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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...cott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a public... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott ... ...d those legislative functions to divert his mind from his grief. After the 18th Brumaire, Monsieur de Serizy became, like so many other of the old par... ... of honor; he also had the orders of the Golden Fleece, of Saint-Andrew of Russia, that of the Prussian Eagle, and nearly all the lesser Orders of the... ...s des Tournelles and the hotel Saint-Paul. Toward the end of the sixteenth century, the great seigneurs divided among themselves these vast spaces, on... ...ary to talk; Spaniards have no public 46 A Start in Life conveyances; and Russians no roads. There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences... ...gh it once served as Turcarets to the comedies and tales of the eighteenth century. Uncle Cardot always said “Fair lady,” and he placed in their carri... ...in old paper for a register, made of paper with the mark of the eighteenth century, duly bound in parchment, on which should be the stamp of an order ...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...TA W A, August 22, 1858. J. O. CUNNINGHAM, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—Y ours of the 18th, signed as secretary of the Republican club, is received. In the matte... ...ny living man in the world ever did, prior to the beginning of the present century (and I might al- most say prior to the beginning of the last half o... ... might al- most say prior to the beginning of the last half of the present century), declare that, in his understanding, any proper divi- sion of loca... ...rnment under which we live,” but with them all other living men within the century in which it was framed, among whom to search, and they shall not be... ... VID HUNTER. MY DEAR SIR:—I am much obliged by the receipt of yours of the 18th. The most we can do now is to watch events, and be as well prepared as... ... upon the Chesapeake Bay, shall begin to move upon the bay as early as the 18th day of March instant, and the general-in-chief shall be responsible th...

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...re to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

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...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e sceptre. Amongst modern empires, doubtless, the Spanish of the sixteenth century, and the British of the present, can- not but be admired as prodigi... ...n to-morrow—and abolished by a stroke of the pen, or a trick of diplomacy. Russia, again, a mighty empire, as respects the simple grandeur of magnitud... ...nd other enfranchised slaves from the conquered nations;”—“these in half a century had sunk so low, that Tiberius pronounced her very senators to be h... ...fly by means of cords and strings. This art was much practised in the 17th century; and Casaubon describes one, which existed in his early days somewh... ...on, or brother. And when he died, in the sixty-first year of his life (the 18th of his reign), he was *Because the most effectual extinguishers of all... ...e’s Persian expedition, so much resembling in rashness and presumption the Russian campaign of Napoleon, though so much below it in the scale of its t...

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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...ousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London,... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, tra... ... loved pleasure, but his gallantry was rather of the last than the present century, and he never expressed his affec- tion for any woman he regarded i... ...walnut tree, whose age at that time must have been verging on a third of a century, but I was so beset with company that I could not find a moment to ... ...his event; Madam de Warrens was then eight—and—twenty, being born with the century. Her beauty, consisting more in the expressive ani- mation of the c... ...med Bagueret, who had been employed under Peter the Great, of the court of Russia, one of the most worthless, senseless fellows I ever met with; full ... ... had I chosen to return to that city. My book was burned there, and on the 18th of June, nine days after an order to arrest me had been given at Paris...

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were be...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pre... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call “Empire.” Rain had refreshed the earth during the... ...is back and took an attitude of hostility. He talked boldly. But after the 18th Brumaire he maintained an unbroken silence, the philoso- phy of the st... ...he Council of State by the First Consul, in return for his services on the 18th Brumaire. The shrewd heads of the little town of Arcis now perceived t... ... tune moment take his revenge for the 13th V endemiaire and 27 Balzac the 18th Fructidor,” said Malin, “but the Consulate for life has unmasked Bonap... ... it is not without a cer- tain interest. This old edifice of the fifteenth century, placed on an eminence, surrounded on all sides by a moat, or rathe... ...ecently had stood one of the most curious specimens in France of sixteenth-century architecture, the hotel Cinq-Cygne. Monsieur d’Hauteserre, her rela...

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...the office of their pastor. It arose in the dis- orders of the seventeenth century; but in practice it is gener- ally admitted to have sunk into a mer... ...ally admitted to have sunk into a mere formality throughout the eighteenth century; and the very position which it holds in the succession of steps, n... ...s the law, had grown up variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essa... ..., in the middle of the 8th century, than Napoleon in the latter end of the 18th. Charlemagne was, in fact, the most accomplished man of his age; Napol... ...sing it familiarly and fluently in conversation. Now, as to the man of the 18th century, Greek was to him as much a sealed language as Chinese; and, e... ...gislative body, dissolved the Directory and effected the revolution of the 18th Brumaire. That revolution it was which raised him to the Consular powe...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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... regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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