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...and a fourth. I must fill a notebook. Quickly. I must follow that bearded Corsican and draw his face. All of us apprentices respected Andrea del Ver... ... new barber trimmed my hair and beard. He is chief barber for the King, a Corsican, red-faced, rotund, about forty; he seems in the prime of life. A... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ...ith a nod or lifted hand. They are masters of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the m...

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...will be seen, was a fatalist, like Napoleon, Mahomet, and many other great politicians. It is a strange thing that most men of action have a tendency ... ...d towards the goal where the trum- pets and gifts of victory await patient politicians. Lucien had taken Beaudenord’s bachelor quarters on the Quai Ma... ...tility of Prince de Talleyrand and the Duke of Otranto, the only two great politicians formed by the Revolution, who might perhaps have been able to s... ... and the Law. At the present time, when philosophers, philanthropists, and politicians are constantly endeavoring to reduce every social power, the ri... ...bered by Jacques Collin at such a critical moment. Theodore Calvi, a young Corsican, imprisoned for life at the age of eighteen for eleven murders, th... ...he imminent end of his former comrade—the dead body of Theodore, the young Corsican. Only to see the boy would demand extraordinary cleverness; to sav... ...hance,” cried Bibi-Lupin. “I had forgotten that. Theodore Calvi, the young Corsican, was the man chained to Jacques Collin; they say that on the hulks... ... is, in my opinion, no conclusive evidence against him.” “He is a thorough Corsican,” said Monsieur Gault; “he has not said a word, and has held firm ... ... added misery of enforced idleness and inaction. And yet Theodore Calvi, a Corsican, now twenty-seven years of age, muffled, as it were, in a shroud o...

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...nd workwomen. She, whose character had a marked resemblance to that of the Corsicans, worked upon without fruition by the instincts of a strong nature... ... be feared. For that instant, Lisbeth Fischer had been her real self; that Corsican and savage temperament, bursting the slender bonds that held it un... ...er the banner of Giraud, a State Councillor, and Victorin Hulot. These two politicians were trying to form a nucleus of progressives in the loose arra...

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...ilitary enthusiasm, as we can all remember in the year 1801, what time the Corsican upstart menaced our shores. A recruiting-party and captain of Cutt... ...ve all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for our own...

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...ke Nostromo! “You hombres finos!” Very much like Nostromo. But Dominic the Corsican nursed a cer- tain pride of ancestry from which my Nostromo is fre... ...his unimpressed and frigid behaviour? He was the first of the succes- sive politicians sent out from the capital to rule the Occidental Province whom ... ...rnandez evidently was not of the stuff of which the distinguished military politicians and conspirators of Costaguana are made. This clever but common... ...gh the exer- tions of his creditors (the Sta. Marta shopkeepers, all great politicians), who moved heaven and earth in his interest publicly, and priv... ...elf was never known to talk. But he made no secret of his opinion that the politicians of Sta. Marta had harder hearts and more corrupt minds than the...

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...p a vote into the ballot-box. As for the prominent 10 Miscellaneous Prose politicians who have displaced their rivals partly on the strength of an im... ... with three or four Nea- politans, formed the quarterdeck society; and our Corsican captain took no pains to hide his contempt at the dilatory proceed...

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...interest in Frederic of Prussia during his difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like... ...ish precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English politicians and the En glish public concerning all social phenomena not ge... ... sooner or later compel the attention both of theoretical and of practical politicians. The chief of these last, is the distinction between the functi...

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...ut there is something enlivening in a hatred of so genuine a brand, hot as Corsican revenge, and sneering like Voltaire. Pencils, school-keeping, and ... ...over of Queen Isabel, and the leading patron of art and one of the leading politicians in France. And the poet might have inherited yet higher vir- tu...

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...sica somewhere. She has it now as she has everything he ever had; and that Corsican palace is the portion that will stick the longest to Dona Rita, I ... ...t the Pretender with his big infec- tious laugh, it wasn’t all that lot of politicians, archbishops, and generals, of monks, guerrilleros, and smuggle...

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...nion? That is the most vicious jade of all. According to you moralists and politicians, the laws you set up are al- ways to go before those of nature,... ...s project preyed upon me as a thirst for re- venge gnaws at the heart of a Corsican monk. This is how I carried it out. On the days when Foedora recei...

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...ected,” said Mr. Hawley, mounting his horse. “Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy.” “I know he’s one of your black sheep, Hawley. But he i... ...voice. Nothing, had done instead—not the opera, or the converse of zealous politicians, or the flattering reception (in dim corners) of his new hand i...

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...ected,” said Mr. Hawley, mounting his horse. “Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy.” “I know he’s one of your black sheep, Hawley. But he i... ...oice. Nothing, had done instead— not the opera, or the converse of zealous politicians, or the flattering reception (in dim corners) of his new hand in...