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...seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon- writing, Ol... ...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...arians; died in Scotland when Monk was commanding in that country; and the first appearance of Mr. Brock in a public capacity displayed him as a fifer... ... of Coldstreamers, when they marched from Scotland to Lon- don, and from a republic at once into a monarchy. Since that period, Brock had been always ... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...corated the Captain’s animal. The boys, who had been at play on the green, first paused and entered 9 Thackeray into conversation with the horse-boy;... ...nto a roar of laughter, and shouting with many oaths that she was right at first, invited her to give him what he called a buss. Pretty Catherine turn...

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...her buy nor sell them, but as they weigh. I speak on paper, as I do to the first person I meet; and that this is true, observe what follows. T o whom ... ...inuates itself and obtains belief with those with whom I am to deal at the first meeting. Sincerity and pure truth, in what age soever, pass for curre... ...ing satisfied his sec- ond and special faith, he satisfied the general and first. Mohammed II. having resolved to rid himself of his brother, out of j... ... time permits and teaches every one so to do, yet have I not plundered any Frenchman’s goods, or taken his money, and have lived upon what is my own, ... ... The Latin tongue is as it were natural to me; I understand it better than French; but I have not been used to speak it, nor hardly to write it, these... ... to be weaned from her childish simplicity. She was reading before me in a French book where the word ‘fouteau’, the name of a tree very well known, o... ...furniture. And what do we know but that Plato, after other well-instituted republics, ordered that the men and women, old and young, should expose the... ...ildren, besides that the gravest legislators ordain and affect it in their republics, it touches not the women, where this passion is, I know not how,... ...ation is to lose and annihilate truth. There- fore it is that Plato in his Republic prohibits this exercise to fools and ill-bred people. To what end ...

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... an Austrian archduchess. Never, in the most splendid days of the Monarchy, had so many crowned heads thronged the shores of the Seine, never had the French aristocracy been so rich or so splendid. The diamonds lavishly scattered over the women?s dresses, and the gold and silver embroidery on the uniforms contrasted so strongly with the penury of the Republic, that the wea...

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... had so many crowned heads thronged the shores of the Seine, never had the French aristocracy been so rich or so splendid. The diamonds lavishly scatt... ...r embroidery on the uniforms contrasted so strongly with the penury of the Republic, that the wealth of the globe seemed to be rolling through the dra... ...cinated the fair sex. Hearts were as nomadic as the regiments. Between the first and fifth bulletins from the Grand armee a woman might be in successi... ...of her bust. What shoulders! what lily-whiteness!” “Who is she?” asked the first speaker. “Ah! that I do not know.” “Aristocrat!—Do you want to keep t... ...oceeded Montcornet, “she arrived, I have no doubt, punctually at nine, the first of the company perhaps, and probably she greatly embarrassed the Comt...

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...es here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C ... ...ind a definition of achievement which is independent of social context would be the first achievement to be considered as such anywhere, anytime, b... ...plicitly - the principle of "over-riding affiliation". As usual, Judaism was there first, agonizing over similar moral conflicts. Two Jewish saying... ...y of moral calculus: "One is close to oneself" and "Your city's poor denizens come first (with regards to charity)". One's proper conduct, in oth... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...is it all-encompassing. Communism The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experienced i... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...e the instability inherent in politics). This, too, is a confabulation. The Weimar Republic gave birth to Adolf Hitler and Italy had almost 50 gove... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i...

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... be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian A...

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...ons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the stair- case) in the centre of which reclines the... ...the rarest artistic skill— in a word, a sculptor and a poet too—could have first dreamed of a Faun in this guise, and then have succeeded in impris- o... ...hy he is forever sad. The Lycian Apollo might strike his lyre; and, at the first vibration, that other Faun in red marble, who keeps up a motionless d... ...inen-draper’s shop; a pipe and cigar shop; a lottery office; a station for French soldiers, with a sentinel pacing in front; and a fruit-stand, at whi... ...wthorne which anon, as his active motion heated him, he flung aside. Three French soldiers capered freely into the throng, in wide scarlet trousers, t... ...able an affair as it can well be. In this pleasant spot, the red-trousered French soldiers are always to be seen; bearded and grizzled veterans, perha... ...ion for Miriam has introduced him familiarly to our little circle; and our republican and artistic simplicity of intercourse has included this young I... ...at its base. All Roman works and ruins (whether of the empire, the far-off republic, or the still more distant kings) assume a transient, visionary, a...

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... roaring below at some generally imperceptible stroke of his quality, have first made the mild literary angels aware of something comic in him, when t... ...tion-work of a House, and was endowed with the power of saying No to those first agents of destruction, besieging relatives. He said it with the reson... ...fellow’s pay per annum, at the same time showing his acquaintance with the first, or chemical, principles of generosity, in the remark to friends at h... ...good temper. We go on in our way; they theirs, in the apparent belief that Republicanism operates remarkable changes in human nature. Vernon tries har... ...elicate flowers, the ladies of the Court of China, on rice-paper. A little French dressing would make her at home on the sward by the fountain among t... ...ngels of Luini. Lady Culmer had seen crayon sketches of demoiselles of the French aristocracy resembling her. Some one mentioned an antique statue of ... ...are in very good condition.” “I am glad. Do you know, I love those ancient French cha- teaux and farms in one, where salon windows look on poul- try-y... ...he market. This maenad shriek for freedom would happily entitle her to the Republican cap—the Phrygian—in a revolutionary Parisian procession. T o me ... ...tant Church in Danger, or Sir Wil- son Pettifer harping on his Monarchical Republic, or any other! No, he preferred to be sarcastic upon friend Horace...