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

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...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ... of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between... ...ioned later, the name of Cinq-Cygne was not to perish through lack of male heirs. This affair between Michu and the farmer made a great noise in the a... ...Empire was just dawning. Those who in these days read the histories of the French Revolution can form no con- ception of the vast spaces which public ... ...fore the hotel Cinq-Cygne was surrounded; Malin came himself to arrest the heirs of the house of Simeuse. He dared not lay hands on the Comtesse de Ci... ...f the Emperor. In such circumstances a magistrate is very apt to take mere presumptive evidence for actual proof. Nev- ertheless, on his way from Gond...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...er pointed to a dying count- ess and her fortune claimed by the collateral heirs of the Saint- Savins. Both advised him to leave to nature the extinct... ...s- tige of feudality which disappeared under the reign of Richelieu. These thrones, like the warden’s benches of the churches, have now become objects... ... address:— “My friends, this is my son Etienne, my first-born son, my heir presumptive, the Duc de Nivron, to whom the king will no doubt grant the ho... ...uld make a son, disowned by his father and destined to the priesthood, the presumptive heir of the house of Herouville that Beauvouloir had never unti... ...ness of the neck. This was neither Norman beauty, where flesh abounds, nor French beauty, as fugitive as its own expres- sions, nor the beauty of the ...

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...ine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds th... ...brary which Cardinal Mazarin presented to the city of Paris, and which the French Academy was in after days to inhabit, cast chill shadows over this a... ... town, where in fact it is still related, was to write a letter to all the heirs of a miserly old lady who was likely to leave a large property, annou... ...he old bachelor. Never- theless, the news of the arrival of the legitimate heirs was of a nature to shake Max’s faith in Flore’s influence. Rouget’s s... ..., and were now formed into a corps styled the “guards of honor.” This heir-presumptive, who was killed at Hanau, had married early in life a rich woma...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Not...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...as for the world, those names no longer exist. These gentlemen are without heirs; they only advance by a little the oblivion which awaits their names;... ...l religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a French woman that Godefroid resolved to leave no stone unturned to make him... ...pt. I positively refused to take any paper. ‘If I should die,’ I said, ‘my heirs would trouble you. This is to be between ourselves.’ “Well,” continue... ... had it protested, and sued Mongenod for me. Meantime the disasters of the French armies had produced such depreciation of the Funds that investors co... ...e handkerchief off his head and recognize them; all these facts are strong presumptive evidence of collusion. As for the woman Bryond and the notary L...

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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...nic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylva... ...f the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all histo... ...thor shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- cal. “With the Memoirs of De R... ...walk. The King of England (William III.) lost the Duke of Gloucester, heir-presumptive to the crown. He was eleven years of age, and was the only son ... ...ner. He said he saw clearly that the children of the Dauphin were the next heirs to the Spanish throne, and that the House of Austria had not the smal... ... leaning on vice, lies, audacity, on a cabal inimical to the state and its heirs, a factitious hero, made such by will in despite of truth;—the other,...

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...Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...h Sir Everard, the affectionate old uncle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir. A difference in political opinions had early separated th... ... Waverley had made the usual progress, and read the usual authors; and the French had af- forded him an almost exhaustless collection of memoirs, scar... ...uty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a new mantua of genuine French silk, were lost upon a young officer of dragoons, who wore, for the ... ...young as she had been hersell), and young Gilliewhackit, who had spent his heirship and movables, like a gentleman, at cock-matches, bull-baitings, ho... ...ttainder, as deriving no right through him, and who, therefore, like other heirs of entail in the same situation, entered upon possession. But, unlike...

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...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...bring out as soon as possible les Marguerites, those divine sonnets by the French Petrarch! We must carry our friend through on the shield of stamped ... ... the Revolution; it had Madame Tallien! In these days there is certainly a throne to let in France which is for her who can fill it. We among us could... ...ing to see the priest making this girl repeat Ave Maria and Paternoster in French. “That is very fine!” said Esther, when she had repeated these two g... ...prisoners who are still provi- sionally detained. Having due regard to the presumptive evi- dence, the examining judge then issues a warrant for their... ...Y ou are, as I have told you, Mademoiselle Esther’s legatee, she having no heirs nor near relations, and her property amounts to nearly eight millions...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have...

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...s. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ... hardly be told what this implies; it might be defined in the words of the French critic just named as “a tendency to pity.” One might indeed go furth... ...yarevsky (N. A.), 1903; Shenrok (V. I.), Materials for a Biography, 1892; (French) Leger (L.), Nicholas Gogol, 1914. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST POR... ...ity, lives in comfort and luxury, and is destined to leave his property to heirs who are purposing to squander the same on foreign travel. That the fo... ...red into a contract with the Treasury for lard, a fact constituting fairly presumptive proof that the man was a rogue, seeing that just such another f... ...ed. “Your Highness,” said Murazov, “the Governor of the town is one of the heirs under the will: wherefore he has a certain *Fiscal districts. 359 Go...

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... Nuttie’s Father Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...daisies never durst lift their heads on his little lawn, which even bore a French looking- glass globe in the centre. Miss Nugent, or Miss Mary as ev-... ...he could guess what had become of her, he held up his hands with a hideous French grimace. I could have taken him by the throat.’ ‘Nay, one must pity ... ...r from second-rate folk in a country town than to the overthrow of his own heirship. At least so he manifestly and honestly believed, and knowing it t... ...t. Perhaps the Egremont property will not concern you, and only go to male heirs. That would be the best thing, since in any case you must be sufficie... ...scribed to Lady Delmar and to the wealthy parvenu, Mrs. West, for the heir-presumptive of Bridgefield Egremont. Annaple’s lightness and dexterity rend...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...udal State,—a county or duchy conquered by the crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these head... ...he du Guaisnics. Old as the granite of Brittany, the Guaisnics are neither Frenchmen nor Gauls,—they are Bretons; or, to be more ex- act, they are Cel... ... not take my love,” said Calyste, “and I shall return your fortune to your heirs.” “Child!” answered Camille, in a guttural voice, letting the tears r... ...g round. “You have shown such heroism as a nurse,” he said, “that the heir presumptive of the Guenics is dearer to me than ever, and I wanted to give ... ...little Calyste, the finest child that any royal race could desire for heir presumptive. One evening, as she sat with her young sister Athenais (whose ...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutis...

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...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed fo... ...E CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 A Penn State Electronic Class... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...; even as thou hast read my inmost soul: Power eternal! assemble round thy throne an innumerable throng of my fellow-mortals, let them listen to my co... ...imself from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure ... ...eral books over fair, and trans- late commercial letters from Italian into French. All at once he thought fit to accept the before rejected proposal, ... ...ignys, Monlmoreneys, and T rimouille, and I loved their descendants as the heirs of their merit and courage. In each regiment that passed by methought... ...an of whom Madam d’Houdetot ought to be afraid? Would not it be said by my presumptive remorse that, by my gal- lantry, manner and dress, I was going ...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a...

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... Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h... ...roperty. “It was settled,” he said, “the greater part of it at least, upon heirs-male, and the purchaser would have the privilege of retaining in his ... ...I. To sum the whole-the close of all. Dean Swift. AS GLOSSIN DIED without heirs, and without payment of the price, the estate of Ellangowan was again... ...teal the hood front the Judge’s gown; for which offence, combined with her presumptive guilt as a gipsy, she was banished to New England, whence she n...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by th... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylv... ...olphus after the Battle of Leipzig. — Progress of Gustavus Adolphus. — The French invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly... ...nd. — Death of Richelieu and Louis XIII. — Swedish Victory at Jankowitz. — French defeated at Freyburg. — Battle of Nordlingen gained by Turenne and C... ...hduke Matthias, Maximilian’s second son, Viceroy in Hungary, and Rodolph’s presumptive heir, now came forward as the stay of the falling house of Haps... ...irtemburg,—Lutherans as well as Calvinists, — who for themselves and their heirs entered into a close confederacy under the title of the Evangelical U... ...ere alarmed by a secret family compact with Spain, by which, in default of heirs-male of his own body, Ferdinand bequeathed to that crown the kingdom ...