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...omen; he made himself agreeable to every one, even to the officials of the government, from whom he wanted nothing. His behavior at cards had a lofty ... ...accuse them of wilful infatuation; such men have a sense of their dignity; governments set them the example of a virtue which consists in burying thei... ...ncans which were going the round of Alencon. He called them his “petticoat gazettes,” his “talk- ing feuilletons.” Never did Monsieur de Sartines have... ...have become a minister. He was one of the chief assistances of that secret government whom Napoleon’s luck send behind the scenes in 1793. (See “An Hi... ...ng to him, and he was never received at the prefecture. All the succeeding governments, even that of the Hundred Days, refused to appoint him mayor of... ... his matrimonial views now turned. Du Bousquier’s aversion to the Imperial government had thrown him at first into the royalist circles of Alencon, wh...

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... great, but, as he could obtain no redress, he re- tired once again to his Government of Blaye. Notwithstand- ing the manner in which he had been trea... ...order to evade a promise he had made to his brother, that the first vacant government should be given to the Duc de Chartres) forced M. de Chaulnes to... ...ould be given to the Duc de Chartres) forced M. de Chaulnes to give up the government of Brittany, which he had long held, and conferred it upon the C... ...ouse, giving to the friend and heir of the former the successorship to the government of Guyenne, by way of recompense. M. de Chaulnes was old and fat... ...ds to the King, and reproached him for giving, under cover of a trick, the government of Brittany to the Comte de Toulouse, having promised it to the ... ...nge had happened of which no in- telligence had been sent: he searched the gazettes of Hol- land; in one he read of a great action said to have been f... ...become the laughing stock of the army; he felt the railleries that, as the gazettes showed him, foreigners were heaping upon his forces; and his vexa-... ...ord in all the work, ex- cept briefly, dryly, and with precision as in the gazettes, of- ten more superficially. Upon legal matters, public ceremo- ni... ...ess of good and faithful memoirs, than of the dryness and sterility of the gazettes. First of all I will finish my account of Cardinal Dubois. I have ...

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... the troubles of the foreign occupation, and the vacillating policy of the Government until the fall of M. Decazes, all contrib- uted to defer the ful... ...en embarrassed by its own partisans; for not merely did they encourage the Government in a mistaken policy, but some of its most fatal blunders were m... ...e. Ordinary persons were content with the surface quiet which deceived the Government; but those who knew du Croisier better, were well aware that the... ...nd his adherents believed that a House, to which no one at Court or in the Government gave a thought, a House that was never heard of beyond the gates... ...once. He saw that there was no suitable place for him at court, nor in the government, nor the army, nor, in- deed, anywhere else. So he launched out ... ... of the Faubourg besides; nevertheless, he was dis- creet, and, like other gazettes, only said things that might safely be published. Again Victurnien...

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...rited strains of Dibdin- as a song-writer no mean auxiliary to the English Government at the European conjuncture- strains celebrating, among other th... ... may without reproach be equally discreet. Though after parleyings between Government and the ringleaders, and concessions by the former as to some 1... ...ther, something like this: “Vere is a noble fellow, Starry Vere. Spite the gazettes, Sir Horatio” (meaning him with the Lord title) “is at bottom scar... ...the altar. Such sanctioned irregu- larities, which for obvious reasons the Government would hardly think to parade at the time, and which conse- quent...

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...r the taking of Cadiz, ostensibly to require the recognition of the King’s Government, really to see the convent and to find some means of entering it... ...or London. So there was neither resistance nor reaction. But the change of government could not be effected in the little town with- out a mass, at wh... ...worth and some distinguishing merit. In any state, no matter what form of “government” is affected, so soon as the patrician class fails to maintain t... ...t perusal to the list of the patronymics of the House of Peers. The King’s Government certainly meant well; but the maxim that the people must be made... ...n’s ideas of religion, and gild- ing it with poetry, these bunglers in the Government chose to make the harshness of their creed felt all over the cou... ...of quality were lost; but for every one, the rogues set down ten, like the gazettes after a battle when they count up the losses of the beaten side. A...

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...’s need: October store, and best Virginia, Tithe-pig, and mortuary guinea: Gazettes sent gratis down, and frank’d, For which thy patron’s weekly thank... ...political societies, ver. 196. Origin of mon- archy, ver. 207. Patriarchal government, ver. 212. VI. Origin of true religion and government, from the ... ... to the social and public good, ver. 266. Restoration of true religion and government on their first principle, ver. 285. Mixed government, ver. 288. ... ... 270 The same self-love, in all, becomes the cause Of what restrains him, government and laws. For, what one likes, if others like as well, What serv... ...ne centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For forms of government let fools contest; Whate’er is best administer’d is best: For mo... ...against the emperor himself, who had con- ceived them of little use to the government. He shows (by a view of the progress of learning, and the change... ...ts in more: T rim’s Europe’s balance, tops the statesman’s part. And talks Gazettes and Postboys o’er by heart. Like a big wife at sight of loathsome ...

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...re in too humble a station to feel much the disad- vantages of any form of government. There was no reason why Gaspar Ruiz should wish to uphold in hi... ...g but his life, which was left to him by the clemency of the Pro- visional Government, he had simply walked under that broken roof of old tiles. It wa... ...ull of suspicions. He forwarded reports against Gaspar Ruiz to the Supreme Government; one of them being that he had married publicly, with great pomp... ...to feed it with perfidious words. I do not know whether really the Supreme Government ever did— as he complained afterwards—send orders for his arrest... ...ix men he could trust, appeared riding through the town to the door of the Government House, and entered the sala armed, his hat on his head. As the G... ...een sitting quietly in his own privileged corner looking through the Paris gazettes with just as much interest as a condemned man on the eve of execut...

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...on sixteen hundred francs of pension and annuity combined. Having read the gazettes for several days, by favor of the abbe, Monsieur de Jordy thought ... ...d de Marsay. “If you had merely been put in the fiacre,” said Lucien, “the government would find you a place in diplomacy, but Saint-Pelagie isn’t the... ...f retaining in the navy a name already illustrious in its service, the new government had profited by a general change of officers to make Savinien an... ...ld family whose influence 161 Balzac would get him a fine place under the government in Paris,” said Minoret, opening his huge snuff-box and offering... ...t A Bachelor’s Establishment A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Government Clerks Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Marsay, Henri de The T... ...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Government Clerks A Bachelor’s Establishment Eugenie Grandet The Imag...

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... When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of su... ...nants apiece; And more might be found out, if I could poke enough Into gazettes; but Fame (capricious strumpet), It seems, has got an ear as w... ...unflattering Muse deigns to inscribe Truths, that you will not read in the Gazettes, But which ‘t is time to teach the hireling tribe Who fatt... ...ose pamphlets, volumes, newspapers, illumine us! Whether you ‘re paid by government in bribes, To prove the public debt is not consuming us— ... ... mob a cordial, which is Too often all the clothing, meat, or fuel, Good government has left them, seems but cruel. Here he embark’d, and with a... ...another’s. A friend to freedom and freeholders—yet No less a friend to government—he held, That he exactly the just medium hit ‘Twixt plac...

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...t the rascals of all other authors, we shall be content:—we shall apply to Government for a pension, and think that our duty is done. CHAPTER II. IN W... ..., it must be remembered, has his lodgings and food provided for him by the government of his country. 72 Catherine: A Story certain or rather uncerta... ...ands of some gentlemen of my acquaintance, who are at war with the present government, and no more care about cutting a man’s throat than they do a ch... ... treated; and when the justice,—a sly old gentleman, and one that read the Gazettes, asked him at what battles he had been present, the gallant Ensign... ...d on this one. For 92 Catherine: A Story this misdemeanour, Her Majesty’s Government vindictively sent them for seven years beyond the sea; and, as t...

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...f the worst of men.” Literary Paris had combined with Hume and the English Government to sur- round him—as he supposed—with guards and spies; he re- v... ...t seemed to have more connection with Annecy than a city under a different government and of a contrary religion; besides, as I undertook this journey... ...r troubled myself about politics, for the first time I be- gan reading the gazettes, but with so much partiality on the side of France, that my heart ... ...felt a secret predilection for the nation I declared servile, and for that government I affected to oppose. The pleasantest of all was that, ashamed o... ...ted, and invincible, that even since my quit- ting that kingdom, since its government, magistrates, and authors, have outvied each other in rancor aga... ... what little I had picked up in the account of Earl Hamilton, and from the gazettes; however, I made such fortunate use of the little I did know as to... ... in the embassy of Venice, it was not to such a man as M. de Montaigu that government would confide a negotiation of even the most trifling importance... ...n, raised against me with unexampled fury in every part of Europe. All the gazettes, journals and pamphlets, rang the alarm-bell. The French especiall...

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...ect of military intelligence, and able commentaries upon the news- papers, gazettes, and bulletins, a very oracle, explanatory of all martial events, ... ...uch had been written and said on either side concerning the form of church government, that it had become a matter of infinitely more consequence in t... ...had the Author of our holy religion considered any peculiar form of church government 25 Sir Walter Scott as essential to salvation, it would have be... ...treasonable purpose was pursued, had blinded the junta who now usurped the government of Scotland to the risk which they were about to incur. The army... ...the Celtic tribes, to destroy by degrees their ancient customs and mode of government, and to despoil them of the inheritance of their fathers. [In th... ...s in no respect superior to ourselves, instead of returning to the natural government of the Prince against whom they have rebelled. And respecting th...

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... and very expensive articles unless franked by a Member of Parliament, but gazettes and newsletters formed a large portion of his freight. No private ... ...he Major. “I would be ready enough were my child only found, but I believe government would take it up, he being on his Majesty’s service.” “It is a m... ...uch explanations as they could. Mr. Wayland said he must report himself to Government on the morrow; but intended afterwards to take his wife to Bowst...

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...ling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you i... ...eir immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop of war Rattler on a whaling voyag...

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...o managed and ruled over an empire. That’s why his party—the Federalists—fought so hard and long for a much more powerful, consolidated, monopolistic government and for mercantilist economic policies. It should be made clear early on that the Federalists won many of the essential debates and the expanding American Empire is a direct result of the Federalists contributio...

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... will leave it to the French people themselves to choose their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the usurper, the whole nation... ...t I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I don’t know how to hide what I 24 War & Peace feel.” As... ...nce, continued to explain how by *Y ou expect to make an income out of the government. **So that squares matters. 34 War & Peace exchanging into the ... ...pt very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important government officials to his table, had unexpectedly se- lected Michael Ivan... ...was he able to be by himself. He had to sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the 113 Tolstoy purpose of which was not clear to him,... ... or dying, alone among strang- ers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz ...

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...d for tidings, in anxiety that knew no peace nor rest. He used to read the gazettes; he went to the coach office every day. One evening he was told th... ... of History Camps, Madame Octave de (nee Cadignan) Madame Firmiani The Government Clerks A Daughter of Eve The Member for Arcis 174 A Woman o... ...hment Colonel Chabert A Start in Life The Commission in Lunacy The Government Clerks A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Cou...

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...the summer, it was formerly almost solely a covering at night. In the Indian gazettes a wigwam was the symbol of a day’s march, and a row of them cut ... ...asier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is ... ...ce to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such. I left the woods for a... ...ows what sort of seventeen year locust will next come out of the ground? The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, i...

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... Thomas, a colonel in the King’s army, who afterwards joined the Usurper’s Government; and Francis, in holy orders, who was slain whilst defending the... ...nly a little care, by both ladies who succeeded the second viscount in the government of this mansion. Round the terrace-garden was a low wall with a ... ...hrewd guess in after-times, when Dr. Tusher complained that King William’s government had 56 Henry Esmond basely treated him for services done in tha... ...ng’s council, the Colonel was put in a better position with the exist- ing government than he had ever before been; any suspicions regarding his loyal... ... but a nominal estate; and refused an English peerage which King William’s government offered him as a bribe to secure his loyalty. He might have acce... ...ng- table, whereon was a map of the action at Hochstedt, and several other gazettes and pamphlets relating to the battle, “that I, too, am busy about ...