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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

.... Though Simpson became the Duchess of Windsor, she could not be addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the... ... Her servants were executed, their bodies burnt and their ashes scattered. Being royalty, she was merely confined to her bedroom until she died i... ...nto a horse's stomach and left to die. For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her name in Hungary was a crime. ht... ...al organization. Growing constituencies in the south - such as urban immigrants and mountain farmers - opposed slavery as a form of unfair competiti... ... crimes by the same offender. This system was developed by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the early 1990s. UTAP, stands for The Utah... ...nd was broadcast from a radio placed behind the screen and, later, from speakers he mounted on trees. Hollingshead was granted a patent in May 1933... ... Francisco, April 18, 1906, 05:12 AM Property damage: Fire destroyed the business district of San Francisco. Cities along the fault (e.g., San Jos... ...n, New York, on August 6, 1890. By 1972 the chair was adopted by 25 states and the District of Columbia. More than 4300 inmates, including dozens o... ...e as a cabinet secretary. Presidents are not elected by popular vote but by an electoral college representing the states. John Quincy Adams (18...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ou are loyal Williams men, striving for the ad- vancement of the Grand Old Royal Purple. " CHB average man would be astoaished to tee the many intrica... ...llowed by social ostracism, ami even Lady ]Mary proves untrue. Finally his royal identity is disclosed hy the French ambassador,and as LouisPlnlippe, ... ...sselaer prior to the entertainment. Tlie program follows: PART I. 1 (a) ' 'Royal Purple" Bartlett '95 Come Fill Your Glasses Up" Words by H. S. Patter... ..." Alinet Reed Latson, Jr., '09 5 "Mammy Loo" Cartwright Glee Club t") "The Mountains" Washington Gladden 'oO The Clubs The following men were taken on... ...CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH President's Address Arthur James Pierce. Song — "The Mountains," By the Class. Poem. George Burweli Dutton. BY HOPKINS HALL ' Co... ...s, and known as Albertypes; they will be printed on onion-skin tissue, and mounted on the pages of the book. The illustrations will con- sist of 103 p... ... of this infitrument is punishible by the forfeiture of eligibility to any electoral office. This agreement is to be bind- ing when signed by an autho... ...se corruption, contract corruption, police corruption, "honest" graft, and electoral cor- ruption. Of these, several have, of late years, been well-ni... ...them- selves are secretly made to favor one firm or patent. The problem of electoral cor- ruption is best viewed in the light of the history of n numb...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...mly sunk together, like one that had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that... ...th of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal France, and Royal Proclamation to all the Provinces, answers anxiously, No; nevertheles... ...the Provinces, answers anxiously, No; nevertheless one may fear the worst. Royalty was beforehand so decrepit, moribund, there is little life in it to... ...t, accepts what destiny will send. Thouret and Parlementary Duport produce mountains of Reformed Law; liberal, Anglomaniac, available and unavailable.... ...nd an endless Populace raised by them to the pitch even of ‘Lanterne, ’ he mounts the Tribune next day; grim-resolute; murmuring aside to his friends ... ...he Cevennes; whence Royalism, as is feared and hoped, may dash down like a mountain deluge, and submerge France! A singular thing this camp of Jales; ... ...et serves Danton also with a writ;—which, however, as the whole Cordeliers District responds to it, what Constable will be prompt to execute? Twice mo... ...rissot, meanwhile, are far on with their Municipal Constitution. The Sixty Districts shall become Forty-eight Sections; much shall be adjusted, and Pa... ...ing silent in their unburnt Cha- teaus; small prospect had they in Primary Electoral Assem- blies. What with Flights to Varennes, what with Days of Po...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...otect the lives or property of aliens in any part of the union outside the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to that. The federal ... ...e prorogation of Parlia- ment this February was one of the most remarkable royal utterances that have ever been made from the British throne. There wa... ...ch this present war was begotten, we must sit up to this novel proposal of electoral representation in the peace negotiations. Something more than com... ... of Nations? I am anxious here only to start for discussion the idea of an electoral representation of the nations upon these three bod- ies that must... ...uld be at least one Indian representative elected, perhaps by some special electoral con- ference of Indian princes and leading men. The chief defect ... ...Per- ish the thought! When they might be controlled by Disraelis, Wettins, Mount-Battens, and what not! And so on and so on. Krupp’s agents and the ag... ... mother- land of republics, was handed over to a needy scion of the Danish royal family; the sturdy peasants of Bulgaria suffered from a kindred impos... ... the question. The implicit theory that supported the intermarrying German royal families in Europe was that their inter-relationship and their aloofn... ... states were scarcely more than what we English might call sovereign urban districts. Fast communications were made by runners; even the policeman wit...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

... of a Legislative,—out of which, it is likely, the best mem- bers, and the Mountain in mass, may be re-elected. Roland is getting ready the Salles des... ...! Hither, as a main element of the Governing Power, has Marat been raised. Royalist types, for we have ‘suppressed’ innumerable Durosoys, Royous, and ... ...the 21st, while our Court is but four days old, Collenot d’Angremont, ‘the Royal enlister’ (crimp, embaucheur) dies by torch-light. For, lo, the great... ... of the Civil List, follows next; quietly, the mild old man. Then Durosoy, Royalist Placarder, ‘cashier of all the Anti-Revolutionists of the interior... ...nny),’ with other similar effects; and offer, at least the mother does, to mount guard. Men who have not even a thimble, give a thimbleful,—were it bu... ... itself! Clermont lies at the foot of its Cow (or Vache, so they name that Mountain), a prey to the Hessian spoiler: its fair women, fairer than most,... ...f War at his lodg- ings there. He spreads out the map of this forlorn war- district: Prussians here, Austrians there; triumphant both, 24 The French ... ...on the North-East, has dashed forth on Spires and its Arsenal; and then on Electoral Mentz, not uninvited, wherein are German Democrats and no shadow ... ...leans sitting quiet in Bourges, to whom we could run? Nay even the Primary electoral Assemblies, thinks Guadet, might be reconvoked, and a New Convent...

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

... prudence in these days when the people are heirs of all the sycophants of royalty. We make criminals poetic, we commiserate the hangman, we have all ... ...head and twenty million arms, is at work perpetually; crouching in country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national g... ...iver, command this rich valley, which is framed in the far distance by the mountains of a lesser Switzerland, called the Morvan. These forests belong ... ...have all left the stamp of their reigns upon Les Aigues. What palace, what royal castle, what mansions, what noble works of art, what gold brocaded st... ...d’Angely, Cassan, built by a mistress of the Prince de Conti; in all, four royal houses have disappeared in the valley of the Oise alone. We are getti... ... the park.” “What time is it, Charles?” “A quarter to twelve.” “Help me to mount.” “Ha!” exclaimed the groom, noticing the water that dripped from Blo... ...was formed of two wide pilasters of projecting rough-hewn stone; each sur- mounted by a dog sitting on his haunches and holding an escutcheon between ... ...oner of legal papers, when- ever the Sieur Brunet came to draw them in the districts of Cerneux, Conches, and Blangy. Vermichel and Fourchon, allied b... ... Bank of France. The number of electors which this rich valley sent to the electoral college was sufficient to insure, if only through private dealing...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...h, partly, perhaps, with a secret reference to the rumored apostasy of the royal family, was pursued more eagerly in the latter half of the seventeent... ...at once into that particular class of courts (presbyteries) which form the electoral bodies in relation to the highest court of General Assembly. The ... ...nly seemed to become practicable. The presbyteries, as being the effectual electoral bodies, are really the main springs of the ecclesiastical adminis... ...ished military command- ers, &c., received such a dress as a gift from the royal trea- sury, in order to prepare them at all times for the royal pres-... ...d that he will not learn. The one conceits himself booted and spurred, and mounted on his reader’s back, with an express commission for riding him: th... ...n the Greek poetry, viz. the gigantic drama of the Prometheus crucified on Mount Elborus. And this drama differs so much from everything else, even in... ...lebrated living professor of medicine, who has been since distinguished by royal favor, and honored with a title, making it his boast, that he had nev... ...rench people from the Cahiers, (or codes of instruction transmitted by the electoral bodies to the members of the first National Assem- bly,) to fores... ...dolphus; and they again traditionally from oth- ers) are always trained to mount in this way. NOTE 12. It is painful to any man of honorable feelings ...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a providential event; it is like a deluge ... ...thodical order seems to have regulated the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discoverable ami... ... surface, and better suited for the habitation of man. T wo long chains of mountains divide it from one extreme to the other; the Alleghany ridge take... ...rwards, under Charles II. that their existence was legally recognized by a royal charter. This frequently renders its it difficult to detect the link ... ...dure of England; in 1650 the decrees of justice were not yet headed by the royal style. See Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 452. **Code of 1650, p. 28; Hartfor... ...h as no nation in Europe has yet ven- tured to attempt. In Connecticut the electoral body consisted, from its ori- gin, of the whole number of citizen... ...t universally elected, and the citizens were not all of them electors. The electoral franchise was everywhere placed within certain limits, and made d... ...d. There is no more invariable rule in the history of society: the further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need of extending them; f... ...o instruments of oppres- sion. The Revolution declared itself the enemy of royalty and of provincial institutions at the same time; it confounded all ...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ver is, preternatural. This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that sw... ...ing Hammer flung from the hand of Thor: he urges his loud chariot over the mountain-tops,—that is the peal; wrath- ful he “blows in his red beard,”—th... ...e shore of Norway, from haven to haven; dispensing justice, or doing other royal work: on leaving a certain haven, it is found that a stranger, of gra... ...f is notable; the fit habitation for such a race. Savage inaccessible rock-mountains, great grim deserts, alternating with beautiful strips of verdure... .... Dante and Shakspeare are a peculiar T wo. They dwell apart, in a kind of royal solitude; none equal, none second to them: in the gen- eral feeling o... ...h, though afar off, to new genuine ones. All this of Liberty and Equality, Electoral suffrages, Inde- pendence and so forth, we will take, therefore, ... ...or any good one, there is yet a long way. One remark I must not omit, That royal or parliamentary grants of money are by no means the chief thing want... ...d of Reform Bill,—Parliament to be chosen by the whole of England; equable electoral divi- sion into districts; free suffrage, and the rest of it! A v... ...nt to be chosen by the whole of England; equable electoral divi- sion into districts; free suffrage, and the rest of it! A very ques- tionable, or ind...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...he liberal party in Arcis. A woman accustomed to the advan- tages of salon royalty does not easily renounce them. Vanity is the most tenacious of all ... ...x- pected, no doubt, to transfer to his son, then thirty years of age, his electoral succession, in order to make him some day eligible for the peerag... ...e peerage. Already a major on the staff and a great favorite of the prince-royal, Charles Keller, now a vis- count, belonged to the court party of the... ...Aube, the Comte de Gondreville contrived to counterbalance this Cinq-Cygne royalty by the secret authority he wielded over the liberals of the town th... ...—in adopting, as I said, the parliamentary and constitutional—forms—of the—electoral Chamber.” “Yes, yes!” cried the assembly with one voice. “Consequ... ...ealization of all that was promised to us by the revolution of July; it is electoral reform, it is—” “What! are you a democrat?” said Achille Pigoult.... ...a valuable horse, and accompanied by a tiny groom, no bigger than my fist, mounted on a saddle- horse. The coach, connecting with the diligences to T ... ...tal. After making a careful toilet and dining at six o’clock, the stranger mounted a horse, and, followed by his groom, rode off along the road to Bri... ...d Madame Mollot, “I was able to see him shaving; with such elegant razors!—mounted in gold, or silver-gilt!” “Gold! gold, of course!” said Vinet. “Whe...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...entative statue of City Corporations and London’s maj- esty, the figure of Royalty, worshipful in its marbled redun- dancy, fronting the bridge, on th... ... very particular. I came into the City to look at a warehouse they want to mount double guard on. Your idea of the fireman’s night-patrol and wires ha... ...he 34 One of Our Conquerors winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- s... ... man of the world:— as all do, that have not Alpine heights in the mind to mount for a look out over their own and the world’s pedestrian tracks. I co... ...back, down to the lake, Fredi’s lake; a good oblong of water, notable in a district not abounding in the commod- ity. He would have it a feature of th... ...strict not abounding in the commod- ity. He would have it a feature of the district; and it had been deepened and extended; up rose the springs, many ... ...t overhung the dome, rattled on it, and rolling Westward, became a radiant mountain-land, partly worthy of Victor’s phrase: ‘A range of Swiss Alps in ... ...or shook head, pitiful over the good people likened to things unclean, and royally upraising them: in doing which, he scattered to vapour the leaden i... ... cushioned merchants resident about Wrensham, on the many obsequious among electoral shopmen; annually he threw open his grounds, and he sub- scribed,...

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The Collection of Antiquities

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d been neglected by the court for two hundred years; they were lords para- mount in the estates of a province where the people looked up to them with ... ...name of the Sovereign People, the d’Esgrignon lands were dishonored by the District, and the woods sold by the Nation in spite of the personal protest... ... me to set my scutcheon on the wall.” He waved his hand toward the castle, mounted his horse, and rode back beside his sister, who had driven over in ... ... An ex-contractor for for- age to the armies of the Republic, a man of the district, with an income of six thousand francs, persuaded Chesnel to carry... ...e State. The Marquis by his position belonged to that small section of the Royalist party which would hear of no kind of com- promise with those whom ... ...ardent innovator will some day discover, Equality is an impossibility. The Royalists pricked the Liber- als in the most sensitive spots, and this happ... ...u Croisier, if that worthy could succeed in gaining a sufficient number of Royalist votes; but at every election du Croisier was regularly thrown out ... ...iquities I hear, represents the nobles in the Chamber.” (He took the upper electoral colleges for assemblies of his own order.) “Re- ally, they think ... ...ban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in France. Each of the pair had an income of four or five thousan...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...have given him anything— the last word in favour of the Country versus the royal Mar- tyr, for example, had he insisted on it. She gathered, bit by bi... ...h face con- cerning the declaration of war, and told with approval how the Royal hand had trembled in committing itself to the form of signature to wh... ...George Meredith of what you call your theatre-bridges in sight. The people mount and drop, mount and drop; I see them laugh. They are full of fun and ... ...ast the paternity of Hercules, disconnect ourselves from the steps we have mounted; not even, the priests inform us, if we are ascending to heaven; we... ...th your friend Renee. And those are the hills of Petrarch’s tomb? They are mountains.’ They were purple beneath a large brooding cloud that hung again... ...to get fun out of him, at the cost of considerable inventiveness, that the electoral Address of the candidate, signing himself ‘R. C. S. Nevil Beaucha... ...What writing! He was uplifted as ‘The heroical Commander Beauchamp, of the Royal Navy,’ and ‘Commander Beauchamp, R.N., a gentleman of the highest con... ...ened the romantic sentiments of the com- mon people now huddled within our electoral penfold, was not calculable. Tory and Radical have an eye for one... .... The show of hands Mr. Seymour Austin declared to be the most delusive of electoral auspices; and it proved so. A little later than four o’clock in t...

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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

By: H. G. Wells

...us discovery of which this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor... ...tion about the mildest-mannered actor alive than there is about the entire Royal Society. Mr. Bensington was short and very, very bald, and he stooped... ...ttle or nothing of either of these gentlemen. Sometimes at places like the Royal Institution and the Society of Arts it did in a sort of way see Mr. B... ...ar); and Bensington, still hatless, paddled down the steps and prepared to mount. “I think,” he said, with his hand on the cab apron, and a sudden gla... ...n, and about the baby Children of the Food. He took up his quarters at the Mount Glory Hydrothera- peutic Hotel, where there are quite extraordinary f... ...er the earth began. These Children, said the popular magazines, will level mountains, bridge seas, tunnel your earth to a honeycomb. “Wonderful!” said... ...ate proprietors; let alone the special privileges and property of an urban district board, nine parish councils, a county council, two gasworks, and a... ...of the towns”— for by that time they were forbidden all boroughs and urban districts, “Doing nothing’s just wicked. Can’t we find out something the li... ...ing various names flapped from every wall and barn; he knew nothing of the electoral revolution that had flung Caterham, “Jack the Giant-killer,” into...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

... that his fa- ther, as a young page of Louis XIII., gained favour with his royal master by his skill in holding the stirrup, and was fi- nally made a ... ... to private life. Upon his return to Court, taking up apartments which the royal favour had reserved for him at Versailles, Saint- Simon secretly ente... ...he service, except his illegitimate children, and the Princes of the blood royal, should be exempt from serving for a year in one of his two companies... ...g held a review of his guards, and of the gendarmerie, at Compiegne, and I mounted guard once at the palace. During this little journey there was talk... ...o remedy this inconvenience the King ordered all his house- hold troops to mount every day on horseback by detach- ments, and to take sacks of grain u... ... first courier knew that if he gave up his news, the other, who was better mounted, would outstrip him, and be the first to carry it to the King. He t... ... the village, and see with his own eyes the 252 Saint-Simon defeat of the Electoral army, and the preparations that were made on the other side to co... ...moreover, were piqued into resistance, by an appeal to their honour by the electoral minister, who in- sisted on the menaces of Puysieux, our represen... ...aused many vessels to perish in the Texel, and submerged a large number of districts and vil- lages. France had also its share of these catastrophes. ...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it. There... ... prospect resembles the key to one of those large pictures of coronations, royal weddings, parlia- ments, conferences, and gatherings so popular in Vi... ...s than a planet will serve the purpose of a modern Utopia. Time was when a mountain valley or an island seemed to promise sufficient isolation for a p... ...l Bedretto, and Villa and Fontana and Airolo try to hide from us under the mountain side—three-quarters of a mile they are verti- cally below. (Lanter... ...e, Mr. Chamberlain, and the King is here (no doubt incognito), and all the Royal Academy, and Sandow, and Mr. Arnold White. But these famous names do ... ... back to the sea again it will come at last, debouching in ground rent and royalty and license fees, in the fees of travellers and profits upon carryi... ...the utmost the payment of a small redemption. A horse, perhaps, in certain districts, or a bicycle, or any such mechanical conveyance personally used,... ... the method of government, biassed, perhaps, a little in favour of certain electoral devices, but for the rest indeter- minate, and that I have come t... ...ds more powerful and efficient method of control than 158 A Modern Utopia electoral methods can give. I have come to distinguish among the varied cos...

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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

By: George Meredith

... and cheerful. From his superior height, he was enabled to look down quite royally on the man whose repose he had disturbed. The following conversatio... ...’ John Thresher had a laborious mind; it cost him beads on his forehead to mount to these heights of meditation. He told me once that he thought one’s... ...wd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal salvo!’ said my father, and asked me earnestly whether I had forgotte... ...appy expression of countenance, except the monkey, who was too busy. As we mounted the stairs I saw more kings of England painted on the back-windows.... ...y to receive us. As for the cities and cathedrals, the hot mead- ows under mountains, the rivers and the castles-they were little more to me than an a... .... My father backed a horse to run in the races on Epsom Downs named Prince Royal, only for the reason that his name was Prince Royal, and the horse wo... ...ousand pounds per annum on the day of your union with a young lady in this district, Miss Janet Ilchester. He undertakes likewise to provide her pin-m... ...and tried to curb him. ‘Mr. Dettermain, my dear sir, I apprehend it is the electoral maxim to woo the widowed borough with the tear in its eye, and I ... ...ian to descend upon such a place as Chippenden worried my father more than electoral anxieties. Jorian wrote, ‘My best wishes to you. Be careful of yo...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire sympathy with the royal Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlighte... ...owever, some- thing had caused me to forget; and when next I saw the young mountaineer, I forgot that I had forgotten it. Consequently, at first I was... ... those countries, and in the neighborhood of a river-system so awful, of a mountain-system so unheard-of in Europe, there would probably, by blind, un... ...mongst those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4thly, by collat- eral proof from the Papal Chancer... ...ubling of Cape Horn, the shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal banner from the Indians of Chili, the fatal duel in the dark, the ast... ...Lord Oranmore, distin- guished for his horsemanship, and always splendidly mounted from his father’s stables at Castle M’Garret, to whom our stormy co... ...f it amounted to so much, arose with a lady from some part of Cheshire—the district of Knutsford, I believe;— but, wherever it was, in the same distri... ... I received a weekly allowance, which would have enabled me to live in any district of Wales, either North or South; for Wales, both North and South, ... ...re and key of the movements to be antici- pated in the coming campaign. An electoral cap would per- haps reward the services of the Landgrave in the g...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

...a to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit odd, of course, but the whole sit... ... business, certainly,” said Isbister. “ And compound interest has a way of mounting up.” “It has,” said Warming. “And now the gold supplies are runnin... ...d.” 24 When the Sleeper Wakes They did not answer him. “The Queen and the Royal Family, her Ministers, of Church and State. High and low, rich and po... ... embodiment of the song. He emerged in the alcove again. Incontinently the mounting waves of the song broke upon his appearing, and flashed up into a ... ...ontages of the buildings grew plain and harsh; he seemed to have come to a district of vacant warehouses. Solitude crept upon him—his pace slackened. ... ...tminster, but the way was easy to follow. When at last he did approach the district of the wind-vane offices it seemed to him, from the cheering proce... ...at?” asked Graham. “‘I am awakened and my heart is with you.’ And bow— bow royally. But first we must get you black robes—for black is your colour. Do... ... morn- ing sun. The air was clear of smoke and haze, sweet as the air of a mountain glen. Save for the irregular oval of ruins about the House of the ... ...re rested visibly between the two party councils, ruling by newspapers and electoral organisations—two small groups of rich and able men, work- ing at...

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Eve and David

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t; he was as much or as little of a bigot as Bonaparte was a member of the Mountain; yet his vertebral column bent with a flexibility wonderful to beh... ...d them in triumph, and laid them on his wife’s lap. “A ream of this paper, royal size, would cost five francs at the most,” he added, while Eve handle... ...ed them up, and stayed execution by lodging notice of appeal on the Court- Royal. Notice of appeal, duly reiterated on the 25th of July, drew Metivier... ...the storm passed over to Poitiers, and an attorney practising in the Court-Royal instructed to defend the case, than Petit-Claud, a champion facing bo... ...already, I will try once more to soften my father’s heart.” “I would rader mount to der assault of a pattery ,” said Kolb, “your resbected fader haf n... ...ill, but you may save yourself the trouble of coming down again. Kolb will mount guard.” At four o’clock in the morning David came out of the dis- til... ...ed him. The Courtois’ mill lies a league away from Marsac, the town of the district, and the half-way between Mansle and Angouleme; so it was not long... ...the Royal Order of St. Louis, has been nominated for the presidency of the electoral college of Angouleme at the forthcoming elections.” “There!” said...

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Bureaucracy

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ckery. All the higher offices were gained through parliamentary influence, royalty had nothing to do now with them, and the subordinate clerks became,... ...ly required three additional clerks in the justice courts and three in the royal courts. The steady application of this principle brought Rabourdin to... ... discover how commerce increases, and life is amelio- rated in the country districts. In short, the State will see from year to year the number of her... ...ner to a secret society; and filled a posi- tion of superintendence in the royal household. His two of- ficial posts which appeared on the budget were... ...to- gether with a satisfied expression on his beadle face. The next day he mounted the private staircase and had himself ush- ered into the minister’s... ...ke a man eligible to the Chamber. Ergo, with it des Lupeaulx goes into the electoral college, becomes eligible, count, and whatever he pleases. You kn... ...hat is settled we will hand him back to you. Falleix is now canvassing the electoral vote. Don’t you perceive that you have Lupeaulx completely in you... ...zled]. “Why, no.” Bixiou. “But he is paid by the government to do work, to mount guard and show off at reviews. You may perhaps tell me that he longs ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only wh... ...fter day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the royal sickness emerge from time to time as an article of news. Bets are dou... ...nd pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with that ‘quiveri... ...e-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); all mounted in wagons, tumbrils, second- hand chaises,—sufficient not to conque... ...than Golconda and the treasures of the world! In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk; the Dead all slumbering round it, under th... ...ld is not this your Sor- ceress Dubarry with the handkerchief at her eyes, mounting D’Aiguillon’s chariot; rolling off in his Duchess’s consolatory ar... ...er of the Rue St. Antoine;’ he, com- monly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;— and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense... ... that shall be ‘tolerably known in the Revolution.’ He is President of the electoral Cordeliers District at Paris, or about to be it; and shall open h... ... Doubtless, the ‘powers must be verified;’— doubtless, the Commission, the electoral Documents of your Deputy must be inspected by his brother Deputie...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only wh... ...fter day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the royal sickness emerge from time to time as an article of news. Bets are dou... ...nd pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with that ‘quiveri... ...e-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); all mounted in wagons, tumbrils, second-hand chaises,—sufficient not to conquer... ...than Golconda and the treasures of the world! In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk; the Dead all slumbering round it, under th... ...hold is not this your Sorceress Dubarry with the handkerchief at her eyes, mount- ing D’Aiguillon’s chariot; rolling off in his Duchess’s con- solator... ...urer of the Rue St. Antoine;’ he, commonly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;—and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense ... ... that shall be ‘tolerably known in the Revolution.’ He is President of the electoral Cordeliers District at Paris, or about to be it; and shall open h... ... their Cahier is long since finished, see good to meet again daily, as an ‘Electoral Club’? They meet first ‘in a Tavern;’—where ‘the largest wedding-...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...charm. We managed to gain the favor of the keepers, so as to be allowed to mount the new gay imperial staircase, which was painted in fresco, and on o... ...ps dash together; houses fall in, and over them churches and tow- ers; the royal palace is in part swallowed by the waters; the burst- ing land seems ... ...s children. The many affairs which were settled before the tribunal of the royal lieutenant had quite a peculiar charm, from his mak- ing it a point t... ... me. “Who al- lowed you to open that box?” he asked, with all his air of a royal lieutenant. I had not much to say for myself, and he immediately pron... ...f Palestine. This land was already occupied, and tolerably well inhabited. Mountains, not extremely high, but rocky and barren, were severed by many w... ...ined by the locality which they have ap- propriated or appropriate. On the mountains which send down their waters to the Tigris, we find warlike popul... ...of Rome, was pursued with more and more earnestness. The assembling of the electoral college, originally appointed to take place at Augsburg in the Oc... ...yes: all seemed to us very fine, and much of it perfectly astonishing. The electoral congress was fixed at last for the 3d of March. New formalities a... ...t the proceedings of the college of electors, which were based on the last electoral capitulation, were now going forward rapidly; and that the day of...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...rtal wrestles in his cell, when the pale nun prays in vigil and the hermit mounts his pillar, it is Celibacy, that great denial of life, that sings th... ...ganized system of criticism which is science, than a brigand at large on a mountain has to the machinery of law and police, by which finally he will b... ... its hardy and capable sons wherever the world has need of them; the Swiss mountains, too, send their sons far and wide in the world; and on the other... ...science study to a ridiculous extent. Things have altered very much at the Royal 142 Mankind in the Making College of Science, no doubt, since my stu... ...penetrate the pretence that there is no in- trinsic difference between the Royal Family and the mem- bers of the peerage on the one hand, and the aver... ...oolish to forego a great end for a small concession. But to suffer so much Royalty and Privilege as an Englishman has to do before he may make any eff... ... of candidates, is the unforeseen and unavoidable mechanical defect of all electoral methods with large electorates. Educa- tion has nothing to do wit... ...ut that this method is so universally recognized as superior to the common electoral method that any one who should propose to-day to take the fate of... ... privi- leges in public matters—for instance, it might qualify for certain electoral juries. And from this class the next rank might easily be drawn i...

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Under the Deodars

By: Rudyard Kipling

...r Majesty’s Bengal Civil Service, spent, for the most part, in undesirable Districts, had given him little to be proud of, and nothing to bring confid... ...he Secretariats know them only by name; they are not the picked men of the Districts with Divisions and Collectorates await- ing them. They are simply... ...ve was over he would return to his swampy, sour-green, under-manned Bengal district; to the native 18 Under the Deodars Assistant, the native Doctor,... ...mzadas. Which act of ‘brutal and tyrannous oppression’ won him a Reprimand Royal from the Bengal Govern- 24 Under the Deodars ment; but in the anecdo... ... Golden Gods that had come out of the Summer Palace in Pekin to the silver-mounted markhor- horn snuff-mull presented by the last C.O. [he who spake t... ...of disappointment in the mechanic’s face. Nodding briefly to Orde, Edwards mounted his dog-cart and drove off. “It’s very disappointing,” said the Mem... ...ng “Nonsense-special provision would be made for them in a well-considered electoral scheme, and they would doubtless be treated with fit- ting severi... ...en, and that his side would probalny be beaten, Pagett rose to look at his mount, a red, lathered Biloch mare, with a curious lyre- like incurving of ... ...to study the political as- pect of things and the possibility of bestowing electoral institutions on the people.” “Wouldn’t it be as much to the purpo...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...y detailed littleness of a town viewed from high up on the side of a great mountain. When Mr. Grahame-White told me we were going to plane down I will... ...wasn’t a tithe of the thrill of those three descents one gets on the great mountain railway in the White City. There one gets a dis- agreeable quiver ... ...e from rain and darkness into sunshine, and from heat into the coolness of mountain forests. Children can be sent for education to sea beaches and hea... ...exhorted this island to “wake up” in one of the most remarkable of British royal utterances, and Mr. Owen Seaman assures him in verse of an altogether... ...roy the machinery of the party system that sustains him, and to adopt some electoral method that will no longer put the independent representative man... ...o were drowned? Shall we give him an hour or so among the portraits at the Royal Academy, or shall we make an enthusiastic tour of London sculpture an... ...and perhaps, if he has devised economies and improve- ments, a receiver of royalties during his declining years. And concurrently with the systematic ... ...ates appointed by the two great party organisations in the State. It is an electoral system that forbids absolutely any vote split- ting or any indica... ...great people should be baffled by the mere mechanical degen- eration of an electoral method too crudely conceived. There exist alternatives, and to th...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...ies of Germany. Four Protestant against three Roman Catholic voices in the Electoral College must at once have given the prepon- derance to the former... ...erties of Europe, would then roll silent and forgotten behind the Pyrenean mountains. At other times, the French had boasted of their 60 The History ... ...unity of gratifying it was not long wanting. 71 Friedrich Schiller In the Royal Letter which the Bohemians had extorted from Rodolph II., as well as ... ...towns, because they looked upon the ecclesiastical property as part of the royal demesnes. In the little town of Klostergrab, subject to the Arch- bis... ... of May, 1618, the deputies ap- peared armed, and in great numbers, at the royal palace, and forced their way into the hall where the Commissioners St... ...ion was fixed, Ferdinand summoned to it as lawful king of Bohemia, and his electoral vote, after a fruitless resistance on the part of the Bohemian Es... ...fered you? I would rather eat bread at thy kingly table, than feast at thy electoral board.” Frederick accepted the Bohemian crown. The coronation was... ...ich the indolent policy of that ministry met this demand were happily sur- mounted by the imperial ambassador at Madrid, Count Khevenhuller. In additi... ...ans had begun to entrench them- 97 Friedrich Schiller selves on the White Mountain near Prague, when they were attacked by the Imperial and Bavarian ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...Hebrew cosmogony, when, from the caprice of a fleshly god, in one hour man mounted to a justice that knew no shadow of change; from cruelty, mounted t... ... infidel, in triumph. A boy may fire his pistol unnoticed; but a sentinel, mounting guard in the dark, must remember the trepidation that will follow ... ...ristian churches, atheistically given? We used to be told that there is no royal road to geometry. I don’t know whether there is or not; but I am sure... ...works of Versailles cleave the air, and rising as sweet to the lip as ever mountain torrent that com- forted the hunted deer. It is impossible to supp... ...’s pri- vate cabinet of papers, all written in cipher, and captured in the royal coach on the decisive day of Naseby (June, 1645), was (I believe) dec... ...had lived in the times of those New- England wretches that desolated whole districts and terri- fied vast provinces by their judicial murders of witch... ...at it was then become a solitude, but a solitude in good preservation as a royal park. The vast city had disppeared, and the murmur of myriads: but as... ...freeholder swearing himself worth 40s. per annum as a qualification for an electoral vote: ought not he to hold himself perjured in voting upon an est... ...s de Quincey Emperor Hadrian’s account of this last), there was no town or district in the ancient world where the populace could be said properly to ...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...e was no por- tion of the county more decidedly true blue than the Framley district; and, indeed, up to the present day, the dowager is able to give a... ...mith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortabl... ...tle. Not that the duke joined in with any enthusiasm. He was a Whig—a huge mountain of a colossal Whig—all the world knew that. No opponent would have... .... ’ And then they did change, and the horse on which Robarts found himself mounted went away with him beautifully. ‘He’s a splendid animal, ’ said Mar... ...iberal according to the scale by which the incomes of clergymen in our new districts are now apportioned—would not admit of a gentleman with his wife ... ...I ought to kneel down? My dear, will he have a reporter at his back in the royal liv- ery?’ And then Miss Dunstable advanced two or three 322 Framley... ...lar, we may say that nowhere was a deeper consternation spread than in the electoral division of West Barsetshire. No sooner had the tidings of the di... ...people. Is it not a recognized rule of these realms that none of the blood royal shall raise to royal honours those of the subjects who are by birth u... ...yal shall raise to royal honours those of the subjects who are by birth un-royal? Lucy was a subject of the house of Lufton in that she was the sister...

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