...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...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... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ... in a way to rouse concern; and at the neat review, or procession into the City, or public display of any sort, Ormont had but to show himself, he was... ...itor’s formal salutation, signified the req- uisite acknowledgment, like a city creditor’s busy stroke of the type-stamp receipt upon payment. The cer... ...ntry hung wa- vering in the balance with those Boulogne boats. Now look at Ulm and Austerlitz. Essling, Wagram; put the victors in those little affair... ...hough, in fact, criticism is the end of wor- ship; the Brutus blow at that Imperial but mortal bosom. The person criticized was manifest. Who was the ... ...ig hole for his cavalry, my brother says; and weeding his infantry for the Imperial Guard he postponed the moment to use.’ ‘ At Moskowa?’ ‘W aterloo. ...

...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...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... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ... only be before the taming and bringing into order of the empire, when the Imperial cities were in their greatest splendour, the last free nobles in c... ...les that in practice he found insuper- able. At home Maximilian raised the Imperial power from a mere cipher to considerable weight. We judge him as i... ...rwitz most justly gets the credit of Maximilian’s perils on the steeple of Ulm, though, unfortunately, the artist has rep- resented the daring climber... ... they became affiliated, so prominent in all the councils of the good free city, and so noted for excellence in art and learning. Indeed the present h... ...her! Master Gottfried was going to ride as far as the confines of the free city’s territory, and his round, sleek, cream-coloured palfrey, used to amb...

...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most intere...

...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...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... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ...num- ber of substantial houses, and give ourselves all the airs of a small city? Education has made such strides that there has never been any opposit... ...re barely five leagues from Grenoble. There is plenty of demand in a large city for produce of all kinds, but not every commune is situated at the gat... ...erever Napoleon led us, and have borne a part in every battle in which the Imperial Guard has struck a blow; but everybody knows all about these event... ...had foretold. The rattle-pates in Paris, who had kept quiet ever since the Imperial Guard had been established, think that HE is dead, and hatch a con... ..., I was at Austerlitz. There was a great deal of skirmishing just be- fore Ulm surrendered, which kept the cavalry pretty fully occupied. Moreover, we...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...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... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ...end S. Behrman again,” added Harran, grinding his teeth. “He was up in the city the whole of the time the new schedule was being drawn, and he and Uls... ...e ranches were thus connected by wire with San Francisco, and through that city with Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, New York, and at last, and most imp... ...eyes, perplexing, heavy-lidded, almond-shaped, oriental; the aroma and the imperial red of the carnations in her lips, with their al- most Egyptian fu... ...uhe, und I nef’r gedt home again. Vhen der war hef godt over, I go beck to Ulm und gedt marriet, und den I gedt demn sick von der armie. Vhen I gedt d... ...nd carnations. It passed like a moving star into the superb abundance, the imperial opulence of the royal lilies. It was advancing slowly, but there w...

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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...he Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...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... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ...f the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city of Granada, galloped out of the camp, in full view of besiegers and be... ... in full view of besiegers and be- sieged, and fastened to the gate of the city with his dagger a copy of the Ave Maria. It was a wildly brave action,... ...own by the Emperor Maximilian when he displayed himself to the citizens of Ulm upon the topmost pinnacle of their cathedral spire; or of Alonso de Oje... ... be really withstood by any subject, and on Ambrose’s return, he found the imperial procession, lictors, guards, and all, escorting the Emperor as usu... ...hivalry wanted to reduce the cantons and cit- ies to vassalage, not to the Imperial Crown, a distant and scarcely felt obligation, but to the Duchy of...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

...es Publication War and Peace – Book Three by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...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... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ...his face, he was telling the ladies about last W ednesday’s meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Sergey Kuzmich V yazmitinov, the new military go... ...whether it was long since Anatole had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her wit... ...e too have had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His 49 Tolstoy Imperial Highness rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every... ...! The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the Austrian army of Ulm. They are the same battal- ions you broke at Hollabrunn and have pursue...

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...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... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Ji... ...ith the melan- choly which always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, “has declared that he will leave it to the French people t... ...ding there and addressing those in the room. All were silent. “I bet fifty imperials”—he spoke French that the En- glishman might understand him, but ... ... and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of com- manding both sides of t... ...whether it was long since Anatole had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her wit... ...e lieutenant of hussars, a good dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. The Rostovs knew everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough ...

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...e Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: J... ...urope. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his own expense. — The King of Denmark defeated. — Death o... ...s in Germany. — Count Tilly takes the 5 Friedrich Schiller Command of the Imperial Troops. — Treaty with France. — Congress at Leipzig. — Siege and c... ... which reference had been made in the treaty, had already been held in the city of Trent; but, as might have been foreseen, without accommodating the ... ...ory of their own, entirely independent of the archi- episcopal see of that city. All the churches in the cities, villages, and market towns, which the... ...o hesitated. But the three cities of the Empire, Strasburg, Nuremburg, and Ulm, were no unimportant acquisition for the league, which was in great 54...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...