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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

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...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................

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...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ................................................... 175 BOOK 3.V . TERROR THE ORDER OF THE DAY ............................................................. ... this final Third Volume of our History. Sansculottism reigning in all its grandeur and in all its hideousness: the Gospel (God’s Message) of Man’s Ri... ...t to this also. Enrolment urges itself; and clothing, and arming. Our very officers have now ‘wool epaulettes;’ for it is the reign of Equality, and a... ...lgium to France;—of which Dumouriez might have made the pret- tiest little Duchy for his own secret behoof! With all these things the General is wroth... ...s at Paris. ‘Arrestment at home’ threatens to become ‘Con- finement in the Luxembourg;’ to end: where? For example, what pale-visaged thin man is this... ... is changed to Nord-Libre, North-Free. The Army of the North ceases not to merit well of the country. ’—To the admiration of men! For lo, in some half...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...rs by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... no doubt) this first part should obtain the success it 5 Alexandre Dumas merits, we will publish the second immediately. In the meanwhile, as the go... ...began as you begin. Go to him with this letter, and make him your model in order that you may do as he has done.” Upon which M. D’Artagnan the elder g... ...chamber was a sort of garret, situated in the Rue des Fossoyeurs, near the Luxembourg. As soon as the earnest money was paid, D’Artagnan took possessi... ...him under key as long as possible; that will give me time to pay him.” The officers were full of thanks, and took away their prey. As they were going ... ...hat ever lived, preparing, after having supported the Duc de Nevers in his duchy of Mantua, after having taken Nimes, Castres, and Uzes, to drive the ... ... affairs of intrigue mistrusted women infinitely more than men. One of the grand causes of this prejudice was the friendship of Anne of Austria for Mm...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...................................................................................................................................................... 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE ............................................

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