...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C ... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...er him. Venezuela's new strongman, Hugo Chavez, renamed his country The Bolivarian republic of Venezuela to reflect the role of his "Bolivarian rev... ...nt, with the power to choose his successor, is the most sublime inspiration amongst republican regimes." In a letter to Santander, the Liberator ... ...m Census The first complete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 mill... ...llion), Ireland and the USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countries today: China (1,302,505,000), India (1,047,074,000), Russia (142,881,00... ...od a navigator he was is debatable. He was actually looking for a path to India and China when he stumbled across America (named after a later disco...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

... Revisited http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. ... ...d http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. Ripley I... ...x IV. Shattered V. Titanic VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics ... ...Fourth Law of Robotics IX. Surrogates: The Interrupted Self X. Avatar: The Ecology of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth ... ... When the owner of a surrogate, cocooned in his den, uses his contraption to visit China, or to have sex, or to stroll along a boulevard - who does... ...g a boulevard - who does the experiencing? Can one really say that one has been to China, or has had sex, or has strolled along a boulevard in autu... ... centers to produce these reactions. Once the experiences of having sex or touring China via such a machine become indistinguishable from the real ... ...ing its only redeeming feature: its democracy. It is slowly being transformed from republic to empire, as did Rome two thousand years ago. The USA... ...1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dnevnik",...

...The Natural State In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti Peter Maverick Introduction 1972-... ...1990—Various Places Publisher's Note When I read the manuscript of Peter's book, it was as though U.G. was talking through the pages. It w... ... It was wonderful to hear him without all the questions and interjections of the people who normally surround him. It felt very personal. Coming ... ...the world, I had no dearth of reading material about and from the various philosophers. But somehow I could never completely agree with any one of th... ...ess of life. There you have an example. They are all great metaphysicians, philosophers, everlastingly discussing these things, but it doesn't operat... ...hat the rise of Islam, not only in the Moslem world but also in Russia and China, is going make it a formidable force. Once this cry of holy war, jih... ...l yesterday he was your neighbor and now he becomes the president of your republic. Why do you have to worship a king or a president? The whole hier...

...A compilation of quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti that can alter your life. Someone once said to his daughter who had met U.G., "Damned be the day you met this man; your life will never be the same." Whether we feel cursed or blessed, our comin...

...VII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUED) PHENOME... ...s which we now proceed to examine, viz. the Christian church, and the captivity of Babylon, do not deserve so much the name of Phenomena, as of Anti... ...ena, as of Antiphenomena, or veils, clouds, and impediments, to the observation of the true Phenomena. They are those two great and ancient fortress... ...sure, and we are in great distress.” Nehemiah ix.36,37. True liberty forsooth! Republic worthy of the name! For this my friend, is the illustrious ... ...erubbabel, Esdras, and Nehemiah. The reason they have for giving it the name of republic, is so clear that the most short-sighted may see it. After ... ...rone any of David’s descendants; nor of erecting themselves into an independent republic; nor even so much as refused tribute and vassalage to their ... ... all the inhabitants of those very vast countries of Asia, from the Euphrates to China, idolaters, and are they not so until this day? Those of the i... ...s that heaven which we call empyrean? Hath any one of the ancient or the modern philosophers seen it, or any one of the prophets of God? Is this hea... ... That only which I have been able to find upon this point, is that some ancient philosophers, especially Plato and certain of his disciples, as they ...

...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... ...ring them magnificently, but who keeps the place up with loving care. Sham philosophers, studying themselves while they profess to be studying hu- man... ...Right enough, too,” replied Fourchon. “As Pere Niseron says (and he stayed republican long after everybody else), ‘The people are tough; they don’t di... ...f bell-ringer, beadle, grave-digger, sexton, and clerk, in defiance of his republican opinions,—I mean the grandfather of the little Genevieve whom yo... ... funds in our pockets, and I supply him with rope to ring his bell. He’s a republican and I’m not even a publican,—that’s all the difference as far as... ... served the de- coction, with a coolness worthy of a Parisian waiter, in a china cup which, if flung to the ground, would not have cracked. At this pe... ...iture of a new pattern, astral lamps, round tables with marble tops, white china with gilt lines for dessert, red morocco chairs and mezzo- tint engra...

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

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... attention” which the Philosophy of Clothes was exciting in its own German Republic of Letters; on the deep significance and tendency of his Friend’s ... ...eign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,—to the length of ... ...siderable paper-bags, care- fully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China-ink, with the symbols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, be- ginning... ...uriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances o... ...ees of Tadmor; smoked a pipe among the ruins of Babylon. The great Wall of China I have seen; and can testify that it is of gray brick, coped and cove... ... Counsellor Heuschrecke ever existed; that the six Paper- bags, with their China-ink inscriptions and multifarious contents, are a mere figment of the...

Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ... Catholics were supporters of absolute monarchy, and the Protestants for a republic.” “M. Vidal!” shouted an assistant. Vidal fled. “I don’t say, sir,... ...e and their genius, stands 65 Balzac a third, Michel Chrestien, the great Republican thinker, who dreamed of European Federation, and had no small sh... ...ra- tion scheme was more dangerous to the aristocracy of Eu- rope than the Republican propaganda; it was more feasible and less extravagant than the h... ...lue cotton stuff, and Berenice had managed to save a clock and a couple of china vases from the catastrophe, as well as four spoons and forks and half... ...nking-cup; Any catch is good, I wot, If good fellows take it up. Let philosophers protest, Let us laugh, And quaff, And a fig for the rest...

...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

...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... ... cannot fail to quiver when you see that blazon. Yes, the most con- firmed republican would be moved by the fidelity, the noble- ness, the grandeur hi... ...w a man of seventy-three; but his long-continued guerilla warfare with the Republic, his exile, the perils of his five crossings through a turbulent s... ...intellect, without action upon the chastity of the body, would have amazed philosophers and observers, had any one in Nantes even suspected the powers... ...sued from their wrap- pings a silver teapot and some beautiful old English china sent to the baroness by her aunts. This appearance of modern splen- d... ...looked far handsomer than Beatrix. She wore also a little shawl of crimson China crape, crossed on her bosom and tied behind, as they dress a child. F...

...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....

...eorge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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. Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...use. Their own high food would kill them. You shall find great poets, rare philosophers, night after night on the broad grin before a row of yellow li... ...a cricketer. A swimmer and a cricketer is nowhere to be scorned in youth’s republic. Finding that manoeuvre would not do, Richard was prompted once or... ...s our history, as Benson would have written it, and a great many poets and philosophers have written it. Yet it was but the plucking of the Autumn pri... ...say Caesar loved Rome: but whether he did or no, Caesar when he killed the Republic was quite bald, and the hero we are dealing with is scarce beginni... ...n is extremely seductive to good women. Dear to their tender bosoms as old china is a bad man they are mending! Lord Mountfalcon had none of the arts ...

Excerpt: Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith.

...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope 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... ...’t want him to sell his country to Germany, or to turn it into an American republic in order that he may be president. But when he gets the reins into... ...,—or perhaps an Irishman. We have learned the lesson from the divines, the philosophers, and the poets. Post equitem sedes atra cura. Thus was Ferdina... ...tion of his intention to live out the remainder of his period of office in republican simplicity. ‘We have tried it and it has failed, and let there b... ... made of finer material than other people. Men shouldn’t be made of Sevres china, but of good stone earth- enware. However, I don’t want to abuse him,...

...m: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...oks-otherformats.htm Peer Reviewers: Dr. M. Khoshnevisan, School of Accounting and Finance, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 972... ... Coast, Queensland 9726, Australia. Prof. Drago Õ Constantinescu, College of Arts and Letters, Rm. V >lcea, Romania. Dr. Jean Dezert, Office Nationa... ...f Finance and Economics 44 Cuihua Nan Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, P. R. China 1. Introduction Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in... ...uddha, Laozi, Confucius, etc.).” It is the power of the culture that makes China survive for thousands of years, and the marrow of that culture lies ... ... ancient education, so they benefited from the olds’ teachings. Since the Republic of China, unfortunately, Chinese people have lost their national ... ...ucation, so they benefited from the olds’ teachings. Since the Republic of China, unfortunately, Chinese people have lost their national pride, and h... ...joint venture with religions? Neutrosophy surpassed the limits of Western philosophers like Hegel, and is seeking all possible joint ventures. People... ...nopolies reduce competition, and thus progress. My opinion is that some philosophers grope and stumble. They don't have clear ideas or systems, or...

...Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in Chinese culture. I cannot decline his warm request to write the preface, even with my fragments of knowledge – no insight nor wisdom, and therefore can be misleading. I have been extremely regretful for my ideological errors and mistakes in previous publications, especially those concerning Buddhism. As I mentioned in t...

...On the Cultural Contrast: East-West, preface by F. Liu. 4 -- Abstract by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 12 -- Preface by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 13 -- Biography of the Translator. 18 -- Publication Review by F. Liu. 22 -- Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophic...

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ...rise, but was not as essential to its economic miracle as it had been for China.. Even back in the early 1980's Singaling had begun a program fo... ... rather than an idealistic ideology, has been the secret of Singapore and China. The question is do you want to focus on ends or means. If the end j... ...ast some of your people are buying pollution free vehicles from us or from China. We are so far ahead of your people with fuel cells, natural gas and... ...ic philosophies and religions that are usually strongly influenced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment period. It is particularly true when tho... ...ng from very poor countries to poor countries—from Haiti to the Dominican Republic, from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, from Nepal to India, from Myanmar t... ...insights and your explaining your system. Is it true that as with Plato‟s Republic one‟s country influences what is good and bad, beautiful and ugly?...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (k... ...taining its ecosystem, the muscular young body that had an orange hue like a Chinamen who had sucked up too much sun. After the revelation he had lis... ... East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union and China. "The whole f-- world is West," thought Gabriele. She felt that dem... ...pen and she stepped into it. Photographs of Peru, Mexico, Egypt, Italy, and China graced her. Where would she go? Should she take her son with her ... ..." she bantered. He smiled morosely. "The article said that in the Democratic Republic of Congo a door of a cargo plane fell open. The article said th... ...other non-Parmenidetian activity that was paradise to the masses and vile to philosophers and contemplatives would have caused her to grab the nearest...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication o... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania S... ...or, to speak in the phrase of writers upon politics, we may observe in the republic of dogs, which in its original seems to be an institution of the m... ...y, and snarling against the happy dog. Again, if we look upon any of these republics engaged in a foreign war, either of invasion or defence, we shall... ... though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline; Or, as philosophers, who find Some fav’rite system to their mind, In every point t... ...er copious upon the sub ject of their petticoats, or their fans, or their china. For which reason, although it be a piece of prudence, as well as goo... ... of the sun and moon—in short, the whole system of the universe, as far as philosophers have been able to discover and observe, are in the utmost degr...

...Excerpt: Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happe...

...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... ...picked up by the worthy widow,—pictures bought for the sake of the frames, china services of a composite order; 42 Bureaucracy to wit, a magnificent ... ..., an old paper-dealer retired from business ever since the year II. of the Republic, and now sixty-nine years old, came to see them on Sundays only, b... ... played off upon Godard, presenting him with a butterfly just brought from China, which the worthy man keeps in his collection and exhibits to this da... ... who were taken young have been an honor to European monarchies and to the republics whose affairs they have directed. The 108 Bureaucracy world stil... ...ow, in the first place, a publicist would call the attention of Russia and China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the Ame... ...(where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that for this pr...

...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...

...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey 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 docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...een written on that much vexed theme, and very probably half as many more. Republican Rome had her prerogative tribe; the earth has its prerogative ci... ...threnodists of false liberty! hollow chant- ers over the ashes of a hollow republic! Without Cæsar, we affirm a thousand times that there would have b... ... of the Byzantine court ritual were arranged in the same spirit as that of China or the Birman empire; or fashioned by anticipation, as one might thin... ...rms in his hands, since the further bank lay within the ter- ritory of the Republic, ipso facto proclaimed any Roman a rebel and a traitor. No man, th... ...philosophic attainments, and perhaps upon philosophic glory. All the great philosophers of his own time, whether Stoic or Peripatetic, and amongst the...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...

...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells 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... ...d, is the cardinal assumption of all Utopian speculations old and new; the Republic and Laws of Plato, and More’s Utopia, Howells’ implicit Altruria, ... ... I doubt if anyone has ever been warmed to desire himself a citizen in the Republic of Plato; I doubt if anyone could stand a month of the relentless ... ...t isolation for a polity to maintain itself intact from outward force; the Republic of Plato stood armed ready for defensive war, and the New Atlantis... ...fensive war, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China and Japan through many centuries of effectual practice, held themselv... ...e—an end practically attained in the homely, old-fashioned civilisation of China by female infanticide, involves not only the cessa- tion of distresse... ...aching it pretty closely, and again in the inland and typical provinces of China, where even a strange pattern of hat arouses hostility. We had it in ...

...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... ...lic affairs. In spite of revo- lutionary principles, which made a hobby of republican hon- esty, the management of public business in those days was b... ...f mistresses, in which were given splen- did fetes to the Directors of the Republic. 19 Balzac The citizen du Bousquier was one of Barras’ familiars;... ...ike those of Monsieur de Talleyrand, though somewhat dulled. He still wore republican whiskers and his hair very long; his hands, adorned with bunches... ...quier’s meditation. He plumed himself on belonging to the class of cynical philosophers who could never be “taken in” by women,—putting them, one and ... ...eat and clean was again gone over and brushed and rubbed and scrubbed. The china of ceremony saw the light; the damask linen marked “A, B, C” was draw... ... out, in view of the whole company, a magnificent liqueur-stand of Dresden china which saw the light only twice a year. This circum- stance was taken ...

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

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells 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... ... speak but to think of a thousand bricks or a thousand sheep or a thousand Chinamen as though they were all absolutely true to sample. If it is brough... ...te my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living within t... ...til recently been segregated in pools; that in the great civi- lization of China, for example, humanity has pursued its own interlacing system of inhe... ... do not stave it off indefinitely. It needs only that one philoprogenitive Chinaman should have wan- dered into those regions that are now Russia, abo... ...ossible development of thought and concerted action which I called the New Republicanism, and afterwards I redrew the thing rather more elaborately in... ...rganizing forces that held my Uto- pian world together. They were the “New Republicans” of my “Anticipations” and “Mankind in the Making,” much develo...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ping up the state neces- sary for any European government, even if it be a Republic. In 1818, M. le Duc de Langeais commanded a division of the army, ... ...he only son of General de Montriveau, one of the ci-devants who served the Republic nobly , and fell by Joubert’s side at Novi. Bonaparte had placed h... ...ell on the battlefield, leaving their children under the protection of the Republic. Armand de Montriveau left school with his way to make, entered th... ...and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually confound. Love implies a give a... ...ded, holding out a hand, which he kissed. “We will be like two grey-headed philosophers who have learned how to enjoy life to the last moment. I will ... ...sible; a mouse might as well try to creep up the slippery sides of a plain china vase. Still there was a cleft, a straight line of fissure so fortunat...

...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...