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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ...houses of St. Mary’s across the bay, with the hills of Medina Sidonia and Granada lying purple beyond them. There’s something even in those names whi...

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...the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for ...

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...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...er mysteriously discredited, and neither money nor position enough to make people forget 10 The Age of Innocence it, had allied herself with the head... ... of mystery over her too-clear eyes, kindled into eagerness as he spoke of Granada and the Alhambra. “We might be seeing it all this spring—even the E...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...ut consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON, May 18, 1862. GEN... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ...u, and Chile. The commission under the convention with the Republic of New Granada closed its session without having audited and passed upon all the c... ...s judgment, incompatible with the public interest, why our Minister in New Granada has not presented his credentials to the actual government of that ... ... with General Herran as the rep- resentative of Ospina’s government in New Granada since it went into existence.” On the 12th day of December, 1846, a...

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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ...le reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel th... ... executed the customary pirouettes; Robert duly chal- lenged the Prince of Granada; and the royal father of the princess Isabella, taking his daughter...

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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... ...ands who defy all law and all avengers. The last Hispano-Moorish family of Granada has found once more the shelter of an African desert, and even a Sa...

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...een years, the Patent Office has received more than a hundred applications from persons claiming to have discovered cheap substances to be employed in... ...exercising his natural faculties, and his work is its own reward,” and the people believe them. Marriage brings profound mental and physical perturba-... ... the household cares and to take the burden upon herself. So she came down from the pretty blue-and-white room, where she sewed and talked contentedly... ... depart- ment; the alluring prospect of high wages even brought them a few from Bordeaux, more especially apprentices, who thought themselves sufficie... ...; Kolb would not peer among the things that you throw out into the yard if people offered him a thousand crowns to do it; but Cerizet picks them up an... ...t is poor stuff, you behold a rag at the last. So long as Lucien is young, people will like him; but where will he be as a man of thirty? That is the ... ... little less wretched and dishonored.” “This is not like the Archbishop of Granada’s homily,” said Lucien as they stopped to change horses. “Call this...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...ish, by the by; In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin); When proud Granada fell, and, forced to fly, Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin ...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ... body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing. “ Was it... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... ...ften sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted alwa... ...ard him as a representative of romance, and he asked him about Seville and Granada, 293 W. Somerset Maugham Velasquez and Calderon. But Miguel bad no...

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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... ...anish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city of Granada, galloped out of the camp, in full view of besiegers and be- sieged... ...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, ... ... Juan, afraid and ashamed to return to Morocco, wan- dered to the Court of Granada. King Sancho was lying sick at Alcala de Henares when the tidings o... ...Fernando less and less. The King of Castille, and even the Moorish King of Granada, shocked at his sufferings and touched by his con- stancy, proposed...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...heeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our gener... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...d the man completely cornered by generalizing. He said— “We are a civilian people; we pride ourselves on having civilian methods.” “How can that be if... ...er, received in that smelly Barcelona: Lord Ormont was carrying you off to Granada—a dream of my infancy! It may not have been his manoeuvre, but it w... ...yed little gossip. “Don’t speak of manaoeuvres, dear aunt. And we’ll leave Granada to the po- ets. I’m tired. Talk of our own people, on your side and... ... scene. He had been a listening lover, seeming lover, once, later than the Granada sunsets. The let- ter in her jewel-box urged Aminta to clear her co...

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..., etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds that are screened from the action of the laws by the closed doors of domestic life; but as to... ... how fatal the results of feminine weakness, how great the dangers arising from selfish interests when indulged without restraint. May a society which... ... means of an education other than that of a lay university. In the “Scenes from Military Life” so many fine natures, so many high and noble self-devot... ...in point of fact, he was only following out the evil tendencies which many people shelter under the terrible axiom that “men should have strength of c... ...ocer depended; on the contrary, he endeavored to enlighten them. Enlighten people in those days! As well might he have begged them to bring back the B... ...tre Gonin”; words cost him nothing, and he said as many as he could to get people to believe. If, unfortunately, some one refused to accept the ex- pl... ..., and disclosed to observing ones, the half-Moorish nature of a peasant of Granada, which nothing had as yet roused from its phlegmatic indolence. “Ar...

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...ine by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Library), with Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edi... ...izabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms “ from Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I believe I have referred to my ed... ...deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging hoof and horn. 7 Sir ... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...o, King of Leon and Castile, then at war with the Moorish chief Osurga, of Granada, and in a keen contest with the Moslems he flung before him the cas... ...rrow and winding streets of a suburb, inhabited by the lowest order of the people, and an approaching thunder-shower de- termined him to ask a short r...

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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... ...a and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his descendants inter- married with some of the noblest famili... ...knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of Granada was likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chiv... ...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... ...fore this he had been appointed a collector of revenues for the kingdom of Granada. In order to remit the money he had collected more conveniently to ...

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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... ...a and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his descendants inter- married with some of the noblest famili... ...knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of Granada was likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chiv... ...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... ...fore this he had been appointed a collector of revenues for the kingdom of Granada. In order to remit the money he had collected more conveniently to ...

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...essity for such didactic preliminar- ies,—since they have roused a protest from certain ignorant and voracious readers who want emotions without under... ...can reconstruct nations and individuals, in their habits and ways of life, from the remains of public monuments or the relics of a home. Archaeology i... ...se perfect quiet charms superior men. The life of this essentially thrifty people amply fulfils the conditions of happiness which the masses desire as... ...ous parts of the globe, we are surprised to find that the prevailing tints from the tem- perate zones are gray or fawn, while the more brilliant color... ...twithstanding the parcelling out of their territory, the Flemings became a people homogeneous through their pipes and beer.* After assimilating, by co... ...musical genius, or the bold flight of ode and epic. On the other hand, the people are fertile in discoveries, and trained to scientific discussions wh... ...le of Casa-Real where her mother had passed her childhood, and the city of Granada, the cradle of the de Solis family. She left Douai, consigning the ...

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...object. Perhaps this forgetfulness is only prudence in these days when the people are heirs of all the sycophants of royalty. We make criminals poetic... ... was, as you and other friends can well imagine, because my courage shrank from the many difficulties, the many essential details of a drama so doubly... ...dets of the year 1923; you shall estimate the distance at which we now are from the days when the Florines of the eighteenth century found, on awaking... ...ing, let your mind travel, as you lie in bed, fifty leagues or thereabouts from Paris, along the great mail road which leads to the con- fines of Burg... ...ated in the cathedrals of Seville and Milan; the beauty of the Saracens at Granada, the beauty of Louis XIV. at Versailles, the beauty of the Alps, an... ...omen and children, and rival the whimsical imagination of the Chinese,—the people who best understand, to my thinking at least, the art of decoration.... ...they chopped off the heads of the wealthy in 1793! Good heavens! why can’t people understand that the marvels of art are impossible in a land where th...

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...umanity of one of the Drummonds, who received him in his arms as he leaped from amongst the flames. As King James IV . ruled with more activity than m... ...he romance, she roamed a raving maniac, and for some time secreted herself from all living society. Some re- maining instinctive feeling brought her a... ...me re- maining instinctive feeling brought her at length to steal a glance from a distance at the maidens while they milked the cows, which being obse... ...domination, had fired the train, by attempting to impose upon the Scottish people church ceremonies foreign to their habits and opinions. The success ... ...allowances unchallengeable; but then, sir, they are a preceese, scrupulous people, and will allow nothing for peccadilloes. So that if a boor complain... ... sir, you know the nature of our Highlanders. I will not deny them to be a people stout in body and valiant in heart, and courageous enough in their o... ... of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. —Conquest of Granada The Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to inve...

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... aware that it was a part she had to play in the composition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in othe... ...that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluc... ...they positively guaranteed the safety of our virgins and coffers. Then the people, rather ashamed, abused the Press for un- reasonably disturbing them... ...was put to bed again. The Opposition retired into its kennel growling. The People coughed like a man of two minds, doubting whether he has been divine... ...eaves word for you, sir, on your peril to denounce him on another occasion from the magis- terial Bench, for that albeit he is a gentleman of the road... ...succeeds legitimately to that bold Good Robin Hood who fed the poor.—Fresh from this polite encounter, the squire vows money for his per- sonal protec... ...That was a lovely creature coming down the 117 George Meredith hills over Granada on her mule. Ay, we’ve seen handsome women, Nevil Beauchamp. But yo...

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...ination methinks I shall have rendered some service to Your Excellency, as from many parts I am urged to send him off, so as to dispel the loathing an... ...more favour than I can wish for.” Thus I gave him his leave and I beg mine from you, offering Your Excellency the “Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda,”... ...and and I your feet, being as I am, Your Excellency’s most humble servant. From Madrid, this last day of October of the year one thousand six hundred ... ...ld have to be added to the list of the many impertinent sugges- tions that people were in the habit of offering to princes. “Mine, master shaver,” sai... ...ould not give much for the Turk’s chance. But God will have regard for his people, and will provide some one, who, if not so valiant as the knights-er... ...anon law; but even if he had been of Salamanca, it was the opinion of most people that he would have been mad all the same. This graduate, after some ... ...d Don Quixote; “and your worship, where are you bound for?” “I am going to Granada, senor,” said the gentleman, “to my own country.” “And a goodly cou...

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...ve both other duties.” “Oh,” but if I built a church! I dare say there are people at Caergwent as poor as they are here. Couldn’t we build a church, a... ... understand that ‘the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth in nothing from a servant, but is under tutors and governors.’ You will not have any p... ...rence to the sorrow of the household al- ways made her anxious to get away from the subject, so she looked at her finger again, and asked, “Then am I ... ...choly event,” suggested Mary. “Yes, to be sure. I can’t think why grown-up people always write on purpose for one not to read them.—’Melancholy event ... ...y, or quite to know what she was about. She went skipping restlessly about from one chair to another, chattering fast about what she would do, and won... ...e her little Kate happy and good. She was sure they were proud, hard, cold people; and her father had many talks with her, to try to comfort her about... ...s to her like a fairy tale; and she had read Washington Irving’s “Siege of Granada,” so that she could fancy the courts filled with the knightly Moors...

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...nic’s dress. ‘So that’s what you call beating a mat,’ said he, catching it from her hands, and mimicking the tender clasp of her little fingers. ‘D’ye... ...nd Frampton and Gervas, they put on me, and you know how ’twas I come away from Ormersfield. I was not going to say a word to one of that lot! but if ... ... He could merely bandy glances with Poynings, the groom, and he was so far from indifferent that he signifi- cantly lifted up the end of his whip. Not... ...not? She wished she had never teased him by going out so much, and letting people talk nonsense; he had been very kind, and she was not half good enou... ...n wonder and reproof, ‘Is that on purpose?’ ‘Adventures are thrust on some people,’ was the noncha- lant reply, with shoulders depressed, and a twinkl... ...t on me, and conjured me first to dine and then to sleep. They are capital people. Dobbs is superintendent of the copper and tin works—a thoroughly ri... ...encils, pens beyond reckoning, a purse, a key, half a poem on the Siege of Granada, three parts of an essay upon Spade Hus- bandry, the dramatis perso...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ...o, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets. New Granada, the Yucatan, Paraguay, and the Brazils, were, before discovered by...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...l under Buccaneer Kirby. He fought on shore as well; and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into a... ...ughed at in the songs for going twice upon his mission. None of the mighty people repented of having the Old Buccaneer—for that night, at all events. ... ...ap attached to it. She listened to descriptions of Cadiz, Malaga, Seville, Granada. Her curiosity was chiefly for de- tailed accounts of Catalonia and...

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... some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...hant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the... ...broke out over the faces of the frequenters of the bou- levard, who daily, from their chairs, watch the passers-by, and indulge in the agreeable pasti... ...h a pair of enormous ears had left their marks which no brush could efface from the underside of the brim; the silk tissue (as usual) fitted badly ove... ...untenance grotesque and droll, as the faces which the Chinese alone of all people can imag- ine for their quaint curiosities. The broad visage was as ... ...as been called through all ages, try to collect something, no matter what (people have been known to collect placards), so shall you receive the small... ...nd queens and princes, and many a private house emulated royal splendours. People used to play at Royalty then as they play nowadays at parliament, cr... ... tell a rich man that he is poor! you might as well tell the Archbishop of Granada that his homilies show signs of se- nility. Mme. la Presidente, pro...

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...y huge beside him stood, 194 A Pagan damsel there unwares he met, 15 ?A Pagan therefore thee I fostered have, 278 ?A pinnace take thee swift as shaft from bow, 20 A privy door Ismen unlocked at last, 235 ?A rumbling sound amid the waters deep 331 A secret place they found in one of those, 347 A shadow, blacker than the mirkest night, 370 A shepherd fair Erminia entertains,...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ... angry lions breed, Where now the realms of Fez and Maroc be, Gainst which Granada’s shores and coasts they see. XXII Now are they there, where first ...

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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... ..., insomuch that the “silent knight” became the dread of all the Paynims of Granada and Andalusia, and more fell by his lance than by that of any the m...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a soj...

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...owing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ecomes impossible for them to resume 2 Walden their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach;... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...now enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe... ...ow how to throw in Don Carlos and the Infanta, and Don Pedro and Seville and Granada, from time to time in the right proportions, — they may have chan...

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...ed by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which in- cluded diplom... ...to power, and Machiavelli lost his office. The Medici again ruled Florence from 1512 until 1527, when they were once more driven out. This was the per... ...rvice of the free Republic of Florence, which flourished, as stated above, from the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 until their return in 1512. After ... ...fate he drew the moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. This is a very noticeable principle in M... ...e Medici, imprisoned, and put to the question by torture. The new Medicean people, Leo X, procured his release, and he re- tired to his small property... ...ent should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; to... ...nd some of them extraordinary. In the beginning of his reign he at- tacked Granada, and this enterprise was the foundation of his dominions. He did th...

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...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...rama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you want? Owing to your unfortunate habit—you no... ...out of date for you and for me; and if there are millions of less literate people who are still in the eighteenth century, have they not Moliere and M... ...road over one of the passes crosses a tunnel on the railway from Malaga to Granada, is one of the mountain amphitheatres of the Sierra. Looking at it ... ...arried three brave comrades of ours, who did not know how to stop it, into Granada, and capsized them opposite the police station. Since then we never... ...tate with folded arms. 149 Man & Superman ACT IV The garden of a villa in Granada. Whoever wishes to know what it is like must go to Granada and see....

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...how it was. I will simply tell it in order. (Order!) Gentlemen, I am far from being a literary man and you will see that; but no matter, I’ll tell... ...hat I understand it all! It was, if you care to know, that is to take it from the beginning, that she used to come to me simply to pawn things, to... ...ence. She knew herself that they were worth next to nothing, but I could see from her face that they were treasures to her, and I found out afterwards... ...it” Dostoevsky 11 to her — she’s proud.” Proud, is she! “I like proud people,” I thought. Proud people are particularly nice when … well, when... ...in to justify yourself — then it is difficult. You see, for instance, young people despise money — I made money of importance at once; I laid specia... ... at once this sixteen year old girl picked up details about me from vul gar people and thought she knew all about me, and, mean while, what was prec... ...aughed as she told me, recalling the scene of Gil Blas and the Archbishop of Granada. And with that sweet, childish laughter, just as in old days when...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ... angry lions breed, Where now the realms of Fez and Maroc be, Gainst which Granada’s shores and coasts they see. XXII Now are they there, where first ...

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...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...nough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe w... ... how to throw in Don Carlos and the Infanta, and Don Pedro and Seville and Granada, from time to time in the right proportions they may have changed ...