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...Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. Who is Miss Ellis? Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway, the loss of her purse made this strange wanderer dependent upon the charity of some good people and, of course, bad ones. But she always comforts herself by reminding herself that it's better than w...

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...e case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different...

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...The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin 33 years earlier. Swedenborg is directly cited and criticized by Blake several places in the Marr...

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...he Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in America, where it caused a short-lived deist...

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...he poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience with opposing perspectives of the world. The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the volume's sense of despair. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious commu...

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...stitute for these a national minimum of habit- ability without any violent revolution. A house that failed to come up to this minimum—which might begi... ...arly apt to master and retain languages, and people try and inoculate with French and German as Lord Herbert of Cherbury would have inocu- lated child... ...ll solemnly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limi... ... stands an examination that includes En- glish, and there would be nothing revolutionary in adding to that written paper an oral test in the standard ... ...justment. They date from the days before mechanism and science began their revolutionary intervention in human af- fairs, and they derive from the thr... ...d by the new classes, with new relationships and new necessities, that the revolution in industrial organization and domestic conveniences has created... ...cate is seasoned with religious cant, lessons in piano-playing, lessons in French “made in En- gland,” mortarboard caps for the boys, and a high socia... ...ed into and assimilated and more or less completely superseded by English, French, and German works; but the schoolmaster, heedless of these things, s... ...ery painful and shocking thought indeed to an English parent to think that French was taught in school with a view to reading French books. It is taug...

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... Book I Childhood 1768-1777 Book II Boyhood 1777-1784 Book III Adolescence, Combourg 1784-1786 Book IV Regiment, Court, Paris 1786-1789 Book V Revolution 1789-1791 Book VI To America 1791 Book VII Travels in New York State 1791 Book VIII Kentucky, Virginia, Return to France 1791-1792 Book IX With the Army of the Princes 1792 Book X Exile in England 1793-1797...

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...The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set for...

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...e National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789 The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the i... ...neral, and was instrumental in the defeat of the British during the American Revolutionary War. He considered one special man his 'father': George... ...onary War. He considered one special man his 'father': George Washington. French King Louis XVI signed this document, under duress, but never in... ...d this document, under duress, but never intended to support it. Indeed, the Revolution in France soon followed, leading to the tyrannical rule of ...

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...es............................ 21 2: The American Environmental Conflict.... 38 3: European Environmental Cooperation ....50 A. The Environmental Revolution in Europe B. The Diminishing Direct Effect of EU Environmental Law C. The Aarhus Convention 4: A Comparison of National Level Environmental Law Enforcement.....................................70 A. English En...

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...e same applies to names of towns and states. Repeated planetary influences (including the 60 years period of the Chinese horoscope and the 18.5 years revolution period of the Lunar Nodes whose definition is recalled) stimulate periodical repetition of historical events. In the books many examples of such repetitions are given. The resemblances between names of generals hav...

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...t stabilized. The names of the commanders give us a key to at least part of the answer to the question why the allied forces succeeded to defend the French capital. Here's the list of their names: Joseph Joffre; Franchet d'Espèray; Michel Maunory; Ferdinand Foch; Joseph Gallieni; Ferdinand de Langle. Sir John French; The presence of two “Joseph” and two “Ferdinand” ...

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...the height of an international crisis pitting China against it - is nothing if not revolutionary. American history is re-cast as an inevitable prog... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...or, aided by hordes of Turkish troops, demolished the coalition set against him. A revolution erupted in Thrace and Macedonia. "The Zealots", havin... ...ower" is often required in order to establish democracy where it is unprecedented. Revolutions - velvet, rose, and orange - recently introduced dem... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...s also politically active in Mohammed Nabi Mohammadi's Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami (Revolutionary Islamic Movement), which later opposed the Taliban... ...machinations, Spain and Britain are trying to obstruct the ominous re- emergence of French-German dominance. By catering to popular aversion of Am... ...iled because both it and Russia are biased in favor of the current regime in Iraq. French and Russian firms have signed more than 1700 commercial c... ...eude or to gleefully assume that it has finally succeeded in isolating the insolent French and the somnolent Germans. Public opinion - even where it...

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...e narcissist is preoccupied with ideal love, the construction of brilliant, revolutionary scientific theories, the composition or authoring or pain... ...usly assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Soci... ...his own people by claiming that they intended to assassinate him, undo the revolution, devastate the economy, harm the nation or the country, etc. ... ...se consequences are global. If a scientist – he is always in the throes of revolutionizing science. If a journalist – he is in the middle of the gr... ...sly assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Soci... ...very reminiscent of Vladimir Putin's reign in post-Yeltsin Russia. Like the French Second Empire, it follows a period of revolutions and counter-rev... ...tine security apparatus which regularly gathered information on millions of Frenchmen and foreigners. Modernization and Reform Putin is considerably ... ... of the Congress of Vienna (1815) and reverse the trend of post-Napoleonic French humiliation. He wanted to resurrect "Great France" pretty much as...

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...eer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Dr.Jean Dezert, ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research), BP 72 F-92322 Chati... ...back in an FCM, i.e., when the causal relations flow through a cycle in a revolutionary way, the FCM is called a dynamical system. DEFINITION 2.2... ...ures the grade of membership or the non-existence of a membership in the revolutionary way but fuzzy theory has failed to attribute the concept whe... ...dback in the NCM i.e. when the causal relations flow through a cycle in a revolutionary manner the NCM is called a dynamical system. DEFINITION 4... ...back in the FRM, i.e. when the causal relations flow through a cycle in a revolutionary manner, the FRM is called a dynamical system. DEFINITION ... ...dback in the NRM i.e. when the causal relations flow through a cycle in a revolutionary manner the NRM is called a Neutrosophic dynamical system. ... ...st is in information fusion were he works with Dr.Jean Dezert from ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research in Paris) in creasing...

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...Excerpt: After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she had caused by her own extravaganc...

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... CHAPTER I THE LAST WORD OF TWO GREAT COQUETTES AFTER THE DISASTERS of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent... ...ipalities, to whom belongs the title of highness. The disdain shown by the French nobility for the title of prince, and the reasons which caused Louis... ...caused Louis XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes... ...led a dissipated life, spent solely on pleasure. His father, ruined by the revolution, had somewhat recovered his position on the return of the Bourbo... ...t, as it came, in keeping up the traditions of a great seigneur before the revolution; so that 34 The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan when the l... ...splayed in his vast hotel. The old prince died some little time before the revolution of July aged eighty-seven. He had ruined his wife, and had long ... .... I had a fine fortune; sixty thousand francs a year in forests, which the Revolution overlooked (or had not been able to sell) in the Nivernais, with...

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...them were intermingled the de scendants of Hollanders, Swedes, Germans, and French fugitives from the persecution of the revoker of the Edict of Nant... ... was a super intending Providence—the rights of man, and the con stituent revolutionary power of the people. That of the latter was the sovereignty... ... the cruel injustice suffered by his associates in arms, the warriors of the Revolution; over the prostration of the public credit and the faith of t... ...n the separate colo nies, not by colonial authority, but by the spontaneous revolutionary movement of the people in them all. From the day of that De... ...he fiftieth Anniversary—on that thirtieth day of April, 1789—was this mighty revolution, not only in the af fairs of our own country, but in the prin... ... but in the principles of gov ernment over civilized man, accomplished. The Revolution itself was a work of thirteen years— and had never been comple...

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...ristianity could never have existed. Translators there have been, English, French, German, of Mahometan books, who have so colored the whole vein of t... ...ough the idea of an object so vast as God, cannot become the ground of any revolution more than intellectual—can- not revolutionize the moral and acti... ... old pagan nations,—which furnished the rudder, or guid- ance, for a human revolution; but the mysteries of Chris- tianity it was,—new Eleusinian show... ...h furnished the oars and sails, the moving forces, for the advance of this revolution. It was my intention to have shown how this great idea of man’s ... ... for they went the length of promising, that he separately, as King of the French, would coerce Europe into peace. But, from the known good sense of t... ...sonally concurring to any war which might other- wise be attractive to the French government. 32 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One ha... ...ought by the superstitious, who should happen to recollect the sequel to a French king, of the very earliest movement in this direction: the great (bu... ...ey maintained the contest, (such as at this day divides ourselves from the French upon the question of opinion with regard to the so- cial rank of lit... ...houghtful man raises his hands with an involun- tary gesture of awe at the revolutions of so revolutionary an age, when thus summoned to the spectacle...

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...tory of nations, as at the time of the Crusades or the Ref- ormation, or the French Revolution, when the same inspiration has taken hold of whole peop... ... nations, as at the time of the Crusades or the Ref- ormation, or the French Revolution, when the same inspiration has taken hold of whole peoples, an... ...easily acquire them. Hence the phenomenon so often observed in the old Greek revolutions, and not without parallel in modern times, that the leaders o... ... of the world, but to the previous one, in which God superintended the whole revolution of the universe; and the several parts the universe were distr...

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...heless, not a single clean corner, so complying is she to the vices of the French nation! Who has not chanced to leave his home early in the morning, ... ...ore likely; but, as an officer of rank in the cavalry, he belonged to that French arm which demands rapidity in its conquests and derives as much vani... ...ed the army, and through their marriages became attached to the court. The Revolution swept the family away; but one old dowager, too obstinate to emi... ...e de Maulincour was a victim to the ideas which weighed in those days upon French youth, and we must here explain why. The Vidame de Pamiers was still... ...to lie. This neces- sity admitted, ought they not to know how to lie well? French women do it admirably. Our manners and customs teach them deception!... ... neither Dougal nor Jeannie, alarming no one,—being as chaste as our noble French language requires, and as bold as the pencil of Gerard in his pictur... ...since the invasion into public business of the Report (an administra- tive revolution consummated in 1804) there was never known a single minister who... ...royal busts in some cupboard,—a sort of little Pere-Lachaise all ready for revolutions. In short, he is a public man, an excellent man, good husband a...

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... ven geance; and on the Continent much of it continued to the time of the French Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organisation of... ...eance; and on the Continent much of it continued to the time of the French Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organisation of the de... ... execute them turn their arms against them, there are people who think the French incapable of free govern ment. Because the Greeks cheated the Turks... ...el, or of Nadir Shah, or of Caligula; but it was bad enough to justify the French Revolution, and to palliate even its horrors. If an ap peal be made... ...of Nadir Shah, or of Caligula; but it was bad enough to justify the French Revolution, and to palliate even its horrors. If an ap peal be made to the... ...d government is not prob able, though even then there are exceptions. But French *Especially is this true if we take into consideration Asia as well ... ...verage, either for speculation or practice, than the more unexcitable. The French, and the Italians, are undoubt edly by nature more nervously excita... ...n were free? If not, why disturb their minds, and attempt to make a social revolution in the name of an abstract right? It is hardly to be expected th...

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...and Smollett, or France in the nineteenth century. No one supposes cer tain French novels to be a representation of or dinary French life. And the g... ...ese elements of love, which 53 Plato s Symposium to know in relation to the revolutions of the heav enly bodies and the seasons of the year is terme...

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...He is a far better sub-editor and reporter than I was at his age, with his French wit and clev- erness. The only fault I find with him is that he long... ...ory over and over, and only make one wish—” “What?” “That there could be a revolution before I am of age.” “What’s that?” cried Primrose, coming up as... ...ore I am of age.” “What’s that?” cried Primrose, coming up as he spoke. “A revolution?” “Yes, guillotines and all, to cut off your head in Rotherwood ... ...uture.” “Our future,” repeated Dolores. 134 The Long Vacation CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH... ...R XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEAVE VE VE VE VE She came, she is gone, we have met, And meet perha... ...and another thing,” said Lance, “if the Italian mar- riage were before the revolution in Sicily, I expect the eccle- siastical ceremony would be valid... ...er to his house, where his wife was equally kind. He fetched the priest, a French Canadian, and the doctor, and Lida has been watching over her most t... ...sure she had need to do so. “The burial was happily over, conducted by the French priest, as the woman was a Roman Catholic to the last. Gerald was si...

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...is declining years was very fond of describing the three days of the Paris Revolution of February, 1848, hinting that he himself had almost taken part... ...ling perma- nently in Paris he, too, forgot the child, especially when the Revolution of February broke out, making an impression on his mind that he ... ...g better than everlasting entreaties for copying and translations from the French. Having once got into touch with the editors Ivan Fyodorovitch alway... ...ourse, as a variety. The worst of it is it’s awfully Russian. There are no French women there. Of course, they could get them fast enough, they have p... ...father. “Yes, yes, only the shadows of hooks. I know, I know. That’s how a Frenchman described hell: ‘J’ai vu l’ombre d’un cocher qui avec l’ombre d’u... ...or other… but not to you. I was told it myself. I heard it in Paris from a Frenchman. He told me it was read at our mass from the Lives of the Saints…... ...to a certain extent only, of course. He was rather courteous than open, as Frenchmen know how to be courteous, especially to a foreigner. But I thorou... ... foreigner. But I thoroughly understood him. The subject was the socialist revolutionaries who were at that time perse- cuted. I will quote only one m... ...arly afraid,’ said he, ‘of all these socialists, anarchists, infidels, and revolutionists; we keep watch on them and know all their goings on. But the...

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...n lent a strange power to evil. And some- times, as at the Reformation, or French Revolution, when the upper classes of a so-called Christian country ... ...a strange power to evil. And some- times, as at the Reformation, or French Revolution, when the upper classes of a so-called Christian country have be...

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...is declining years was very fond of describing the three days of the Paris Revolution of February , 1848, hinting that he himself had almost taken par... ...ling perma- nently in Paris he, too, forgot the child, especially when the Revolution of February broke out, making an impression on his mind that he ... ...g better than everlasting entreaties for copying and translations from the French. Having once got into touch with the editors Ivan Fyodorovitch alway... ...ourse, as a variety. The worst of it is it’s awfully Russian. There are no French women there. Of course, they could get them fast enough, they have p... ...ther. “Y es, yes, only the shadows of hooks. I know, I know . That’s how a Frenchman described hell: ‘J’ai vu l’ombre d’un cocher qui avec l’ombre d’u... ...or other… but not to you. I was told it myself. I heard it in Paris from a Frenchman. He told me it was read at our mass from the Lives of the Saints…... ...o a certain extent only , of course. He was rather courteous than open, as Frenchmen know how to be courteous, especially to a foreigner. But I thorou... ... foreigner. But I thoroughly understood him. The subject was the socialist revolutionaries who were at that time perse- cuted. I will quote only one m... ...arly afraid,’ said he, ‘of all these socialists, anarchists, infidels, and revolutionists; we keep watch on them and know all their goings on. But the...

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...articles written by Frank A. Gardner, M. D., giving the organization and history of all the Massachusetts Regiments which took part in the war of the Revolution. They were published quarterly in The Massachusetts Magazine from 1908-1918. ...

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...itted to take his seat at the Board. He was continuously re-elected thereafter until the days of the “mandamus” councilors, immediately preceding the Revolution. He was a prominent member of the first and second Provincial Congresses (1774 & 1775), both of which appointed him second General Officer of the military forces of the province. Gen. Ward was in Shrewsbury ...

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... built into a crescendo of emotions. "We did it to protect ourselves from the French who invaded our island, pillaged our towns, slaughtered our peo... ...I.A., which was the first letter of each word in our credo: 'Death to all the French'. We took as our symbol the 'Black Hand' to strike terror in th... ...ice, "Gallucci said. "We either do what we have pledged since the time of the French: to protect our families, or we suffer the same fate we have jus... ...ce instead, with several escape clauses attached. The talk of another Russian revolution was gathering like dark clouds on the horizon. The old KGB a... ...m the British delegate, "We shall always protect our own self interests." The French newspapers played it up as Britain's usual anti-European cooper... ...ave the money in a few days." The waiter brought the drinks, and a basket of French bread. "What's our next move," Brand asked. "Start running t... ...h world opinion against them on the Tibet issue, they do not want a religious revolution on their hands. With the help of the U.S. State Department... ...nspired, and inflamed a world to complete Heaven’s mission. It had fueled a revolution. Hundreds of million’s of people revolted against the 374... ...shadowed by the inexplicable events in Colombia, which had caused a worldwide revolution, including across the whole of the Middle East. “Do you f...

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...asserting that the only legitimate governments are those which have the consent of the people. Locke's ideas heavily influenced both the American and French Revolutions. His notions of people's rights and the role of civil government provided strong support for the intellectual movements of both revolutions. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)...

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...François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revoluti...

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...François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revoluti...

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...François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revoluti...

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...François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revoluti...

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...François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revoluti...

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... spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, ...

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...oly alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German po lice spies. Where is the party in oppositi... ...on, and sketched the following Mani festo, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. I. BOURGEOIS AND ... ...upted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin ... ... navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid developme... ...ising. Even manufacture no longer sufficed. There upon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of manufacture was taken ... ...isie is it self the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange. Each step in the ... ...o historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bo... ...ance and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English re form agitation, th... ...of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter. One section of the French Legitimists and “Young En gland” exhibited this spectacle. In poi...

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...gton the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virgina militia and then as a member of General Braddock'a staff during the French and Indian War. He later commanded the Virginia forces before joining the First Continental Congress. Much of the book is devoted to his campaigns during the American Revolution. At the end, we see him as President for...

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... of Haiti and expelled the Europeans. L’Ouverture eventually became the governor and Commander-In-Chief of Haiti before recognizing and submitting to French rule in 1801. In June of 1802, L’Ouverture was arrested by French forces and taken to France where he was imprisoned at Joux. There he penned his autobiography “. . . to render to the French government an exact account...

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...Zadig, ou La Destinée, (Zadig, or The Book of Fate) (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does not attempt any historical accuracy, and some of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised refere...

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... ters to Atticus, my father taking the trouble to translate to me from the French the historical explanations in Mingault’s notes. In Greek I read the... .... During this resi dence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaintance with the ordinary French litera ture; I ... ...difference between this manner of existence, and that of a people like the French, whose faults, if equally real, are at all events dif ferent; among... ... to myself, the contrast between the frank sociability and ami ability of French personal intercourse, and the English mode of existence, in which ev... ...and a year or two after the Peace. He was a man of the later period of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, o... ...ear or two after the Peace. He was a man of the later period of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, one of t... ...or the next that I first read a history of the French 37 John Stuart Mill Revolution. I learnt with astonishment that the principles of democracy, th... ...sci ence, Protestantism the commencement, and the doctrines of the French Revolution the consummation, of the meta physical; and that its positive s... ... poor when uneducated than when educated. In this frame of mind the French Revolution of July found me: It roused my utmost enthusiasm, and gave me, a...

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... a flame, it is well known that the antipathies of the English against the French, seconding the ambition, or rather the avarice, of a favorite leader... ...d public happiness. Had no important step been taken by the leaders of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be discovered, no govern- ment e... ... human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reare... ...y ordinary rules of calculation. When they happen, they commonly amount to revolutions 73 The Federalist Papers and dismemberments of empire. No form... ...s obstacle could be surmounted, that the neighboring powers would suffer a revolution to take place which would give to the empire the force and preem... ...wish prompted by humanity is, that this severe trial may is- sue in such a revolution of their government as will establish their union, and render it... ... to Kentucky, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain. Nay, the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in militiamen instead of louis d’ors and du...

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........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ...general good out of extremes, and brings all to its great end by perpetual revolutions, ver. 161 to 178. How a miser acts upon principles which appear... ...hunders all his own! Stood up to dash each vain pretender’s hope, Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope! If there’s a Briton then, true bred a... ... whom she subdued: 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert ... ...ndemn a play of theirs, and they evade it; Cry, ‘Damn not us, but damn the French, who made it.’ 10 By running goods these graceless owlers gain; Th... ...all short of the sublimity of his con- ceit. In his early youth he met the Revolution 224 face to face in Nottingham, at a time when his betters cont... ... as well as camps. He was called up when the nation fell in labour of this Revolution; 225 and was a gossip at her chris- tening, with the bishop and... ..., then became a trooper in King James’s army, at Hounslow Heath. After the Revolution he kept a booth at Bartholomew Fair, where, in the droll called ...

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...t notion necessarily disturbed by such temporary aberrations as those of the French Revolution, the worst of which were the work of an usurping few, a... ...n necessarily disturbed by such temporary aberrations as those of the French Revolution, the worst of which were the work of an usurping few, and whic... ... has always been the rule, and many sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another ... ...e. M. de T ocqueville, in his last important work, remarks how much more the Frenchmen of the present day resemble one another, than did those even of... ...ount of patience, they rise against the government and make what is called a revolution; whereupon somebody else, with or without legitimate authority... ...tent to take the lead, and improvise some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil ...

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...d at seven months, though within the seventh month. For in such cases, the revolution of the month ought to be observed, which perfects itself in four... ...bare weeks, or somewhat less than twenty-eight days; in which space of the revolution, the blood being agitated by the force of the moon, the courses ... ...of the womb, is that wonderful production usually called the hymen, but in French bouton de rose, or rose- bud, because it resembles the expanded bud ... ...e the seed; such as are made of beans, peas, and lupins, mixed with sugar. French beans, wheat sodden in broth, aniseed, also onions, stewed garlic, l... ...e either dignified or debilitated. For though the planets in their several revolutions go through all the houses, yet there are some houses which they...

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...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ...archies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or ante revolutionary France. Their superior pros perity was too obvious ever to h... ...nerally succeeded in putting an early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des ... ...ance must be ascribed to the many valuable coun teracting elements in the French character, and most of all to the great individual energy which, tho... ... and struggling Anglo Saxons, has nevertheless manifested itself among the French in nearly every direction in which the operation of their institutio... ...d certainly, as in Spanish America, keep the country in a state of chronic revolution and civil war. A despotism, not even legal, but of illegal viole...

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...he pre- cious metals out of France into England. The English con- sumer of French wine would not merely save the amount of the duty which that wine no... ...ing it would be increased by the augmentation of his own money income. The French consumer of English cottons, on the contrary, would not long continu... ...hey were told that the free admission of our cottons and hardware into the French market, would en- danger their branch of manufacture: yet such might... ... compete advan- tageously, in some branches of the manufacture, with their French rivals, it by no means follows that they could do so when the efflux... ...e, and its influx into England, had lowered the price of silk goods in the French market, and increased all the expenses of production here. On the wh... ...lth, and then ask himself what are the prob- abilities that in the longest revolution of ages two nations will be found, which agree, and can be shown...

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... family past as the relationship deepens 146. Steward divides his attention between Cinco de Mayo and Kristine 147. Brandt balks at the rhetoric of revolution—peaceful or violent 148. Brandt gets stoned his first time in Houghten’s alley apartment 149. Matt and Mary argue after Mary discovers he got stoned 150. O’Rourke and then Steward leave their L.A. garage home be...