...: 1-936000-00-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-00-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. De... ...t by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any ele... ...ording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this b... ...face, I gave him a weak smile. “From the bottle in my hand, I’d have to say Brittany Spears’ Curious.” “You attempted to kill me with a designer fr... ...eak loose. Instead of figuring out a way to stop it, I’d been forced to play politics with someone who wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the ...

...When newbie slayer Savannah Marshall lands her first assignment, she doesn't plan on meeting the vamp of her dreams. Staking Donatello Ravell might not have been the best way to start a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. With two days to stop an insane vampire from starting a war between...

... “Little Britain” by Washington Irving is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ppellation from having been, in ancient times, the residence of the Dukes of Brittany. As London increased, however, rank and fashion rolled off to th... ...lks would gather round the cheesemonger and the apothecary to hear them talk politics; for they generally brought out a newspaper in their pockets, to...

...Excerpt: In the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of Little Britain. Christ Church School and St. Bar...

...The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...garouet, without a fortune, but belonging to one of the oldest families in Brittany. When the second revolution burst on Monsieur de Fontaine he was e... ...n pleased to make a choice from among the many young men whom her father’s politics brought to his entertainments. Though so young, she asserted in so... ...ope, and the nineteenth will give it political lib—” “Oh, we will not talk politics. I am a perfect old woman— ultra you see. But I do not hinder youn...

...Excerpt: The Comte De Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the royalist leaders ...

...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ....P.W. 4 Balzac BEATRIX I A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION F RANCE, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement ... ... . in the depths of Pitou, and of still more ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men... ... tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the people,—as in Brittany, where the native char- acter allows no forgetfulness of things wh... ...ector coughed when he came to the crucial words, Domine, salvum fac regem. Politics were still at that point in Guerande. 34 Balzac IV A NORMAL EVENI... ...intel- lect, which is competent to criticise art, science, literature, and politics, is incompetent to guide his external life. Claude contemplates hi... ... him to see if the bold speculator had sufficient power to make his way in politics and enough gratitude not to desert 256 Balzac his wife. Couture, ...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classi- cal works of lit... ...uguiere, a composer to whom we are indebted for many charming melodies. In Brittany, the young villagers sing this song to all newly-married couples o... ...ly reigns, hardly to be defined; caused, perhaps, by the aspect of life in Brittany, which is deeply touching. This power of awakening a world of grav... ...which stuck out at the hips,— the jacket of blue cloth which is classic in Brittany; there, too, were the waistcoat of printed cotton, the linen shirt... ...olonel to make a Liberal of the ex-mercer, though Rogron knew so little of politics that he was capable of regarding the exploits of Sergeant Mercier ...

... Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... words? Marcas’ name was Zephirin; Saint Zephirin is highly vener- ated in Brittany, and Marcas was a Breton. Study the name once more: Z Marcas! The ... ...elves. The reason for our dissipation lay in the most serious facts of the politics of the time. Juste and I could not see any room for us in the two ... ...y lawyers as there are cases. The pleader is thrown back on journalism, on politics, on literature. In fact, the State, besieged for the small- est ap... ...ficulties in the solution of the hardest problems of abstract or practical politics. But these elevated characters can all be tripped up on a grain of...

...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...argaret and Isabel, were already contracted to the Dauphin and the Duke of Brittany, and were soon sent to their new homes. The little King, the one d... ... manager of the property it possessed in the city, and of all its monastic politics. Without apparent offence, she observed that no doubt the ladies w... ...ted the fair face thus dis- played by fits. She did not understand English politics enough to know that a Beaufort face and Beaufort train were the la... ...at would not have served her better. If she were as dull as the Duchess of Brittany—who they say can scarce find a word to give to a stranger at Nante... ..., and if their situation was known, the King, the Dauphin, and the Duke of Brittany would be certain one or other to rescue them by force of arms, if ...

...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...repit. A cold precision made itself felt throughout. Tourists in Normandy, Brittany, Maine, and Anjou must all have seen in the capitals of those prov... ...se, and began to lecture him with the queerest plati- tudes about royalist politics and religious morality. Not pos- sessing, like the Chevalier de Va... ... la Porte-de-Seez, and becomes the rue du Bercail as it enters the road to Brittany. If the departure of Mademoiselle Cormon made a great noise in Ale... ...tuosity, still lived, though she seemed to be suffering. Along the road to Brittany the Vicomte de Troisville was stated to be a younger son without a... ...at he was meditating over some great work. Athanase no longer took part in politics: he ceased to have opinions; but he appeared at times quite gay,—g...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

...y by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ntor and pushing his interests, or of devoting her powers to the financial politics of a Nucingen, and playing a brilliant part in the great world. Pe... ...osition is rather hazardous in reproducing a plan which may be thought the politics of a chimney-corner, it is, nevertheless, necessary to sketch it s... ...erbal reports thereon was entrusted, knew all the secrets of parliamentary politics; dragged in the lukewarm, fetched, carried, and bur- ied propositi... ...d communication with the First Consul. He was a bit of a ‘chouan’; born in Brittany of a parliamentary family, and ennobled by Louis XVIII. How old wa...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... boulevards fancied himself at some enormous distance from Paris,—in lower Brittany or the wilds of Canada. Silence has perhaps its own degrees. Godef... ...e, like the Kellers, Nucingen, and du Tillet, the Mongenods kept away from politics, and 19 Balzac only knew as much about them as their banking inte... ...pped the diligences containing government money, which they transmitted to Brittany and La Vendee for the support of the royalist troops. They re- ga... ... Balzac ments. The censor allowed nothing to be published in the matter of politics except accomplished facts, and those were travestied. If you will ... ...acy in the provinces powerless. “This expectation of exciting civil war in Brittany, La Vendee, and part of Normandy, coincided in time with the final...

...Excerpt: 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, an...

...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ...ion. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; an... .... When I was a little girl the name of Horace Greeley was potent in American politics, and some irreverent tradesman had manufactured a pink cardboard... ... bends in to soften the rainy climate of her great western peninsula, making Brittany almost as warm as the sunnier south. Above all, the rich soil of... ...’s ransom in her day of need. At ev ery stage in French history, in war, in politics, in literature, in art and in religion, women have played a sple...

...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excu...

...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ... you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s going for a song— you... ... the keeper and his daughter go off to Morlaix and get drunk. The women in Brittany drink dreadfully.” She stooped to match a silk; then she lifted he... ... it is. What does it call itself? A History of the Assizes of the Duchy of Brittany. Quimper, 1702. The book was written about a hundred years later t... ...the all that— and I’m sick of travelling.” “H’m. Then some larger interest—politics, reform, philan- thropy? Something to take you out of yourself.” “...

Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton.

...5 THE DILETTANTE ....................................................................................................................... 73 THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND ......................................................................................... 83...

...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...lution and a spectator of the Empire, Minoret-Levrault did not meddle with politics; as to his reli- gious opinions, he had never set foot in a church... ...actions of mind to hate each other long. In Paris espe- 58 Ursula cially, politics, literature, and science render life so vast that every man can fi... ...of the world does cost double, at least it teaches you to understand life, politics, men,—and sometimes women.” Blondet concluded the lesson by a para... ...said Goupil, “won’t want to witness her own disaster; she’ll go and die in Brittany, where she can manage to find a wife for her son.” “No,” said the ... ...ld lady say that if she could settle her affairs she should go and live in Brittany, as she would not have means enough left to live her. She is think... ... “But suppose I give them to you, on condition of your buying an estate in Brittany near Madame de Portenduere,— 192 Ursula you could then marry her ...

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s yet cost her; for religious sects and hu- manitarian, equality-levelling politics are, to-day, the tail of Calvinism; and, judging by the mistakes o... ..., early in life, his apprenticeship in the misfortunes of an honest man in politics,—a man whose conscience cannot lend itself to the capriciousness o... ...ecial civilization; it is the history of statesmen, the eternal history of Politics,—that of usurpers, that of conquerors. As soon as Filippo Strozzi ... ...icit favors, or to confer with the queen as to the fate and condi- tion of Brittany, awaited in this pleasure-ground the oppor- tunity for an audience... ...to imagine that Michel Columb, that great sculp- tor, the Michel-Angelo of Brittany, passed that way for the pleasure of Queen Anne, whom he afterward... ...hom he afterwards immortalized on the tomb of her father, the last duke of Brittany. Whatever La Fontaine may choose to say about the “little gallerie...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

...t by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...azard with no road traced out. “This vagueness and uncertainty prevails in politics as well as in science. In the order of nature means are simple, th... ...elf—the A + A from which everything is produced—is destructive in society. Politics, at the present time, place human forces in antagonism to neutrali... ...m England to Napoleon, from Napoleon to England, I see no fixed purpose in politics; its constant agitation has led to no progress. “Nations leave wit... ...once in Switzerland, where we went, and once in an island off the wilds of Brittany, where we took some sea- baths. I have twice been very happy! I ca...

...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicte...

...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...rrogation over its own full stop. Great ladies must they be, at the web of politics, for us to hear them cited discoursing. Henry Wilmers is not conte... ...pponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the scandal, and politics in his day flushed the concep- tions of men. His short references ... ...r which renders it 13 George Meredith untrustworthy,’ is light enough. On Politics she is rhetorical and swings: she wrote to spur a junior politicia... ...y flew, touching Cherbourg, Alderney, Sark, Guernsey, and sighting the low Brittany rocks. Memorable days to Arthur Rhodes. He saw perpetually the one...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ... mercy than the heathen senate. Another woman, in 1450, when Sir Gilles of Brittany was savagely imprisoned and starved in much the same manner by his... ...he once wild and independent Gauls. Everywhere, except in the moorlands of Brittany , they had become as much like Romans themselves as they could acc... ...33 THE Franks had fully gained possession of all the north of Gaul, except Brittany. Chlodweh had made them Christians in name, but they still remaine... ...ho, though of high and unshaken loyalty , had never concerned himself with politics, but led a quiet and studious life, and was every- where honored a...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...in every Town and District of France! Nay one Patriot Mother, in Lagnon of Brittany, assembles her ten children; and, with her own aged hand, swears t... ...nd now, especially, when the February swearing has set them all agog! From Brittany to Burgundy, on most plains of France, under most City-walls, it i... ...ider burns the flame of Federation; ever wider and also brighter. Thus the Brittany and Anjou brethren mention a Fraternity of all true Frenchmen; and... ...must the disunited People look over the borders, into a dim sea of Foreign Politics and Diploma- cies, with hope or apprehension, with mutual exaspera... ...m, had bargained for this short cut. The infinite dim movement of European Politics waved a skirt over these spaces, passing on its way; like the pass...

...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

...James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication... ...f the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...na of contemporary history, and the underground difficulties in matters of politics which hampered the Ministry at the time of the Restoration. 11 Ba... ...ked balls during the Carnival. As to literature—there were the newspapers. Politics and business were discussed. Monsieur de la Baudraye was constantl... ... 18th Brumaire,” Etienne began, “there was, as you know, a call to arms in Brittany and la Vendee. The First Consul, anxious before all things for pea... ...time a young man of the Maille family was des- patched by the Chouans from Brittany to Saumur, to open communications between certain magnates of that... ...ked that it seemed to him almost impossible to give up science in favor of politics. 75 Balzac “Only a physician without a practice,” said he, “could...

Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania... ...d’Esgrignon stood aloof, an upholder of the straitest sect of the Right in politics, until such time as his vast fortune should be restored to him. No... ...of un- speakable atrocities. In those days the blackest deeds were done in politics, to secure public opinion on one side or the other, to catch the v... ...sgrignons not only lacked the very rudiments of the language of latter-day politics, to wit, money, the great mod- ern relief, or sufficient rehabilit... ...is; and as he cannot spend more than one day with us, on his way back from Brittany, and has heard of your flowers and plants, I have taken the libert...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ompliance with the occurrences and the actors of the age. A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world. This, however, is what we think o... ...by a distance of a thousand miles, more naturally united than Normandy and Brittany – War, the main peril of confederations – This proved even by the ... ...g accustomed to conduct its own affairs, or to one in which the science of politics has not descended to the humblest classes of society. I have never... ...s slighter than the difference between the habits of Normandy and those of Brittany. Maine and Georgia, which are placed at the opposite extremities o... ...session of more real inducements to form a confederation than Normandy and Brittany, which are only separated by a bridge. The geographical position o... ... power, however skillfully it may kindle them where they exist. In America politics are discussed with animation and a varied activity, but they rarel...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... meant a couple of dreadful things,—work and a pub- lisher, journalism and politics. When shall we poor fellows come upon a land where gold springs up... ... be the peasant. Don’t you see (but you never did un- derstand anything of politics!) that government puts such heavy taxes on wine only to hinder our... ... better half, that woman! What brings you here at this hour, drum-major?” “Politics, always politics,” replied Vermichel, who seemed accustomed to suc... ... do. You may reconcile two families who have half-killed each other, as in Brittany and in La Vendee during the civil wars, but you can no more reconc... ...oney were obeyed in Provence, in the depths of Normandy, on the borders of Brittany, as they were at the great centres of social life? What philosophe... ...ook is going to press, this dumb resis- tance, which opposed Louis XIV. in Brittany, may still be seen and felt. See the unfortunate results of the ga...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ... 1834 as Commandant of the military division, including the departments of Brittany, the scene of his exploits in 1799 and 1800, had come to settle in... ...as he has been moulded by the Revolution of 1830; his mind infatuated with politics, respectful of his own hopes, and concealing them under an affecta... ...powerful check to the evil. The men who are giving their attentions to the politics of the day know not to what lengths the depravity of the lower cla... ...red, and we should go to live with Lisbeth in some pretty country place—in Brittany, or wherever you like. There we should see nobody, and we should b... ...e done. I see nothing for it but flight. I always delight in the coun- try—Brittany, Languedoc, what you will, so long as I am free to love you. Poor ... ...mentioned in my presence. I can make fun of anything under the sun: Kings, politics, finance, everything that is sacred in the eyes of the world— judg...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t, in order that he might go and ripen his brain in his Abbey of Busay, in Brittany, and better learn there how to speak and write. Pontchartrain exec... ...to the Duc de Chartres) forced M. de Chaulnes to give up the government of Brittany, which he had long held, and conferred it upon the Comte de T oulo... ...ecompense. M. de Chaulnes was old and fat, but much loved by the people of Brittany. He was overwhelmed by this determina- 57 Saint-Simon tion of the... ... highest rank, and gave par- ties, of all kinds of pleasure, at his house, politics sometimes being discussed. The cause of this assassination was nev... ...ambling there, nor loud laughing, nor disputes, nor talk about religion or politics; but much and elegant wit, ancient and modern stories, news of gal... ...ences, on which he talked most perspicuously; the affairs of govern- ment, politics, finance, justice, war, the court, ordinary con- versation, the ar...

Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...would have been easy for Montaigne to play, as we call it, a great part in politics, and create for himself a lofty position but his motto was, ‘Otio ... ...t he had carried human rea- son as far and as high as it could go, both in politics and in morals. On the other hand, Malebranche and the writers of P... ... omit fevers and pleurisies, who would ever have imag- ined that a duke of Brittany,—[Jean II. died 1305.]—should be pressed to death in a crowd as th... ... we nor theology require much learning in women; and that Francis, Duke of Brittany, son of John V ., one talking with him about his marriage with Isa... ...; as for example, Lipsius, in that learned and laborious contexture of his Politics. But, be it how it will, and how inconsiderable soever these inept... ...t Montfort obtained over Charles de Blois, his competitor for the duchy of Brittany), the conqueror meeting the dead body of his enemy, was very much ...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...eers, friends of Liberty; from our Calvados Townships, from the Eure, from Brittany, from far and near; forward to Paris, and extin- guish Anarchy! Th... ... and forget her. The drowsy Dili- gence lumbers along; amid drowsy talk of Politics, and praise of the Mountain; in which she mingles not; all night, ... ...fell in battle; Stofflet himself makes terms; Georges- Cadoudal is back to Brittany, among his Chouans: the fright- ful gangrene of La Vendee seems ve...

........................................................................................................................... 77 Chapter 3.2.V. Stretching of Formulas. ............................................................................................................................ 80 Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. ...........................................................

...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...the first to recognise the dignity of the church, but this was a matter of politics, and in his turn he reminded the Vicar that their Blessed Saviour ... ...e how that helped a man to teach boys to pass exami- nations, He talked of politics. It sounded odd to them to hear him compare Lord Beaconsfield with... ...it was not sufficient to put your name on a door to get briefs; and modern politics seemed to lack nobility. He felt himself a poet. 131 W. Somerset ... ...rk he could truthfully answer that he had not a single picture to show. In Brittany he had come across a painter whom nobody else had heard of, a quee... ...of panels for sketching; they argued about the merits of various places in Brittany. Flanagan and Potter went to Concarneau; Mrs. Otter and her mother... ...gan to talk again. “D’you remember my telling you about that chap I met in Brittany? I saw him the other day here. He’s just off to T ahiti. He was br...

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...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...continued the citi- zen, “that I am convinced that there is less love than politics in all this.” “Less love than politics,” replied D’Artagnan, with ... ...she was regaining some little influence over her husband. “You meddle with politics, do you—and still more, with cardinalist politics? Why, you sell y... ... all is considered, you are right. In the long run, a man knows more about politics than a woman, particularly such as, like you, Mon- sieur Bonacieux... ... outfit. Then I must make a journey to see my family, in the lower part of Brittany, to obtain the sum necessary for my departure.” Porthos observed a... ... land her, if the sea and the French permitted him, at one of the ports of Brittany, either at Lorient or Brest. But the wind was contrary, the sea ba...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

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... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Thr... ... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere], the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA... ...y; our gentlemen will perform prodigies of valor in their encounters with the proud Castilians, and many of them will return crowned with laurels, to ... ... just now saw me come back. These cavaliers conducted me, in great haste, to the little 48 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 port of Tenby, threw me, rather ... ...is Charles, then, under none but bad aspects, and 197 Dumas you would wish me, a man of good sense, to go and make myself gratuitously the slave of a... ...well. D’Artagnan was in high spirits. Aramis exceeded himself in kind affability. Porthos ate like old Pelops. Their talk was of war, finance, the art...

...Excerpt: Towards the 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 a...

... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ion, in case of the King’s death, with the legitimate heir, Arthur Duke of Brittany, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, the elder brother of John. This usur... ...ere themselves a younger branch of the Cassilis family, but held different politics, and were powerful enough in this, and other instances, to bid the...

...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

... The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ... things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined. In politics there are no perfectly safe courses; prudence consists in choosing... ...ot being unlike in customs, will live quietly together, as one has seen in Brittany, Burgundy, Gascony, and Normandy, which have been bound to France ... ...vorced his wife, Jeanne, daughter of Louis XI, and married in 1499 Anne of Brittany, widow of Charles VIII, in order to retain the Duchy of Brittany f... ... Bold; after her death, Bianca Sforza; and thus became involved in Italian politics. 92 The Prince structed by those men whom he has around him, and ...

...Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... election on decidedly conservative principles, which have always been the politics of his family. “Report says, that even in his humble capacity Miss... ...ther dastardly organs of the provincial press, have, although differing in politics, agreed upon this one point, and with a scoundrelly unanimity, ven... ...t-de-chambre, and after partaking of that bev- erage, and talking upon the politics of the day, the Emperor withdrew, leaving me deeply impressed by t... ...lace—His Royal Highness Louis Anthony Frederick Samuel Anna Maria, Duke of Brittany, and son of Louis XVI. The unhappy Prince, when a prisoner with hi... ....” “Orders have been given to arrest the fanatic who calls himself Duke of Brittany, and who has been making some disturbances in the Pas de Calais.” ... ... antique French Lil- ies, were marching on the French capital. The Duke of Brittany, too, confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, found means *We...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... of the millions; peuple taillable et corveable a merci et misericorde. In Brittany they once rose in revolt at the first introduction of Pendulum Clo... ...staves, she enlists and operates down even to the popu- lace. At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has p... ...Or else, and perhaps combined with this, it is an order of Noblesse (as in Brittany), which will beforehand tie up the Third Estate, that it harm not ... ...d ser- mon, and applauded the preacher, church as it was, when he preached politics; how, next day, with sustained pomp, they are, for the first time,... ...must the disunited People look over the borders, into a dim sea of Foreign Politics and Diplomacies, with hope or ap- prehension, with mutual exaspera... ...m, had bargained for this short cut. The infinite dim movement of European Politics waved a skirt over these spaces, passing on its way; like the pass...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... of the millions; peuple taillable et corveable a merci et misericorde. In Brittany they once rose in revolt at the first introduc- tion of Pendulum C... ...ipstaves, she enlists and operates down even to the populace. At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has p... ...Or else, and perhaps combined with this, it is an order of Noblesse (as in Brittany), which will beforehand tie up the Third Es- tate, that it harm no... ...ard sermon, and applauded the preacher, church as it was, when he preached politics; how, next day, with sustained pomp, they are, for the first time,...

... .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. ................................................

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... these last years which need delay us: and that was the sudden interest in politics which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. Hi... ... Burns it is the more excus- able, because he lay out of the way of active politics in his youth. With the great French Revolution, something living, ... ...n- ful strait; for poetry and human manhood are lasting like the race, and politics, which are but a wrongful striving after right, pass and change fr... ... “the uni- versal spider,” Louis XI. He took up the defence of the Duke of Brittany at Tours. But Louis was then in no humour to hear Charles’s texts ...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...y old boss is captain, and he’s goin’ to fix it up. I used to alley around politics chez moy. Compree?” The champagne came and Dan Cohan popped the co... ...ivin’ a taxicab, if ye don’t larn nothin’ else … . No, sir, I’m goin’ into politics. I’ve got good connections up Hundred and T wenty-fif ’ street way... ...ry. So do I. You can’t call this country. I’m not from this part; I’m from Brittany. There we have real coun- try. It’s stifling near Paris here, so m... ...but you get tired of being in one place all the time. It’s not as it is in Brittany … .” Marcel paused. He sat, rocking a little on the stool, holding...

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...Excerpt: The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writer?s childhood?s friend. They had parted as children, or very little more than children. Years passed. Then something reca...