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...le bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so, in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passi... ...hich prob- able reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is n... ... after publishing an ac- count of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, being ... ...istory so near to his time. Consider- ing therefore with myself Whom shall I set so great a man to face? Or whom oppose? who’s equal to the place? (As... ...een mother, who pretended to have been dealt with injuriously. Her brother Leonidas, in a warm debate which fell out be- twixt him and Lycurgus, went ... ...was natural for them to think and speak as Gorgo, for example, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, t... ...their dislike to talkativeness, the following apothegms are evidence. King Leonidas said to one who held him in discourse upon some useful matter, but... ...ut when news came from Thermopylae to Artemisium, informing them that king Leonidas was slain, and that Xerxes had made himself master of all the pass... ...emonians, and his skin, as the oracles advised, still kept by their kings. Leonidas, again, warned by the oracle, did as it were sacrifice himself for...

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...e colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here by Hercules. Thus much I may mention for the sake of king Juba, of all monarchs the greatest stude... ...alculation, as his occa- sion or necessity required. As to my own opinion, I am per- suaded that pure virtue, established by reason and judgment, can ... ...ly perverted or changed into its opposite, by any misfortune whatever. Yet I think it at the same time possible, that virtuous inclinations and natura... ...th change of fortune, some change and alteration of their temper; and thus I conceive it happened to Sertorius, who when prosperity failed him, became... ...posterity successively to Agis, the fifth from Agesilaus; who was slain by Leonidas, while attempting to restore the ancient discipline of Sparta. 89... ... great many attendants, preceptors, and teach- ers, over the whole of whom Leonidas, a near kinsman of Olympias, a man of an austere temper, presided,... ...s, was therefore well enough esteemed, and ranked in the next degree after Leonidas. Philonicus the Thessalian brought the horse Bucephalas to Philip,... ...ht to have great skill, he told her he wanted none of them, his preceptor, Leonidas, having already given him the best, which were a night march to pr... ... for breakfast, and a moderate breakfast to create an appetite for supper. Leonidas also, he added, used to open and search the furniture of his chamb...

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...OF MONTAIGNE ............................................................................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ...........................................................................................................

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.................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY V ARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................ ...an he was—what he felt, thought, suf- fered—and he succeeded immeasurably, I apprehend, be- yond his expectations. It was reasonable enough that Monta... ...n their author’s meaning. The result has gener- ally been unfortunate; and I have, in the case of all these interpolations on Cotton’s part, felt boun... ...n the case of all these interpolations on Cotton’s part, felt bound, where I did not cancel them, to throw them down into the notes, not think- ing it... ...or word, with the best French edition. By the favour of Mr F . W . Cosens, I have had by me, while at work on this subject, the copy of Cotgrave’s Dic... ... all their united glories, to the single glory of the discomfiture of King Leonidas and his men, at the pass of Thermopylae. Who ever ran with a more ...

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... picture bright of blue and gold Each other circling chase” —Keble CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I MO MO MO MO MOTHER B THER B THER ... ...id Mrs. Bunker, looking into the museum; “why, what are you doing there?” “I’m looking at the great big globe, that Uncle Joe said I might touch,” sai... ...where else should they be? There are all them oceans and seas besides that I’ve crossed over, many’s the time, with poor Ben Bunker, who was last seen... ...and Pa- cific on them; you don’t really mean that you’ve sailed over them! I should like to make an ant do it on a sunflower seed! How could you, Moth... ...?” “Well, I’m from Paris last; but when I’m at home, I’m at Bos- ton. I am Leonidas Saunders, of the great American Republic.” “Oh, then you are not r... ... an English boy.” “Of course I do! my grandfather came from England,” said Leonidas; “we all speak English as well, or better, than you do in the old ... ... other people, by the train, not like the children in my dreams?” And then Leonidas explained all about it to her: how his father had brought him last... ...rom home, so that no one ever knew whether the letters had reached him. So Leonidas had gone on at school without many tasks to learn, to be sure, but... ...and take some relief to the poor, sick people in the hospitals, the people Leonidas was with, told the gentleman that there was a little American left...

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... II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. .............................................

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... TE TE TE TE E E E E ELE LE LE LE LECTR CTR CTR CTR CTRO O O O ON N N N NI I I I IC C C C C C C C C CL L L L LA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SI I I I IC C ... ...S S S S SS S S S SI I I I IC C C C CS S S S S S S S S SE E E E ER R R R RI I I I IE E E E ES S S S S P P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA... .................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ........................................................ ............................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the T uileries. ........................................................ .............................................................. 65 Chapter 2.2.I. Bouille. .................................................................. ...s, crossed with buff-belts. And yet might we not ask: What Argonauts, what Leonidas’ Spartans had done such a work? Think of their destiny: since that...

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... GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 3.1.I. The Improvised Commune. ...............................

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.................................................................... 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ................................................................. ............................................................... 6 Chapter 3.1.I. The Improvised Commune. ................................................... .............................................................. 62 Chapter 3.2.I. The Deliberative. ......................................................... ............................................................. 104 Chapter 3.3.I. Cause and Effect. ......................................................... ............................................................. 146 Chapter 3.4.I. Charlotte Corday. ......................................................... ...towards Brunswick; with the brandishing of arms; always with some touch of Leonidas-eloquence, often with a fire of daring that threat- ens to outhero...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ..............................................................................................

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...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY ...................................................... ... by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 BOOK THE THIRD CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I OF PR OF PR OF PR OF PR OF PROFIT... ... as little care as they are of little value, and ’tis the better for them. I would presently part with them for what they are worth, and neither buy n... ...for what they are worth, and neither 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... ...the profitable for the honest. You will tell me that he was a braggadocio; I believe so too: and ’tis no great miracle in men of his profession. But t... ...usband Cleombrotus, in the commo- tion of her city, had the advantage over Leonidas her father, she, like a good daughter, stuck close to her father i...

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...ives lie on the surface of history. For the de- scription of the Coliseum, I have, however, been indebted to the Abbé Gerbet’s Rome Chrétienne; for th... ...pirited young Duke d’Enghien, afterwards Prince of Condé, exclaimed, ‘Were I not a victor, I should have wished thus to die!’ and preserved the chair ... ...of a Golden Deed that the doer of it is certain to feel it merely a duty; ‘I have done that which it was my duty to do’ is the natural answer of those... ...aily scatterers of Golden Deeds) by saying, ‘Put me up 11 Yo n g e there, I reckon I’ll bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we... ...00, who were to keep the pass against two millions. The leader of them was Leonidas, who had newly become one of the two kings of Sparta, the city tha... ... its sons to be hardy soldiers, dreading death infinitely less than shame. Leonidas had al- ready made up his mind that the expedition would probably ... ...quies had been per- formed. Such preparations did not daunt the spirits of Leonidas and his men, and his wife, Gorgo, who was not a woman to be faint-... ...n it’—either carrying it victori- ously or borne upon it as a corpse. When Leonidas came to Thermopylae, the Phocians told him of the mountain path th... ... and reserve themselves to defend the Isthmus of Corinth? But 33 Yo n g e Leonidas, though Sparta was safe below the Isthmus, had no intention of aba...

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... a hawk encumber’d with his hood,— Explaining metaphysics to the nation— I wish he would explain his Explanation. You, Bob! are rather insolent,... ...oisture, quite a dry, Bob! And Wordsworth, in a rather long Excursion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from t... ...in such a notion, Which makes me wish you’d change your lakes for ocean. I would not imitate the petty thought, Nor coin my self love to so ba... ...ess of your brows— Perhaps some virtuous blushes;— let them go— To you I envy neither fruit nor boughs— And for the fame you would engross b... ...ering with pedestrian Muses, Contend not with you on the winged steed, I wish your fate may yield ye, when she chooses, The fame you envy an... ...onaparte! Oh, ye less grand long lists of kill’d and wounded! Shade of Leonidas, who fought so hearty, When my poor Greece was once, as now,... ...der’s rattles. And such they are — and such they will be found: Not so Leonidas and Washington, Whose every battle field is holy ground, W...

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...The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi River - Lake Michikamau in Labrador and George River in Quebec. His companions on this journey were his friend, New York lawyer Dillon Wallace and an...

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...gang Von Goethe Translated By John Oxenford INTRODUCTION By Thomas Carlyle I T WOULD APPEAR that for inquirers into Foreign Litera ture, for all men a... ...lt in a remote conventional world in Castles of Otranto, in Epigoniads and Leonidases, among clear, metallic heroes, and white, high, stainless beauti... ...t, and it may be hoped the last. For what good is it to ‘whine, put finger i’ the eye, and sob,’ in such a case? Still more, to snarl and snap in mali... ...FACE to the present work, which, perhaps, more than another, requires one, I adduce the letter of a friend, by which so serious an undertaking was occ... ...should any sympathy excite and deter- mine us, cordially, to new activity. I therefore instantly un- dertook the preparatory labor of separating the p... ...and small, of my twelve volumes, and of arranging them according to years. I strove to recall the times and circum- stances under which each had been ...

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... THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ...................................................

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................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.—THE BASTILLE .............................................................. ................................................................... 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV . ....................................................... .............................................................. 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. ................................................... .............................................................. 27 Chapter 1.2.I. Astraea Redux. ............................................................ .............................................................. 47 Chapter 1.3.I. Dishonoured Bills. ........................................................ ...s, crossed with buff-belts. And yet might we not ask: What Argonauts, what Leonidas’ Spartans had done such a work? Think of their destiny: since that... ...towards Brunswick; with the brandishing of arms; always with some touch of Leonidas- eloquence, often with a fire of daring that threatens to outherod...

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... the benefit of those who have not, therefore, it will be only proper that I should enter into some account of it. And this is indeed the more necessa... ...s with the hope of enlisting public sympathy in behalf of the inhabitants, I design here to give a history of the calamitous events which have so late... ... of historian. By the united aid of medals, manuscripts, and inscriptions, I am enabled to say, positively, that the borough of V ondervotteimittiss h... ...dition which it at present preserves. Of the date of this origin, however, I grieve that I can only speak with that species of indefinite definiteness... ..., at times, forced to put up with in certain algebraic formulae. The date, I may thus say, in regard to the remoteness of its antiq- uity, cannot be l... ... of wine, spirit and liqueur. In the morning I had been reading Glover’s “Leonidas,” Wilkie’s “Epigoniad,” Lamartine’s “Pilgrimage,” Barlow’s “Columb...