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...om Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ the Russian officer’s adventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabe... ...o the traveler. T ruly this was a deed of gold. Such was the action of the Russian servant whose master’s carriage was pursued by wolves, and who spra... ...llow soldier to be raised to the bed above him, he surprised his kind lady nurses (daily scatterers of Golden Deeds) by saying, ‘Put me up 11 Yo n g ... ... ‘And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast? And for the holy maidens Who feed the eter... ... 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... ...bo, with a guard of fifty Cossacks, was go- ing to take the command of the Russian outpost of Lars, one of the forts by which the Russian Czars have s... ...warriors as well as monks. They were thus all in one—knights, priests, and nurses; their monasteries were both castles and hospi- tals; and the sick p... ...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... ... less. The Tatars were on their walls, the Russians in their trenches; the Imperial eagle standard, which Ivan had lately assumed, floated in the morn...

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...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...g of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing but in hue, ... ... Gave light enough to hint their farther way, But not enough to show the imperial halls, In all the flashing of their full array; Perhaps th... ...rs, and pictures, On which I cannot pause to make my strictures. In this imperial hall, at distance lay Under a canopy, and there reclined Q... ...de: There ‘s nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls. He stood like A... ...with sceptics; and with curses Struck at his friends, as babies beat their nurses. Nay, he had wounded, though but slightly, both Juan and Joh... ... a murderer much less than a claimant On that sweet ore which every body nurses;— Kill a man’s family, and he may brook it, But keep your hand...

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... I have forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...e Man of St. Helena in view of his deplorable levity in the conduct of the Russian campaign. It was during the memorable retreat from Moscow that Mr. ... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier my- self I u... ...ece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half imperials. Gold coin was a rare sight in Russia even at that time; it put t... ...g so carefully. Without wishing to treat with levity the just timidites of Imperialists all the world over, I may allow myself the reflection that a w... ...lievers in the right of conquest, as a reprehensibly sensitive guardian of Imperial greatness. On the other hand, I am in a position to state the name... ...thumped—and sixteen able-bodied kalashes stood round him like disconcerted nurses round a spoiled and passionate child. He whisked his tail incessantl...

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...lish who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in h... ...rmanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European al... ... leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme an- tithesis to the Imperial boomster of Berlin. He is as it were the ordinary common sense of ... ...eyes, explaining very simply and clearly the difficulties that this vulgar imperialism of Germany, seizing upon mod- ern science and modern appliances... ...im as sitting quietly on the crumpled remains of the last and tawdriest of Imperial traditions, with a fishing line in the placid water and a large bu... ...out any prepared line of positions in the rear. On the very eve of the big Russian 33 H G Wells offensive, the Austrians thrust eighteen divisions ha... ...aff officers in automo- biles whisk hither and thither, in which there are nurses and even a few inexplicable ladies in worldly costume, in which rest... ...orned with large white crosses, who, regardless of the present shortage of nurses, were visiting ev- ery home in the place on some mission of invitati...

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... irritated Birkin. They were all drinking champagne. Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the o... ...’m sure I should die—I’m sure I should.’ ‘I hope not,’ whispered the young Russian. ‘I’m sure I should, Maxim,’ she asseverated. 66 ‘Then one won’t c... ... uneasiness. ‘And are you afraid of nothing else, Pussum?’ asked the young Russian, in his quick, hushed, elegant manner. ‘Not weally,’ she said. ‘I a... ...ey lived there safely. For the house was becoming dreadful. There were two nurses in white, flitting silently about, like heralds of death. The fa- th... ...nly he must have perfect stillness about him. Any presence but that of the nurses was a strain and an effort to him now. Every morning Gerald went int... ...ula, it was wonderful! He began in French—La vie, c’est une affaire d’ames imperiales— in a most beautiful voice—he was a fine-looking chap—but he had... ... thought of home;—one could travel on skis down there, and come to the old imperial road, below the pass. But why come to any road? He revolted at the... ... the south-side, down into the dark valley with its pines, on to the great Imperial road lead- ing south to Italy. He might! And what then? The Imperi...

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...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...and smoked cool pipes on his house-top, as we looked over the hill and the Russian palace to the water, and the Seraglio gardens shining 58 Notes on ... ... article of dress, with the red fez. That of Mahmoud is decorated with the imperial aigrette. In this dismal but splendid museum, I remarked two littl... ...s displayed. The place is under the patronage of the Emperor Nicholas; an Imperial Prince has stayed in these rooms; the Russian consul performs a gr... ...our friends here; under the protection of the Father of the Church and the Imperial Eagle!This butcher and tyrant, who sits on his throne only through... ...tling dragomans, ayahs, and children from India; and poor old venerable he-nurses, 132 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo with grey bear...

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...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...y reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether 170 V anity Fair the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury,... ...s, that he blessed Heaven for sending his dearest Aunty two such admirable nurses as her attached Firkin and her admirable Miss Briggs. Should the mac... ...er hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. The moral ... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ..., or were preparing for a final onset. It came at last: the columns of the Imperial Guard marched up the hill of Saint Jean, at length and at once to ... ...er nursed him, and dressed him, and lived upon him; how she drove away all nurses, and would scarce allow any hand but her own to touch him; how she c... ...e most part, who are doomed to endure this long slavery?— who are hospital nurses without wages—sisters of Charity, if you like, without the romance a...

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.... But, the babies had not appropriated to themselves any bad ex- pression yet, and might have been, for anything that ap- peared to the contrary in th... ... Old Kent Road, and out on Blackheath, and even ascending Shooter’s Hill, before I had had time to look about me in the carriage, like a collected tra... ...k to at night without at all wanting to go. If we all knew our own minds (in a more enlarged sense than the popular acceptation of that phrase), I sus... ...iet grove of trees, shading the quaintest of Dutch landing-places, where the leaf-speckled shadow of a shipwright just passing away at the further end... ... with which I became well acquainted a year or two ago as Crimean battles, now doing duty as Mexican victories. The change was neatly ef- fected by so... ... I have never heard in any other country to which my uncommercial travels have extended. Years ago, when I had a near interest in cer- tain children w... ...heir common experience, that people, sinking down by inches into deeper and deeper pov- erty, will conceal it, even from them, if possible, unto the v...

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...u- miliations. Hence it was that Ledyard, the traveller, speak- ing of his Russian experiences, used to say that some of his miseries were such, that ... ... sentences) moder- ately well, but not too well constructed, as the German nurses are accustomed to say. Its felicity depends on a trick easily imitat... ...mbition, and even bloodier would have been the blood- polluted line of the imperial successions. Prudence, there- fore, it was, and state policy, not ... ... circulat- ing amongst the people warned him that, if he left the cycle of imperial powers incomplete, if he suffered the galvanic battery to remain i... ...giment; and subsequently, during the campaign of 1813, as a captain on the Russian staff. Thus brilliantly accomplished for conferring lustre and ben-... ...d to be in some secret connection of fatal sympathy with the growth of the Russian cross. Perhaps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main s... ...ir bloody overthrow in 1664, at St. 205 Thomas de Quincey Gothard, by the imperial General Montecuculi. In 1673 they received another memorable defea...

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...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russ... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier myself I und... ...ece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half-imperials. Gold coin was a rare sight in Russia even at that time; it put t... ... so carefully. Without wishing to treat with levity the just timidities of Imperialists all the world over, I may allow myself the reflection that a w... ...thumped—and sixteen able-bodied kalashes stood round him like disconcerted nurses round a spoilt and passionate child. He whisked his tail in- cessant...

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...is charmed power, should have been looked upon as a sacred person, and the imperial family considered a “divina domus.” It is an error to regard this ... ...i- vine worship attended the emperor in his lifetime.* To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance, whi... ...tion of tenderness to his memory. 13 Thomas de Quincey sanctuary from the imperial pursuit. If he went down to the sea, there he met the emperor: if ... ...ions, and of our consolations in misery, except the fairy mythology of our nurses. The condition of a people so situated, of a people under the calami... ...e’s Persian expedition, so much resembling in rashness and presumption the Russian campaign of Napoleon, though so much below it in the scale of its t...

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... you ask too much for this article?’ and he replied with the ques- tion, ‘Do you think you are obliged to buy it?’ However, these people are not impol... ...ed to generals and nobles. If you wish to see what abysses servil- ity can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shop- keeper in the characte... ...d into Oppenau, just eleven hours and a half out of Allerheiligen—one hundred and forty-six miles. This is the distance by pedometer; the guide-book a... ...wrong scent, and that is always hopeless; one is sure, then, to go straight on misinterpreting everything, clear through to the end. The young lady wi... ...ake-front is walled with masonry like a pier, and has a railing, to keep people from walking overboard. All day long the vehicles dash along the avenu... ... his mistake about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau, and had also informed the Ordnance Depart of the German govern- ment of the same error ... ...ster hue of death. This was the third right hand found; therefore, all three of the lost men were accounted for, beyond cavil or question. Dr. Hamel w...

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... Italians, if they will come; Spaniards and Portuguese, and Scandinavians, Russians as well. And Jews; Mahommedans too, if only they will come! The mo... ...gh over a curmudgeonly humping solitariness, that won’t forgive an injury, nurses rancour, smacks itself in the face, because it can’t—to use the old ... ...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 ... ... at my school we have all nationali- ties—French boys and German, Italian, Russian, Spaniard— without distinction of race and religion and station, an... ...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. ... ...id, when he saw I wasn’t afraid, it was likely to be quick; no doctors, no nurses and daily bulletins for inquirers, but just the whites of the eyes, ...

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...e most part, who are doomed to endure this long slavery?— who are hospital nurses without wages—sisters of Charity, if you like, without the romance a... ... with coro- 126 V anity Fair – V olume Three nets and heaped with shining imperials, were on the foredeck, locked in with a dozen more such vehicles:... ...Methuselah’s carriage, from which he made his way over other carriages and imperials until he had clam- bered on to his own, descended thence and thro... ...that there cannot be any possibility of truth in the report that she was a Russian spy at Toplitz and Vienna after- wards. I have even been informed t... ... the Most Noble Order of the Garter, of the Golden Fleece of Spain, of the Russian Order of Saint Nicholas of the First Class, of the Turkish Order of...

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...ursued by another; and how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army int... ... their very eyes in open daylight, and in a moment as it were. Such of the Imperial Generals as were out riding ran from all parts to the banks of the... ...ly as possible. He used to say of flower-beds that they were only good for nurses, who, not being able to quit 149 Saint-Simon the children, walked o... ...the war, waited for and expected by all Europe, at last broke out, by some Imperialist troops firing upon a handful of men near Albaredo. One Spaniard... ...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r... ...e Berry, and made her swallow it without saying a word to anybody, the two nurses standing by, the only persons present, not daring to oppose him. The... ...f Chirac, in defending what he had done. He could not deny it, for the two nurses had been ques- tioned, and had told all. Madame la Duchesse de Berry... ...ank and precedence. Thus Bissy and Villeroy found Dubois closeted with the Russian minis- ter. It was proposed to inform the Cardinal at once, of a th...

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...Arabia Petraea. Chateau Neuf is dead, and I have never tasted it; Hermitage – a hermitage indeed from all life’s sorrows – lies expiring by the river.... ...s, thicket embowers them; the miner chips the rock and wanders farther, and the griz- zly muses undisturbed. But there they bide their hour, awaiting ... ... what he called himself, but as soon as I set eyes on him, I knew it was or ought to be his name; I am sure it will be his name among the angels. Kelm... ...uch as would not have held a person’s hat on that blustering day. And with all these protestations of hurry, they proved irresponsible like children. ... ... against the greed and dishonesty of landlords. If it were fair for Cobden to buy up land from owners whom he thought unconscious of its proper value,...

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...f its being given here. The four-wheeled coach was surmounted by a hooded “imperial,” into which Pierrotin managed to poke six pas- 10 A Start in Lif... ...mar- riage placed him (more than one example of which could be seen at the imperial court), Moreau asked the count to give him the management of the P... ...sehold of Madame Mere. During his early childhood his eyes were dazzled by imperial splendors. His pliant imagination retained the impression of those... ...ary to talk; Spaniards have no public 46 A Start in Life conveyances; and Russians no roads. There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences... ...The clerk then moved to the rotunde, before which were grouped a number of nurses, country-people, and petty shop- keepers, who were bidding each othe...

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...nourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon the hills o... ...distances upon a scale that made the one sole precedent, the corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between ... ...s feet. And he was guiding France, France so long a resent- ful exile from imperialism, back to her old predominance. It seemed to her beyond the dese... ...at thoroughfare that fell like an indicating beam of light straight to the imperial headquarters. There, plain enough, was the Thiergarten; beyond ros... ...e. And prominent upon it, and indeed for a time quite dominating it, was a Russian named Karenin, who was singular in being a congenital cripple. His ... ... patients lived in an upper part of the build- ings, and were cared for by nurses and skilled attendants…. The first man to greet Karenin was Ciana, t... ...nce? I should have been an embittered, spiteful, downtrodden member of the Russian Intelligenza, a conspirator, a prisoner, or an assassin. You, my de...

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...h, let them take the consequence. Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks ... ... more than a common meaning, but has two meanings: thus, if in the highest Imperial Sceptre and Charlemagne- Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox-goad... ...twilights,” cries Teufelsdrockh, “when the Sun, like a proud Conqueror and Imperial Taskmaster, turned his back, with his gold-purple emblazonry, and ... ... high even as at One to a Hundred (which, considering the Wages of a Pope, Russian Autocrat, or En- glish Game-Preserver, is probably not far from the... ...ot be doubtful. “The hungry young,” he says, “looked up to their spiritual Nurses; and, for food, were bidden eat the east-wind. What vain jargon of c... ...g the rock-hollows; and, shaggy, huge as the Hyperborean Bear, hails me in Russian speech: most probably, therefore, a Russian Smuggler. With courteou... ...hantasms enough he has had to struggle with; “Cloth-webs and Cob-webs,” of Imperial Mantles, Superannuated Symbols, and what not: yet still did he cou...

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...nd) almost as obscure as if they had been suckled by transcendental German nurses. But now, confining our attention to M. Michelet—who is quite suffic... ...inding one of that inscription, so justly admired by Paul Richtor, which a Russian Czarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow—This is the road that l... ...eniably went foremost, it was resolved by acclamation that the box was the imperial place, and, for the scoundrel who drove, he might sit where he cou... ...arnessed, under a flourish of music and a 90 salute of guns, solemnly his imperial majesty ascended his new English throne, having the first lord of ... ...ortiori I upheld its rights, I stretched to the uttermost its privilege of imperial precedency, and astonished weak minds by the feudal pow- ers which...