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...ENCE'S BELL by Florentin Smarandache (non-standard haiku poems, translated from Romanian by Stefan Benea, and refined by the author) THE SPRING Time o... ...nning under the bell of the sunrise. Tender snowdrops draw up the spring from under the snow. Through deep ploughings the field opens its mouth. Z... ...n the wing. Acacias are bursting into laughters of buds. The breeze blows from the Eastern side of my heart. Maggots are buzzing a lot about a thou... ... to catch by its hand the time. Worries start to teem on the street with people in the mouth. Irrational pains slap my unbeing. In front of the mir... ... that the Romanian readers in particular would not be found among the last people to learn of the activity of a compatriot so productive in some segme... ...985­1986). Finally he lost his job, earning his living by preparing school­people and students (1986­1988). From this short sequence of didactic activ... ... was selected in nine literary anthologies and appeared in Craiova (1980), Caen, Puymeras, Paris, Bordeaux (1989, 1990, 1991), New York, Colorado (199...

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... paper, which, in fact, represent an “artificial poem”: deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation o... ...h”, as an intellectual breathing, were superb springs. The “No” and “Anti” from my paradoxist manifestos had a creative character, not all nihilistic... ...tos had a creative character, not all nihilistic (C. M. Popa). The passage from paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu i... ...f “poetry” and its derivates have become od-fashioned in this century, and people laught at them in disregard. I’m ashamed to afirm that I create ly... ... disregard. I’m ashamed to afirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymore, but they will re... ...blicat ă sub titlul Antichambres/ Anti-Poesis/ Bizarreries, Inter-Noréal, Caen, Fran ţa, 1989, cu o prefaţă de Claude Le Roy, care eviden ţiaz ă co... ... “Roumanie / Florentin Smarandache: La preuve par l’absurde”, în “Noréal”, Caen, Fran ţa, No. 74, p. 28, mai 1989. 36. Liviu Floda, “Recenzie”, în “... ..... All were, and still are – except Constantin Dinc ă and me, non-literary people. They did not want either to read or to write anything! And yet,... ...s...problèmes!, Fès – Maroc (1983); Antichambres/ Antipoésies/Bizarreries, Caen – Fran ţa (1989); NonPoems (poeme de avangard ă), Phoenix (1990); On...

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... paper, which, in fact, represent an “artificial poem”: deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation o... ...h”, as an intellectual breathing, were superb springs. The “No” and “Anti” from my paradoxist manifestos had a creative character, not all nihilistic... ...tos had a creative character, not all nihilistic (C. M. Popa). The passage from paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu i... ...f “poetry” and its derivates have become od-fashioned in this century, and people laught at them in disregard. I’m ashamed to afirm that I create ly... ... disregard. I’m ashamed to afirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymore, but they will re... ...blicat ă sub titlul Antichambres/ Anti-Poesis/ Bizarreries, Inter-Noréal, Caen, Fran ţa, 1989, cu o prefaţă de Claude Le Roy, care eviden ţiaz ă co... ... “Roumanie / Florentin Smarandache: La preuve par l’absurde”, în “Noréal”, Caen, Fran ţa, No. 74, p. 28, mai 1989. 36. Liviu Floda, “Recenzie”, în “... ..... All were, and still are – except Constantin Dinc ă and me, non-literary people. They did not want either to read or to write anything! And yet,... ...s...problèmes!, Fès – Maroc (1983); Antichambres/ Antipoésies/Bizarreries, Caen – Fran ţa (1989); NonPoems (poeme de avangard ă), Phoenix (1990); On...

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... consisting in the concomitance of the opposites, which gives it a real specificity. The paradox is of the nature of an explosive nucleus resulting from the fusion of satisfaction and anxiety. The first situation, during an instant, is derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of someth...

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...2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu American Res... ...rch Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) ... ... I received at the redaction office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and... ...cks! The notion of literature has become out of mode in this century and people laugh at it. I am ashamed to affirm that I create lyric and dramati... ...ed to affirm that I create lyric and dramatic texts. I dissimulate them. People don’t even read them, don’t listen to them. Anyway a paradoxist mo... ...e, comprised in that “Jeremiah’s lamentation, a great reproach to a whole people who let themselves to be driven imbecile”. The professor does not... ...ems, 2nd edition: Antichambres / Antipoésies / Bizarreries, Inter-noréal, Caen, France, 1989; partly translated in Portuguese by Teresinka Pereira a... ... the author’s volume Antichambres/ Antipoesies/ Bizarreries, Inter-Noreal, Caen, France, 1989, p.3. Costescu, Dan , Talking with readers, in “The Fr... ...Echire, France, Mai 1990, no.42. Le Roy, Claude, Nonpoemes, in “Noreal”, Caen, September 1991, no.83, p.28. Courget, Paul, Nonpoemes, in “Annales...

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...prisingly, the paradoxism found its use in science too! Let’s see an example from cybernetics, regarding the fusion of information. The robots dispo... ...mages in order to diagnostic diseases, or processing conflicting land images from satellite. During the second half of the 20 th century, several n... ...trosophic Reasoning for Information Fusion” was organized by Dr. Jean Dezert from Office National de l’Ètablissement des Recherches Aéronautiques in... ...lorentin Smarandache, Antichambres/Anti-poésies/Bizarreries, Edition Noréal, Caen, France, 1989, http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/Antichambres... ...h it’s the meanest nastiest of all lies * it’s interesting how two people can screw up a dialogue *** personally I don’t have anyt... ...h the national sexual excitement. Sneak into the chaos. Frighten half of the people at the evening news. What a wack’o! Aga Muerte Ortadoglu was swi... ...rated straightened to an obvious aim – the spiritual and moral uniformity of people and of the entire life 185 system, was tantamount to an atte...

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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ... by a tall lonely tower, that might have held the bells of some moutier of Caen or Evreux. As we entered, about three hours and a half after starting,...

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...pt: 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 Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of...

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...6, 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... ...s on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the... ...ll strewn with the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. When we contemplate from that quay so many commemorating scenes, when the soul has grasped the ... ...not accepted. In the first place, his former career seemed to these worthy people profoundly immoral; then, during this very year, he had made still f... ...f the trees; it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one day to give a... ...he remoteness of a memory. He asked himself, “Shall I to-morrow find those people there?” III THE HOUSE OF MONGENOD THE NEXT DAY, as Godefroid rose am... ...family lived. The old man, whose little estate of la Chanterie was between Caen and Saint-Lo, often heard regrets expressed before him that so perfect... ...tment 77 Balzac of the Orne The attorney-general to the Imperial Court of Caen, ap- pointed to fulfil his functions before the Special Criminal Court... ...e mail-coach which trans- ported, May —, 18—, the money in the treasury at Caen to the Treasury of France. This attack, which recalls the deplorable i...

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...n the Municipality built a ballroom on the garden plot adjoining the Hotel de Ville, for the fete given in honor of the Duc d?Angouleme on his return from Spain....

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... Ville, for the fete given in honor of the Duc d’Angouleme on his re- turn from Spain. The widest part of the Rue du Tourniquet was the end opening in... ... this street for a few minutes without drying the permanent damp that rose from the ground-floor to the first story of these dark and silent tenements... ...he unhealthiness of these old dwellings; for, to preserve the ground-floor from damp, the arches of the cellars rose about two feet above the soil, an... ...of which the lower classes are lavish, not guarding it with reticence like people of the world, the Black Gentleman’s face brightened, and seemed to r... ...ollowed her daughter and Monsieur Roger into the park, where the two young people had agreed to wander through the smiling meadows and fragrant copses... ... truth, Monsieur Roger, if I were to tell you that I never think how happy people must be who are rich. Oh yes! I often fancy, especially when I am go... ...d was so lucky as to find a vacant seat in the diligence then starting for Caen. It was not without deep emotion that the young lawyer saw once more t...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...s ‘of the Union for Resistance to Oppression. ’ In particular, the Town of Caen, in Calvados, sees its paper-leaf of Bulletin de Caen suddenly bud, su... ...r France, to Lyons, Toulon, Nantes and elsewhither, and then rendezvous at Caen: to awaken as with war-trumpet the respectable Departments; and strike... ...odge here, at the ‘Intendance, or Departmen- tal Mansion, ’ of the Town of Caen; welcomed by Persons in Authority; welcomed and defrayed, having no mo...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ... of the fief of Normandy. In the isle of 5 Wace Jersey I was born, and to Caen I was taken as a little lad; there I was put at the study of letters; ... ... study of letters; afterward I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro ... ...I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro mance; many of them I wrote ... ...a spirit indeed was his as in a finer type had already expressed itself in Caen in the two noble abbeys, under whose shadow he passed the greater part... ...ything, or see everything … God distributes differ ent gifts to different people. Each man should show his worth in that which God has given him.” He... ...sed Constantine to be slain. Great was the sorrow the lords and all honest people made above their king, for the realm had now no prince, save only th... ...at him in his father’s chair, though not with the voice and welcome of the people. The archbishop who should have anointed the king with oil was dead,...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...ignan has its tocsin, by torch light; with rushing and onslaught: Northern Caen not less, by day- light; with Aristocrats ranged in arms at Places of ...

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...AS, Boissy d’, President, First of Prairial. ANGOULEME, Duchesse d’, parts from her father. ANGREMONT, Collenot d’, guillotined. ANTOINETTE, Marie, sp... ...er of Guards, courage of, Fifth October, at Versailles, shows her- self to people, and Louis at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous t... ... at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous to flight, flight from Tuileries, captured, and Barnave, Coblentz intrigues, and Lamotte’s Me... ...r of Assembly, one of a trio, Jacobin, duel with Cazales, escorts the King from Varennes, conciliates Queen, becomes Constitutional, retires to Grenob... .... CABANIS, Physician to Mirabeau. CABARUS, Mlle., and Tallien, imprisoned. CAEN, Girondins at. CALENDAR, Romme’s new, comparative ground-scheme of. CA... ...rance bombards and captures Lyons. DUCHATEL votes, wrapped in blankets, at Caen. DUCOS, Girondin. DUGOMMIER, General, at Toulon. DUHAMEL, killed by Ma... ... to Convention, and Dumouriez, oaths by, in Convention, on suf- ferings of People, and Girondins, arrested, returns in triumph, fall of Girondins. MAR... ..., doings of, resigns, flies, suicide of. ROMME, in National Convention, in Caen prison, his new Cal- endar, in riot of Prairial, 1795, suicide. ROMOEU... ...T, Controller of France, on Corn-law, dismissed, death of. TYRANTS, French people rise against. UNITED STATES, declaration of Liberty, embassy to Loui...

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... de Dey’s action was likely to have fatal results. The slightest departure from a usual custom became, almost in- variably for the nobles, a matter of... ...virgin in the depths of her heart. Her principal attraction came, in fact, from this innate youth, which some- times, however, played her false, and g... ...er soul, naturally noble, but strengthened by cruel trials, was far indeed from the common run, and men did justice to it. Such a soul necessarily req... ...they could protect her. The public prosecutor, previ- ously an attorney at Caen, and the manager of the countess’s affairs, tried to inspire her with ... ...ston, and some at the whist tables, she stood talking to a number of young people with extreme ease and liveliness of manner, playing her part like a ... ...entered her salon, affecting gaiety, and began to play loto with the young people; but after a while she complained of feeling ill, and returned to he... ...returned to her chimney- corner. Such was the situation of affairs, and of people’s minds in the house of Madame de Dey, while along the road, between...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...e best company; and the freedom of saying as many careless things as other people, without being so severely remarked upon. I believe, if any one, ear... ... by William I. 42 ‘Himself denied a grave:’ the place of his interment at Caen in Normandy was claimed by a gentleman as his in- heritance, the momen...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...amed Herluin, undertook (which no one else would do) to convey the body to Caen, in Normandy, in order that it might be buried in St. Stephen’s church...

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...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ... Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador from the Most Christian King, and subsequently Minister to that monarch. I ... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...he stupidest, or the richest, or the best born, but “the best,”—in a word, people about whom there is no question— such as the great Lady Fitz-Willis,... ...ny to another Becky fled uneasily. From Boulogne to Dieppe, from Dieppe to Caen, from Caen to Tours—trying with all her might to be respectable, and a...

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...GS in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is on... ...parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage... ...e iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, ‘Let ... ...en were neat and clean to behold, when they went; and what more would the people have! It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produc... ...s every night,’ said another gentleman in a gruff voice; ‘and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you—like a Christian.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ st... ...stian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of him. But he hadn’t, because nobody had tau... ...e began to descend it; and taking the foot path across the fields, skirted Caen Wood, and so came on Hampstead Heath. T raversing the hollow by the Va...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...ny to another Becky fled uneasily. From Boulogne to Dieppe, from Dieppe to Caen, from Caen to Tours—trying with all her might to be respectable, and a...

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...nce; for we are all of us distinctly marked to get back what we give, even from the thing named inanimate nature. The ‘Leaves from the Diary of Henry ... ...arm- ers—returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour’s harvest-home, eased their bub- bling breasts with a read... ... laugh is an excellent progenitorial founda- tion for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is wi... ...te of the selecter missionary lieutenants of Satan. We pray to be defended from her cleverness: she flashes bits of speech that catch men in their ung... ...lows there.’ But she would have us away with sentimentalism. Senti- mental people, in her phrase, ‘fiddle harmonics on the strings of sensualism,’ to ... ...enants! They can’t have my feeling for the place where I was born. They’re people of tolerably good connections, middling wealthy, I suppose, of the n... ...IRD DAY of the Easter recess Percy Dacier landed from the Havre steamer at Caen and drove straightway for the sandy coast, past fields of colza to bri... ... be with her in Berkshire. She told me of a little sea-side place close to Caen.’ ‘You had to see me?’ ‘I miss you now if it’s a day!’ ‘I heard a stor... ...ply you an omelette and piquette, and send you back sobered and friarly—to Caen for Paris at sunset.’ ‘Let the fare be Spartan. I could take my black ...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...heeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our gener... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...d the man completely cornered by generalizing. He said— “We are a civilian people; we pride ourselves on having civilian methods.” “How can that be if... ...ment; felt with it and spread a feast of it. She had to hear of studies at Caen and at a Paris Lycee; French fairly mas- tered; German, the same; Ital...

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... modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir Hugh Evans says of Anne Page, ‘good gifts’, which he... ...e superiority of his genius, to walk off unmolested with the dog’s dinner, from before his face. He was rapidly rising in acquirements and virtues, wh... ... a drunken man’—which I never did, having (un fortunately) none but sober people at hand. But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the st... ...Policeman might have been. Once, I met him unexpectedly, about half a mile from my house, walking down the middle of a public street, attended by a pr... ...nce, sir!’ returned his father, ‘what do you mean by talking, when you see people that are more than two or three times your age, sitting still and si... ...n the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till... ...h the killed and wounded, marched away to Lord Mansfield’s country seat at Caen Wood, between Hampstead and Highgate; bent upon destroying that house ...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...that’s 8 Babbitt got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to... ... huge limestone columns below. The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-b...

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...h applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily recognized from Couture’s drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude Vignon are sketches of t... ...re ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always mor... ...d customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the people,—as in Brittany, where the native char- acter allows no forgetfulnes... ...crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms; and arms de- prived of nourishme... ...crossed to Ireland, faithful to the ancient Breton hatred for England. The people of Guerande feigned utter ignorance of the baron’s existence. In the... ..., death, confiscation, exile. The beauty of the character of these two old people (for the sister lived only for and by the brother) cannot be underst... ... In 1838, Fabien du Ronceret, son of a chief-justice of the Royal court at Caen (who had lately died), left his native town of Alencon, resigning his ...

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...f interest and of benefit in noting the successive phases of any mind which was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of others....

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... was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of oth ers. But a motive which weighs ... ...elf to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not wri... ...ed to lead the life he led, with the disadvantages under which he laboured from the first, and with those which he brought upon himself by his marriag... ...l of historical details concerning 10 Autobiography the obscurest ancient people, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the D... ...se than in prose: this, he said, was a real advantage. The other was, that people in general attached more value to verse than it deserved, and the po... ...hey are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions or phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinio... ...ersal questions by a merely English standard. After passing a few weeks at Caen with an old friend of my father’s, I returned to England in July, 1821...

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... reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in these days of progress, so that not only had the narrative to be brought up to ...

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...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...RBOURNE TERBOURNE THE SOUTH D OWNS of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an... ...star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are a... ...difficulties or controversies attended to, confirmation given to the young people and children, and, after a meal, the bishop proceeded, sometimes to ... .... Oliver writes in the summer after the marriage that he is glad the young people have leisure to make a journey to eat cherries. There is little doub... ...Mr. Yonge discovered that the mate- rial chiefly used in the cathedral was Caen stone, though the importation had long ceased. He entered into communi...

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...nd ditch and wall? O that was a Legion’s camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul! 5 Rudyard Kipling And see you marks that show and fade, Like sh... ...nging his broken June tune, ‘cuckoo-cuck’, while a busy kingfisher crossed from the mill-stream, to the brook which ran on the other side of the meado... ...nd in ‘ies’. They were both so pleased that they acted it three times over from be- ginning to end before they sat down in the unthistly centre of the... ...hing. ‘If this had happened a few hundred years ago you’d have had all the People of the Hills out like bees in June!’ ‘We didn’t know it was wrong,’ ... ...at’s just why you did it. Unluck- ily the Hills are empty now, and all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest O... ...eard that sung, but there’s no good beating about the bush: it’s true. The People of the Hills have all left. I saw them come into Old England and I s... ...th his men, whose father I remember -a little hedge-sparrow knight near by Caen. If Henry wins, the Barons can still flee to Normandy, where Robert wi...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...in harangue and resolution. In many a Town, as 131 Thomas Carlyle Rennes, Caen, Lyons, an ebullient people was already regret- ting him in brickbats ... ...ignan has its tocsin, by torch light; with rushing and onslaught: Northern Caen not less, by daylight; with Aristocrats ranged in arms at Places of Wo... ...ls ‘of the Union for Resistance to Oppression.’ In particular, the Town of Caen, in Calvados, sees its paper-leaf of Bulletin de Caen suddenly bud, su...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ...; to regret Necker, in harangue and resolution. In many a Town, as Rennes, Caen, Lyons, an ebullient people was already regretting him in brickbats an...

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... that led to the river. The interior was so unevenly graded that it caused people to stumble. A narrow hall separated the kitchen from the parlour, wh... ...aded that it caused people to stumble. A narrow hall separated the kitchen from the parlour, where Madame Aubain sat all day in a straw armchair near ... ...an affair of the heart. Her father, who was a mason, was killed by falling from a scaffolding. Then her mother died and her sisters went their differe... ...he brightness of the dresses, the laces and gold crosses, and the crowd of people all hopping at the same time. She was standing modestly at a distanc... ...by four horses whose ponderous hoofs raised clouds of dust. Without a word from their driver they turned to the right. He kissed her again and she wen... ...d abruptly . He waited patiently till she started again, and talked of the people whose estates bordered the road, adding his own moral reflections to... ...eque. Monsieur Bourais assisted her in the choice of a college. The one at Caen was considered the best. So Paul was sent away and bravely said good-b...

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...ch or common methods, that your allowance and approbation of the design of this Treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned without readin... ...th some of those large and comprehensive discoveries you have made of truths hitherto unknown, unless to some few, from whom your lordship has been pl... ...gh, if your lordship permit me to boast, that here and there I have fallen into some thoughts not wholly different from yours. If your lordship think ... ...edge of this maxim, “That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?” And a great part of illiterate people and savages pass many years,... ...innate, they must needs exert themselves with most force and vigour. For children, idiots, savages, and illiterate people, being of all others the lea... ...n set at liberty from punish- ment and censure. Have there not been whole nations, and those of the most civilized people, amongst whom the exposing t... ...ature had moulded him so untowardly, that he was called all his life the Abbot Malotru; i.e. ill-shaped. He was of Caen.” (Menagiana, 278, 430.) This ...