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...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ................................................................................................. 21 CHAPTER III OF THREE COMMERCES ...............................................................................

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................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ............................................................. ...sed it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arminius... ...he vast sea, to witness from land the peril of other persons.”— Lucretius, ii. I.] of the seeds of which qualities, whoever should divest man, would d... ...de, preserved himself by his moderation in that universal shipwreck of the world, amongst so many mutations and diversities? For private man, as he wa... ...s; and thus Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with... ...gainst his will. And yet even those who wholly engage themselves in such a war may behave them- selves with such temper and moderation, that the storm... ...rmerly called me to the public service, and my own advancement towards the world’s opinion, I know I should, in spite of all my own arguments to the c... ...nd constrained to the ends of government, 12 Essays: Book III “Veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus; umbra e... ...rom the manu- script.—Naigeon.] The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself ...

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................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW .................................................................................................................................... 62 CHAPTER III THAT OUR AFFECTIONS CARRY THEMSELVES BEYOND US ....................

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... AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ................................................................. ....................................................... 374 CHAPTER XLVIII OF WAR HORSES, OR DESTRIERS ..................................................... ...als. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It to... ...made his intellectual and physi- cal organism public property. He took the world into his confidence on all subjects. His essays were a sort of litera... ...all really interesting and important matter in the journal of the T our in Germany and Italy, which, as it was merely written under Montaigne’s dictat... ...Book the First to superstition, rather than to the other extreme.”[Essays, ii. 2.] Pierre Eyquem bestowed great care on the education of his children,... ...ering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning French, thanks to the German teacher whom his father had placed near him, and who never addressed... ...he work of a gentle- man of mark,—[Meaning Xenophon.]—a man illustrious in war and peace, as because it has taken its second shape from a personage wh... ...against us. Several very warlike nations have made use of a retreating and flying way of fight as a thing of singular advantage, and, by so doing, hav...

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...orrecting popular errors endorsed by historians, made and published to the world very remarkable works. Thus Monsieur de Launoy, nicknamed the “Expell... ...s. Thus Monsieur de Launoy, nicknamed the “Expeller of Saints,” made cruel war upon the saints surreptitiously smuggled into the Church. Thus the emul... ...s the generals of armies, become objects of hor- ror or derision? Half the world hesitates between the famous song on Marlborough and the history of E... ...and French troops with fifteen hundred weary and famished men. So much for war. Now let us pass to literature, and see our own Rabelais, a sober man w... ...therine, who certainly had to reproach herself with the deaths of Francois II. and Charles IX., whose lives might have been saved in time, were never,... ...lish his own doom by moral assassination. But the sudden death of Francois II., and that of Charles IX., were no injury to the Calvinists, and therefo... ...ra, and others; also all the princes and noble strangers, both Italian and German, who were then residing at his court in great numbers. These all bei... ...lly based on the passions and politics of the moment; Charles V . was then flying from France, leaving his armies buried in Provence with his happines... ...mn occasion, when he was starting, March 25, 1552, for his expedition into Germany, Henri II. declared Catherine regent during his absence, and also i...

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...at the chain of discipline might not be weak- ened by association with the world, was generally beaten, on one account or another, before he had been ... ...the hall, and the atom, after a pause to assure herself that all danger of war was past, went out, to weep bitterly on Amomma’s neck. 6 The Light Tha... ... but since it was the first, other than those demanded by duty, in all the world that either had ever given or taken, it opened to them new worlds, an... ...d for Amomma? Oh, how selfish you are!’? 14 The Light That Failed CHAPTER II Then we brought the lances down, then the bugles blew, When we went to K... ...hern Syndicate in the cam- paign, as he had represented it in the Egyptian war, 17 Rudyard Kipling and elsewhere. The syndicate did not concern itsel... ...ingled with it. The rush had failed and the enemy 23 Rudyard Kipling were flying. If the heart of the square were shambles, the ground beyond was a b... ...-flats, and Maisie sniffing scorn- fully, with her chin in the air; Maisie flying before the wind that threshed the foreshore and drove the sand like ... ...to bind, who tell the girls ghost-stories till the girls shriek; of stolid Germans, who come to learn one thing, and, having mastered that much, stoli... ...or aught they knew twenty battalions in front, to save the bat- tered 24th German Infantry, to give time to decide the fate of Vionville, and to learn...

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... flakes of cotton, often satu- rated with rum, and by what seemed absolute worlds of blaz- ing sparks, that lighted up all the upper chambers of the a... ...o any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is the sure receptacle of all the ... ...alified to act as ‘able’ sea- men: but at all times, and especially during war, only a small proportion (or nucleus) of each ship’s company consists o... ...d, and the stranger that is within thy gates. But that rest must be in the world which lies beyond the grave. On this side the grave ye have all slept... ...erials, meeting the public excitement, everywhere stirred to the centre by flying rumors, and everywhere burn- ing for ampler information. On the Sund... ...ms would have roused a mutinous protest against this arrogant mandate. But Germans are generally mild and facile in their tempers; so the light was co... ...l no more burn than the leaves of a closed book. Privately, therefore, the Germans drew an inference, that Mr. Williams must have had some urgent moti... ...llesleys had dared to intrude into Ireland. Some say in the train of Henry II. Some say—but no matter: there they were: and there they stuck 127 Thom... ...owley or Colley, taking, in 1745, the name of Wesley, received from George II. the title of Earl Mornington: and Colley’s grandson, the Marquess Welle...

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...in some fashion, however small, to help me. Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has ... ...in the play was to be taken by a certain Monsieur Poplevin, and another *A German dramatist (1761-1819) who also filled sundry posts in the service of... ...or of State Factories. True, the task of remembering every big-wig in this world of ours is not a very easy one; but at least our visitor displayed th... ... extending their forelegs over their heads and grooming themselves, and of flying out of the win- dow again to return with other predatory squadrons. ... ...majority of the townsfolk into a sea of perplexity. 28 Dead Souls CHAPTER II For more than two weeks the visitor lived amid a round of evening partie... ...ity, and, like the average Russian, such a de- sire for accuracy as even a German could not rival. To what the reader already knows concerning the per... ...ong, for a mazurka started, to be followed by “Marlborough has gone to the war,” and to this, again, there succeeded an anti- quated waltz. Also, long... ...rgan was like, he was forced once more to hear how Marlborough went to the war. “Then, since you don’t care to give me any money for it,” persisted No... ...force all nations, all empires to stand aside, to give you way! 1841. PART II CHAPTER I Why do I so persistently paint the poverty, the imperfec- tion...

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...aning. When I hint a dislike of nunner ies for young girls who abjure the world before they have ever proved or known it; or doubt the ex officio s... ...ore it, in the outskirts of the town; and are again upon the road. CHAPTER II LYONS, THE RHONE, AND THE GOBLIN OF AVIGNON CHALONIS IS A FAIR RESTI... ...le, old, swarthy woman, with a pair of flashing black eyes,—proof that the world hadn’t conjured down the devil within her, though it had had between ... ... good entertainment from real Genoese dishes, such as Tagliarini; Ravioli; German sausages, strong of garlic, sliced and eaten with fresh green figs; ... ...ed figures on the outsides of the houses, holding wreaths, and crowns, and flying upward, and downward, and standing in niches, and here and there loo... ...ly invaded, when I saw them, by the twittering of the many birds that were flying in and out of the crevices in the stones and little nooks in the arc... ...the people of Bologna in the fourteenth century, and about which there was war made and a mock heroic poem by Tassone, too. Being quite con tent, ho... ... with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to thei... ...h their great, dark, mournful palaces, and many legends: not of siege, and war, and might, and Iron Hand alone, but of the trium phant growth of peac...

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... be mistrusting my imagination are referred to that printed document, Vol. II, I forget the page, but it is somewhere not far from the end. Another do... ... J. C. 8 A Set of Six A SET OF SIX GASPAR RUIZ I A REVOLUTIONARY WAR raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common... ...ssion disap- peared in the growth of political hatred. And, as is usual in war, the mass of the people, who had the least to gain by the issue, suffer... ...ng horses and cattle, and having thus deprived the old people of all their worldly possessions, left them sitting under a bush in the 11 Joseph Conra... ...a bush in the 11 Joseph Conrad enjoyment of the inestimable boon of life. II GASPAR RUIZ, condemned to death as a deserter, was not thinking either o... ...o his guests, “what would you have? A youth of seventeen summers, without worldly experience, and owing my rank only to the glorious patriotism of my... ...s of honourable warfare. “In less than half an hour we were in the saddle, flying wildly through the night. He had only an es- cort of twenty men at h... ...n and things nursed by Colonel Feraud. Recruiting his strength in a little German town for three weeks, Colonel D’Hubert was surprised to discover wit... ...and tolerable to the young lady’s uncle—an old émigré lately returned from Germany, and pervading, cane in hand, a lean ghost of the ancien régime, th...

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... her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history. But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no ... ...; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing les- son. The world is before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. ... ... before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. CHAPTER II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign WHEN MI... ...the heroical act mentioned in the last chapter, and had seen the Dixonary, flying over the pavement of the little garden, fall at length at the feet o... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...first Baronet, of the Tape and Seal- ing-Wax Office in the reign of George II., when he was im- peached for peculation, as were a great number of othe... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement...

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...as the April dawn; the song of labor in a city built—it seemed—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was beginnin... ...nticed him; it may have been resentment of return from this fine, bold man-world to a restricted region of wives and stenographers, and of suggestions... ...ingo” as though it were a hymn melan- choly and noble. 14 Babbitt CHAPTER II R elieved of Babbitt’s bumbling and the soft grunts with which his wife ... ...plift and flipflop and settlement- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’... ...ggled, momentary victor in the greatest of Great Wars, which is the family war. Ted looked at her hope- lessly, then shrieked at Tinka: “For the love ... ...e Valera, be deported. Dead right, by golly! All these agitators paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 B... ...e of Saragossa, the defini- tion of the word “sabotage,” the future of the German mark, the translation of “hinc illae lachrimae,” or the num- ber of ... ...ne whose name even busy garagemen remembered—not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers. He admired the in- genuity of the automatic dial... ... period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Well, make s...

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...d the moral worth of a Bersenyev are not so valuable to the Elenas of this world, whose ardent desire to be made good use of, and to seek some great e... ...eally much nicer. But you’ve taken up a pseudo-classical pose, for all the world like a ballet-dancer, when she reclines upon a rock of paste-board. Y... ...e love which is self-sacrifice.’ Shubin frowned. ‘That’s all very well for Germans; I want to love for myself; I want to be first.’ ‘To be first,’ rep... ...entleman, one might say, if that word had not been so vulgarised among us. II THE YOUNG MEN went down to the river Moskva and walked along its bank. T... ...d, for whist. At home he was bored; he formed a connection with a widow of German extraction, and spent almost all his time with her. In the year 1853... ...oya; but he had hardly reached her side when again his cigar-case was sent flying across the road. Five times this trick was repeated, he kept laughin... ... death, that he was only just saved, that he was wounded… .) He prophesies war and will be glad of it. And for all that, I never saw D. so depressed. ... ...nd began beat- ing louder and louder, and strange, to say, the time seemed flying by. A quarter of an hour passed, then half an hour; a few minutes mo... ...was grow- ing—already could be felt the breath of approaching inevi- table war. The fire was kindling all round, and no one could foresee how far it w...

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...oon from Paris, and before the Assembly was consti- tuted at Bordeaux. The Germans occupied Tours during that terrible winter; it is astonishing, the ... ...s during that terrible winter; it is astonishing, the number of places the Germans occupied. It is hardly too much to say that wherever one goes in, c... ... hundred scars and bruises and mutila- tions, but the visible marks of the war of 1870 have passed away. The country is so rich, so living, that she h... ...mber in which the author of “Le Lys dans la Vallee” opened his eyes into a world in which he was to see and to imagine such extraordinary things. If t... ...oinville, son of that Duke of Guise who was murdered by the order of Henry II. at Blois, was, after the death of his father, confined here for more th... ...o a little way before you reach the cathedral. 10 A Little Tour in France II. IT IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL CHURCH of the second order of impor- tance, with... ...l, so close under its walls that the supporting pillar of one of the great flying buttresses was planted in the spinster’s gar- den. If you wander rou... ...ll which conceals from sight the palace of the archbishop, and beneath the flying buttresses, the far-projecting gargoyles, and the fine south porch o... ...sed roofs to the happier spires of the cathedral, preserved for the modern world the memory of a great fortune, a great abuse, per- haps, and at all e...

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...o talks to himself. “I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of ... ...een things go down an eddy? Out of the light of the day, out of this sweet world of sanity—down—” “But,” expostulated Isbister. The man threw out a ha... ... Is there a doctor in the village? Where is a doctor to be found?” CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE THE THE THE THE TRANCE T... ...llow perhaps. But that is a young man nevertheless.” “And there’s been the War,” said Isbister. “From beginning to end.” “And these Martians.” “I’ve u... ...atter very softly. He looked up with a start and saw the huge wings of the flying machine gliding slowly and noiselessly overhead athwart the broad ba... ...- ing down the long ribbon of sky, and Graham, following his eyes, saw the flying machine small and faint and remote. Then he saw that the wings sprea... ...s, full of flaunt- ing banners, full of the march and pageantry of opening war. And the feet of the people were beating time—tramp, tramp. He was urge... ...ave as remote and curious survivals, three other languages alone held sway—German, which reached to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish- English at ... ...ge of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo. And everywhere now...

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...ly digested into a certain huge volume a Chronicle from the beginning of the world down to his own time. But in truth this work was dissipated and dis... ...842. Vol i.p. 223. 3 Lausanne, 1759. 4 3 vols. 8vo. Berne, 1770, etc. Vol. ii., Introduc. viii. and p. 389 et seq. 5 Rigord. “Chron.” 196, p. 288. ... ... 12 “De Mas Latrie. Tres. de Chron.”, col. 1488. 13 Cf. Potvin, “P. le G.” ii. 1 and 7, with vol. i. p. 131 and vol. ii. p. 112 of the present work ... ...d in his court the Table Round that was garnished of the best knights in the world. King Arthur after the death of his father led the highest life and... ...r whence it came, and for that he asked it not are all the lands commoved to war, nor no knight meeteth other in the forest but he runneth upon him an... ...eof, were all the lands com 34 The High History of the Holy Graal moved to war thereby, nor never thereafter might knight meet other but he should f... ...val, “See here your cousin, for King Ban of Benoic was your father’s cousin german. Make him right great cheer!” He maketh them take off their helmet... ...them be dis armed right tenderly. There was a damsel within that was cousin german to King Pelles and had tended Perceval within in his sickness. She... ... right arm and cutteth it sheer from his side, sword and all, and sendeth it flying to the ground, and Chaos runneth upon him, thinking to grapple him...

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...d fans them till they die, perhaps cherishing to the last the fancy of a visit home, which is rarely made, more rarely enjoyed, and yet more rarely re... ... about the line of the horizon; like the pinnacles of some ornate and monstrous church, they stood there, in the sparkling brightness of the morning, ... ...close ahead before we found them. To a ship ap- proaching, like the Casco, from the north, they proved in- deed the least conspicuous features of a st... ...o recently and so imper- fectly redeemed from a blood-boltered barbarism, all were to become our intimates, and one, at least, was to mourn sincerely ... ...t certainly become, the tongue of the Pacific. I will instance a few examples. I met in Majuro a Marshall Island boy who spoke excellent English; this... ...werving cabin, with innocent excitement and surprise. Her Majesty was often recognised, and I have seen French subjects kiss her photograph; Captain S... ...d, new customs introduced, and chiefly that fashion of regarding money as the means and object of existence. The commercial age, in each, succeeding a... ... deposition of the chiefs was perhaps sometimes needful; the appointment of others may have been needful also; it was at least a delicate business. Th... ...n Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mo...

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...warm. Every- thing here reminds me of our early days, which so quickly passed away, which so delightfully flew by, that no others will ever replace th... ...ing, I suppose?” “No doubt, mademoiselle; but the cardinal is the cardi- nal.” “The king is not a man, then! And he does not love Mary Mancini?” “He a... ...he news had enlarged the circle of its report, like the increasing circumference produced by a stone thrown into a placid lake? Blois, as peaceful in ... ...o-morrow be opposite Blois.” These words were pronounced with that tact — that measure, that distinctness of tone, of intention, and reach — which mad... ... will recall the word.” The officer was more and more surprised, more and more subdued. “If I consent to announce you, may I at least know whom to ann... ... greatest surprise. “You, my brother — you at Blois!” cried Louis XIV., dismissing with a gesture both the gentleman and the valet de chambre, who pas... ...am twenty-two years of age, — to-day, when I have attained the grade of the majority of kings, — to-day, when I ought to have the key of the treasury,... ...er, and you have, in the eyes of France, the responsibility of peace and war. But that you should pretend to prevent me, who am king, from extending m... ...disdainfully, “a million! What will your majesty do with a million?” “It appears to me, nevertheless —— “ said Louis XIV . “That is not more than is s...

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...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun Vol. II or The Romance of Monte Beni By Nathaniel Hawthorne CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTE... ...emselves to Switzer- land, to the Rhine, or, from this central home of the world, to their native homes in England or America, which they are apt then... ...refathers for building it so high. I like the windy summit better than the world below, and spend much of my time there, nowadays.” “It is a pity you ... ...e Ital- ian tongue. The words, so far as they could be distinguished, were German, and therefore unintelligible to the Count, and hardly less so to th... ... gentleness and courtesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that... ...n Hilda’s pur- pose to pass the summer days in the galleries of Roman pal- aces, and her nights in that aerial chamber, whither the heavy breath of th... ...s, but only a com- paratively few, in street and balcony, who carry on the war- fare of nosegays and counterfeit sugar plums. The populace look on wit... ...st words were spoken, he was hit by two missiles, both of a kind that were flying abundantly on that gay battlefield. One, we are ashamed to say, was ...

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... respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chanc... ...ered no doubt;—but with Spartan consistency he so hid his trouble from the world that no one knew that he suffered. Those with whom he lived, and who ... ...not related to him. Thence, at the age of seventeen, he had been sent to a German university, and at the age of twenty- one had appeared in London, in... ...r in England,’ continued Lopez, 27 Anthony Trollope ‘till I was sent to a German university in the idea that the languages of the Continent are not g... ...r about that champagne. It came out of Madame Cliquot’s cellars before the war, and I gave Sprott and Burlinghammer 100s for it.’ ‘Indeed!’ ‘I don’t t... ...ne,’ said Sir Damask. ‘I should think it is. I gave 100s for it before the war. His lordship’s got a fit of the gout coming, I suppose.’ But Sir Damas... ... again on that occasion to county suffrages or increased armaments. VOLUME II CHAPTER 21 THE DUCHESS’S NEW SWAN WHEN THE PARTY had been about a week c... ...ckets. Lopez, hardly knowing how he was acting, was upon them in a moment, flying in the first place at the man, who had jumped up to meet him as he c... ...till with gentle and apparently unhurried steps, he walked down before the flying engine—and in a moment had been knocked into bloody atoms. VOLUME II...

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...an, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of world-famous statues in the saloon,—in the hope of putting the reader into ... ...and his fellowship with every living thing more intimate and dear. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE F THE F THE F THE F THE ... ...el them lifted, their heavy earthly feet from the actual soil of life. The world had been set afloat, as it were, for a moment, and relieved them, for... ...umulation of wealth within the family. Another story hinted that she was a German prin- cess, whom, for reasons of state, it was proposed to give in m... .... Thence, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup- plied it with romantic ornaments and exc... ..., within which a convent of nuns is now estab- lished,—a dove-cote, in the war-god’s mansion. At only a little distance, they passed the portico of a ... ...n Hilda’s pur- pose to pass the summer days in the galleries of Roman pal- aces, and her nights in that aerial chamber, whither the heavy breath of th... ...s, but only a com- paratively few, in street and balcony, who carry on the war- fare of nosegays and counterfeit sugar plums. The populace look on wit... ...st words were spoken, he was hit by two missiles, both of a kind that were flying abundantly on that gay battlefield. One, we are ashamed to say, was ...

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...t a cross-ways, in the centre of which stands a stone obelisk, for all the world like an eternal exclamation mark. From the crevices between the found... ...hich carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of cuirasses. The Germans in- vented a name for their enemies on this occasion which means “m... ...n one of the wagons laden with cuirasses. By one of the strange chances of war our guide had served a breakfast to Napoleon on the morning of the batt... ...so- cial nomenclature,—and yet we fancy that we originate things! When the world turns upside down like an hour- glass, when the seas become continent... ...ut a word. It is only strong men, choleric and powerful, thunder- bolts of war, diplomats with olympian heads, or men of genius, who can show this utt... ...eyes of human- ity and religion he is sacred. 20 Sons of the Soil CHAPTER II A BUCOLIC OVERLOOKED BY VIRGIL WHEN A PARISIAN drops into the country he... ...n the watch, rushed out of the wood and knocked so vio- lently against the flying girl that she was thrown down. The violence of the fall made her unc... ...political blunder to which we owe such mistakes as sending French money to Germany to buy horses which our own land had ceased to breed; a blun- der w... ...garded as threatening the secret coalition of the valley. 205 Balzac PART II CHAPTER I THE LEADING SOCIETY OF SOULANGES ABOUT SIX KILOMETRES (speakin...

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... William John Fleming was simply a poor farmer, for whom the wheels of the world went too fast:—a big man, appearing to be diffi- cult to kill, though... ...the two, and suggest his stamping his name to such an opin- ion before the world, was an outrage. Mrs. Fleming was failing in health. On that plea, wi... ...ll forget their Christianity toward offending and repentant women. CHAPTER II MRS. FLEMING had a brother in London, who had run away from his Kentish ... ...nglish earth. I do not know that I breathe. All I know is a fear that I am flying, and my strength will not continue. That is when I am not touching h... ...ward through spheres of ecstacy . Dahlia could see the snow-mountains in a flying glimpse; and again, peace- fully seated, she could see the snow-moun... ... French—mind her accents, though!—and she needn’t attempt any of the nasty German—kshrra-kouzzra- kratz!—which her pretty lips can’t do, and won’t do;... ...twice in my life.” Mrs. Boulby murmured, “Ah! are you still going to be at war with those gentlemen, Robert?” He looked at her steadily, while a shrew... ...ht hateful: and he stood apparently in profound contemplation of a ship of war and the trees of the forest behind the masts. Either the fatigue of sta... ...n—it must be a quarter past. Or, a three quarters to the next hour, as the Germans say.” “Odd!” Robert ejaculated. “Foreigners have the queerest ways ...

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...ull it is of substance; the wonder being, all the while, as we look at the world, how absolutely, how inordinately, the Isabel Archers, and even much ... ...ghts say, when not with murders and battles and the great mutations of the world. If they are shown as “mattering” as much as they could possibly pret... ...ay of explanation, to his father. “The pretty women themselves may be sent flying!” Lord Warburton exclaimed. “No, no, they’ll be firm,” the old man r... ...ur broader still, “perhaps, after all, she’s not worth trying on!” CHAPTER II While this exchange of pleasantries took place between the two Ralph Tou... ...Portrait of a Lady had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from her... ...giving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of this ... ...Then when he had fallen into the trap, “It’s a pity you can’t see me in my war-paint and feathers,” she remarked; “if I had known how kind you are to ... ...en, for a Frenchwoman; but extended observation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess... ...ed chambers of some dispeopled convent. She went to the galleries and pal- aces; she looked at the pictures and statues that had hitherto been great n...

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...at only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is—I repeat it— a difference; and it... ...ction to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustome... ...ately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs. 11 Charlotte Brontë CHAPTER II I RESISTED ALL THE WAY: a new thing for me, and a circum- stance which g... ...another voice peremptorily; and Mrs. Reed came along the corridor, her cap flying wide, her gown rustling stormily. “Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gav... ...w tempestuously: “One lies there,” I thought, “who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Whither will that spirit—now struggling to quit it... ...ead to look after more moths, are you? That was only a lady-clock, child, ‘flying away home.’ I wish to remind you that it was you who first said to m... ...t eyes. Shall I tell you of what it reminded me?” “Y ou may.” “Of the foul German spectre—the Vampyre.” “Ah!—what did it do?” “Sir, it removed my veil... ...n with her terminated. She had two successors: an Italian, Giacinta, and a German, Clara; both considered singularly handsome. What was their beauty t... ...ngle passion. He could not—he would not—renounce his wild field of mission war- fare for the parlours and the peace of Vale Hall. I learnt so much fro...

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...alking to himself. Then the armchair creaked as he sat down again. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II MR. MR. MR. MR. MR. TEDD TED... ...together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire. Communication with the world beyond the village he had none. His temper continued very uncertain; ... ...ood,” he said, as if sobbing for breath. It was the strangest thing in the world to hear that voice coming as if out of empty space, but the Sussex pe... ...n was caught in some mysterious fashion, and he was no longer running, but flying with inconceivable rapidity through the air. He saw the ground sudde... ...dly run a dozen yards before he gave a loud shout of astonishment and went flying headlong sideways, clutching one of the labourers and bringing him t... ...tridges,” said the man with the black beard. “That’s the best of all. Four aces and a joker. Get a lantern, someone, and come and feel about for his b... ...s true, certainly. He edged round me into the room, peering about over his German-silver spectacles, and a sudden dread came into my mind that he migh... ...hy not come? Yes—you come too! Come, and we must hold a sort of council of war— get Hopps to help—and the railway managers. By Jove! it’s urgent. Come...

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... friendliness, which embraced him, and passed on to contemplate the entire world. The paint 9 Virginia Woolf had so faded that very little but the be... ...arge blue eyes, at once sagacious and innocent, which seemed to regard the world with an enormous desire that it should behave itself nobly, and an en... ...s one young person is grate- ful for the understanding of another. CHAPTER II The young man shut the door with a sharper slam than any visitor had use... ...people beyond the family circuit, just as it was part of his plan to learn German this autumn, and to review legal books for Mr. Hilbery’s “Critical R... ...onclusion that it would be a good thing to learn a language—say Italian or German. She then went to a drawer, which she had to unlock, and took from i... ...t happiness of which here we taste the frag- ment; the beauty seen here in flying glimpses only. No doubt much of the furniture of this world was draw... ...tragic beauty. She had a fantastic picture of them upholding splendid pal- aces upon their bent backs. They were the lantern-bear- ers, whose lights, ... ...me line from a play or poem where the heroine bore down thus with feathers flying and airs saluting her. The greenery and the high pres- ences of the ... ... its excitement. “You’ve not read ‘The Idiot’!” she exclaimed. “I’ve read ‘War and Peace’,” William replied, a little tes- tily. “‘War and Peace’!” sh...

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... been down to Brighton, and about that infernal traitor Bonaparty, and the war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, f... ... campaign that the old gentleman must give in to him. And if not? Bah! the world was before him. His luck might change at cards, and there was a deal ... ...of taste and elegant discernment, as all the shopfolks said. And about the war that was ensuing, Mrs. Osborne was not much alarmed; Bonaparty was to b... ...iderable liveliness and credit on this her first appearance in the genteel world of London. George meanwhile, with his hat on one side, his elbows squ... ...the face. Once or twice in the day she certainly had herself thought about flying. But her reason gave her better counsel. “Sup- pose the French do co... ...s rows with the proctors, filling rapidly from the bottles before him, and flying from Port to Madeira with joyous activity. “The chief pleasure which... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement... ...eady to account. Besides his town palace, the Marquis had castles and pal- aces in various quarters of the three kingdoms, whereof the descriptions ma... ...ods, on the Shannon shore; Gaunt Castle, in Carmarthenshire, where Richard II was taken pris- oner—Gauntly Hall in Y orkshire, where I have been infor...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER III A CUSTOM OF THE ISLE OF CEA .................................................................. 24...

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...R ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS ............................................................ ................... 254 CHAPTER XXXIV OBSERV ATION ON THE MEANS TO CARRY ON A WAR ACCORD- ING TO JULIUS CAESAR ............................................. ...in anything so much perplexed as to reconcile them and bring them into the world’s eye with the same lustre and reputation; for they commonly so stran... ...“We are turned about like the top with the thong of oth- ers.”—Idem, Sat., ii. 7, 82.] We do not go, we are driven; like things that float, now leisur... ... DR OF DR OF DR OF DRUNKENNESS UNKENNESS UNKENNESS UNKENNESS UNKENNESS THE WORLD is nothing but variety and disemblance, vices are all alike, as they ... ...y said: “What, shall I bear a tyrant, I who cannot bear wine?”] We see our Germans, when drunk as the devil, know their post, remember the word, and k... ...t and free; so delicate a palate is not required to make a good toper. The Germans drink almost indifferently of all wines with delight; their busines... ...Carthaginians, please him: that men forbear excesses in the expeditions of war; that every judge and magistrate abstain from it when about the adminis... ...ut crush a fearless head.”—Horace, Od., iii. 3, 7.] For the most part, the flying from other inconveniences brings us to this; nay, endeavouring to ev...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexam...

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...reign Litera ture, for all men anxious to see and understand the Eu ropean world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; ... ...h as to the number and value, of perhaps a hundred to one. We take in, not Germany alone, but France and Italy; not the Schlegels and Schellings, but ... ...ich, as has often been laboriously demonstrated, was not to return to this world any more. Or perhaps we come nearer our meaning, if we say that in Go... ...r years. Their effects over Europe at large were not less striking than in Germany. ‘It would be difficult,’ observes a writer on this subject, ‘to na... ... noblest men have, even from the beginning, warring with the very evils we war with, both made and been what will be vener- ated to all time? A wide a... ... he was destined to fall under it in a special manner. In the Seven Years’ War, which was now raging, France took the side of the empire against Frede... ...he said, “we could find building-materials, walls and towers, houses, pal- aces, churches, to put together a great city. But this does not entertain m... ... caused him to accept the office of presi- dent at Lingen, which Frederick II. offered him; supposing that he was an enlightened, unprejudiced man, an... ...the rich doublet, the gold mantle, the high, feathered hat, and the loose, flying hair, became very well. He puts him- self in motion; and, amid the s...

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...rkable than the mere bulk or merit of his work approves him. It was in the world, in the commerce of friendship, by his brave attitude towards life, b... ...ll out, took refuge in the Marines, and was lost on the Dogger Bank in the war-ship Minotaur. If he did not marry below him, like his father, his sist... ...e, 64, that the lad made his only campaign. It was in the days of Rodney’s war, when the Prothee, we read, captured two large privateers to windward o... ...the Prothee, I find a code of signals graphically represented, for all the world as it would have been done by his grandson. On the declaration of pea... ...-Guard, where he attracted the notice of George III. by his proficiency in German. In 1797, being on guard at St. James’s Palace, William took a cold ... ...et with inherited qualities that were to make him known and loved. CHAPTER II. 1833-1851. Birth and Childhood – Edinburgh – Frankfort-on-the-Main – Pa... ...lisations, contrasting the dramatic art and national character of England, Germany, Italy, and France. If he were dull, he would write stories and poe... ...stood him instead of vigour; and the re- sult of that night’s exposure was flying rheumatism varied by settled sciatica. Sometimes it quite disabled h... ...efore be said to have been very successful.’ 80 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin II. I HAVE GIVEN THIS CRUISE nearly in full. From the notes, un- happily im...

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...at bade thee cometh,’” said Norman thoughtfully. “It seemed to be only our worldly advantage that was meant before,” said Ethel. “Well, it means that ... ...ce for its own sake.” “And in so many different ways!” said Margaret. “Ay, worldly greatness, riches, rank, beauty,” said Flora. “ All sorts of false ... ...he matter by saying it was the first name that came into his head. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II Meadows trim with daisies pi... ...ure you may;” and Norman, with a hand on the back of Ethel’s chair, took a flying leap over his own, that set all the glasses ringing. “Stop, stop! kn... ...k- ing that he deemed it, as he tried to do himself, merely the fortune of war, and was sensible of no injury. And, for Norman himself, when the first... ... up.” “Wrong?” said Ethel. “Of course. It would be against the articles of war,” said Harry, opening his door another inch. “But, Ritchie, I say, do t... ...hat she could go under the Hoxtons’ guardianship. P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART II T II T II T II T II CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I No... ...isiting Egypt and Palestine, and refreshing his memory with every Italian, German, or French Cathedral, or work of art, that had delighted him in earl... ...maxim that no one unpaid could be trusted; and when he talked of beautiful German churches with pierced spires, declared that the building must not ma...

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...said, “by these opinions, which have been contradicted by the voice of the world. Y ou do not mean to set at naught the well-digested idea of centurie... ...rough habit, as if they were of an absolutely general applicability—as the world in- deed imagines them to be. Bryant, in his very learned ‘My- tholog... ... it is impossible to say. We careered round and round for perhaps an hour, flying rather than floating, getting gradually more and more into the middl... ...’ and has since been extensively copied, sev- eral misapprehensions of the German original seem to have been made by the translator, who professes to ... ...ve been so long the fashion of the moralists of England, of France, and of Germany. Abstractions may amuse and exer- cise, but take no hold on the min... ... Over fabric half so fair. 97 V olume Two II. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float a... ...grow upon the soil and are voiceless—is a stain upon the land- scape—is at war with the genius of the scene. I love, indeed, to regard the dark valley... ...is that of extent; the worst phase of extent, that of dis- tance. It is at war with the sentiment and with the sense of seclusion—the sentiment and se... ...d to be almost inconveniently crowded, had all the appearance of veritable flying-fish. It was almost impossible to believe that they were not absolut...