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...ne qua non trait? In the absence of consciousness, there is little point in talking about free will (or rights which depend on sentience). So, is th... ...holder. All born humans are and, more so, all adults above a certain age. But what about the unborn fetus? One approach is that the embryo has no r... ...oach says that a person has the right to life because it desires it. But then what about chronic depressives who wish to die – do we have the right... ...and preserved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hann... ...rt to their erstwhile status as civil torts. Others should be wiped off the statute books altogether. Hundreds of thousands should be pardoned and a... ...e Brain). It can be preserved and shipped across time and space in capsules called books or or artwork. These are containers of triggers of physica... ...arges into paragons of democracy and good governance. And not for the first time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they serv... ...ral resources of other polities and to benefit from them, and other eerie echoes of Napoleonic "Old Europe". But ideology does not consist merely o... ...with the ambition to do the great things that until then had been but a fantasy." (Napoleon Bonaparte, "Thoughts") "They may all e called Heroes, i...

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...ne qua non trait? In the absence of consciousness, there is little point in talking about free will (or rights which depend on sentience). So, is th... ...holder. All born humans are and, more so, all adults above a certain age. But what about the unborn fetus? One approach is that the embryo has no r... ...oach says that a person has the right to life because it desires it. But then what about chronic depressives who wish to die – do we have the right... ...and preserved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hann... ...rt to their erstwhile status as civil torts. Others should be wiped off the statute books altogether. Hundreds of thousands should be pardoned and a... ...e Brain). It can be preserved and shipped across time and space in capsules called books or or artwork. These are containers of triggers of physica... ...arges into paragons of democracy and good governance. And not for the first time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they serv... ...ral resources of other polities and to benefit from them, and other eerie echoes of Napoleonic "Old Europe". But ideology does not consist merely o... ...with the ambition to do the great things that until then had been but a fantasy." (Napoleon Bonaparte, "Thoughts") "They may all e called Heroes, i...

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...roviding public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that ... ...12 The University of Chicago Press 25. Names for the Bible and other sacred books: (Holy, Sacred) Scriptures, Holy Writ, Word of God, Book of Books... ...Authorized Version (A. V.), Revised Version (R. V.), Polychrome Bible. 27. Books and divisions of the Bible: Old Testament, Pentateuch, Exodus, I1 ... ... length to call for reduced type (see 75) : "the Darwinian Welbnschawng;" "Napoleon's cw d'dt~t;'~ "the debater far excellence of the Senate;" "De ... ...The attendance was estimated at five hundred" (but: "at 550"); "a thesis of about three thousand words" (but: "of about 2,700"); "The population of ... ... relieve." "Behind, her 'stage mother' stood fluttering with extra wraps." "About [the year] 1840, daughters of self-respecting Americans worked in ... ...ord. As the next train was not due for two hours, he decided to take a ride about the town, although it offered little of interest to the sightseer....

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...art -- The ghost of Capt. Kidd -- The screaming woman of Marblehead -- Stories about spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea o... ...heir Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A bloody battle with the Tlascalans -- Six ... ...- Suspicious death of Cortez's wife -- The white wings of peace -- Cortez sets about new conquests -- Fatal rebellion of Olid -- Cortes leads a land m... ...dge in the family circle; that it may be helpful in teaching the value of good books; and above all, that it may be an aid to the perpetuation of hono... ... glories of a fadeless past to make the world emulous of proud examples. About books of this character there is an atmosphere at once inspirational an... ...bus diverted her commerce into new channels and she gradually declined; lastly Napoleon destroyed her independence in 1797 and she became a shuttlecoc... ...as evident from the fact that in the king's library were to be seen many Latin books, these affording additional evidence of the claim that the Cathol... ...ille, a member of the French Embassy and afterwards an attache of the court of Napoleon, was accordingly commissioned to execute the official transfer... ...s, and on the organization of the Senate, he was made a member of that body by Napoleon, who also ennobled him. He continued in the public service unt...

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...by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable character about whom I was reading, or whether I should fling aside the book and the hero of it, as things altogether base, unworthy, laughable, and get a novel, or a game of billiards, or a pipe of tobacco, or the report of the last d...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarc... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarc... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray Writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch... ... to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable character about whom I was read- ing, or whether I should fling aside the book and th... ...fancy in the gloom that they are sages. And many a man sets a great wreath about his pate and struts abroad a hero, whose claims we would all of us la... ...ly and decently: take our seats, and settle our clothes decently; open our books, and go through the service with decent grav- ity; listen, and be dec... ...ng the St. Helena expedi- tion, many pamphlets have been published, men go about crying little books and broadsheets filled with real or sham particul... ...pedi- tion, many pamphlets have been published, men go about crying little books and broadsheets filled with real or sham particulars; and from these ... ...ste; and permit me to say, I do not care twopence how you settle it. Large books have been written upon the sub- ject in a variety of languages, and c...

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...y battle of Les Quatre Chemins. Though ruined by confiscation, the staunch Vendeen steadily refused the lucrative posts offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting to choose a companion for life. In spite of the blandishments of a rich but revolutionary parvenu, who valued the al...

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... endeen steadily refused the lucrative posts offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its pr... ... in the rush for places and dignities under the new Con- stitution, he was about to return to his property when he received a ministerial despatch, in... ...e sovereign; that there were bills of much longer standing than his on the books, and there, no doubt, they would remain, as part of the his- tory of ... ...ere to receive a handsome salary. He had the good sense to hold his tongue about the favor with which he was honored, and knew how to 7 Balzac entert... ...nting, on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pro- nounced at haphazard on books new or old, and could ex- pose the defects of a work with a cruelly g... ...nd the new aspect of the Monarchy. Louis XVIII. aimed at fusing parties as Napoleon had fused things and men. The legiti- mate King, who was not less ... ...nd the creations of the Empire, by curbing the clergy, as the first of the Napoleons had been to attract the grand old nobility, or to endow the Churc... ...e Comte de Fontaine made every effort to collect the elite of marrying men about his youngest daugh- ter. Those who may have tried to solve the diffic... ...d in giving a look of harmony to the files of bills, the letter-boxes, the books and furniture of this sanctum, where the interests of the royal demes...

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...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, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There...

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...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 whic... ...istin- guishing himself in any way, his mind now turned to the magistracy. About this time his father died. His mother, who contented herself in her o... ...uses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he was about to fall back into the fatal irresolution of persons without will, whe... ...table, exclaiming,— “Poor, good woman! Well, so be it!” V THE INFLUENCE OF BOOKS THE BOOK, like all books frequently read, opened in a par- ticular pl... ...n which way to take and debating in what direction he was likely to find a bookseller. As he stood there he heard the heavy sound of the massive porte... ...y of his first visit. Thinking over this circumstance, he went as far as a bookseller’s in the rue Saint-Jacques, whence he returned with a very hands... ...therefore a bitter enemy to the Revo- lution, and regarded the dominion of Napoleon as a curse inflicted by Providence upon France in punishment of th... ...ed, are addicted to rebellion, fomenters of trouble, implacable enemies of Napoleon the Great, his victories, his dynasty, and his government, haters ... ...s of that party which has misunderstood both the glory of H.M. the Emperor Napoleon I. and the true interests of the nation united in his august perso...

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...REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM................................................................................................................. 165 Index ..........................................................................

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...HNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM................................................ ...mined the outward and actual;—their religion, as I say, was the great fact about them. In these Discourses, limited as we are, it will be good to dire... ...e it! It will be often our duty to protest against this sort of hypothesis about men’s doings and history; and I here, on the very threshold, protest ... ... life of such things, but their disease, the sure precursor of their being about to die! Let us never forget this. It seems to me a most mournful hypo... ...hand next, near a century afterwards, to put together, among several other books he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated... ...e some dumb monumental cairn. Why, in thirty or forty years, were there no books, any great man would grow mythic, the contempo- raries who had seen h... ...ndeed it is for all earnest men everywhere, for a Mahomet, a Luther, for a Napoleon too. It lies at the basis this for every such man; it is the woof ... ...mary foundation of him, and of all that can lie in him, this. No Mirabeau, Napoleon, Burns, Cromwell, no man adequate to do anything, but is first of ... ...of it was he to know. Curious, if we will reflect on it, this of having no books. Except by what he could see for himself, or hear of by uncertain rum...

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...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and pr...

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...nd New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of... ... La Plata comes next in space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with abou... ...pter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways ... ...ran quil present epoch in what shall be left of the book. The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over use, the word ‘new’ in connectio... ...fashion; Margaret of Navarre was writing the “Heptameron” and some religious books,—the first survives, the others are forgotten, wit and indelicacy b... ...sal ironies. These performances took place on the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas, and there the first confisca tion cross was raised o... ...’s voyage of discovery ended at the same spot—the site of the future town of Napoleon. When De Soto took his fleeting glimpse of the river, away back ... ...im early days, he took it from that same spot—the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas. Therefore, three out of the four memorable events con... ... torch bearer on the lecture platform; and, finally, I became a scribbler of books, and an immovable fixture among the other rocks of New England. In ...

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...Contents ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI ............................ 4 DE JUVENTUTE.......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19...

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...ENTUTE .......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19 4 Thackeray Some Roundabout Paper... ...ouse, the Pop- ish distiller’s, and that bonny fire of my Lord Mansfield’s books in Bloomsbury Square? Bless us, what a heap of illuminations you have... ...ou, my poor old body, and a pedigree as au- thentic as many in the peerage-books. Peerage-books and pedigrees? What does she know about them? Battles ... ...many in the peerage-books. Peerage-books and pedigrees? What does she know about them? Battles and victories, treasons, kings, and beheadings, literar... ...oads seven or eight hundred years younger. “Don’t talk to me your nonsense about Exhibitions, and Prince Dukes, and toads in coals, or coals in toads,... ... wretched memory you have! What? haven’t they a library, and the commonest books of reference at the old convent of Saint Lazarus, where you dwell?” “... ...eed the mouldy ones. Those eyes may have goggled from beneath the weeds at Napoleon’s jack-boots: they have seen Frederick’s lean shanks reflected in ...

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...ikeness 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 head of a bureau in one of our most important ministries....

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... met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our most im... ...ays before his mother’s death, when he was just sixteen, he left the Lycee Napoleon to enter as supernumerary a government office, where an unknown pr... ...ss of her pecuniary means. No matter what foolish declarations people make about money, they one and all, if they live in Paris, must grovel before ac... ... eyes of oth- ers; for in all countries society, before making up its mind about a man, listens for what his wife thinks of him, and obtains from her ... ... gigantic power set in motion by dwarfs, was generated in this way. Though Napoleon, by subordinating all things and all men to his will, retarded for... ...e salaries, and do away with pensions, to choose only young clerks (as did Napoleon, Louis XIV., Richelieu, and Ximenes), but to keep them long and tr... .... Formerly book-keeper at the Treasury, when that estab- lishment kept its books by double entry, the Sieur Saillard was compensated for the loss of t... ...bbe Gaudron, vicar of Saint-Paul’s and the family director, called profane books. This discipline had borne fruit. Forced to employ her feelings on so... ...o a business carried on by others, and spend their evenings in keeping the books of their associates. Many clerks are married to milliners, licensed t...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five wo...

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...“Sans genie, je suis flambe!” VOLUMES, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or f... ...cterize him, I think, better than at least some of the volumes I have read about him, and supply, when they are properly understood, the most valuable... ...le because of the way in which the word “genius” is too commonly ban- died about. As a matter of fact, there is not so very much genius in the world; ... ...work in his teacher’s way, he over- worked himself in his own by devouring books; and was sent home at fourteen in such a state of health that his gra... ...ing his probation—indeed he is said, and we can easily believe it from his books, to have acquired a very solid knowledge of law, especially in bankru... ...rocure independence by une bonne speculation. Those who have read Balzac’s books and his letters will hardly think that he re- quired much tempting. H... ...gan with an odd but not unintelligible compound, something like Hugo’s, of Napoleonism and Royalism. In 1824, when he was still in the shades of anony... ...s, from which all popular French authors suf- fered till the government of Napoleon the Third managed to put a stop to them. He also lived in such a t... ...but he crosses it himself 49 Balzac when it is the only road to the town. Napoleon adapted elec- tion to the spirit of the French nation with wonderf...

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...T-SAINT-JEAN, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gar- dens of the Paris... ...or, to preserve the ground-floor from damp, the arches of the cellars rose about two feet above the soil, and the house was entered up three outside s... ...e a female head and some time-eaten arabesques. Three windows, their sills about five feet from the ground, belonged to a small set of rooms looking o... ...here stands a chalet that had more than once given shelter to Hortense and Napoleon. When Caroline had seated herself with pious reverence on the moss... ...l! Well, and I would rather see her wearing out her eyes over her favorite books than over twisting her bobbins from morning till night. And again, sh... ...urt of the Empire, and he already saw himself a member of the bench whence Napoleon selected the chief functionaries of the realm. He could also promi... ...igoted household. “Mademoiselle Gatienne,” said he, “do you know where the books are for the offices of the Virgin? The ladies of the Congregation of ... ... procession this evening round the church.” Gatienne went in search of the books. “Will they go on much longer, my little man?” asked the Count. “Oh, ...

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...nor of the Isle of Bourbon, by the grateful writer. De Balzac. IN 1828, at about one o’clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the... ...h me as far as my house.” “With pleasure.” “Well, and what have you to say about it?” “About that woman?” said the doctor coldly. “There I recognize m... ...horoughly done, my dear fellow, in that Nucingen business; I will tell you about that.—I have got my sisters married; that is the clearest profit I ca... ...superior knowledge of law proved so strong a recommendation at a time when Napoleon was reorganiz- ing it in 1808 and 1811, that, by the advice of Cam... ... all. As watchful as a Jew money-lender, he never raised his eyes from his books and registers but to look into the very heart of the persons he was e... ...tory necessities. The bookcase looked as if it had been sacked; there were books scattered over everything, some piled up open, one on another, others... ...ng with brilliancy like fag- gots in the fire, she can compare the men and books of our literature with the men and books of the eighteenth century. L... ...self crushed by it. This young Condottiere of the brain, con- demned, like Napoleon, to give battle constantly, while know- ing that a single defeat w... ...ay he is my best piece of work. My little Jeanrenaud was a soldier who did Napoleon credit, and who served in the Imperial Guard. But, alas! at the de...

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...be made to him? What is your Senator Martin saying and doing? What is Webb about? Please write me. Y ours truly, A. LINCOLN. 4 The Writings of Abraha... ...k of the Times upon me was received this morning. Give yourself no concern about my voting against the supplies. Unless you are without faith that a l... ...spec- tively, have been up here, and were each as I learn, talking largely about it. If they do so, it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men o... ...find they are not half gone. Make a little test. Run down one of the poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known Americ... ...hich ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini’s attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown’s attempt at Harper’s Ferry were, in their philosop... ...war with us nowadays is mere bushwhacking. At the battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon’s cavalry had charged again and again upon the unbroken squares of...

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...rmfield’s Visit to Heaven By Mark Twain CHAPTER I Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been w... ...same as if they were standing still. An ordinary comet don’t make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one of that s... ...t, everything taut and trim, and the wind in my favor — I judged I was going about a million miles a minute — it might have been more, it couldn’t ha... ...f folks who were coming back. Some had harps and nothing else; some had hymn books and nothing else; some had nothing at all; all of them looked meek ... ... very life. Henry the Sixth keeps a religious book stand.” “Did you ever see Napoleon, Sandy?” “Often — sometimes in the Corsican range, sometimes in ... ...ad a chance to show it. But here they take their right place, and Caesar and Napoleon and Alexander have to take a back seat. The greatest military ge... ...y hear he is going to be anywhere. Caesar, and Hannibal, and Alexander, and Napoleon are all on his staff, and ever so many more great generals; but ...

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...to the silent continents of Death and Eter- nity, a brave man’s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too lenient... ...g risen around his name, enough to impress some pretended likeness of him (about as like as the Guy-Fauxes are, on Gunpowder-Day) upon the minds of ma... ...e in a suitabler 7 Thomas Carlyle condition, I ought to give my testimony about this friend whom I had known so well, and record clearly what my know... ...hat the Letters of Vetus treated of I do not know; doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of eff... ... remem- bers the last scene of it, “the boys shouting Vive l’Empereur when Napoleon came back.” Of John Sterling’s express schooling, perhaps the most... ... abruptly as any of the rest could do. For in the spring of the next year, Napoleon abruptly emerged from Elba; and set all the populations of the wor... ...btless sufficiently encyclopedic; his grand tutors the multifarious set of Books he devoured. And perhaps,—as is the singular case in most schools and... ...-elected, indescribable Parliamentum, or Talking Apparatus, which talks by books and printed papers. A literary Newspaper called The Athenaeum, the sa... ...,—which you couldn’t. For the rest, Mr. Coleridge had on the anvil various Books, especially was about to write one grand Book On the Logos, which wou...

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... own. In a word, that accumulated knowledge which man inherits by means of books, imparted and transmitted information, schools, colleges, and univers... ... moon moves around the earth. In other words the diameter of this orbit is about 480,000 miles. Now could the sun be brought in contact with this orbi... ...s. Thus, while our own change of positions is known to embrace an orbit of about 200,000,000 of miles, it is nevertheless so trifling as to pro- duce ... ...oncerning interests that they are cer- tainly not destined to control, and about which, under the most favorable circumstances, they seldom obtain oth... ...d they soon began to speak of it openly in their visits. Fifteen or twenty napoleons might do it, and the remains of the recovered trousseau would sti... ...here was a lively dispute whether we were to be put at a certain number of napoleons, or one napoleon more. A good deal was said about Mad. la Duchess... ... sell us to the wife of one of the richest agents de change in Paris, at a napoleon a piece—”the price is five and twenty francs, if you take the doze... ... fact, and I shall, conse- quently, make up the statement from the private books of the firm that had the honor of once owning me, viz.: 69 James Fen... ...ents in the dollar, in lots, however, but in such a manner as balanced his books beautifully. “Now, thank God! I owe no man a sixpence,” said Mr. to M...