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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Two).

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Contents VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 2.1.III. The Muster....................................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 2.1.IV. Journalism. ........................................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 2.1.V. Clubbism. ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Ch...

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Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most important representatives of conscientious, studious Germany?...

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. (INDEX)

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INDEX ABBAYE, massacres, Jourgniac, Sicard, and Maton?s account of. ACCEPTATION, grande, by Louis XVI. AGOUST, Captain d?, seizes two Parlementeers. AIGUILLON, d?, at Quiberon, account of, in favour, at death of Louis XV. AINTRIGUES, Count d?. ALTAR of Fatherland in Champ-de-Mars, scene at, christening at....

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Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom....

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Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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CONTENTS BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES 1. Fellow Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together 16. Getting on 17. Missing 18. A Castle in the Air 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air 20. Introduces the next 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor 22. Who Passes by this Road so late? 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams 24. The Evening of a Long Day 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office 26. Reaping the Whirlwind 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea 30. Closing in...

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Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken legs it trudges diligently from one scene to another, and seems always to thrust itself in the way, with most benign complacency, whenever an historical personage happens to be looking round for a seat....

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Contents AUTHOR’S PREFACE..................................................................................................................... 4 GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR ............................................ 6 APPENDIX TO PART I .................................................................................50 PART II ...........................................................................................................53 APPENDIX TO PART II ..............................................................................100 PART III ........................................................................................................104 APPENDIX TO PART III .............................................................................155...

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Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country....

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Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE.................................................................................................. 21 THE ORPHAN MAID. ................................................................................................................. 100 IV. APPENDIX. .............................................................................................................................. 231 V. NOTES. ..................................................................................................................................... 234 Note I.?Fides et Fiducia Sunt Relativa. ...................................................................................... 234 Note II.?WRAITHS. .................................................................................................................... 234...

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Excerpt: Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge.

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Contents PREFACE.......................................................................................................................................... 5 UNKNOWN TO HISTORY.............................................................................6 CHAPTER I THE LITTLE WAIF ............................................................................................................................. 6 CHAPTER II EVIL TIDINGS ................................................................................................................................ 18 CHAPTER III THE CAPTIVE................................................................................................................................ 29 CHAPTER IV THE OAK AND THE OAKEN HALL ........................................................................................... 38 CHAPTER V THE HUCKSTERING WOMAN .................................................................................................... 49 CHAPTER VI THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE ...................................................................................................... 57 CHAPTER VII THE BLAST O...

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Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones.?...

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Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................................................... 35 THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND ................................................................................................... 61 A COLLECTION OF LETTERS ................................................................................................. 72 SCRAPS .......................................................................................................................................... 91 THE FEMALE PHILOSOPHER ................................................................................................. 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .............................................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart dis...

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

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Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 3.1.I. The Improvised Commune. ........................................................................................................................ 6 Chapter 3.1.II. Danton. ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Chapter 3.1.III. Dumouriez. ........................................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 3.1.IV. September in Paris. ............................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 3.1.V. A Trilogy. ..........................................................................................................................

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Excerpt: The Parsonage. All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend....