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... fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization....

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...r 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7:...

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... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...e of Indulgences Pg 1015 The Protestant Psychological Reformation of Slavery from Unwilling to Willing Work Slaves Pg 1017 Sharing Pg 1020 Shari... ... You can see it in the energy of the jet stream of the upper atmosphere. It is going in a straight line; but it also goes a... ...change its basic positional alignment to the earth: only the alignment of the upper half of the body changed. The upper half became freed from the e... ...unction zones. No.1: Lower half: Foot-eye coordination on ground. No.2: Upper half in the air… Doing what with its upper limbs while it moves... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Not... ...g of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora- tion till certain writers took up the “rat” as a new subject. “What! after having seen Corali... ...king; “La Torpille can laugh and make others laugh. That gift of all great writers and great actors is proper to those who have investigated every soc... ...were tenanted by a tinman; the landlord occupied the first floor; the four upper stories were rented by very decent working girls, who were treated by... ... narrated, and a book is now the weapon —less swift, but no more sure—that writers wield. In the course of this morning, amid the coming and going 16... ...to Marsac?” asked Corentin of the innkeeper’s wife, who came down from the upper regions on hearing that the diligence had dropped two travelers to sl... ...e is only a misdemeanor; or if, in legal parlance, the case is one for the Upper Court, they are transferred from the house of detention to the Concie...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ...rincipal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers; and hence old writers call Harvard College a school of the prophets.” “Is the college a s... ...was inherited by his nephew, from whom is descended the present Marquis of Normandy. The noble Marquis is not aware, per haps, that the prosperity of... ...his edifice had hitherto been used by the merchants as an exchange. In the upper stories were the chambers of the judges, the representatives, and the... ...istance. “It is marvellous,” said Grandfather, “to see how many pow erful writers, orators, and soldiers started up just at the time when they were w...

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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...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... ...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... ...rs; for here, and able to throw its 9 George Meredith shadow on our giddy upper-circle, the rigour of the game of life, relaxed though it may sometim... ...u try to stifle her by drowning, she comes up, not the fairest part of her uppermost! Peruse your Realists— really your castigators for not having yet... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ...for the worship of mankind, an image as yet in poetic outline only, on our upper skies. ‘So well do we know ourselves, that we one and all deter- mine... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighborin...

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...ANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. The... ...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... ...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... ...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... ...ith, and was as great a King as En gland had known for some time. The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his co... ...ere he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. Now, some writers tell us that Edward the Confessor, who was by this time old and had... ...missed. ‘The Normans,’ said these spies to Harold, ‘are not bearded on the upper lip as we English are, but are shorn. They are priests.’ ‘My men,’ re... ...committed upon earth than in wretched England in those nineteen years. The writers who were living then describe them fearfully. They say that the cas... ..., and to talk of yielding the castle up. The brave Countess retiring to an upper room and looking with great grief out to sea, where she expected reli...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ...this fine evening, these liveries exposed to view, without any covering of upper coats. Such a costume, and the elaborate arrangement of the laurels i... ...arth below it; so that all people found after this warning either aloft in upper chambers of the atmosphere, or groping in subterraneous shafts, or sq... ...self. But, from the way in which the coachman’s hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh, this was impossible. Easy was it? See, then, that br...

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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 ... ..., after a pause, 67 Balzac “comes from one of the first families of Lower Normandy. Her maiden name was Mademoiselle Barbe-Philiberte de Champignelle... ...position which this an- cient lineage properly gave him in the province of Normandy. This gentleman had doubly derogated from his rightful sta- tion; ... ...e’s character was well known in the Bessin,—that beautiful region of Lower Normandy near Bayeux, where the family lived. The old man, whose little est... ...ghbor, he thinks, would kill his daughter. On the second floor we have two writers; they don’t come in till midnight, and are off before eight in the ... ...cene had pointed out must have come for the two impecunious authors on the upper floor. He walked slowly, lost in vague apprehensions; for, in spite o...

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...y the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,--now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory,--whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l?Etoile, that one morning, refreshed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling f...

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...ast but surviving in our memory,—whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to t... ...hed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling flow of talk, lavish of ideas, you tossed to my pen a f... ...the theatrical. Though his features were handsome and impos- ing, his hat, from beneath which thick black curls stood out, was perhaps tilted a little... ...ne of the grotesque figures so often set before us by German novelists and writers of /libretti/, he beheld a simple, unpretentious man, whose manners... ...sitions of Rossini, in whom this mu- sic is personified, with those of the writers who are more or 19 Balzac less of his school, to me seem worthy at... ... in which, for more than a quarter of an hour, Andrea had divagated in the upper sphere of metaphysics, with the ease of a somnambulist walking over t... ...moved the covers from an instrument as large as a grand piano, but with an upper case added. This strange-looking instrument, besides this second body... ...spirit to hear the simple fellow, representative of verdurous and fruitful Normandy, which he brings to Robert’s mind in the midst of his drunkenness....

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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ...ed him from holding himself erect, he managed to slip his head between the upper bars of the window, so as to be able to command a perfect view from t... ...Dantes, after the manner of a labor-saving pioneer, dug a mine between the upper rock and the one that supported it, filled it with powder, then made ... ...n salt- petre. He lighted it and retired. The explosion soon followed; the upper rock was lifted from its base by the terrific force of the pow- der; ... ... Bertuccio,” said he; “I am desirous of having an estate by the seaside in Normandy — for in- Alexandre Dumas 457 stance, between Havre and Boulogne.... ...has remained invisible to my eyes, although present to my heart. A hundred writers since Socrates, Seneca, St. Augustine, and Gall, have made, in vers...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...e of prosecution against the ministers of the Crown. In both countries the Upper House may make use of all the existing penal laws of the nation to pu... ...ture age was made one of the conditions of the senatorial dignity, and the Upper House was chosen by an elected assembly of a limited number of member... ...is precisely what occurred in America; when the demo- cratic party got the upper hand, it took exclusive possession of the conduct of affairs, and fro... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has be...

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...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...wn to maturity in some dark distance, and was brought on a sudden into the upper air to see the sun rise. What would his wonder be, his rapt astonishm... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ...lf like a man,—trusting imperturbably in the appointment and choice of the upper Powers; and, on the whole, not fear at all. Now and always, the compl... ...y are very wonderful: Great clouds, he says, born in the deep bosom of the Upper Im- mensity, where do they come from! They hang there, the great blac... ...complaint, as we all know. But perhaps if we look at this of Books and the Writers of Books, we shall find here, as it were, the summary of all other ... ...which all other confusion circu- lates in the world! Considering what Book writers do in the world, and what the world does with Book writers, I shoul... ...ally to learn it!—Doubtless there is still peculiar virtue in Speech; even writers of Books may still, in some circumstances, find it convenient to sp...

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...O CTOBER, 1829, Monsieur Simon Babylas Latournelle, notary, was walking up from Havre to Ingouville, arm in arm with his son and accompanied by his wi... ...nice,” the notary looked about to see if any one could overhear him either from the terrace above or the path beneath, and when he spoke he lowered hi... ...of the su- preme court, feels that her birth authorizes her to claim issue from a parliamentary family. This conviction explains why the lady, who is ... ...ormerly a study, is now the bed- room of Monsieur and Madame Dumay. On the upper floor the architect has managed to get two large bedrooms, each with ... ...tating interest of others would have seemed quite poetic. Nowadays romance-writers arrange such effects; and it is quite within their province to do s... ...x- cept Charles, whom he had sent to find a refuge for the fam- ily in the Upper Alps. Horrorstruck at the news, Charles waited for better times in a ... ...er went to bed till she knew Modeste was asleep, watched the road from the upper windows of the Chalet with a vigi- lance equal to her husband’s. Unde... ...ears which, it is said, were lacking in those of the wittiest of En- glish writers. Modeste existed for some time on a comprehension, not only of the ... ...tter as yours addressed to a poet of whom you know nothing personally. All writers are not angels; they have many defects. Some are frivolous, heedles...

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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... ...e. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi- cally national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Bur- gundy, Provence is Provence; but Tou... ...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... ... the cage of a winding stair- case which ascends (no great distance) to an upper gal- lery, where an old priest, the chanoine-gardien of the church, w... ...ess corrected (as it is not in the Tudor architecture) by the curve of the upper corners, which makes this line look—above the expressive aper- ture—l... ...d do. From below, the castle would look crushed by the re- dundancy of its upper protuberances if it were not for the enormous girth of its round towe... ...ohier, a public functionary who had grown rich in handling the finances of Normandy, and had acquired the estate from a family which, after giving it ... ...d. I was unable to trace the configuration of the castle as plainly as the writers who have described it in the guide-books, and I am ashamed to say t...

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...spect and hue at every phrase. Eager criticism and crisp anecdotes lead on from one to the next. All eyes are listening, a gesture asks a question, an... ... According to Sterne, the ideas of an author af- ter shaving are different from those he had before. If Sterne is right, may it not be boldly asserted... ...sh of acrid criticism by which, in Paris, one superior man excuses himself from admiring another. “Was there ever,” said he, “in your former life, any... ... words produced in each of us the imperceptible move- ment which newspaper writers represent in Parliamentary reports by the words: great sensation. “... ...ere will be ‘ladies’ for a long time, elected by public opinion to form an upper chamber of women, and who will be among the fair sex what a ‘gentlema... ...hing can give you any idea unless you have seen the wooden houses of Lower Normandy, or the poorest farm-buildings of la Beauce. These dwellings consi...

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...hern coast. The hill on which the houses of Sancerre are grouped is so far from the river that the little river-port of Saint-Thibault thrives on the ... ...re wine is shipped and oak staves are landed, with all the produce brought from the up- per and lower Loire. At the period when this story begins the ... ...ion bridges at Cosne and at Saint-Thibault were al- ready built. Travelers from Paris to Sancerre by the southern road were no longer ferried across t... ...souls in three departments of France is enough to revive the enthusiasm of writers as to the Furia Francese, which nowadays is more apt to expend itse... ...he Department into which he would fall, reflecting that she would have the upper hand at the moment when he should cease to see it. “When you first co... ...onor as a journalist, I have launched above a hundred articles against the writers you speak of; but I confess that in attacking them it was to attemp... ...h a tragedy. It was told me—and how delight- fully!—by one of our greatest writers, the finest literary mu- sician of our day, Charles Nodier.” “Well,... ...ad put himself forward as candidate unless he were meanwhile called to the Upper House as Peer of France. At the same time, he asked for the title of ... ...he journalist. “The entomol- ogy of society ought to be represented in the Upper House.” “My friend, we are parting for ever,” said Madame de la Baudr...

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... beautiful, whose intelli- gent smile gives promise that she has inherited from you the most precious gifts of womanhood, and who will cer- tainly enj... ... Titian, Correggio, Allori, which seem abstractions, so dis- tant are they from our daily lives. If this book should wing its way across the Alps, it ... ...d with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of beautiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followe... ...lique, whose nature inclined her to deeper sentiments, was thrown into the upper spheres of Parisian social life, with the bridle lying loose upon her... ...e this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the w... ...eceived illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only after subjecting them to so rigid an examination that the... ...r salon, brought there by one of the wittiest, but also one of the laziest writers of that epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highl... ...sm and love of dissipation, was adorned with a deep furrow that united the upper lip with the nose. Her chin, white and rather fat, betrayed the viole... ...tesse de Granville, she was living a retired life on one of her estates in Normandy, economizing and praying, ending her days between priests and mone...

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...urch has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for me guard it from perils. De Balzac. I THE SAUVIATS IN THE LOWER TOWN of Limoges, at the... ...een seen, a generation ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand crac... ...ears the ceiling, formed of colossal beams, bent beneath the weight of the upper stories, though it had never given way under them. Built en colombage... ...e a few seemed disposed to fall apart; all had a compost of earth, brought from heaven knows where, in the nooks and crannies hollowed by the rain, in... ...he farther end of the shop, a worm-eaten wooden stair- case led to the two upper floors which were in turn sur- mounted by an attic. The house, backin... ...glass, all collected from different localities. The chest contained in its upper section pewter plates, dishes, etc., each article dissimilar from the... ...to plunge the prelate into the condition of quietude prescribed by medical writers on digestion; seem- ingly his eyes were resting mechanically on the... ...e 1829, ornamentation has made some progress at the instigation of certain writers, landowners were at that period afraid of expenses which the lack o... ...llion to-day. Divided ad infinitum by our present system of inher- itance, Normandy will lose half her production of horses and cattle; but she will h...

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...ertain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flouri... ...st Orleans branch called the Valois. If there are any Valois, they descend from Charles de Valois, Duc d’Angouleme, son of Charles IX. and Marie T ouc... ...ois, Duc d’Angouleme, son of Charles IX. and Marie T ouchet, the male line from whom 4 An Old Maid ended, until proof to the contrary be produced, in... ...the per- son of the Abbe de Rothelin. The Valois-Saint-Remy, who descended from Henri II., also came to an end in the fa- mous Lamothe-Valois implicat... ...dopes, the Imperias, the Ninons of the past. One of the most distinguished writers of the Restora- tion has taken her under his protection; perhaps he... ...no umbrage to the vanities or the interests of any one. For some years the upper classes of Alencon had met in this way at the house of an old maid, w... ...r, the other lighted from the courtyard, and used as a sort of office. The upper floor contained a complete apartment for a fam- ily household, and a ... ...ng nor decrepit. A cold precision made itself felt throughout. Tourists in Normandy, Brittany, Maine, and Anjou must all have seen in the capitals of ... ...in assuming the yellow tones which proclaim maturity. A slight down on her upper lip, about the corners, began to spread and darken like a trail of sm...

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...e, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer... ...all as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer-window. This upper story was built of planks, overlapping each other like slates, in ord... ...the blue- checked cotton curtains which screened the mysteries of the room from profane eyes. Now and then the watcher, weary of his fruitless contemp... ...on which the splashes betrayed his impatience. He had just come, no doubt, from a wedding or a ball; for at this early hour he had in his hand a pair ... ...can see any day in your own street? Don’t talk to me of your artists! Like writers, they are a starveling crew. Why the devil need they choose my hous... ...discount, which, as was his wont, he never refused point- blank. T wo good Normandy horses were dying of their own fat in the stables of the big house... ... looked like a chapel. Economy and expense seemed to be struggling for the upper hand in every accessory. It was as though Monsieur Guillaume had look... ...hich it is so difficult to find sympathy. The storms and sufferings of the upper spheres are appreciated only by the lofty spirits who inhabit there. ...

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...that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluc... ...eaves word for you, sir, on your peril to denounce him on another occasion from the magis- terial Bench, for that albeit he is a gentleman of the road... ...succeeds legitimately to that bold Good Robin Hood who fed the poor.—Fresh from this polite encounter, the squire vows money for his per- sonal protec... ...ndlords, good masters blithely followed to the wars. Sing an old battle of Normandy, Picardy, Gascony, and you cel- ebrate deeds of theirs. At home th... ...hed at the trans- parent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoots of the commonalty: ‘Dragging it down to prop it up! swamping i... ...g it impressed him forcibly. She had given him a peaceable two days on the Upper Thames, in an atmosphere of plain good sense and just-mindedness. He ... ... flying through the circles of the Inferno, and the babble of an ephemeral upper world simply affected him by its contrast with the overpowering horro... ...by the education of the world. Who cannot talk!— but who can? Discover the writers in a day when all are writ- ing! It is as rare an art as poetry, an... ...he works of your illustrious father,’ was written on the title-page. These writers deal queerly with their words of praise of one an- other. There is ...