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...ocrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

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...reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presen... ..., and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events from one selfsame counsell XXIV. Of Pedantisme XXV. Of the Institution and ... ... collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed from his great Iupiters thigh) I the indulgent father invited two right Hon... ...d by no meanes be appeased, nor by the wailefull out-cries ofall sorts of people (as of men, women, and children) be moved to any pittty, they prost... ...ts atchieved by him, and with a fierce and arrogant manner upbraiding the people with them, had not the heart so much as to take their lots into his... ...utly defending themselves, covenanted to receive them as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing ... ... our owne people, but with Christian moderation. Saint Hilarie, Bishop of Poitiers, a famous enemie of the Arrian heresie, being in Syria, was advert... ...ames.' Item, it is reported that the foundation of our Lady, the great at Poitiers had this beginning: 'A licentious young man having his dwelling-ho...

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...e middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement o...

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...e Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun,... ...assengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest Fr... ...the tongue to ex- press, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returning from hunting.” And that was all. Whilst, however, th... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ...e prince, every maneuver of her august husband. Raoul, impassible, and a little disengaged by the atten- tion of his hosts, looked from his place thro... ...he ceremonies being over, Monsieur le Vicomte,” said 21 Dumas Montalais, “take a chair, and tell us quickly the news you bring flying thus.” “Mademoi... ...aria Theresa.” Montalais looked Raoul full in the face, and said, “And do you Parisians believe in these tales? Well! we are a little more knowing tha... ...de Brienne could convey Louis XIV.’s letter to her. A moment after orders were given for departure, and M. de Conde having been to pay his respects to...

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... in the cathedral of Tours. The archbishop Helie de Bourdeilles was rising from his seat to give the benediction himself to the faithful. The sermon h... ...choed sighs, the edifice itself seemed endowed with life. The existence of Peoples has no more solemn scenes, no moments more majestic. To mankind in ... ... the organ, mingling with the vibrations of the loud “A- men” as it issued from the strong chests of the intoning clergy, sent a murmuring echo throug... ...opposite to the seat vacated of the burgher. A sil- ver-gilt lamp, hanging from the vaulted ceiling of the chapel before an altar magnificently decora... ...ike a scar upon the body which we carry through life! When these two young people looked at each other, the woman seemed to say to her lover, “Let us ... ...outs of the multitude, and a terrible voice howled out the words:— “To me, Poitiers! Servants of the Comte de Saint-Vallier, here! Help! help!” And th... ...s of the Comte de Saint-Vallier, here! Help! help!” And the Comte Aymar de Poitiers, sire de Saint-Vallier, at- tempted to draw his sword and clear a ... ...ched at last the rue du Murier, in which his dwelling, called the hotel de Poitiers, was situated. When his escort of servants had entered the courtya... ... that he had found the Universal Panacea. According to many of the country-people to whom the townsfolk talked of him, Cornelius was a chimerical bein...

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...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from t... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...s. They need the figure of a Francis I. to complete them, or of a Diane de Poitiers, or even of a Henry III. The base of this exquisite structure emer... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...nonceaux, a royal residence upon the Cher, built by Henry II. for Diana of Poitiers, whose ini- tials are still to be seen there, and now in possessio... ...t of hand to that mature charmer, the admired of two generations, Diana of Poitiers. Diana en- joyed it till the death of her protector; but when this...

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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... ... 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 ... ...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,... ... afterwards T ouraine, Auvergne, Poitou, and Gascony. Guitard, the King of Poitiers, was a valiant captain, having good knights in his service. To uph... ... richer dignity and splendour of his state. Guitard was there, the Earl of Poitiers; Kay, whom the king had created Earl of Angers; and Bedevere of Ne... ...rom their hand, had not Guitard 120 Arthurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut of Poitiers drawn to their succour. Earl Guitard, that day, was warden of the ...

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...een years, the Patent Office has received more than a hundred applications from persons claiming to have discovered cheap substances to be employed in... ...exercising his natural faculties, and his work is its own reward,” and the people believe them. Marriage brings profound mental and physical perturba-... ... the household cares and to take the burden upon herself. So she came down from the pretty blue-and-white room, where she sewed and talked contentedly... ... depart- ment; the alluring prospect of high wages even brought them a few from Bordeaux, more especially apprentices, who thought themselves sufficie... ...; Kolb would not peer among the things that you throw out into the yard if people offered him a thousand crowns to do it; but Cerizet picks them up an... ...t is poor stuff, you behold a rag at the last. So long as Lucien is young, people will like him; but where will he be as a man of thirty? That is the ... ...at I had done with myself. I told him that after I had finished my time at Poitiers, I had risen to be Maitre Olivet’s head-clerk, and that some time ... ...otice of appeal, duly reiterated on the 25th of July, drew Metivier off to Poitiers. “Come!” said Petit-Claud to himself, “there we are likely to stop... ...ely to stop for some time to come.” No sooner was the storm passed over to Poitiers, and an attorney practising in the Court-Royal instructed to defen...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe... ...ed to so many great families; for, strangely enough, her ri- val, Diane de Poitiers, was also her cousin. Jean de Poitiers, father of Diane, was son o... ...e respect, fortunate for France. If Henri II. had had children by Diane de Poitiers the politics of the king- dom would have been dangerously complica... ...ty at the court of Francois I. Her young husband was in love with Diane de Poitiers, who certainly, in the matter of birth, could rival Catherine, and...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...for his ab- sence of mind. He was often similarly forgetful. The Bishop of Poitiers died at the commencement of this year, and his bishopric was given... ... playing at piquet. But the calumny had such effect, that the bishopric of Poitiers was taken from him, and he retired into Brittany, where he passed ... ... citizen of the place, and not until a long time afterwards was it sent to Poitiers to be placed in the family tomb, and then with an unworthy parsimo...

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...of long pine trunks with the bark peeled off, and its mill stream, brought from the bed of the torrent in great square wooden pipes, with masses of dr... ...ent in great square wooden pipes, with masses of dripping filament issuing from every crack. Little cottages, scattered here and there, with their gar... .... The subtle perfume of this undergrowth was mingled just then with scents from the wild mountain region and with the aromatic fragrance of young larc... ...Luckily he is M. Benassis’ miller. M. Benassis, ah! he is a friend to poor people. He has never asked for his due from anybody, and he will not begin ... ...a clever doctor?” he asked at last. “I do not know, sir, but he cures poor people for nothing.” “It seems to me that this is a man and no mistake!” he... ..., which had nothing beyond it, and no connection with any other place. The people who lived in it seemed to belong to one family that dwelt beyond the... ...Genestas was appointed to be lieutenant-colonel of a regiment stationed at Poitiers. He was just thinking of writ- ing to Benassis to tell him of the ...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...is children. Item,’tis said that the foundation of Notre Dame la Grande at Poitiers took its original from hence that a debauched young fellow formerl...

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...ts them going, carries them along, rubs them up with one another. He takes from the luminous centre a handful of light, and scatters it broadcast amon... ...ket, he smokes, drinks, wears a profusion of trinkets, overawes the common people, passes for a lord in the villages, and never permits himself to be ... ...x, is nine tenths of the ways and means of our business.” To talk, to make people listen to you,—that is seduction in itself. A nation that has two Ch... ...is cigar and says, with a glance at some town, “I’ll go and see what those people have got in their stomachs.” When buckled down to his work he became... ...1830, he aban- doned the hat trade and the article Paris, and tore himself from things mechanical and visible to mount into the higher spheres of Pari... ...over their cham- pagne and their pheasants,—are handed down at their birth from the brain to the commercial travellers who are employed to spread them... ...a round turn, you and your newspapers. I’ll bet you won’t get further than Poitiers be- fore the police will nab you.” “What will you bet?” “A shawl.”...

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... deal of byplay, a great stand- ing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing ... ...holic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a pencil from his pocket and showed her the fly-leaf of his guide-book. She stood lo... ...od deal?” he asked at last. “Pas beaucoup?” The young lady raised her eyes from her palette, scanned him from head to foot, and alighted with admirabl... ...e which projects into the great open quadrangle. The place was filled with people, the fountains were spouting, a band was playing, clusters of chairs... ...t until two o’clock in the morning, watching the coming and going, and the people knocking about.” “You’re easily pleased. But you can do as you choos... ...ut of it I can. I want to see all the great things, and do what the clever people do.” “The clever people? Much obliged. You set me down as a blockhea... ... pleasure, I see nothing, I do nothing. I live in Paris as I might live at Poitiers. My mother-in-law calls me—what is the pretty word?—a gad-about? a... ... yours—Fleurieres? I know it is near some old city on a hill.” “Precisely. Poitiers is on a hill,” said Madame de Bellegarde. “I don’t know how old it... ...garde. “I don’t know how old it is. We are not afraid to tell you.” “It is Poitiers, is it? Very good,” said Newman. “I shall immediately follow Madam...

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...a tall figure, thin, or perhaps wasted, like that of a man just recovering from illness, and finally, a bearing that was midway between the indolence ... ...hat he might have been taken for an Englishman on the road to his embassy. From these general signs you will readily discern a family man, harassed by... ...found it; an honest man, loving his country and serving it, not concealing from himself the obstacles in the way of those who seek to do right; pruden... ...the scantiness of her pecuniary means. No matter what foolish declarations people make about money, they one and all, if they live in Paris, must grov... ... is becoming mature. Like Madame de Stael, who exclaimed in a room full of people, addressing, as we may say, a greater man than herself, “Do you know... ...vention of a new system for the Civil Service of government. Know- ing the people with whom he had to do, he maintained the machine as it then worked,... ... Middle Ages rendered by Jean Goujon, the illustrious sculptor of Diane de Poitiers. 52 Bureaucracy Des Lupeaulx stopped in the doorway, and leaned a...

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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... ...t he came upon the French King’s forces, all of a sudden, near the town of Poitiers, and found that the whole neighbouring country was occupied by a v... ..., a French knight hurried out of bed, wrapped in a sheet, and bore away to Poitiers. So, when the revenge ful Isabella and the Duke of Burgundy enter... ...umph after the slaughter of their en emies, the Dauphin was proclaimed at Poitiers as the real Regent. King Henry had not been idle since his vic to...

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..., etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds that are screened from the action of the laws by the closed doors of domestic life; but as to... ... how fatal the results of feminine weakness, how great the dangers arising from selfish interests when indulged without restraint. May a society which... ... means of an education other than that of a lay university. In the “Scenes from Military Life” so many fine natures, so many high and noble self-devot... ...in point of fact, he was only following out the evil tendencies which many people shelter under the terrible axiom that “men should have strength of c... ...ocer depended; on the contrary, he endeavored to enlighten them. Enlighten people in those days! As well might he have begged them to bring back the B... ...tre Gonin”; words cost him nothing, and he said as many as he could to get people to believe. If, unfortunately, some one refused to accept the ex- pl... ...s. “Y ou will have six hundred francs a year, and with that you will go to Poitiers and study law,” said the grandfather, when 217 Balzac the notary ...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...y ought to have the Lord Earl’s arms on them. So he took a bar of hot iron from the forge to mark the saltire on them, and thereupon there was this bu... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...f the Lord’s Prayer and Creed in the hands of all care- ful and thoughtful people, even among the poor, if they had a good parish priest, or had come ... .... And, as Grisell afterwards learnt, this was Isabel de Souza, Countess of Poitiers, a Portuguese lady who had come over with her Infanta; and whose d... ...eir work, with a chaplain read- ing to them. One of these, the Countess of Poitiers, whom Grisell had known at the Grey Sisters’ convent, rose, gra- c... ... indeed for bringing us together!” 155 Charlotte M. Young The Countess of Poitiers looked on scandalised at English impulsiveness, and the elder Duch...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ...nceaux, a royal mansion upon the Cher, built by Henry the II, for Diana of Poitiers, of whom the ciphers are still seen, and which is now in the posse...

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...essity for such didactic preliminar- ies,—since they have roused a protest from certain ignorant and voracious readers who want emotions without under... ...can reconstruct nations and individuals, in their habits and ways of life, from the remains of public monuments or the relics of a home. Archaeology i... ...se perfect quiet charms superior men. The life of this essentially thrifty people amply fulfils the conditions of happiness which the masses desire as... ...ous parts of the globe, we are surprised to find that the prevailing tints from the tem- perate zones are gray or fawn, while the more brilliant color... ...twithstanding the parcelling out of their territory, the Flemings became a people homogeneous through their pipes and beer.* After assimilating, by co... ...musical genius, or the bold flight of ode and epic. On the other hand, the people are fertile in discoveries, and trained to scientific discussions wh... ...ulgar mind would have found defects,—Cleopatra, Jeanne de Naples, Diane de Poitiers, Mademoiselle de la Valliere, Madame de Pompadour; in fact, the ma...

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... selfishness. T ake my word for it, medical men are accustomed to judge of people and things; the sharpest of us read the soul while we study the body... ... his bill, and think it horri- bly exorbitant. Who saved them? Nature. Far from recom- mending him, they speak ill of him, fearing lest he should beco... ...hat a delight it is to see a periwinkle piercing through the snow! A smile from below a fan contradicts the reserve of an assumed atti- tude, and is w... ...perior only in medicine? Re- ally, you distress me …” “I hate that sort of people; I long for a revolution to deliver us from them for ever.” “And so,... ...s me …” “I hate that sort of people; I long for a revolution to deliver us from them for ever.” “And so, my dear Robespierre of the lancet, you will n... ...ause of the family with the ingenuity which characterizes the woman of the people, who is almost always queen in her hovel. You would have seen a torn... ...under the protecting tones of light filtered through muslin. Like Diane de Poitiers, she used cold water in her bath, and, like her again, the Marquis...

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...and, like the insect, become an integral part of it, borrowing their merit from that of what they feed on. Now, Italy hith- erto has not yet been work... ...ict every form that can serve as a garb to mind. Most human quarrels arise from the fact that both wise men and dunces exist who are so constituted as... ...And you may be sure that the ribbon of the Legion of Honor was not missing from his breast, gallantly padded a la Prussienne. Proudly seated in one co... ...l actor plays the part and thinks it necessary to emphasize its meaning—at Poitiers, or at Coutances. “If you will come into this room with me, we sha... ... of the ill-concealed evi- dence of the most cruel misery there is—that of people in decent society? I have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so ... ...zino’s masterpieces; Jean Goujon’s Venus, painted from the famous Diane de Poitiers; Signora Olympia, whose pic- ture adorns the Doria gallery; Ninon,... ...oted, too, that she was gifted with great good sense—the good sense of the people, which made her education sound. In 26 Cousin Betty society she spo... ...ybody’s mercy; and needing to please everybody, she would laugh with young people, who liked her for a sort of wheedling flattery which always wins th... ... di Pescara. But such lofty and illus- trious women, beautiful as Diane de Poitiers, but virtuous, may be easily counted. So the scene with which this...

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...reacres has ridden by his Prince! At Acre with Plantagenet, with Edward at Poitiers, The pennon of the Bareacres was foremost on the spears! “’Twas pl...

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...ivil law, just as Morgan, that Achilles among pirates, transformed himself from a buccaneering scourge to a quiet colonist, and spent, without 4 Ferr... ... give himself. Is it not the incognito of genius? T o write the “Itinerary from Paris to Jerusalem” is to take a share in the human glory of a single ... ...eing some day pub- lished as a foil of tales to listeners,—that race apart from others, so curiously energetic, and so interesting in spite of its cri... ...Companionism (to coin a word) still exists in France 6 Ferragus among the people. Its traditions, powerful over minds that are not enlightened, and o... ...habit, to the tribe, whose strag- gling members she feeds and lodges. This people, ever mov- ing and changing, though controlled by immutable customs,... ...severance. Thus, young as he was, he had all the republican virtue of poor peoples; he was sober, saving of his time, an enemy to pleasure. He waited.... ...as in former times it was that of Caesonia for Caius Caligula, of Diane de Poitiers for Henri II. If it was largely productive to women of seven or ei...

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...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ... the rivers. He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to b... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...ss, and read and write like themselves, so that they could hardly be known from the Romans. Only the wild ones beyond the wall, and in the mountains, ... ...went on. The Black Prince and John had a terrible battle at a place called Poitiers, and the English gained another victory. King John and one of his ...

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...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of... ...city of Epirus being reduced by the Romans to the last extremity, gave the people counsel uni- versally to kill themselves; but, these preferring to g... ... rather than await the stroke of justice, told him that it was to do other people’s business to preserve his life to put it after into the hands of th... ... the most commodious. Nor as I saw some years ago, a dean of St. Hilary of Poitiers given up to such a solitude, that at the time I came into his cham...

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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Trans... ...he French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Avel... ...unity university. 3 Flaubert Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Membe... ...er nerves, her chest, her liver. The noise of footsteps made her ill; when people left her, solitude became odious to her; if they came back, it was d... ...eath of his wife had not served him ill in his business, since for a month people had been saying, “The poor young man! what a loss!” His name had bee... ...called, and the internal management of the farm, suited him less than most people. He did not will- ingly take his hands out of his pockets, and did n... ... went on— “Near him, this kneeling woman who weeps is his spouse, Diane de Poitiers, Countess de Breze, Duchess de V alentinois, born in 1499, died in...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...brated of these monuments, since he mentions himself the great menhir near Poitiers, which he christened by the name of Passelourdin. That there is so... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th...

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...is XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes who exist... ...her in that humble little abode in the rue de Miromesnil, a few steps away from her splendid mansion, which no amount of fortune had en- abled her to ... ...! One must be a queen to know how to abdicate, and to descend with dignity from a lofty position which is never wholly lost. Those only who have an in... ...ave been, in a less vulgar period than ours, the La Villiere, the Diane de Poitiers, the Gabrielle d’Estrees of history.” “Less the king, my dear. Ah!... ... writings are be- coming exceedingly rare. Is this a conclusion? Y es, for people of sense; no, for persons who want to know everything. 54 The Secre...