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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ... The current Wall is the amalgamation of fortifications built by various ruling dynasties, especially the Qin and the Ming. Including its branch... ...x in Latin means "Man-Eater", the name given to the fly by Dr. Coquerel, the French Imperial Navy medical doctor who discovered it, busy devouring ...

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...e silk matted in black velvet. I can't believe I — — sound just like a d@mn romance novel! And she has the most radiantly clear, lightly sun- tanned ... ...his pressure and there's still nothing going on between us. I guess this is romance. But then again, I read a book by the Dalai Lama, in which he ex... ...But then again, I read a book by the Dalai Lama, in which he explained that romance is an illusion and a fantasy. If you look up the word romance in... ...Uncle are sitting on the living room sofa while Jordan and I are sitting in imperial hardwood chairs across from them. Uncle pours tea from a black,... ... them young to get them young." — Throughout the thousands of years of Asian dynasties, all the emperors, kings, and presidents have ruled with an ir... ... be a king fish in a small pond? Throughout the thousands of years of Asian dynasties, all the emperors, kings and presidents have ruled with an iro...

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... closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's re... ... of "true" Islam. On the contrary, it is the purest expression of its nature as an imperialistic religion which demands unmitigated obedience from ... ...nd religion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their condu... ...uired wealth rather than one's arbitrary birth determined one's place in life. The Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the U... ...onsored candidate attained office. Long-established, prominent families - political dynasties - increased their hold on power from one generation to... ... be a prerequisite to such). But the fastest economic growth rates in history go to imperial Rome, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and post-Mao Chin... ...e in conjunction with an oppressed periphery of colonial real estate. The role of imperial power entails the suppression, subversion, or manipulat...

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...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 ...

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...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ... you ask the reasons for my conduct, you drive me to extremities with your imperial airs, your scorn, and your contempt! Any one might think I was a N... ... made the large room, with its red, white, and gold, look like a corpse of Imperial festivities. “Monsieur, virtue shines on it all. I have no wish to... ...was translated at once from the mire of her village to the paradise of the Imperial Court; for the contractor, one of the most conscientious and hard-... ...irty years in the heart of Paris and in the face of the palace where three dynasties of kings have received, during those thirty-six years, the elite ... ...ere—will perhaps live longer and more prosper- ously than three successive dynasties. In 1823 the low rents in these already condemned houses had temp...

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...l Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlightened Roman Catho- lic, supposing only that he were not a Papist, would have give... ...ch new interests and false counsels had developed in the T udor and Stuart dynasties. It was an exceedingly pretty place; and the kitchen, upon the gr... ...mbition, and even bloodier would have been the blood- polluted line of the imperial successions. Prudence, there- fore, it was, and state policy, not ... ... circulat- ing amongst the people warned him that, if he left the cycle of imperial powers incomplete, if he suffered the galvanic battery to remain i... ...ir bloody overthrow in 1664, at St. 205 Thomas de Quincey Gothard, by the imperial General Montecuculi. In 1673 they received another memorable defea...

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...e guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men w... ... any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more businesslike altogether. They will be, to use a phrase... ...ot see that the hope of an ultimate world peace vanishes. But it will be a Roman world peace, 17 H G Wells made in Germany, and there will have to be... ...on of the dream of national conquest. The Ger- mans are a national, not an imperial people. France has learnt that through suffering, and Britain and ... ...suffering, and Britain and Russia because for two centuries they have been imperial and not national sys- tems. The German conception of world peace i... ...n, claiming to be Caesar, and flaunt- ing a flat black eagle borrowed from Imperial Rome; and also she was the most scientific and socialist of states... ...ces and understandings to save mankind from the mega- lomania of races and dynasties, I believe it will turn first to the idea of keeping the seas wit... ...of the people in government. In Russia and England these originally German dynasties are meeting the problems of the new time by becoming na- tional. ...

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...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ... executors had offered him (the river) a huge travelling trunk, perhaps an Imperial or a Salisbury boot (equal to the wardrobe of a family), filled wi... ...‘Hyperion,’ run before and accompany the passing away of divine immemorial dynasties. Nothing can be more impressive than the picture of Saturn in his...

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... Romes of modern birth, Where the New England husbandmen Have shown a Roman worth. In vain I search a foreign land T o find our Bunker Hill,... ...rmons of the age. “I would rather be a dog, and bay the moon,” than many a Roman that I know. The night is equally indebted to the clarion of the cock... ... seem not to have got their swaddling clothes off; they are slower than a Roman army in its march, the rear camping to night where the van camped las... ...at his night endures as long as his day.” Indeed, the Mussulman and Tartar dynasties are beyond all dating. Methinks I have lived under them myself. I... ...he laboring gale The news of future centuries is brought, And of new dynasties of thought, From your remotest vale. But special I remember... ...ly, as if afraid to disturb the devotions of the house hold,—for Oriental dynasties appear to have passed away since the dinner table was last spread... ... crownings. As the youth studied minutely the order and the degrees in the imperial proces sion, and suffered none of its effect to be lost on him, s...

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... in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these i... ...ily we always read as superior be- ings. Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures, —in the sacerdotal, the im-... ...n the vaunted dis- tinction between Greek and English, between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedantic. When a thought of Plato b... ... M. de Narbonne in less than a fortnight penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet. Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be under- stood.... ...there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court; the parliament of love and chivalry. And this is constitute... ... All forms of government sym- bolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men ex- ist, perfec...

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... by all around him; and the rule which holds that men at Rome should do as Romans do, if true anywhere, is true in America. Therefore I say that in an... ...France; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Pr... ...tely be their fate in the country. Surely one may declare as a fact that a Roman Catholic popula- tion can never hold its ground against one that is P... ..., with their scanty population and still young civilization, chafe against imperial interference, will they submit to it when they feel within their v... ...e to last even for ages. Those who word them seem to think that powers and dynasties will never pass away. But they do pass away, and the balance of p...

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...d by this programme. Dramas steeped in blood, comedies filled with terror, romantic tales through which rolled heads mysteriously decapitated, have be... ...isely as the Popes do, on their accession, in connection with pon- tifical dynasties. Thus the Devorants have “T rempe-la Soupe IX.,” “Ferragus XXII.,... ...ng exile of their legitimate king, always a king for them. Thus we see the romantic prestige attaching to the name of Ferragus and to that of the Devo... ...d! at that hour! The love that this young man felt for that woman may seem romantic, and all the more so because he was an officer in the Royal Guard.... ...fortunate structures which have passed, like cer- tain peoples, under many dynasties of capricious masters. Neither the floors nor the windows have an... ...ust of the reigning king is in his hall; possibly he keeps the late royal, imperial, and quasi-royal busts in some cupboard,—a sort of little Pere-Lac...

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...ows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...for him! For as to this of Sentimentalism, so useful for weeping with over romances and on pathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will avail nothing;... ...ower; and with the shakings of thy horse-hair wig shake principalities and dynasties, like a very Jove with his ambrosial curls! Light old M. de Maure... ...itterest wailings, soft womanly meltings, though thou hast the heart of an imperial Theresa’s Daughter. Thou doomed one, shut thy eyes on the future!—... ...e, with arched neck, composedly champing his bit; as if no world, with its Dynasties and Eras, were now rushing down. The drizzly day tends westward; ... ...ment, in the King’s arms; she clasps her children amid a faithful few. The Imperial-hearted bursts into mother’s tears: “O my friends, save me and my ...

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...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...r him! For as to this of Sentimentalism, so use- ful for weeping with over romances and on pathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will avail nothing;... ...itterest wailings, soft womanly meltings, though thou hast the heart of an imperial Theresa’s Daughter. Thou doomed one, shut thy eyes on the future!—... ...o work towards their object as sane regulated ones. For as Hierarchies and Dynasties of all kinds, Theocracies, Aristocracies, Autocra- cies, Strumpet... ... with arched neck, compos- edly champing his bit; as if no world, with its Dynasties and Eras, were now rushing down. The drizzly day tends westward; ... ...ment, in the King’s arms; she clasps her children amid a faithful few. The Imperial-hearted bursts into mother’s tears: “O my friends, save me and my ... ...to no purpose. For, in far lands, with scarlet Nassau-Siegens, with sinful Imperial Catherines, is not the heart-broken, even as at home with the mean...

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...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ...alists? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quake... ...; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And wh... ...truction of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of gov er... ...r it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assem... ...rld which could be relied on with certainty to accomplish it, I suppose—an imperial princess appeared in the balcony above them. They Mark T wain 141...

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...47 -- BOOK II 55 -- CHAPTER I ?GENESIS, 55 -- CHAPTER II ?IDYLLIC, 61 -- CHAPTER III ?PEDAGOGY, 68 -- CHAPTER IV? GETTING UNDER WAY, 79 -- CHAPTER V? ROMANCE, 88 -- CHAPTER VI? SORROWS OF TEUFELSDRO? CKH, 97 -- CHAPTER VII? THE EVERLASTING NO, 104 -- CHAPTER VIII? CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE, 110 -- CHAPTER IX? THE EVERLASTING YEA, 118 -- CHAPTER X? PAUSE, 126 -- BOOK III 133 -...

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... CHAPTER IV — GETTING UNDER WAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 CHAPTER V — ROMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SOR... ...rgy: henceforth Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, and Tudors and Hapsburgs; but of Stamped Broad sheet Dynasties... ...churn boots, and other riding and fighting gear have been bepainted in modern Romance, till the whole has acquired somewhat of a sign post character,—I... ...h which picture of a State of Nature, affecting by its singularity, and Old Roman contempt of the superfluous, we shall quit this part of our subject.... ... more than a common meaning, but has two meanings: thus, if in the high est Imperial Sceptre and Charlemagne Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox goa... ... Sensation grows Thought, grows Fantasy and Force, and we have Philosophies, Dynasties, nay Poetries and Religions! “Young Diogenes, or rather young G... ...twilights,” cries Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “when the Sun, like a proud Conqueror and Imperial Taskmaster, turned his back, with his gold purple emblazonry, an... ...Phantasms enough he has had to struggle with; “Cloth webs and Cob webs,” of Imperial Mantles, Superannuated Symbols, and what not: yet still did he c...

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... a novelist. To try voluntarily to dis- cover the fettering dogmas of some romantic, realis- tic, or naturalistic creed in the free work of its own in... ...contest, and the feelings of the combatants. The fiercest excitements of a romance de cape et d’epee, the romance of yard-arm and boarding pike so dea... ...mes. He has mastered the country, his domain, not wild indeed, but full of romantic glimpses, of deep shadows and sunny places. There are no secrets l... ...e thrones still remain, and what is more significant, perhaps, some of the dynasties, too, have survived. The revolutions of European States have neve... ...s, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to dawn on the horizon of the Vienna... ...to the welt-politik. According to the national tendency this assumption of Imperial im- pulses would run into the grotesque were it not for the spikes... ...n- turies. The Phoenicians, its first discoverers, the Ro- mans, the first imperial rulers of that sea, had expe- rienced days like this, so different...

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...from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify we...

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...a’s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? H... ...at Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly spe... ...self in vain. And a stranger was absolutely necessary to Rosamond’s social romance, which had always turned on a lover and bridegroom who was not a Mi... ...eive one more historical contrast: the gigantic broken revelations of that Imperial and Papal city thrust abruptly on the notions of a girl who had be... ...tremendous course of the world’s physical history lashing on the harnessed dynasties. In my opinion, that is a good mythical interpretation.” Will her...