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...hed under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–1812, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry....

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...est and loyal; his brother Robert, a merchant seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of the local squire. Set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, this is the author's only historical novel, and unusually for Hardy's books, some of the characters live happily ever after. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel.)...

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...lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, r...

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...eneral terms. The idea is the idea of united human effort to put an end to wars; the first practical question, that 8 In the Fourth Year must precede... ... conceive no such Peace Congress as those that have settled up after other wars, settling up after this war. Not only has the war been enormously bigg... ...reign threat, and “Peace” remain a mere name for the resting phase between wars. But power over the military resources of the world is by no 27 H.G. ... ...roy you nor humiliate you 53 H.G. Wells nor open up the prospect of fresh wars. The Allies offer you such a peace. T o accept it, we must warn you pl... ...aria. The weakening of the Bourbon system by the French revolution and the Napoleonic adventure cleared the way for the complete ascendancy of the Ger... ...lusions. The wisdom of Kant is justified, and we know now that kings cause wars. It needed the shock of the great war to bring home the wisdom of that... ...indly to get things back to the conditions for which they were trained, to Napoleonic conditions, with infantry and cavalry and comparatively light gu...

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...17 H G Wells made in Germany, and there will have to be several more great wars before it is established. Germany is too homoge- neous yet to have beg... ...th what happened in the open- ing half of the nineteenth century after the Napoleonic wars, and it is not an agreeable outlook for those who love the ... ...pened in the open- ing half of the nineteenth century after the Napoleonic wars, and it is not an agreeable outlook for those who love the common man ... ...go that Great Britain had her first lawyer Prime Minister. Through all the Napoleonic wars she was still a country ruled by great feudal landlords, an... ...at Britain had her first lawyer Prime Minister. Through all the Napoleonic wars she was still a country ruled by great feudal landlords, and gentlemen... ...evelopment, that are on a scale beyond the dramatic happenings of history; wars, the movements of peoples and races, economic changes, such things may... ...to reappear. A victorious Germany would probably reconstitute the Duchy of Warsaw under a German prince; an entirely victorious Russia would probably ...

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...t seems to be part of the stern resolve of Fate that this, the greatest of wars, shall be the least glorious; it is manifestly being decided not by vi... ...n does not go down under gun fire as stone or brick does. The whole fabric wars rust, bent and twisted, gaping with shell holes, that raggedest displa... ...hen fortification improves. The defensive holds its own for a long period, wars are mainly siege wars, and for a century before the advent of Napoleon... ...weeping invasions, no marches upon the enemy capital and so on. There were wars of reduction, wars of annoyance. Napoleon developed the offensive by s... ...s the tone of everyone of importance in the dark years that fol- lowed the Napoleonic wars. That is just one survivor of the old tradition. Another is... ...of everyone of importance in the dark years that fol- lowed the Napoleonic wars. That is just one survivor of the old tradition. Another is Blight the...

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...ing of the MS. but of all the other things that were packed in the bag. In Warsaw, where I spent two days, those wander- ing pages were never exposed ... ...lace, where the odious lawsuit was still go- ing on, proceeded straight to Warsaw and entered the army of the newly constituted Polish kingdom under t... ...fficers belonged mainly to the smaller nobility. Mr. Nicholas B., with his Napoleonic record, had no difficulty in obtaining a lieutenancy, but the pr... ...y was slow, because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, ... ...or him amongst the scenes of his youth. At the first news of the rising in Warsaw all the remount establishment, officers, vets., and the very trooper... ...as B. penetrated into Russia much farther than he ever did in the times of Napoleonic inva- 57 Joseph Conrad sion, if much less willingly. Astrakhan ... ...ying on the table. There was a pair of big flint-lock holster pistols from Napoleonic times, two cavalry swords, one of the French the other of the Po...

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... which stain the his- tory of all countries in times of civil or religious wars. Chil- dren, young girls, old men shared the monarchial fever to which... ...eye- brows, contracting the wrinkles of his face, and giving to his eyes a Napoleonic fixity, made his manner of accosting oth- 33 Balzac ers icy. Du...

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...oleon’s Grand Army hav- ing fought a series of duels in the midst of great wars and on some futile pretext. The pretext was never disclosed. I had the... ... of historical fiction. I had heard in my boyhood a good deal of the great Napoleonic legend. I had a genuine feeling that I would find myself at home... ...ockading opera- tions before Callao — an episode of unalloyed glory in the wars of Independence and of endless honour in the fighting tradition of Eng... ...ng, which became a legend in the army, runs through the epic of impe- rial wars. To the surprise and admiration of their fel- lows, two officers, like... ...e when there would be no one left to fight with in Europe and the epoch of wars would be over. “I expect then,” he wrote, “to be within measurable dis... ...at- ing contacts and the perplexities of conduct which assailed the men of Napoleonic empire at the mo- ment of its downfall. Lying in his bed, with t... ...ro- ken. Behold how he loved the Emperor.” The other living wreckage of Napoleonic tempest clustered round General Feraud with infinite respect. He...

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...ng of the MS., but of all the other things that were packed in the bag. In Warsaw, where I spent two days, those wandering pages were never exposed to... ...lace, where the odious law- suit was still going on, proceeded straight to Warsaw and en- tered the army of the newly constituted Polish kingdom under... ...y was slow, because, being a separate organization, it took no part in the wars of the Rus- sian Empire against either Persia or Turkey. Its first cam... ...as B. penetrated into Russia much farther than he ever did in the times of Napoleonic invasion, if much less willingly. Astrakan was his destination. ... ...ing on the table. There was a pair of big, flint-lock holster pistols from Napoleonic times, two cavalry swords, one of the French, the other of the P...

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...of the officers who organized the improvised troops whose rout brought the Napoleonic cycle to a close at Waterloo. In 1816 the Baron was one of the m... ...me of the levies, a sort of conscription made by Louis Philippe on the old Napoleonic soldiery. From the time when the younger branch ascended the thr... ...ng advice. BARON HECTOR HULOT came in, in a dress at once lawyer- like and Napoleonic, for Imperial men—men who had been 44 Cousin Betty attached to ... ...confidence in Hulot—who, to the old Bonapartist, was an emanation from the Napoleonic sun— that he was calmly pacing his anteroom with the bank clerk,... ... a peer.” “Yes,” said Crevel, with a smile, “you have been too much in the wars; and of the two forms of metal that may be earned by worshiping the go... ... sense of comradeship that binds the glorious 255 Balzac survivors of the Napoleonic phalanx, that they always feel as if they were in camp together,... ...ten the devoted conduct of the Commissary General of the Imperial Guard at Warsaw, or the marvelous promptitude with which he organized sup- plies for...

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...ed the dev- astation to which that edifice, already sadly shattered by the wars of religion and successive profanations, finally succumbed in 1797. In... ...ry of the Chateau de Blois declines. Its interesting period is that of the wars of religion. It was the chief residence of Henry III., and the scene o... ...” to one of his marshals, Berthier, for whose benefit it was converted, in Napoleonic fashion, into the so-called prin- cipality of Wagram. By the Pri... ...e that the young Mary Stuart spent sundry hours of her first marriage. The wars of religion have left here the ineffaceable stain which they left wher... ...lled through the peaceful little port, that these quiet waters, during the wars of religion, had swelled with a formidable naval power. The Rochelais ... ...day forms part of it) was both an asylum and an arsenal during the hideous wars by which the Languedoc was ravaged in the thirteenth century. The whol...

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...hat our breakfasts all went wrong. Lafaele is absent at the death- bed of his fair spouse; fair she was, but not in deed, acting as harlot to the wrec... ...eard the chimes at midnight; now no more, I guess. But—Fanny and I, as soon as we can get coins for it, are coming to Europe, not to England: I am thi... ...madman, I wouldn’t change my present installation for any post, dignity, honour, or advantage conceivable to me. It fills the bill; I have the lovelie... ...I want a book about Paris, and the first return of the emigres and all up to the cent jours: d’ye ken anything in my way? I want in particular to know... ...ut it has always been a scourge in the islands. Witness the beginning of The Ebb Tide, which was observed long before the Iffle had distinguished hims... ...our, a very nice fellow whom I rec- ommend to you warmly—and whom I think you will like. This will give you time to consider my various and dis- tract...

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...destroyed or disorganised by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by th... ...r disorganised by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by the English f... ...been thrown, when little more than a boy, into the hurricane of Napoleon’s wars; his life had been spent on fields of battle. Of women he knew just so...

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... national; all over the world his ruthless strength dominated minds as the Napoleonic legend had dominated minds. En- glishmen turned in disgust from ... ...…. This sort of thing has always been happening, I sup- pose—these things, wars and earthquakes, that sweep across all the decency of life. It’s just ... ...ory of warfare, unless we take such a case as that of a nineteenth century warship attacking some large savage or barbaric settlement, or one of those... ... him unarmed they would leave him alone, but there was no knowing what the Napoleonic person might do if he saw Bert’s weapon. Also he did not go near...

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...r own times, we could suppose Brixton ravaged and Hampstead burnt in civil wars for the succession to the throne, or Cheapside a lane of death and the... ... “Discipline!” said the doctor. “Oh!” said Isabel. “At times one has to be—Napoleonic. They want to libel me, Mr. Remington. A political worker can’t ... ...political schemer. He had a vanity of sweeping actions, motor car pounces, Napoleonic rushes, that led to violent ineffectual changes in the policy of... ...ities, improving all the facilities of life, making great fleets, wag- ing wars, while this aimless decadence remains the quality of the biological ou... ... my vision that night, stretched new cen- turies of confusion, vast stupid wars, hastily conceived laws, foolish temporary triumphs of order, lapses, ...

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...s; and financial convulsions, the scourge of currency manipulation, tariff wars, made more human misery during the twentieth century—because the wretc... ...know. We cater for them by the thou- sand. At this moment,” he said with a Napoleonic touch, “nearly five hundred phonographs are lecturing in differe... ...avery; throughout the world we had spread the desire and anticipation that wars might cease, that all men and women might live nobly, in freedom and p...

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...As dreams of heaven to souls that sleep! And felt, despite earth’s jarring wars, When day is done And dead the sun, Still a voice divine can sing, 35... ... lead, Drink they of thee, thee eyeing, they unaged Shall on through brave wars waged. XIV More gardens will they win than any lost; The vile plucked ... ...Fair Beats tempered music and its lead subserves. Washed from her eyes the Napoleonic glare, Divinely raised by that in her divine, Not the clear sigh... ...orth of merry dingles round the tors; And deftest hand was he from foreign wars, But soon he hailed the home-bred yeoman mate. 477 XX Before the blac...

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...e half-killed each other, as in Brittany and in La Vendee during the civil wars, but you can no more reconcile the calumniators and the calum- niated ... ...ead. Therefore, when Montcornet was presented by Madame de Carigliano,—the Napoleonic duchess, who was now a most devoted adherent 105 Balzac of the ... ...irlwind of that storm, just as the wounded left behind to die in the great wars of the empire cried out, “Long live the Emperor!” This sublimity of so... ...ied in those cellars,” observed Rigou, cleverly. “Nonsense!” “Well, in the wars of the olden time the great lords, who were often besieged and surpris...

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...au, was drafted into the militia, and won the rank of captain early in the wars of the Revolution. At the battle of T rebia, Macdonald called for volu... ...s Keller accordingly darted at Cesar a look which shot through his head,—a Napoleonic look. This imitation of Napoleon’s glance was a silly satire, th... ...he judge can echo the atrocious saying of the Minister, — ”Order reigns in Warsaw.” Du Tillet meant to compass Cesar’s commercial death. The 243 Balz...

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...r admires; and the officers of the army might be called the stokers of the Napoleonic engine,—if, indeed, they were not its fuel. However, the Baron W... ... old fellow, I have never doubted you for a mo- ment. We have gone through wars and commerce together and now we will undertake agriculture; you shall...

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...s ignorance will seem natural when we mention that this noble relic of the Napoleonic legions went to bed at night and rose in the morning with the ch... ...uring the struggle of feudality against the royal power and the long civil wars which devastated France, the work was again suspended, and has never s...

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...e, comes to us from the past, with solemn approval, after the close of the Napoleonic wars and before the series of sanguinary surprises held in reser... ... us from the past, with solemn approval, after the close of the Napoleonic wars and before the series of sanguinary surprises held in reserve by the n... ...uch resemble a corpse. The subtle and mani- fold influence for evil of the Napoleonic episode as a school of violence, as a sower of national hatreds,... ...d injustice, cannot well be exaggerated. The nineteenth century began with wars which were the issue of a corrupted revolution. It may be said that th... ...ying contest, which for endless, arduous toil of killing surpasses all the wars 75 Joseph Conrad of history. It has a base for its operations; a base... ...o dawn on the horizon of the Vienna Congress through the subsiding dust of Napoleonic alarums and excursions, has been extinguished by the larger glam... ...ng itself to the severed members of its friends and neighbours. The era of wars so eloquently denounced by the old Republi- cans as the peculiar blood... ...erce grapple of two nations of dif- ferent race, the short era of national wars seems about to close. No war will be waged for an idea. The “nox- ious... ...ted slave of its own detestable ingenuity. It is true, too, that since the Napoleonic time another sort of war-doctrine has been inculcated in a natio...

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...urned into ravenous beasts, hunting for their prey. The world war, and all wars, show cases of mob psychology that have led large masses of men to tak... ...orld. Everyone in- terested has noted it before. It has followed all great wars. War means the breaking up of old habits, the destruction of many inhi... ...st. It means the return to the primitive feelings that once ruled man. The Napoleonic Wars left a long heritage of crime. Every nation in Europe was a... ...s the return to the primitive feelings that once ruled man. The Napoleonic Wars left a long heritage of crime. Every nation in Europe was affected by ... ...short, as it affects all life. More crimes of violence are committed after wars or during 147 heated political campaigns than at other times; more of...

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...f farms and peasant villages, and little towns among the farms. There were wars, crusades, barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia,... ...wn ends. There is no hope for us outside ourselves. No violent changes, no Napoleonic saviours can carry on the task of building the Great State, the ... ...estern Europe in the nineteenth century. Or again one opens at destructive wars. One sees these surplus forces over and above the Normal Social Life w... ...ancies. And the oscillations of empires and kingdoms, religious movements, wars, invasions, settlements leave upon the mind an impres- sion that the s... ...ds while our attention has been fixed on our stately pro- cession of giant warships, while our country has been in a dream, hypnotised by the Dreadnou... ...the alien nations closer, deep- ening the risks of needless and disastrous wars abroad. And in the third place it is to be remarked that the Ameri- ca...

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... sat down with a smile. 29 Maugham ‘I saw the place was crowded, and with Napoleonic in stinct decided that I could only make room by insulting some... ...uring his management of the Israelites, notwithstanding the pilgrim ages, wars, and miseries of that most unruly nation. He co vertly laid down the ...

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...mptu dance. In those days, all the handsome men in France were away at the wars exchanging sabre-cuts with the handsome men of the Coalition. Pons was... ...hors were alike late. Delighted to have news of his con- ductor, he made a Napoleonic gesture, and La Cibot was admitted. The sometime commercial trav...