...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...heard of it than he or dered Harold to be escorted to the ancient town of Rouen, where he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. N... ...ick about it. When the news reached Norman William, hunting in his park at Rouen, he dropped his bow, returned to his palace, called his nobles to cou... ...e followers from his father’s court, and endeavoured to take the Castle of Rouen by surprise. Failing in this, he shut him self up in another Castle ... ...ed them with such small ceremony that he refused to appoint new bishops or archbishops when the old ones died, but kept all the wealth be longing to ... ...ket should be Archbishop of Canterbury, according to the customs of former Archbishops, and that the King should put him in possession of the revenues... ...his forehead and breast, challenged the realm of England as his right; the archbishops of Can terbury and York seated him on the throne. The multitud...

...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. Irela...

... Chronicles: Roman De Brut by Wace, trans. Eugene Mason is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...bove), p. 148, note 1. WACE, Roman de Brut , ed. Le Roux de Lucy, 2 vols, Rouen, 1836 1838. Roman de Rou , ed. F . Pluquet, 2 vols, Rouen, 1827, H. ... ... the morn ing was come of the day of the high feast, a fair procession of archbishops, bishops, and abbots wended to the king’s pal ace, to place th... ...the crown upon Arthur’s head, and lead him within the church. Two of these archbishops brought him through the streets of the city, one walking on eit...

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...f it was at the house of Madame Pelot, widow of the Chief President of the Rouen parliament. Playing at brelan one evening, she offered him a stake, a... ...leagues from the Court. Like a clever woman, she retired into a convent at Rouen, saying that as she had been unfor- tunate enough to displease the Ki... ... when several little books appeared by Boisguilbert, lieutenant-general at Rouen, who long since had had the same views as Vauban, and had wanted to m... ... son, had, like his father, never consented to have a patriarch there. The archbishops of Novgorod supplied their place in certain things, as occu- py...

Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r’s Opera. He was here whet Sir Isaac Newton died. In 1731 he published at Rouen the Lettres sur les Anglais, which appeared in England in 1733 in the... ...is style: “We grant, of our own free will, the following privileges to the archbishops, bishops, priors, and barons of our kingdom,” etc. The House of...

...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... letters of commuta- tion – all were of no avail. He had been in prison in Rouen, in Tours, in Bordeaux, and four times already in Paris; and out of a... ...s and five sous from the duch- ess, when he brought the first tidings that Rouen was recap- tured from the English.* A little later and the duke sang,... ...olding stealthy intercourse with other Scottish prisoners in the castle of Rouen; now out in the North Sea, raising his sick head to catch a glimpse o... ...ng. We have, for instance, a letter by him, Craig, and Spottiswood, to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, anent “a wicked and rebellious woman,” ...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n unexecuted, and a be- loved Parlement stay where it is. Besancon, Dijon, Rouen, Bourdeaux, are not what they should be! At Pau in Bearn, where the o... ...eeable, shall make his fall soft. The grasping old man has already got his Archbishopship of Toulouse exchanged for the richer one of Sens: and now, i... ...night, this Fourth of August: Dignitaries temporal and spiri- tual; Peers, Archbishops, Parlement-Presidents, each out- doing the other in patriotic d... ...the Lyonnais; the whole South-East is in a blaze. All over the North, from Rouen to Metz, disorder is abroad: smugglers of salt go openly in armed ban...

... .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. ................................................