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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ...sts, or Couriers XXIII. Of Bad Meanes emploied to a Good End XXIV. Of the Roman Greatnesse XXV. How a Man should not Counterfeit to be Sicke XXVI. Of... ...er in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How rightly it is his, and his belove... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ...flew out. She faints: at last, with long pause thus she said. Besides the Romane Ladie, that died for joy to see her sonne returne alive from the bat... ...will grow, and very often shave away that of the left side: where in some Provinces neere unto us some women cherish their haire before, and other so... ...cept the name of Sire, we goe very farre with our Kings. Looke but in the Provinces remote and farre from the court: As for example, in Britaine, the... ... my Countrey-men be indeed somewhat more taxed with this fault than other Provinces of France, yet have we seene, of late dayes, and that sundry tim...

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...e might yet have invented an Ottoman "nationalism" to compete with Serbian, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cr... ...of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficiently to force it to sign a tr... ...ionalism) lasted four tumultuous years - it persisted for a quarter of a century in Romania ("infected" by Orthodox clericalism and peasant lores). ... ...roatia vanished as a political entity, replaced by naturally-bounded districts and provinces. The majority of Croats still believed in a federal so... ...attitudes are permissive rather than puritanical, even though his emancipation from ancient taboos brings him no sexual peace. Fiercely competitive ... ...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...s continuity of feudal practices. Both manual labour and trade were derided in the Ancient World. This derision was partially eroded during the Dar...

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...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ...everal more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzantines from their garrisons in Carthage and become masters of the provin... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien...

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...t trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not...

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...rom traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and... ...nts of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros... ...oquent than myself, who, kindled with generous ardour, have endeavoured by Roman eloquence to smooth the jarring elements of their tongue, if they hav... ...t I have got together all that I could find as well from the annals of the Romans as from the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Hieronymus, Eusebius, ... ...idorus, Prosper, and from the annals of the Scots and Saxons, and from our ancient traditions. Many teachers and scribes have attempted to write this,... ...n Somersetshire). 33. Cair loit coit (Lincoln). These are the names of the ancient cities of the island of Britain. it has also a vast many promontori... ...s the third emperor who passed the sea to Brit- ain, where, to protect the provinces recovered from barbaric incursions, he ordered a wall and a rampa... ...earch of a child born without a fa- ther. After having inquired in all the provinces, they came to the field of Aelecti, 1 in the district of Glevesi... ...agon, but the white serpent is the dragon of the people who occupy several provinces and districts of Brit- ain, even almost from sea to sea: at lengt...

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..., 59 -- CHAPTER XVII ? SAN DIEGO?A DESERTION?SAN PEDRO AGAIN?BEATING UP -- COAST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO!???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? C...

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...ST CHAPTER XVIII — EASTER SUNDAY—’’SAIL HO!’’—WHALES—SAN . . . . . . 67 JUAN—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH ING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN CHAPTER XIX — THE SANDWICH 7... ...dered as a son of Neptune, with full powers to play tricks upon others. This ancient custom is now seldom allowed, unless there are passengers on boa... ...ous for the day, that I might see more nearly, and perhaps tread upon, this romantic, I may almost say, classic island. When all hands were call... ... its still beauty, and I gave a parting look, and bid farewell, to the most romantic spot of earth that my eyes had ever seen. I did then, and have e... ...ween the 22d and 38th degrees of north latitude. It is subdivided into two provinces—Lower or Old California, lying between the gulf and the 32d de... ...raulic surface mining, where large mountain streams are diverted from their ancient beds, and made to do the work, beyond the reach of all other agen...

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...ot only more celebrated but more opulent every year. It, is one of the few romances written in the epistolary form that do not oppress the reader with... ...elf. Every night, after supper, we read some part of a small collection of romances which had been my mother’s. My father’s design was only to improve... ... retard the future efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never b... ...ass, I will speak to you.” Louisa—Eleanora de Warrens was of the noble and ancient family of La T our de Pit, of Vevay, a city in the country of the V... ...mmon with all Genevese) by these two lines of the Henriade: Soit qu’ un ancient respect pour le sang de leurs maitres, Parlat encore pour lui da... ...ops formerly thought it an honor to be seated, though in exile it lost its ancient splendor, retained (without any dimi- nution) its pride. T o be adm... ...leves; nor to assert that had these two works been read nowhere but in the provinces, their merit would never have been discovered. It must not, there...

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...ublic spirit, exceeds in brilliancy of re- source and invention the ablest romance-writers. When the post gets hold of a letter, worth, to it, from th... ...s historical memories, its melancholy ruins, the gaiety of its valley, the romantic charm of its ravines filled with tangled shrubbery and wild- flowe... ...F RETIRED MERCERS WHEN THE PETTY SHOPKEEPER who has come to Paris from the provinces returns to the provinces from Paris he brings with him a few idea... ...ovins they found their former masters in Paris (long since returned to the provinces), Monsieur and Madame Julliard, lately of the “Chinese Worm,” the... ...ose name was never mentioned. Clever, delicate, and pretty, married in the provinces to please her mother, who for special reasons did not want her wi... ...t of Egeria. For the last two years, therefore, Julliard, possessed by his romantic passion, had published the said newspaper, called the “Bee-hive,” ... ...ated Desplein. Thus the operation was performed by the greatest surgeon of ancient or modern times; but that terrible diviner said to Martener as he d...

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...with- out direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a “T ale of the Crusaders” w... ... almost every trav- eller I met who had extended his route beyond what was anciently called “The Grand T our,” had acquired a right, by ocular inspect... ...son of acquirements and tal- ent, by dint of investigation alone, into the ancient doctrines, history, and manners of the Eastern countries, in which ... ...of Chivalry and the Crusades,” who was not, it may be presumed, aware that romantic fiction naturally includes the power of such invention, which is i... ...d of Scotland, who was actually in the host, and was the hero of some very romantic adventures on his way home, was also pressed into my service, and ... ...y from it?” The most curious register of the history of King Richard is an ancient romance, translated originally from the Norman; and at first certai... ...ladin?” “Great and assured,” replied Conrade. “The Soldan would give large provinces to maintain at his behest a body of well- appointed Frankish lanc... ... to the Emperor, Henry the Stern, and held under his government the finest provinces which are watered by the Danube. His character has been stained i... ...h spices and with a small portion of dried sheep’s flesh. Kings have given provinces to possess them, and their age is active as their youth. Thou, Na...

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...des Logis in the royal house- hold: he arrived at that office by a perfect romance. He was one of the best made men in France, and was much in favour ... ...ed no anger. He wrote in return to me, and said, I was not ignorant that a Roman Emperor had said, “I love treason but not traitors;” but that, as for... ...pon coming down again, she said it could only be that of Orondat. Now that romances are happily no longer read, it is necessary to say that Orondat is... ... a strong garrison. Prince Eugene ascertained that there was at Cremona an ancient aqueduct which extended far out into the country, and which started... ...oing so—an act probably without example. Nearly all England and the United Provinces mourned the loss of William. Some good republicans alone breathed... ... accordingly by degrees got disgusted with the Court, and retired into the provinces for a time. The Princesse d’Harcourt was a sort of personage whom... ...nce been 262 Saint-Simon invoked; the opposition of the reformers to this ancient opin- ion was a novelty; that this novelty rendered suspicious othe... ...r disputes, nor talk about religion or politics; but much and elegant wit, ancient and modern stories, news of gal- lantries, yet without scandal. All... ...mili- tia were raised, thus causing great ruin and great desolation in the provinces. The King was rocked into the belief that the people were all anx...

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...als like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing o...

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..., with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, — the city of the Hague, the capital of the ... ... a most vio- lent affection for the Stadtholderate, which had been abol- ished for ever in Holland by the “Perpetual Edict” forced by John de Witt upo... ...flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people saw the personification of the Republic in the two stern figures of the brothers De... ...whose material power Holland had been made to feel in that marvellous campaign on the Rhine, which, in the space of three months, had laid the power o... ...h would not have been very favourable to the person in question. “What difference is there between the figure of the con- queror and that of the pirat... ...Mynheer van Baerle’s tulips; and his beds, pits, drying-rooms, and drawers of bulbs were visited, as the galleries and libraries of Alexandria were by... ...Waal and the Meuse, — V an Baerle’s letter would have fallen into his hands and not the nurse’s: in which event the poor prisoner, like the 97 Dumas ... ...supported by four men, who were from time to time relieved by fresh relays, — even as the bearers of Mother Cybele used to take turn and turn about at...

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...es of the States and T erritories themselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyomin... ...ended, and the most varied subject for an enduring liter- ary work. If it be romance, if it be contrast, if it be heroism that we require, what was Tr... ...to the nature of man; rather, indeed, honourable, since it depends on wrongs ancient like the race, and not personal to him who cherishes the indignat... ... the bend; and Monterey itself is cosily ensconced beside the barb. Thus the ancient capital of California faces across the bay, while the Pacific Oce... ...r capital; and yet both it and they hold themselves apart and preserve their ancient customs and something of their ancient air. The town, when I was ... ...nues to inhabit and to paint it. There is in France scenery incomparable for romance and harmony. 53 Robert Louis Stevenson Provence, and the valley ... ...French respectability, quite as precise as ours, though cover- ing different provinces of life, recoiled aghast before the in- novation. But the girls...

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...re Joseph Genestas was an unostentatious kind of Bayard. There was nothing romantic nor picturesque about him—he was too thoroughly commonplace. His w... ...rodi- giously neglected. He knew in a hazy kind of way that Cae- sar was a Roman Consul, or an Emperor, and that Alexander was either a Greek or a Mac... ...t to continue his education. So from this time forth he read new books and romances with avidity, in this way gaining a half- knowledge, of which he m... ... well-doing. We know nothing of the civic virtue that led the great men of ancient times to serve their country in the low- est rank whenever they did... ...olidity, which added to the old-world appearance of the buildings with the ancient trees that stood about them, and the growth of plant life on the ro... ...The decanters were of the old-fashioned octagonal kind still in use in the provinces, though they have disappeared elsewhere. Grotesque figures had be... ...figures had been carved on the horn handles of the knives. These relics of ancient splendor, which, nevertheless, looked almost new, seemed to those w... ...ng of Italy, master of Holland, ruler of Spain, Portugal, and the Illyrian Provinces, protector of Germany, saviour of Poland, first eagle of the Legi... ...y the slow persistent thrift characteristic of provincial life; for in the provinces people pride themselves on accumulating rather than on spending, ...

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...TO A GOOD END .................................... 206 CHAPTER XXIV OF THE ROMAN GRANDEUR ............................................................... ... pal design of wisdom; for to comprise it all in one word, says one of the ancients, and to contract all the rules of human life into one, “it is to w... ...dent,” as the motto of our Talebot has it. ’Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chanc... ... discourse; for besides that I easily submit my belief to the authority of ancient opinions, I look upon it indeed as an unmanly and stupid vice, but ... ...rth sufficient to die upon can never be wanting, as Boiocalus answered the Romans.”—[Tacitus, Annal., xiii. 56.]—Why dost thou com- plain of this worl... ...Whereas Brutus and Cassius, on the contrary, threw away the remains of the Roman liberty, of which they were the sole protectors, by the precipitation... ... we have several times seen, in our times, men of good fami- lies of other provinces, in the hands of justice, convicted of abominable thefts. I fear ... ... barbarism of my country. I never saw a man who was a native of any of the provinces on this side of the kingdom who had not a twang of his place of b...

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... wolf-like men, Worse than the wolves. And King Leodogran Groaned for the Roman legions here again, And Caesar’s eagle: then his brother king, Urien... ...refore Merlin took the child, And gave him to Sir Anton, an old knight And ancient friend of Uther; and his wife Nursed the young prince, and reared h... ...t, Seeing that ye be grown too weak and old To drive the heathen from your Roman wall, No tribute will we pay:’ so those great lords Drew back in wrat... ... Back from the gate started the three, to whom From out thereunder came an ancient man, Long-bearded, saying, ‘Who be ye, my sons?’ Then Gareth, ‘W... ...lot, a city of shadowy palaces And stately, rich in emblem and the work Of ancient kings who did their days in stone; Which Merlin’s hand, the Mage at... ...r best, That neither court nor country, though they sought Through all the provinces like those of old That lighted on Queen Esther, has her match. ’ ... ...lowers And sweeter than the bride of Cassivelaun, Flur, for whose love the Roman Caesar first Invaded Britain, ‘But we beat him back, As this great Pr...

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... in a great measure on the pattern,’ re- plied Miss La Creevy . ‘Snubs and Romans are plentiful enough, and there are flats of all sorts and sizes whe... ...d King Henry the Fourth sat upon the throne of England—there dwelt, in the ancient city of York, five maiden sisters, the subjects of my tale. ‘These ... ...owards the place whither he had been directed. Within the precincts of the ancient city of Westminster, and within half a quarter of a mile of its anc... ...ring of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or playwright must have his. A thief in fustian is... ...s to, if it does not necessarily include, all the others. It must have its romance; and the less of real, hard, struggling work-a-day life there is in... ...and drawing in his breath with a hissing sound, ‘she oughtn’t to be in the provinces, she oughtn’ t.’ 289 Charles Dickens ‘What do you mean?’ asked t...

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...ath, thou might’st behold The ruddy zodiac nearer to the bears Wheel, if its ancient course it not forsook. How that may be if thou would’st think; wi... ...u inn of grief, Vessel without a pilot in loud storm, Lady no longer of fair provinces, But brothel house impure! this gentle spirit, Ev’n from the Pl... ... In that hour, When near the dawn the swallow her sad lay, Rememb’ring haply ancient grief, renews, And with our minds more wand’rers from the flesh, ... ...y shone, I mov’d me. There was storied on the rock The’ exalted glory of the Roman prince, Whose mighty worth mov’d Gregory to earn His mighty conques... ...d; born of one, who ply’d The slaughterer’s trade at Paris. When the race Of ancient kings had vanish’d (all save one Wrapt up in sable weeds) within ... ...citizen shalt be forever with me, Of that true Rome, wherein Christ dwells a Roman To profit the misguided world, keep now Thine eyes upon the car; an... .... 76. Sordello.]The history of Sordello’s life is wrapt in the obscurity of romance. That he distinguished himself by his skill in Provencal poetry i...

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... the quarrel of William of Orange, who made us pay and fight for his Dutch provinces; or whether poor old Louis Quatorze did really frighten her; or w... ... black, glossy, long-tailed, barrel-bel- lied, thick-flanked, arch-necked, Roman-nosed Flanders horses, which were the property of the two gentlemen n... ...nocence, when vice, agreeable vice, is the only thing which the readers of romances care to hear? The little horse-boy, who was leading the two black ... ...milian Gustavus Adolphus von Galgenstein, captain of horse and of the Holy Roman Empire” (he lifted here his hat with much gravity, and all the crowd,... .... Cat should have a fortune of twenty guineas, and reminding Tummas of his ancient flame for her: but Mr. Tummas, when this propo- sition was made to ... ...ssession of her sober senses, she would have seen in five minutes that her ancient lover was a ninny, and have left him with scorn; but she was under ... ...-to-do bourgeois, living at the Tyburn, or Gallows Road. She found out her ancient lover very soon after our arrival, and hath a marvellous hankering ...

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...gan to be fill’d very early with rambling Thoughts: My Father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent Share of Learning, as far as House Educat... ...all the Lead I had left for Bullets. I fancy’d my self now like one of the ancient Giants, which are said to live in Caves, and Holes, in the Rocks, w... ...the Veneration of the People to the Clergy, is not only to be found in the Roman, but perhaps among all Religions in the World, even among the most br... ...d how I have disposed of it. After a few Days farther Conference with this ancient Friend, he brought me an Daniel Defoe 203 Account of the six first ... ...red with the Snow; and all on a sudden, he shew’d us the pleasant fruitful Provinces of Languedoc and Gascoign, all green and flourishing; tho’ 210 RO... ...Way, and that was Religion; for as I had entertain’d some Doubts about the Roman Religion, even while I was abroad, especially in my State of Solitude... ... for me, much less going to settle there, unless I resolv’d to embrace the Roman Catholick Religion, without any Reserve; unless on the other hand, I ...

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...n bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that... ...m all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen rela tions, with their train of ancient and venerable preju dices and opinions, are swept away, all new ... ... of this was political centralisation. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments and systems of taxa... ... even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence. When the ancient world was in its last throes, the an cient religions were overco... ...te consisted solely in bringing the new French ideas into harmony with their ancient philosophical conscience, or rather, in annexing the French ideas...

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.................................................. 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ...................................................................... ...heir air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. When the Scotch child sees them first he... ...ndscape. The warm, habitable age of towns and hamlets, the green, settled, ancient look of the country; the lush hedgerows, stiles, and privy path-way... ...he thin walls and warm colouring of all. We have, in Scot- land, far fewer ancient buildings, above all in country places; and those that we have are ... ...nd body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the future, and more immersed in present circ... ...tranquil aisle, apart from city clamour, among the cats and robins and the ancient effigies and leg- ends of the tomb, he waits the continual passage ... ... unchanged. It was a place in that time like no other: the garden cut into provinces by a great hedge of beech, and over-looked by the church and the ...

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...ppears to have been that printing was first carried on in England in an ancient chapel converted into a printing house, and the title h... ...ost retired manner, of whom my landlady gave me this account: that she was a Roman Catholic, had been sent abroad when young, and lodg’d in a nunnery ... ...ution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fash... ... to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting at traction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temp tations. This being acqu... ...itable, as being for a time almost the only one in this and the neighbouring provinces. I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, “that after ... ...e goods for the present, and tho’ they did not much like treating out of the provinces; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle ...