...Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...r mythological Arcadias are flat and stale. Arcadia is in Burgundy, not in Greece; Arcadia is at Les Aigues and nowhere else. A river, made by scores ... ... Don’t you see (but you never did un- derstand anything of politics!) that government puts such heavy taxes on wine only to hinder our profits and kee... ...ne only to hinder our profits and keep us poor? The middle classes and the government, they are all one. What would become of them if everybody was ri... ...lves. Come, my dear abbe, give me your arm. Leave the general with his two ministers, and let us go to the gate of the Avonne to see Madame Michaud, f... ...d the meaning of the conversation which he had with what he called his two ministers, after Madame de Montcornet, the abbe, and Blondet left the break...

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...A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e 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... ...cil of State, and received one of the most disorganized departments of the government to reconstruct. This scion of an old histori- cal family proved ... ...him in charge of his private affairs, and appointed him one of his cabinet ministers. On the 20th of March, Monsieur de Serizy did not go to Ghent. He... ...4 he asked for his pardon, obtained it, of- fered him first a place in his government office, and finally took him as private secretary for his own af... ..., “monsieur has been to the East?” “Yes, monsieur; first to Egypt, then to Greece, where I served under Ali, pacha of Janina, with whom I had a ter- r... ...il, too, if the devil has money? From Zante we were to skirt the coasts of Greece and tack about, on and off. Now it happens that my name of Georges i...

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...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...f the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y at the time of the Restoration. 11 Balzac * * * The promises of Ministers were so illusory that Monsieur de la Baudraye determined on going... ...draye, “London is the capi- tal of trade and speculation and the centre of government. The aristocracy hold a ‘mote’ there for sixty days only; it giv... ...emark, “and assume the part of Public Prosecutor of all the ages—for every Government has its public ministry—well, 54 The Muse of the Department the... ... organiz- ing it on a better footing. In the eyes of the great families of Greece and Rome, Socrates and Jesus were criminals; to those ancient aristo...

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rs have been but for these queens?” Blondet went on; “Lais and Rhodope are Greece and Egypt. They all indeed are the poetry of the ages in which they ... ...les like the Diana and the Callipyge, it is the privi- leged possession of Greece and Asia Minor. Esther came from that cradle of the human race; her ... ... police, and looked upon him as a great man. Since the suppression of this Government department, he had devoted his energies to the tracking of comme... ...n enough, was called public spirit. The Directorate, a rather more regular government than that of the Committee of Public Safety, was obliged to reor... ...binet Council called together by Cambaceres, it is absolutely certain. The Ministers, thunderstruck by the news of England’s attempt, a retalia- tion ... ...Paris. After midnight, Pere Canquoelle could hatch plots, receive spies or ministers, wives or hussies, without any one on earth knowing anything abou...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...umbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbecile. The present government is attempting to save it- self by two laws from the same evil Ch... ...ppo Strozzi returned to Florence he re-es- tablished the preceding form of government and ousted Ippolito dé Medici, another bastard, and the very Ale... ...xtraordinary in our time, when all 28 Catherine dé Medici the world, even ministers of State, tell everything about the least little event with which... ...w voice:— “I am Chaudieu.” Hearing the name of one of the most illustrious ministers and devoted actors in the terrible drama called “The Refor- matio... ... now embody were born with the human races. Chaldea, India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, the Moors, have transmitted from one to another Magic, the highest ... ...smitted through the mysteries of Isis to Chaldea and Egypt, and brought to Greece by Pythagoras, one of the demigods of hu- manity. His doctrine of re...

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

... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ...d taken them from the army provision wag- ons to place them in charge of a government contract need- ing despatch. The brothers Fischer had done furth... ...pa is in the King’s household just now,” said Hortense. “He sees those two ministers every day at the Chamber, and he will do the thing —I undertake t... ...t I will let papa see it, that he may know what he is talking about to the ministers, for men in authority must be careful what they say,” urged the g... ...anny shall tell me who it is,” said the Baron to himself. The sight of the Government official had, as will be seen, made a deep impression on this co... ...ful than the Greek myth is that replica of Hercules at Omphale’s feet.—Did Greece copy Judaea, or did Judaea borrow the symbolism from Greece?” “There...

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

...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...The Magic Skin 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... ... statue spoke to him from a twisted column of the pleasure-loving myths of Greece and Ionia. Ah! who would not have smiled with him to see, against th... ...me was not in the jail- ers’ registers at the St. Pelagie nor at La Force! Government departments, cafes, libraries, lists of prefects’ names, news- p... ...t-Germain to the Chaussee de Antin. But this you may not know perhaps. The Government, that is, the aristocracy of lawyers and bank- ers who represent... ...ned my modesty. I was brought in contact with scholars, men of letters, ex-ministers, and peers of France. The conversation, interrupted a while by my... ...se grand mysteries, does he not walk in an- other world? Are not generals, ministers, and artists carried, more or less, towards destruction by the ne... ...’s delights of boston and gossip, for he was a poet, and so must needs pit Greece against Mahmoud. “In war, is not man an angel of extirpation, a sort...

...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gam...

...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...ic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...o in the morning. By day it is Paris epitomized; by night it is a dream of Greece. The rue Traversiere-Saint- Honore—is not that a villainous street? ... ...uste declared that in the time in which they now lived, the police and the government were able to lay bare all mysteries, and that if it were absolut... ...“The police, my dear boy, is the most incompetent thing on this earth, and government the feeblest in all matters concerning individuals. Neither the ... ...us The vidame strongly advised the baron to go to Italy, and from Italy to Greece, from Greece to Syria, from Syria to Asia, and not to return until h... ...as celebrated with the sombre magnificence of funeral services. Beside the ministers in ordinary of Saint- Roch, thirteen priests from other parishes ...

...fore innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,--criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain of the qualities that make great men, and recruiting their number only among men of mark....