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...lines into little squares, containing about a hundred heads of illustrious Frenchmen. This sheet was stuck on pasteboard for hanging on the wall, and ... ...tance and alliance with them should date. V oluntarily , or induced by his family, Rabelais now embraced the ecclesi- astical profession, and entered ... ... of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revelled in the Cent Nouvelles of good King Louis XI. R... ...ral- ize him completely in England. Thomas Urquhart belonged to a very old family of good standing in the North of Scotland. After studying in Aber- d... ...aire’s words. No French writer has used so few, and all of them are of the simplest. There is not one of them that is not part of the common speech, o... ...the same fashion. The Chronique Gargantuaine is uniform in style and quite simple, but cannot with certainty be attrib- uted to him. His letters are b... ...John Andrew in a meadow, which he had near the pole-arch, under the olive- tree, as you go to Narsay: where, as he was making cast up some ditches, th... ...d, not in paper, not in parch- ment, nor in wax, but in the bark of an elm-tree, yet so worn with the long tract of time, that hardly could three lett... ...ore readily obeyed by everyone than the statutes of senates or commands of monarchs. Neither will he admit the least let or delay in his summons. You ...

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... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- ing, ran as ... ...reast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the g... ...Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said: “Now about your family . Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been en... ... as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich and of good family and that’s all I want.” And with the familiarity and easy grace pecu... ... balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory . Both were talk- in... ...s looking at a large gilt frame, new to him, con- taining the genealogical tree of the Princes Bolkonski, opposite which hung another such frame with ... ...tor of the Bolkonskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that ge- nealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so c... ...h had been extraordinary. It had been a speech such as only constitutional monarchs deliver. “The Sovereign plainly said that the Council and Senate a... ...ll be safeguarded, since such is the will of the greatest and most just of monarchs. Soldiers and citizens, of whatever nation you may be, re-establis...

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...alth thou dost sustain; from thee Fair babes are born, and fruits on every tree Hang ripe and large, revered Divinity! The life of mortal men beneath ... ...oints of spits, not sharpened with the sickle _385 But with a fruit tree bough, and with the jaws Of axes for Aetnean slaughterings.* And when ... ... The remnant of its fame. _120 Monarchs and conquerors there Proud o’er prostrate millions trod— The earth... ...ence no more: Withered the hand outstretched but to relieve; Sunk Reason’s simple eloquence, that rolled _160 But to appal th... ...ICE A DIAL A DIAL A DIAL A DIAL A DIALOGUE. OGUE. OGUE. OGUE. OGUE. Whilst monarchs laughed upon their thrones To hear a famished nation’s groans, And... ... with a lady of considerable accomplishments, and the mother of a numerous family, whom the Christian religion has goaded to incurable insanity. A par... ...allow that it is impossible to form any idea of Him: they exclaim with the French poet, Pour dire ce qu’il est, il faut etre lui-meme. Lord Bacon says... ... The peasant cannot gratify these fashionable cravings without leaving his family to starve. Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of pop... ...His readings were not always well chosen; among them were the works of the French philosophers: as far as metaphysical argument went, he temporarily b...

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...opi, that make it their practice, to bring men to the bough, and yet never a tree for the purpose in their gardens, as Timon had. Such dispositions, ... ...rds the afflictions of others, it shows that 30 his heart is like the noble tree, that is wounded itself, when it gives the balm. If he easily pardon... ... timber tree, sound and perfect. How much more, to be hold an ancient noble family, which has stood against the waves and weathers of time! For new n... ...ands, to come in to his aid. An emblem, no doubt, to show how safe it is for monarchs, to make sure of the good will of common people. To give moderat... ...ths of time. Yet notwithstanding, as those that first bring honor into their family, are commonly more worthy than most that succeed, so the first pre... ...ore generative than dust. Of Seeming Wise I t hath been an opinion, that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they a... ...ession. It is a strange thing to observe, how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship, whereof we speak: so great... ...e continual amendment, which is exceed ing rare. But if the force of custom simple and separate, be great, the force of custom copulate and conjoined... ...h not his own way. An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and re mover (the French hath it better, entreprenant, or remuant); but the exercised fortu...

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...there were men in the street that day who had worshipped there beneath the trees, before a house was reared to the God for whom they had become exiles... ...t from the dread Being whom he was addressing? Such was the effect of this simple piece of crape, that more than one woman of delicate nerves was forc... ...s mouth, glimmering as he disappeared. “How strange,” said a lady, “that a simple black veil, such as any woman might wear on her bonnet, should becom... ...yly decked as at sunset on midsummer eve. This venerated emblem was a pine-tree, which had preserved the slender grace of youth, while it equalled the... ...nder grace of youth, while it equalled the loftiest height of the old wood monarchs. From its top streamed a silken banner, colored like the rainbow. ... ...arson had hitherto found it difficult to provide for a wife and increasing family. To this supposed impurity of motive the more bigoted Puritans were ... ...d. * * * On the second Sabbath after Ilbrahim became a member of their family, Pearson and his wife deemed it proper that he should appear with th... ...fair, or pilfered from some receptacle of the cast-off clothes of both the French and British armies. Portions of their attire had probably been worn ... ... than those of brother- hood, as when they fought side by side through the French War. Do not convert the streets of your native town into a camp. Thi...

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........................................................... 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING .......................................... ...hich might have been as readily foreseen, we have been brought to merge in simple show our notions of taste itself To speak less abstractly. In Englan... ...en denuded by what is termed a land-slide, of the principal portion of its trees. My thoughts had been long wandering from the volume before me to the... ...ting the size of the creature by comparison with the diameter of the large trees near which it passed—the few gi- ants of the forest which had escaped... ... place, let me read to you a schoolboy account of the genus Sphinx, of the family Crepuscularia of the order Lepidoptera, of the class of In- secta—or... ...cripple. Dwarfs were as common at court, in those days, as fools; and many monarchs would have found it difficult to get through their days (days are ... ...me of Hop-Frog. His mode of equipping the party as ourang-outangs was very simple, but effective enough for his purposes. The animals in question had,... ...us livers. I bedewed his grave with my tears, worked a bar sinister on his family es- cutcheon, and, for the general expenses of his funeral, sent in ... ...and led happily ever afterward a new life. 61 V olume Five WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING IT’S ON MY VISITING CARDS sure enough (...

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...d love, make a serious claim on our compassion. The art of the novelist is simple. At the same time it is the most elusive of all creative arts, the m... ...calmly where fools may be eager to rush. As a distinguished and successful French novelist 12 Notes on Life and Letters once observed of fiction, “C’... ...force; and he stands excused from the duty of patriotic posturing. He is a Frenchman of Frenchmen beyond question or cavil, and with that he is simple... ... 54 Notes on Life and Letters and then, indistinct and passing between the trees. Thus in his very vagueness of appearance, the writer seen through th... ...rs the regard paid to certain forms of conventional de- cency. For, if the monarchs of Europe have been de- rided for addressing each other as “brothe... ...ll hands, is the heritage of democracy. In the ceremonial brother- hood of monarchs the reality of blood-ties, for what little it is worth, acted ofte... ...l sense. Oppression, not merely political, but affecting social relations, family life, the deepest affections of human nature, and the very fount of ... ...over, who if true to himself, to his con- ception of patriotism and to his family tradition could not have put his hand to it with any sincerity of pu... ...Meantime, in a clearing of the Teutonic forest, their sages were rearing a Tree of Cynical Wisdom, a sort of Upas tree, whose shade may be seen now ly...

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........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ...nd trimmed the broad old oak of Shakspeare’s speech, that it seems another tree altogether. Everything is so terse, so clear, so pointed, so elaborate... ...idual works must be brief and cur- sory. His “Ode to Solitude” is the most simple and natural thing he ever wrote, and in it he seems to say to nature... ...render Homer, but none of them is the grand old Greek, whose lines are all simple and plain as brands, but like brands pointed on their edges with fir... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ...lower. ’Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. 150 Boastful and rough, your first so... ... 380 Seldom at church (’twas such a busy life) But duly sent his family and wife. There (so the devil ordain’d) one Christmas-tide, My good ... ...es; One boundless green, or flourish’d carpet views, With all the mournful family of yews; The thriving plants, ignoble broomsticks made, Now sweep th... ...ee what succour from the patriot race. C——, 91 his own proud dupe, thinks monarchs things Made just for him, as other fools for kings; Controls, deci...

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...n the speech of the upper circles there was an over-fondness for Ger- man, French, and English words. Between them the two friends, by force of their ... ...general good. “It combines all the fascination of a fairy tale and all the simple truth of human adventure, holding out the same allurement to every b... ...yarevsky (N. A.), 1903; Shenrok (V. I.), Materials for a Biography, 1892; (French) Leger (L.), Nicholas Gogol, 1914. TARAS BULBA CHAPTER I “Turn round... ...untsmen, dinners, and palaces. This was not to Taras’s taste. He liked the simple life of the Cossacks, and quarrelled with those of his comrades who ... ... the surface were the two chimneys of their modest hut and the tops of the trees up whose trunks they had been used to climb like squirrels. Before th... ... the student, he crept through the pal- ings into the garden and climbed a tree which spread its branches upon the very roof of the house. From the tr... ...f the same stamp as himself—idlers having nei- ther relatives nor home nor family, nothing, in short, save the free sky and the eternal revel of their... ...ing the praiseworthy custom of at- tacking those who cannot bite back. His family name was Bashmatchkin. This name is evi- dently derived from “bashma... ...f intellect, po- etry, and art contemned and oppressed. On the other hand, monarchs alone were their protectors. Shakespeare and Moliere flourished un...

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... design: Jim Manis; art: “The Lion suddenly confronts Dante” Gustave Doré (French artist and illustrator, 1832 83) Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvan... ...at the foremost does, that do The others, gath’ring round her, if she stops, Simple and quiet, nor the cause discern; So saw I moving to advance the f... ...e held; Neither the better heritage obtains. Rarely into the branches of the tree Doth human worth mount up; and so ordains He who bestows it, that as... ...ant hearts. O Brettinoro! wherefore tarriest still, Since forth of thee thy family hath gone, And many, hating evil, join’d their steps? Well doeth h... ...ain?” Cried I, “and which towards us moving seems?” “Marvel not, if the family of heav’n,” He answer’d, “yet with dazzling radiance dim Thy sense... ...rious lessons of sweet poesy. But soon they ceas’d; for midway of the road A tree we found, with goodly fruitage hung, And pleasant to the smell: and ... .... 135. Dante therefore considers Peter as the most illustrious of the three monarchs. v. 129. Harry of England.] Henry III. v. 130. Better issue.] ... ...Guido of Castello.] Of Reggio. All the Italians were called Lombards by the French. v. 144. His daughter Gaia.] A lady equally admired for her modes... ...2. All save one.] The posterity of Charlemagne, the second race of French monarchs, had failed, with the exception of Charles of Lorraine who is s...

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...a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More, of Sidney, of Marmaduke Robinson; before a French Reign of Terror, and a Salem hanging of witches; before a fanatic Re... ...ll-known air through innu- merable variations. Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works, and delights in startling us with res... ... rock. There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains ... ... deep is the chain of affinity. A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the ... ...t is related to us, noth- ing that does not interest us,—kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe,—the roots of all things are in man. Santa Croce ... ...present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away,—means, teach- er... ...ts but proximities. I shall endeavour to nourish my parents, to support my family, to be the chaste husband of one wife,— but these relations I must f... ...pel. This is a law which statesmen use in practice. All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to com- mand her di... ...s of justice, beauty, and benefit to the individuals actually found there. Monarchs and heroes, sages and lovers, these gallants are not. Fashion has...

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...em. Cover design by Jim Manis: Art: illustration by Gustave Doré (1832 83, French painter & illustrator) Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State Uni... ...eaves hath sever’d thus, gather them up, And at the foot of their sad parent tree Carefully lay them. In that city’ I dwelt, Who for the Baptist her f... ...nmity. Nor wonder; for amongst ill savour’d crabs It suits not the sweet fig tree lay her fruit. Old fame reports them in the world for blind, Covetou... ... speak of him whose tongue hath been so glib, Forget not: here he wails the Frenchman’s gold. ‘Him of Duera,’ thou canst say, ‘I mark’d, Where the st... ... from the woods.] So called, because it was headed by Veri de’ Cerchi, whose family had lately come into the city from Acone, and the woody country of... ...Mosca.] Of Arrigo, who is said by the commentators to have been of the noble family of the Fifanti, no mention afterwards occurs. Mosca degli Uberti i... ...at the foremost does, that do The others, gath’ring round her, if she stops, Simple and quiet, nor the cause discern; So saw I moving to advance the f... .... 135. Dante therefore considers Peter as the most illustrious of the three monarchs. v. 129. Harry of England.] Henry III. v. 130. Better issue.] ... ...2. All save one.] The posterity of Charlemagne, the second race of French monarchs, had failed, with the exception of Charles of Lorraine who is s...

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... Urban, Montague, and others, and a new interest in foreign works, German, French and Italian, which had either become classical or were attract- ing ... ... is, we be- come involved in perplexities. Is “consciousness” ultimate and simple, something to be merely accepted and contemplated? Or is it somethin... ...nt and object. The reference of thoughts to objects is not, I believe, the simple direct essential thing that Brentano and Meinong represent it as bei... ...remove it, but there will be no such effect if you say the same thing to a French- man who knows no English. The effect of words upon the hearer is a ... ... the target. For example, if the whole target is represented by the fungus family and the bull’s eye by mushrooms, a vague thought which can only hit ... ...misled by grammar, particularly if all the languages we know belong to one family. In some lan- guages, according to some authorities, the distinction... ...to my new realm. At the last moment I remember Charles I and all the other monarchs who have come to a bad end; I change my mind, and walk out without... ...ledge is dis- played by actions based upon perception. A bird flying among trees avoids bumping into their branches; its avoidance is a response to vi...

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...bsolute is reconcilable with intricacy the most elaborate. The weather—how simple would appear the laws of its oscillations, if we stood at their cent... ...rdinary cir- cumstances! abstinence and cleanliness, labor and rest, these simple laws, observed in just proportions, laws that may be engrossed upon ... ...ristianity could never have existed. Translators there have been, English, French, German, of Mahometan books, who have so colored the whole vein of t... ...ly attested, that there was an ancient and secret enmity between the whole family of the gods and the human race. This is confessed by Herodotus as a ... ... for they went the length of promising, that he separately, as King of the French, would coerce Europe into peace. But, from the known good sense of t... ...were in their graves, Griesbach, the Ger- man, has risen to the top of the tree, by towering above them all in the accuracy of his collations. Yet, as... ...d be the aeonian period of these animals, considered as individuals. Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notori- ously of ve... ...ny rate, are the facts of the case: A lady (by birth a Cowper, of the whig family, and cousin to the poet Cowper; and, equally with him, related to Dr... ... there arose that ‘fear of change’ which by authentic warrant ‘per- plexes monarchs.’ 106 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One which, al...

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...ittle, The Master I beheld of those who know, Sit with his philosophic family. All gaze upon him, and all do him honour. There I beheld both Soc... ...y colour, Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled, Not apple-trees were there, but thorns with poison. Such tangled thickets have not, n... ...ws, and their great bellies fledged; They make laments upon the wondrous trees. And the good Master: “Ere thou enter farther, Know that thou art w... ...r brows As an old tailor at the needle’s eye. Thus scrutinised by such a family, By some one I was recognised, who seized My garment’s hem, and ... ... with her vans. The city which once made the long resistance, And of the French a sanguinary heap, Beneath the Green Paws finds itself again; Verr... ...“Now was ever So vain a people as the Sienese? Not for a certainty the French by far.” Whereat the other leper, who had heard me, Replied unto m... ...most does the others do, Huddling themselves against her, if she stop, Simple and quiet and the wherefore know not; So moving to approach us there... ...rgaret Costanza boasteth of her husband still. Behold the monarch of the simple life, Harry of England, sitting there alone; He in his branches ... ...hrough Typhoeus, but through nascent sulphur, Would have awaited her own monarchs still, Through me from Charles descended and from Rudolph, If ev...

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...orthern or eastern Europe. I confess there is something flattering in this simple faith in my accomplishment as a linguist and my erudition as a philo... ... be completely origi- 6 Preface to Major Barbara nal in that sense than a tree can grow out of air. Another mistake as to my literary ancestry is mad... ...s a week or his agricultural thirteen shillings a week on his beer and his family instead of saving it up for his old age, let him be poor. Let nothin... ...are their tastes nor understand their art-criticisms. They do not want the simple life, nor the es- thetic life; on the contrary, they want very much ... ...the motion of eminent reformers, break no bones. It has been said that the French Revolution was the work of Voltaire, Rousseau and the Encyclopedists... ...rry. Napoleon constructing a galaxy of generals and courtiers, and even of monarchs, out of his collection of social nobod- ies; Julius Caesar appoint... ...oundrels have been beneficent rulers whilst amiable and privately harmless monarchs have ruined their countries by trusting to the hocus-pocus of inno...

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...ntly and constantly in the four great books here given, he was not, as the French idiom expresses it, dans son assiette, in his own natural and impreg... ...e here. Although Henry Fielding lived in quite modern times, al- though by family and connections he was of a higher rank than most men of letters, an... ...eigh- teenth century—have not altogether sufficed to fill up the gaps. His family, said to have descended from a member of the great house of Hapsburg... ...e, next to Henry, was his sister Sa- rah, also a novelist, who wrote David Simple; of the second, John, afterwards Sir John Fielding, who, though blin... ...strate of that time occupied a most singular position, and was more like a French Prefect of Police or even a Minister of Public Safety than a mere ju... ...congregation; and as how a field of corn ran away down a hill with all the trees upon it, and covered another man’s meadow.” This sufficiently assured... ...ed him to sit down, Mrs. Slipslop thus began:— “Sure nothing can be a more simple contract in a woman than to place her affections on a boy. If I had ... ... at the distance agreed on, he is to dismount, tie the horse to some gate, tree, post, or other thing, and then proceed on foot; when the other comes ... ...he was led up to the footsteps of the throne he addressed him- self to the monarchs in some grave speech, full of virtue, and goodness, and morality, ...

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...ver design: Jim Manis; art: “Dante astray in the Dusky wood” Gustave Doré (French artist and illustrator, 1832 1883 Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylva... ...in my thoughts I may set forth to view, Thou shalt behold me of thy favour’d tree Come to the foot, and crown myself with leaves; For to that honour t... ...Iphigenia mourn’d Her virgin beauty, and hath since made mourn Both wise and simple, even all, who hear Of so fell sacrifice. Be ye more staid, O Chr... ...inous upsteam’d), That too did look To have its scepter wielded by a race Of monarchs, sprung through me from Charles and Rodolph; had not ill lording... ...ce no eye above the sun Hath ever travel’d? Such are they dwell here, Fourth family of the Omnipotent Sire, Who of his spirit and of his offspring sho... ...oes he on his way, The father and the master, with his spouse, And with that family, whom now the cord Girt humbly: nor did abjectness of heart Weigh ... ...nce with lustre, more or less, it shows Th’ ideal stamp impress: so that one tree According to his kind, hath better fruit, And worse: and, at your bi... ...ng with Adam respecting the causes of the spots on the moon. But, as a late French translator of the Paradise well remarks, his reasoning is physical... ...ugh me from Charles and Rodolph.] “Sicily would be still ruled by a race of monarchs, descended through me from Charles I and Rodolph I the former m...

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... the neces- saries and conveniencies of life, for himself, and such of his family or tribe as are either too old, or too young, or too infirm, to go a... ...; and the division of labour, by reducing every man’s business to some one simple operation, and by making this operation the sole employ- ment of his... ...ails in a day . The making of a nail, how- ever, is by no means one of the simplest operations. The same person blows the bellows, stirs or mends the ... ...intro- duced into the mint of England till the 18th of Henry the VIII. The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, T royes weight... ... of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained all of them originally a real pen... ...t this rent should always be of the same value, it is of importance to the family in whose favour it is reserved, that it should not consist in a part... ... The vine is more affected by the difference of soils than any other fruit-tree. From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equ... ...uch obliged to any body who would carry away the greater part of his large trees. In some parts of the Highlands of Scotland, the bark is the only par... ...ely corrupt; far from being quite equal and impartial, even under the best monarchs, and altogether profligate under the worst. Among nations of sheph...

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...ke on a summer morn ing and find them sprung up. Neither do they resemble trees, which, once planted, “are aye growing” while men “are sleep ing.” I... ...it has to be worked, by men, and even by ordinary men. It needs, not their simple acquiescence, but their active partici pation; and must be adjusted... ...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... to produce even an approximation to these results than is conveyed in the simple expression, a good despot. Their realization would in fact imply, no... ...usiness of life, which must necessarily be performed by each individual or family for themselves, will call forth some amount of intelligence and prac... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ... disinterested zeal to benefit others. The contented man, or the contented family, who have no ambition to make any one else happier, to promote the g... ...ubled period of the Reformation also produced sev eral eminent hereditary monarchs—Elizabeth, Henri Quatre, Gustavus Adolphus; but they were mostly b... ...nt for their own defense, are hemmed in on all sides by military or feudal monarchs, who hate and despise freedom even in a neigh bor, those states h...