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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

... like Suzanne, whose heart was not yet spoiled, would have died a thousand deaths before beginning a discussion of this kind and asking for money. “Wi... ...om and rule of her house, had always desired to marry a nobleman; but from 1788 to 1798 public circumstances were very unfavorable to such pretensions...

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...is nothing to excite our wonder; important changes often de- pend on their deaths; and, from the eminence on which they stand, they are peculiarly exp... ...Sometimes, perhaps, he might read in the Newgate Calendar down to the year 1788, but he never looked into a book more recent. In fact, he had a theory...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

...and ne’er; Live still as a Bayadere, And no duty thou need’st share. T o deaths silent realms from life, None but shades attend man’s frame, 196 ... ...hat on my rock I linger’d, Like a rock, as though fast-chain’d and silent? 1788. 326 Goethe GOD, SOUL, AND WORLD. RHYMED DISTICHS. [The Distichs, of ...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...d the improvement or gradual abolition of political institutions. The year 1788 may be assumed as the epoch of one of the most important crises produc... ...is inward hate. ’Tis bold hypocrisy, For he would gladlier celebrate their deaths, Which I have heard him pray for on his knees: Great God! that such ... ... And whose most favouring Providence was shown Even in the manner of their deaths. For Rocco Was kneeling at the mass, with sixteen others, When the c... ... _120 Princes and kinsmen, at this hideous feast Given at my brothers’ deaths. T wo yet remain, His wife remains and I, whom if ye save not, Ye ma... ...ayer against his child, Be he who asks even what men call me. Will not the deaths of her rebellious brothers Awe her before I speak? For I on them ...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

....” Extracts 9 Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1788. “And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?” Edmund Burke’s ref... ...om our own island of Nantucket? Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of £1,000,000? And lastly, how... ...r. One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, howe... ...tury they were the only people of the whole globe who so harpooned him. In 1788, a fine ship, the Amelia, fitted out for the express purpose, and at the...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e to Port Jackson, in Australia, to build fresh boats, left it in February 1788, and were never heard of more. One or two attempts were made to ascert... ...eep you. ‘Your affectionate cousin, ‘J. C. Patteson, Bishop.’ One of these deaths was that of Kareambat, the little New Caledonian confided to the Bis... ...hat in the execution of this great purpose they should have met with their deaths. Surely there is matter for comfort here! ‘I can’t write all this ov... ... a sad little note was sent up to the Primate with the announcement of the deaths and losses. In spite of the comfort which, as this note said, Pattes... ...t I think that the sunshine has come again.’ There were, however, two more deaths—the twins of Mwerlau. Clement died on the 24th of May; the other bro... ...of the island suffered long after the St. Barnabas scholars were free, and deaths continued. It was impossible to enforce on such an undisciplined rac...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e very shadow of the catastrophe, being divided from the most frightful of deaths by scarcely more, if more at all, than seventy seconds. Such was the... ...lass as the Mellishes and the Lees. This gallant Scotsman, who was born in 1788, or 1789, lost his father in early life. Inheriting from him a good es... ...n glades, divided hearts that would either have encountered death, or many deaths, for the other. These were regions of natural peace and tranquillity... ...nd placing himself in an attitude of defence, that he would die a thousand deaths sooner than surrender the sword of his father, the Palsgrave, a prin...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...om our own island of Nantucket? Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of £1,000,000? And lastly, how... .... One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, ho...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...very parish, in which the results of public deliberations, and the births, deaths, and marriages of the citizens were entered;*** clerks were directed... ...e laws; the town-clerk records all the town votes, orders, grants, births, deaths, and marriages; the treasurer keeps the funds; the overseer of the p... ...ustrate this remark, I will quote the example of the State of New York. In 1788, the State of New York prohibited the sale of slaves within its limits...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of governme... ...29 Concerning the Militia From the Daily Advertiser. Thursday, January 10, 1788 HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: The power of regulati... ...e General Power of Taxation) From the New York Packet. Tuesday, January 1, 1788. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: In disquisitions of ... ...General Power of Taxation) From the Daily Advertiser. Thursday, January 3, 1788. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: Although I am of opi... ...rning the General Power of Taxation) From the Daily Advertiser. January 3, 1788. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: The residue of the a... ...he General Power of Taxation) From the New York Packet. Friday, January 4, 1788. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: I flatter myself it ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...istracted lies; (Memoires justificatifs de la Comtesse de Lamotte (London, 1788). Vie de Jeanne de St. Remi, Comtesse de Lamotte, &c. &c. See Diamond ... ...ead in the ditch. Under such omens, however, we have reached the spring of 1788. By no path can the King’s Government find pas- sage for itself, but i... ...ying Paris, ’ in the peaceablest manner, in this hopeful spring weather of 1788; the old hovels and hutches disappearing from our Bridges: as if for t... ... 1.3.VIII. Lomenie’s Death-throes. On the morrow, which is the 3rd of May, 1788, an aston- ished Parlement sits convoked; listens speechless to the sp... ...ctes et en 96 The French Revolution: V ol. One prose; jouee le 14 Juillet 1788, par une societe d’amateurs dans un Chateau aux environs de Versailles... ...haos! Bursts forth insurrection, at sight of its own blood (for there were deaths by that sputter of fire), into endless rolling explosion of musketry...

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Measure, For Measure

By: William Shakespeare

...s habitation where thou keepst 1214 Hourely afflict: Meerely, thou art deaths foole, 1215 For him thou labourst by thy flight to shun, 1216 ... ...at beares the name of life? Yet in this life 1243 Lie hid moe thousand deaths; yet death we feare 1244 That makes these oddes, all euen. 1245... ...for mee here 1787 to day; much vpon this time haue I promis’d here to 1788 meete. 1789 Mar. You haue not bin enquir’d after: I haue sa...

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Twelfe Night, Or What You Will

By: William Shakespeare

...ou walke towards him, I will make 1787 your peace with him, if I can. 1788 Vio. I shall bee much bound to you for’t: I am one, 1789 th... ...nd I most iocund, apt, and willinglie, 2289 To do you rest, a thousand deaths would dye. 2290 Ol. Where goes Cesario? 2291 Vio. A...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...hes life and makes it worth having, have to be purchased by death – by the deaths of animals, and the deaths of men wearied out with labour, and the d... ... the deaths of those criminals called tyrants and revolutionaries, and the deaths of those revolutionaries called criminals. It is to something of all... ...d the sinister courage to desert his victim. About the middle of February (1788), he had to tear himself from his Clarinda and make a journey into the... ...sympa- thies to a whole nation animated with the same desire. Al- ready in 1788 we find the old Jacobitism hand in hand with the new popular doctrine,...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...tracted lies; (Memoires justificatifs de la Comtesse de Lamotte (Lon- don, 1788). Vie de Jeanne de St. Remi, Comtesse de Lamotte, &c. &c. See Diamond ... ...ead in the ditch. Under such omens, however, we have reached the spring of 1788. By no path can the King’s Government find passage for itself, but is ... ...ying Paris, ’ in the peaceablest manner, in this hopeful spring weather of 1788; the old hovels and hutches disappearing from our Bridges: as if for t... ... 1.3.VIII. Lomenie’s Death-throes. On the morrow, which is the 3rd of May, 1788, an astonished Parlement sits convoked; listens speechless to the spee... ...niere, heroi-tragi-comedie en trois actes et en prose; jouee le 14 Juillet 1788, par une societe d’amateurs dans un Chateau aux envi- rons de Versaill... ...haos! Bursts forth insurrection, at sight of its own blood (for there were deaths by that sputter of fire), into endless rolling explosion of musketry... ...ing, stand sentry at a Queen’s door; and feel that he could die a thousand deaths for her: then again, at the outer gate, and even a third time, she s...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... of a Naval Fight, When thundering Cannons spread a sea of Gore And varied deaths now fire and now affright: The impatient shout, that longs for cl... ...l Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ Coleridge: Poems Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon 1788 Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night! Mother of wildly-workin...

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