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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 ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...is skill in holding the stirrup, and was fi- nally made a duke and peer of France. The boy Louis had no lesser persons than the King and Queen Marie T... ...briand. But the work at once became uni- versally read and quoted, both in France and England. Macaulay made frequent use of it in his historical essa... ... night of the 15th of January, 1675, of Claude Duc de Saint-Simon, Peer of France, and of his sec- ond wife Charlotte de l’Aubepine. I was the only ch... ... and it is a thing unique that he, his son, and his grandson were not only Marshals of France, but all three were in succession seniors of that corps ... ...epted (who said a single word), voted without speaking, simply bowing; the Marshals and D’Effiat scarcely moved their eyes, and those of Villars glist... ...ept them low- ered for a long time. The rest of the spectators, except the marshals of France, appeared little affected by this desolation. But this—a...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ven with a blaze of light. In short, it was a fair land—it was the land of France! The traveler was a tall man, dressed from head to foot in a suit of... ...t and smiling as it becomes merged in the great valley systems of southern France; but the officer, who no doubt had previ- ously traversed a country ... .... An officer who had only just joined the regi- ment, the son of a peer of France, had said one day of Genestas, that he would have made one of the mo... ...onels be- came generals whilst you were looking at them, generals be- came marshals of France, and marshals became kings. There is one of them still l...

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... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...e land were soft and English. It was not quite England, neither was it quite France; yet like enough either to seem natural in my eyes. And it was in ... ...ion, the painter of to-day continues to inhabit and to paint it. There is in France scenery incomparable for romance and harmony. 53 Robert Louis Ste... ...stly, there is something, or there seems to be something, in the very air of France that communicates the love of style. 56 Across the Plains Precisi... ...s time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving moun- tains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear and e...

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...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ugh to keep up with the rapidity of our pro- duction. In some cases, as in France, the population is stationary. We, however, have gone on producing w... ...he southern part of the San Joaquin, near Bakersfield. Thus, the sheriffs, marshals, and deputies decided. They had hunted too many criminals in these... ...oh, bei der hind laigs on, I oop mit der guhn und— bing! I cetch um.” “The marshals won’t allow you to shoot, Bismarck,” ob- served Presley, looking a... ... a red flag, a vast crowd of bug- gies and horses was already forming. The marshals began to appear. Hooven, descending from the farm wagon, pinned hi... ...resley: “You know,” she explained, “Papa has his own vineyards in southern France. He is so particular about his wines; turns up his nose at Californi...

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... world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable character about whom I was reading, or whether I should fling asi...

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...h” A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titm... ...Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ificent religious ceremonies of this nature are at present taking place in France; and thinking that you might perhaps while away some long winter eve... ...arrived in James Town harbor; and on its arrival, as on its departure from France, a great firing of guns took place. First, the “Oreste” French brig-... ...l things had been made ready: the grand coffins and ornaments brought from France, and the articles necessary for the operation were carried 11 Thack... ...t, jack-boots and bear-skin, cuirass and bayonet, National Guard and Line, marshals and generals all over gold, smart aides-de-camp galloping about li... ...lden bees. After this came more Soldiers, General Officers, Sub- Officers, Marshals, and what was said to be the prettiest sight almost of the whole, ... ...ERIAL CHARIOT ROLLS MAJESTICALLY ON. The cords of the pall are held by two Marshals, an Admi- ral and General Bertrand; who are followed by— The Prefe...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...Banquo’s monarchs stalk, Followers of fame, ‘nine farrow’ of that sow: France, too, had Buonaparte and Dumourier Recorded in the Moniteur and ... ... by land or sea, To mend his former morals, and get new, Especially in France and Italy (At least this is the thing most people do). Julia... ... THE SECOND. Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasi... ... some soft air, Or proudlier prancing with mercurial skill Where Science marshals forth her own quadrille. Or, if he dance not, but hath higher ...

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...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ...aine) I yet at least a fondling foster-father, having transported it from France to England; put it in English clothes; taught it to talke our tongu... ... this oversight to issue out of his holde, to parlie with the Constable of France, at his returne found the Towne taken, and himselfe jack-out- of-do... ...le miseries which he foresaw prepared by the fates against the Crowne of France, and the many friends he had there, he unkindly revolted, and became... ...more advantage be cast at them. The Lord of Montluc, late one of the Lord Marshals of France, having lost his sonne, who died in the Iland of Madera,...