the l... ...d me on the forehead most affectionately. “Dear child,” she said, “we have people coming to dinner to-day. Perhaps you will agree with me that it is b... ...have shown to me. In Paris, my dear, it is a miracle of virtue to love the people who live with you, for you see little enough of them; as for the abs... ...arying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is ...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...ow the River’s course: land somewhere in Crim Tartary, in the Black Sea or Constantinople region: a la Sindbad! Authentic History, accordingly, lookin...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...ois the Baker;’ (21st October, 1789 (Moniteur, No. 76).) and hangs him, in Constantinople wise;—but even this, singular as it my seem, does not cheape...

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...KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...tories KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev T ranslated From The Russian By Constance Garnett KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK A STUDY I WE ALL ... ...he ‘thirties his fame was above everyone’s—and in the opinion of the young people of the day Pushkin could not hold candle to him. He not only enjoyed... ...lligence and education—but because the stamp which dis- tinguishes “fatal” people was discerned in him. No one of his fellow officers expected that T ... ...ng ... suddenly one of them stopped: he saw a little dog some twenty paces from the bank on the slowly moving surface of the river. Perched on a proje... ...made her her heiress. On her return to her own relations, poor and drunken people, Masha’s lot was a bitter one. Tyeglev had promised to marry her and... ... petal and gave him the whole sprig. “Will you have jam? Nice jam ... from Constantinople ... sorbet?” Colibri took from the small chest of drawers a ... ... changed his mind and pre- ferred ... preferred to set off with Colibri to Constantinople at once for their forthcoming wedding, as she was a Turk and... ... the boat, floated on the big river, which, as the River of Time, flows to Constantinople in the map on the walls of the Nikolaevsky High School. With...

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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... ...Artagnan with wondering eyes. “Where the devil shall I say that he is, so that he cannot try to rejoin him?” thought D’Artagnan. “Well, where is he, s...

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...g always presented as a fictional character that during the day lives a normal life, while in the midnight transfigures in a cruel vampire, attacking people, sucking their blood and transfiguring them to their turn, in evil persons. Even the real character that lived in the XV century and inspired the creation of the fictional Dracula, the Walachian Prince Vlad Ţepeş (or V...

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...November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation fr... ...LEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus ... ... consultation of the text of J.A. Fabricius, 1718, which was taken directly from the existing manuscripts of the works of Sextus. The divisions into... ...headings of the chapters in the translation, is the same as Fabricius gives from the manuscripts, although not used by Bekker, and the numbers of the... ... be consulted. Thanks are also due to Dr. Louisos Iliou, of Robert College, Constantinople, for kind suggestions concerning the translation. CON... ...ever, entirely unfounded, as the explanation of Sextus simply shows that the people whom he was then addressing were not familiar with the nations of... ... at present." [2] In other places also he contrasts the Athenians with the people whom he is addressing, equally with the Alexandrians, thus puttin... ...ult to entirely give up one's humanity. [5] He was greatly venerated by the people among whom he lived, who made him high priest, and on his account...

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...asons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impressionistically, in the manner of the passing traveller; or after residence among them, ?soberly, advisedly,? and with all the vain precautions enjoined in another grave contingency....

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...ly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impression istically, in the manner of the passin... ...e dissemblances, or, if he probes below the surface, he will find them sprung from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own... ...ng from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own people. A period of confusion must follow, in which he will waver between... ...harp outlines will become blurred with what the painters call “repentances.” From this twilight it is hardly possible for any foreigner’s judgment to ... ...ost 2 PREFACE instructive that any attempt to catch the likeness of another people by painting ourselves is never quite successful. Indeed, once the ... ...nk spirits and those who drink wine, between those whose social polity dates from the Forum, and those who still feel and legislate in terms of the pr... ...s. Barbarism...now threatened the world. It had levied a shameful tribute on Constantinople; it now threatened the farthest FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEA...

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...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...mbassy to that country, and see. They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Provi- dence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into ... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ... Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer; it is the Almighty God’s! Atheistic sci- ence babbles poorly... ...know not what:— the notes being all false, and no gold to be had for them, people take to crying in their despair that there is no gold, that there ne... ... guai, and that he himself should see it, than we doubt that we should see Constantinople if we went thither. Dante’s heart, long filled with this, br...

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...Introduction: This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866,1 from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. Thi...

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...l. I (Soc. Bibl. Belges., Mons., 1866). INTRODUCTION This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal ; edit... ...edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866, 1 from the MS. num bered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at... ...istory issued by the Benedictines of the Congregation of St Maur. Selections from the poems it contains are given in Sinner’s Extraits de Poesie du X... ...esent state, the “Chronicle” comes to an end with a notice of the capture of Constantinople by the French in 1204, and it has been hastily assumed tha... ... day that He was put on rood and crucified in order that He might redeem His people from the pains of hell. Josephus set it in remembrance by annuncia... ... appeared would ask not, whereof have many mischances sithence befallen much people.” III. W ith that, they left of talking, and the hermit led Messir... ... us, for he saith of remembrance that by envy was Adam betrayed, and all the people that were after him and the people that 88 The High History of th...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...ject to looking on at a death scene; the Emperors were generally absent at Constantinople, and no one could get elected to any office unless he treate...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ... every Society are such chimneys, are Institutions serv- ing as such: even Constantinople is not without its safety- valves; there too Discontent can ... ...ois the Baker;’ (21st October, 1789 (Moniteur, No. 76).) and hangs him, in Constantinople wise;—but even this, singular as it my seem, does not cheape... ...ow the River’s course: land somewhere in Crim Tartary, in the Black Sea or Constantinople region: a la Sindbad! Authentic History, ac- cordingly, look...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ...In every Society are such chimneys, are Institutions serving as such: even Constantinople is not without its safety-valves; there too Discontent can v...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ...a vast tran- sition of two and a half millennia, to that great talisman of Constantinople, the triple serpent, (having perhaps an origi- nal reference... ...d traditionally with the Mahometan prophecies about the Adrianople gate of Constantinople, to depress the ultimate hopes of Islam in the midst of all ...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...icles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros- per, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not follo... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ...rable, built of brick and stone. Its inhabitants consist of four different people; the Scots, the Picts, the Saxons and the ancient Britons. 8. Three ... ...ianus and Theodosius reigned eight years. At that time a synod was held at Constantinople, attended by three hundred and fifty of the fathers, and in ...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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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’... ...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... ...he play- bills, and the gingybear bottles in the window—above all, by the “Constantinople” Divan, kep by the Misses Mordeky, and well known to every l... ... lover of “a prime sigaw and an exlent cup of reel Moky Coffy for 6d.” The Constantinople Divann is greatly used by the foring gents of Lester Squar. ... ...lam; and of this back-parlor and baggytell-bord, of this counter, of this “Constantinople” Divan, he became almost as reglar a frequenter as the plast...

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...d with success in November, 1718. A few months later he was again banished from Paris, and finished the Henriade in his retirement, as well as another... ...n December, 1721, Voltaire visited Lord Bolingbroke, who was then an exile from England, at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary ... ..., at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary activ- ity. From July to October, 1722, Voltaire visited Holland with Madame de Rupelmo... ...RS I WAS OF OPINION that the doctrine and history of so ex- traordinary a people were worthy the attention of the curious. T o acquaint myself with t... ...l do me the honour to inform me of the particulars of your religion.” “The people of thy country,” replied the Quaker, “are too full of their bows and... ... man and man. When we are obliged to appear before a magistrate upon other people’s account (for law-suits are unknown among the Friends), we give evi... ...on adopted this custom, insomuch that at this time there is not a bassa in Constantinople but communicates the small-pox to his children of both sexes... ...le to communicate the small-pox to an infant of which she was delivered in Constantinople. The chaplain represented to his lady, but to no purpose, th... ...tain, that had the lady of some French ambassador brought this secret from Constantinople to Paris, the nation would have been for ever obliged to her...