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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta; or (according to Letronne, Follard, Saint... ...her between two battlements on the walls to the artil- lery of the Medici. Bernardo Castiglione went further in a council held to determine how matter... ...In those days of pure fuedality, in which the king was merely primus inter pares (to use the fine expression of a king of Poland), the counts of Champ... ...s what my predecessor thought,’ 255 Balzac replied Lorenzo. ‘This morning Bernard Palissy told me that metals were the result of compression, and tha... ...ich T avannes undertook to guard until such time as, by my express orders, Bernard Palissy, and Chapelain, my physician, could be brought there to exa...

...Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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Arthurian Chronicles : Roman de Brut

By: Eugene Mason

... rays stretched over France, and went from France even to the Mount of St. Bernard. The other ray went towards Ire land, and divided into seven beams... ... the king, from the furthest marches of the west even unto the Hill of St. Bernard. A most discourteous lord would he be deemed who sojourned not awhi... ...avengers of the world. You resemble a blind man, whose eyes the leech pre pares to open. You know not yet, but very soon you will have learned, the p... ...p silence, and do naught of that you are bidden, I will cross the Mont St. Bernard with a mighty host, and pluck Britain and France from your hand. Do... ... Britain, after he had conquered France and Ger many, passed the Mont St. Bernard into Lombardy, and took Rome to his keeping. These mighty kings wer... ... the realm sure with no further tarrying. From thence we can pass Mont St. Bernard, and overrun Lombardy. By moving swiftly we shall carry the war int...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

...- stances which govern all dramas. CHAPTER III PRELIMINARIES JEAN FRANCOIS BERNARD DUMAY, born at V annes, started as a soldier for the army of Italy ... ...rand canal at Versailles, beginning at the foot of a grass-plot which com- pares well with the finest English lawns, and bordered with beds and basket...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. So Jonah’s Captain pre- pares to test the length of Jonah’s purse, ere he judge him openly. He char... ...r genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys. Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacepede, a great naturalist, published a scienti... ...t by; “ye’ll be picked up presently—all right—I saw some sharks astern—St. Bernard’s dogs, you know—relieve distressed travellers. Hurrah! this is the...

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The Essays or Counsels, Civil

By: Viscount St. Albans

...athe ism. Another is, scandal of priests; when it is come to that which St. Bernard saith, non est jam dicere, ut populus sic sacerdos; quia nec sic... ... (no doubt) counsellors and governors which may be held sufficient (negotiis pares), able to manage af fairs, and to keep them from precipices and ma... ...olace to the sovereign, and harmless to the people. And the fourth, negotiis pares; such as have great places under princes, and execute their places,...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ppearance of English, worries me extremely. Even such little things as Mr. Bernard Shaw’s weakness for printing “I’ve” as “Ive,” and the American “fa-... ...ical professor, to use his own queer way of put- ting things, primus inter pares. That will make four courses altogether, the Classical, the Historica... ...sentative, or some gentleman of leisure and philanthropic tastes, like Mr. Bernard Shaw, may confer distinction upon local delib- erations, but that w...

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