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...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...p to the start of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks... ...dford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts wi... ...revolution got underway, those experiences set me looking into the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyber... ...ged the World, Mark Kurlansky contends that—for centuries before Columbus—Basque fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular tr...

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... voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all land...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Bui...

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...H STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its ... ...E HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS... ...PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no mo... ... of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and p... ... women and children in the ship and sets fire to it -- A scene unparalleled in history -- Miserable end of the barbarous voyagers -- The red trail of ... ...ish fortifications on the mainland. Before this time, L'Olonnais and Michel Le Basque had taken Maracaibo and Gibraltar in the Gulf of Venezuela, with...

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...Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. -- 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Che...

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...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...to the start of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks... ...dford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts ... ...revolution got underway, those experiences set me looking into the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyber... ...ged the World, Mark Kurlansky contends that—for centuries before Columbus—Basque fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular tr...

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..., 1 seat Communists: no known Communist orga- nization; Koma of BNF has long history of Communist contacts Member of: AfDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, G... ...s: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indo- chinese, and Basque minorities Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, 2% Protes- tant, 1% Jewis... ...clining regional dialects (Proven- cal, Breton, Germanic, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) Infant mortality rate: 9/1,000 (1984) Life expectancy: 7... ...stilian Spanish; second languages include 17% Catalan, 7% Galic- ian, and 2% Basque Infant mortality rate: 9.6/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: men 73, w... ...f re- gional parties Convergence and Unity (CiU), Jordi Pujol, in Catalonia; Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), Xabier Arzallus; Basque Solidarity (EA), ... ...Party (PNV), Xabier Arzallus; Basque Solidarity (EA), Carlos Garaicoe- txea; Basque Popular Unity (HB), Jon Idigoras; Basque Left (EE), Kepa Aulestia;...

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... learn and how we perceive things that I don‘t want to confuse you. I could probably start at a hundred different points, but let‘s go back in histor... ...ed on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Western thinking. He was one of the great minds of our histor... ...rtainly there are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games can teach histor... ...e you?‖ —―Certainly not. But you would have to admit that a huge number of believers in every religion haven‘t studied the theology or histor... ...as.‖ —―Whether secular or religious, convincing the rabble that they will be holier, smarter or richer is a common method of changing histor... ... 83 tribe, religion, or core of beliefs. In Europe, for example, Bretons, Basque...

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... alone is also the rarest to be found in the world. The remainder of this history agreeth very wel with what I said; for, Eudamidas giveth us a grac... ... reason beene directly forbidden. Know we whether there be Judges enow in Basque and in Brittanie to establish this translation made in their tongue... ...ith great consideration of our humane imbecilities the examples which the history of God it selfe hath left us of this use, to remit the determinati... ... there one amongst others of so wonderfull authoritie, as through all his history I know no marke carrieth the name of his credit higher. Antiochus ... ...4:34:35 AM Montaigne's Essays As farre as I remember I have read a like history in some place of Appian, of one who, purposing to escape the prosc... ...m seaven yeares to seaven, but from day to day, from minute to minute. My history must be fitted to the present. I may soone change, not onely fortu...

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...er this wiseacre Ashton from ruining himself, or being ruined by le Borgne Basque! What brought him here? I thought he was safe in Castile with the Fr... ...a few words to another gentleman.” “The fewer words you speak to le Borgne Basque the better, unless you think it is Sir Reginald’s pleasure that you ... ...ossed him, “if I lost it, it should be to please myself, and not le Borgne Basque; above all, my name and fame are made, and yours—” “What would you s... ...less coin.” “Who is this man? What is his name?” asked Eustace. “Le Borgne Basque, I know no other,” said Gaston. “We reck little of names here, espec... ...last of Roland. On the following evening he had the delight of reading his history in the veritable pages of Archbishop T urpin, which precious work h... ... Ashton spent every moment at his own disposal in the company of le Borgne Basque. That worthy, meeting the young gentleman, had easily persuaded him ... ...trust has disgraced neither.” 51 Yo n g e “No, indeed. Yours is a strange history, Gaston; such as we dream not of in our peaceful land. Homeless, fr...

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...rs in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bl... ...on. And he was, moreover, the product of a soil into which a great deal of history had been trodden. Balzac was genuinely as well as affectedly monarc... ...make the attempt. There are so many chateaux in Touraine com- memorated in history, that it would take one too far to look up those which have been co... .... This execution of it would surely have been one of the great misdeeds of history. Partially performed, the misdeed is not altogether to be regretted... ...tle of Blois may be said to have escaped simply with its life. This is the history of Amboise as well, and is to a certain extent the history of 22 A... ...e are of the sort that arrest a sketcher,—figures of stalwart, brown-faced Basques, such as I had seen of old in great numbers at Biarritz, with their...

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...ositions (which are, as it were, the arabesques of hy- pothesis) while the history most important to the present day, that of the Reformation, is full... ...en might properly be dedicated to an author who has written so much on the history of the Reformation; while at the same time I offer to the character... ...e historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that histori- ans are privileged liars, ... ...e glories of France, that the purest light has come to us in the matter of history,—so long, of course, as the interests of the order were not involve... ...l Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, criticism applied to history might then have prepared the elements of a good and true history of... ...errible faces; while the warriors, on the other hand, were of that type of Basque mountaineer which we see in Henri IV. The two Balafres, father and s...

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...olonels, maimed and wounded for their country. In that fact lies the whole history of bureaucracy. Another evil, brought about by modern customs, whic... ...er mind, and judged so soberly of men and events that at the time when our history begins she was the hidden oracle of the two functionaries, her husb... ...l night in a bar- rack-room. Godard was devoted more especially to natural history. He made collections of shells and minerals, knew how to stuff bird... ...arding school where his wife gave music lessons and he himself a course of history and one of geography in the evenings. He was about forty- five year... ...lue, and his figure above the common height. Neat and clean as a master of history and geography in a young ladies’ school ought to be, he wore fine l... ...ituated in Bohemia or Hungary, or it may be Austria—” Bixiou. “T yrol, the Basque provinces, or South America. Why don’t you set it all to music and p...

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... of to-mor- row, already entered upon the possession of their inheritance. History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed awa... ...p and ceremony, but an anxious business progress at a crisis of na- tional history. The menace of that time has passed away, and now Tilbury is known ... ...very good. We touched, in our discourse, upon sci- ence, politics, natural history, and operatic singers. Then, after remarking abruptly, “You seem to... ...at leg- end of the Mediterranean, the legend of traditional song and grave history, lives, fascinating and immor- tal, in our minds. The dark and fear... ...w in the interests of the cause— por El Rey! For she was a Carlist, and of Basque blood at that, with something of a lioness in the expression of her ... ...prisoned in the house of personal illusions, thirty centuries in mankind’s history seem less to look back upon than thirty years of our own life. And ...

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...anish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelto... ...nd comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes. From the foregoing history of our translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there ar... ...n of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it hap- pens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventee... ...r of Cervatos in the Mon- tana,” as the mountain region extending from the Basque Provinces to Leon was always called. At his death in battle in 1143,... ...nsellor on the roads of Spain, is seldom wrong in matters of literature or history. In this instance, however, he is in error. It has everything to do... ...and to the victory of the combined fleets at Lepanto, belong rather to the history of Europe than to the life of Cervantes. He was one of those that s...

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...en she willed and flying when wanted. Not until nigh upon the close of his history did she return, full-statured and embraceable, to Victor Radnor. 1... ... classic pictures, Victor had known his purse to leap for a Raphael with a history in stages of descent from the Master, and critics to swarm: a Rapha... ...ring and good: yes, finding the man to lift them the one step up! Read the history of the error. But presently we shall teach the Puritan to act by th... ...eing kissed and the blood is warmed. In fine, here as everywhere along our history, when the sensations are spirited up to drown the mind, we become d... ...it struck us, conversation- ally, as a respectable harbour-hulk, with more history than top-honours. But she has the indubitable legal right to fly th... ...e. Pergolese. Flute-duet, Mercadante. Here we have him! O— Durandarte: Air Basque, variations—his own. Again, Senor Durandarte, Mendelssohn. Encore hi...

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...anish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is in- structive. Shel... ...nd comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes. From the foregoing history of our translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there ar... ...n of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it hap- pens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventee... ...r of Cervatos in the Mon- tana,” as the mountain region extending from the Basque Provinces to Leon was always called. At his death in battle in 1143,... ...nsellor on the roads of Spain, is seldom wrong in matters of literature or history. In this instance, however, he is in error. It has everything to do... ...and to the victory of the combined fleets at Lepanto, belong rather to the history of Europe than to the life of Cervantes. He was one of those that s...

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...rop- erty, was very much attached to his cashier, Dumay, and the following history will prove that the attachment was mu- tual; to him therefore he of... ...olden fruit, the arched instep, and the Spanish waist from which the short basque skirt fell crisply. Both mother and father were proud of the charmin... ...d customs in which many a fam- ily could recognize the events of their own history; but it must suffice as it is to explain the importance of the few ... ...’t know what he is worth.” “There is no Cardinal Vilquin that I know of in history,” thought Ernest, as he walked back to Havre for the night mail to ... ...decide on a satisfactory date. The Cardinal d’Herouville flourished in the history of the Church at least a century before the cardinal of whom we boa... ...ed amount of flesh. The young man would have seemed to a student of French history a very fair representative of the royal and almost in- conceivable ...

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...boy consid- erably grown during my absence. My principal authority for the history of Costaguana is, of course, my venerated friend, the late Don Jose... ... Courts of England and Spain, etc., etc., in his impartial and elo- quent “History of Fifty Years of Misrule.” That work was never published—the reade... ... whom, he is still of the People, their undoubted Great Man—with a private history of his own. One more figure of those stirring times I would like to... ...elf and the staff of engineers building the road, aided by the Italian and Basque workmen who rallied faithfully round their English chiefs. The Compa... ...m, turning away from their cards or dominoes. Here and there a fair-haired Basque studied his hand meantime, waiting without protest. No native of Cos... ...tres dispensed out of vessels of silver and porcelain. Mrs. Gould knew the history of the San Tome mine. Worked in the early days mostly by means of l... ...idual may produce in the very aspect of the world. The latest phase in the history of the mine Mrs. Gould knew from personal experience. It was in es-... ...d up. The engineers of the railway staff, col- 264 Nostromo lecting their Basque and Italian workmen, marched them away to the railway yards, leaving...

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...n years, but from day to day, from minute to minute, I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also ... ...all show, like themselves. They may also abstract several commodities from history. In philosophy, out of the moral part of it, they may select such i... ...o withdraw the adverse forces from their own countries, is too frequent in history. It was an ingenious evasion whereby Monseigneur d’Hempricourt save... ...not think my time ill spent in setting down here the infinite variety that history presents us of the use of chariots in the service of war: vari- ous... ... willingly tell them, that the fruit of a surgeon’s experience, is not the history of his practice and his remembering that he has cured four people o... ...r to a Breton of threescore and ten; shut a seaman up in a stove; forbid a Basque footman to walk: you will deprive them of motion, and in the end of ...

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...hrough it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands ... ... that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!” 9 Sinclair Lewis The history instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begge... ...lent lap-dogs? The an- cient stale inequalities, or something different in history, unlike the tedious maturity of other empires? What future and what... ...gs straight and get ‘em darn quick! I bet she could tell you every date in history!” boasted her husband. But the man looked at her reassuringly and w... ...t to about the P. E. church, but of course there’s no church that has more history or has stayed by the true principles of Christian- ity better than ... ... the dyed hair and penciled eyebrows, who wore tight English dresses, like basques, who smelled of stale musk, who 264 Main Street flirted with the m...

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...make perfect fools of themselves, spent the last quarter of an hour of the history lesson in construing for them the passage of Livy which had been se... ...Shelley’s treatment of Harriet; he 129 W. Somerset Maugham dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by... ... that moment two men passed, in brown vel- veteens, enormous trousers, and basque caps. They were young, but both wore beards. “I say, are those art-s... ...everest economy. He could not count on earning anything for ten years. The history of painting was full of artists who had earned nothing at all. He m... ...n was born a Platonist, an Aristotelian, a Stoic, or an Epicurean; and the history of George Henry Lewes (besides telling 328 Of Human Bondage you th... ...his side, an old Pepys going on board a man-o’-war: the pageant of English history , and romance, and high adven- ture. Philip turned to Hayward with ...

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... Laurent Valla, Rabelais had retranslated into Latin the first book of the History. That translation unfortunately is lost, as so many other of his sc... ...t. It is the adventures of Baldo, son of Guy de Montauban, the very lively history of his youth, his trial, imprisonment and deliverance, his journey ... ...egyrist has made them patterns of all the virtues. In reality it is both a history and in some sort a romance; especially is it a collec- tion of exam... ...tainty can be ascribed the authorship of a dull imitation of Rabelais, the History of Fanfreluche and Gaudichon, published in 1578, which, to say the ... ...m not I so impudent a liar as he was. Read the seventh book of his Natural History, chap.3, and trouble not my head any more about this. Chapter 1.VII... ...nd he commanded that so it should be done. Presently therefore he sent the Basque his lackey to fetch Gargantua with all diligence, and wrote him as f...

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...r- man pamphlet (minus a cover) on Manuring Cabbages in Kitchen-Gardens, a History of the Seven Years’ War (bound in parchment and burnt at one corner... ...his predominant thought at the moment, Then he set us to learn a lesson in history, and sat down near the window. His face did not look so depressed n... ..., Boileau, Moliere, Montaigne, and Fenelon. Like- wise he had gleaned much history from Segur, and much of the old classics from French translations o... ...s feet, took his partner’s hand, and then, instead of executing the pas de Basques which Mimi had taught us, glided forward till he arrived at a corne... ...e are the Iwins and Etienne all dancing in the same way-without the pas de Basques! Ah! and there is Woloda too! He too is adopting the new style, and... ...at I was igno- rant of the steps of the dance. I only knew that the pas de Basques (the only figure of it which I had been taught) would be out of pla...

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... letter to his mother with red ink and three wafers; then he went over his history note-books, or read an old volume of “ Anarchasis” that was knockin... ...s about the middle of the class; once even he got a certificate in natural history . But at the end of his third year his parents withdrew him from th... ...us read- ing in the study. On week-nights it was some abstract of sa- cred history or the Lectures of the Abbe Frayssinous, and on Sundays passages fr... ...ome whimsical or even peevish, I can under- stand; such cases are cited in history . But at least it is because they are thinking of something. Myself... ...s and goings; she watched his face; she 94 Madame Bovary invented quite a history to find an excuse for going to his room. The chemist’s wife seemed ... ...ere! He would take lessons on the guitar! He would have a dressing-gown, a Basque cap, blue velvet slip- pers! He even already was admiring two crosse...

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...d uct, and the science of government as a branch (so to speak) of natural history. According to them, forms of government are not a matter of choice.... ...e more and more difficult to check, until it reached a state often seen in history, and in which many large portions of mankind even now grovel; when ... ... is a relapse into worse than barbarism. At some period, however, of their history, almost every people, now civilized, have consisted, in majority, o... ...most mel 32 Considerations on Representative Government ancholy facts in history. The Egyptian hierarchy, the pater nal despotism of China, were ve... ...not an adequate conception of the part fulfilled in national and universal history by this great element of Jew ish life; by means of which, the cano... ...ntage. Nobody can suppose that it is not more beneficial to a Breton, or a Basque of French Navarre, to be brought into the current of the ideas and f...

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...ly be demanded by the context. It is remarkable, that still today in all the lands of his conquest the word for peace is derived from latin pax (even basque bake). This peace is no friendship between equals, which is the idea behind the german word Friede. Pax Romana implies subordination, and this concept was promoted by Caesar, first abroad and then at home. (Summary by ...

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...t is perhaps the last instance of a Pretender’s adventure for a Crown that History will have to record with the usual grave moral disapproval tinged b... ...he departing romance. Historians are very much like other people. However, History has nothing to do with this tale. Neither is the moral justificatio... ...ght life of her aunt, a Frenchwoman, and her uncle, the orange merchant, a Basque peasant, to whom her other uncle, the great man of the family, the p... ...gely con- scious silence that fell between Mills and Blunt. “Oh! All these Basques have been ennobled by Don Sanche II,” said Captain Blunt moodily. “... ... However it might have been, the first fact in Rita’s and Allegre’s common history is a journey to 29 Joseph Conrad Italy, and then to Corsica. Y ou ... ...holding our horses was moved to uplift his voice. He was a Spaniard, not a Basque, and he trolled out in Castilian that song you know, “‘Oh bells of m... ...tic qualifications of Dominic for the task. I believe I gave her the whole history of the man, mentioning even the existence of Madame Leonore, since ... ...n judgment seat. He is a most noble and loyal gentleman, but I have my own Basque peasant soul and don’t want to think that every time he goes away fr... ...ncern. He wasn’t a fellow to whom one could talk of Dona Rita. “Y ou are a Basque,” I said. He admitted rather contemptuously that he was a Basque and...

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...her must have been painted to meet the intense interest which arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastica... ... past; how the gallant young man had hung upon her words, as in her native Basque she described her own mis- chievous little self, of twelve years bac... ...a. Her first adventure was a bagatelle, and fitter for a jest- book than a history; yet it proved no jest either, since it led to the tragedy that fol... ... ‘T o Cuzco!’ exclaimed Don Antonio, ‘how very fortu- nate! My cousin is a Basque like you; and, like you, he starts for Cuzco to-morrow morning; so t... ...R AR AR AR TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE TRIBE THERE IS NO GREAT EVENT in modern history, or perhaps it may be said more broadly, none in all history, from ... ..., viz., as to its dramatic capabilities. Few cases, perhaps, in romance or history, can sustain a close collation with this as to the complexity of it... ...a higher and a philosophic in- terest belongs to it as a case of authentic history, commemo- rating a great revolution for good and for evil, in the f...

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...and they season their dish, the coxcombs do, by hinting a knowledge of her history. ‘Here we come to another portrait of the beautiful but, we fear, n... ... myself, and I own it to my shame; and if I happened to be ignorant of the history of Countess Fanny, I could not refute his wantonness. He has just t... ...make them credible. Charles Dump, I say, is like a front-page picture to a history of those old quiet yet exciting days in England, and when once you ... ...ly as to everything relating to her, saw herself compelled to tell him the history of her life, to save him, as she thought, from these chivalrous vin... ...kers, tramps and ploughmen, choughs and crows. A volume of our Poets and a History of Philosophy composed my library. I had scarce any money, so I lea... ...ct him on points of Spanish history relating to fortresses, especially the Basque. A French bookseller had supplied her with the Vicomte d’Eschargue’s...