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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... lay buried beneath the deepest reserve. Like almost every military man in Europe, he had only seen the world through cannon smoke, or in the brief in... ...at occurred so seldom during the Emperor’s continual wars with the rest of Europe. Had he or had he not thought of marriage? The question remained uns... ...ar from expecting the slightest expression of praise or of thanks from his listener, it appeared from his way of telling the story of this episode in ... ...n the town; they were neither more nor less than stables, in which men and animals were indiscriminately huddled together. As there was no inn in the ... ...radually persuaded to feed and clothe themselves better, I wanted the dumb animals to feel the benefit of these beginnings of civilization. All the ex... ...om they daily bring him in contact. “The peasant is always more willing to listen to the man who lays down rules for saving him from bodily ills than ... ...upting Genestas; “but only twenty years later, in 1814, our patriotism was extinct; while, in former times, a reli- gious impulse moved France and Eur...

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...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like la...

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... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a... ... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...nd the grave and thoughtful image of the young Prince William of Orange. The brothers De Witt humoured Louis XIV ., whose moral influence was felt by ... ...ll the diabolical strata- gems planned beforehand to smooth for him, Tyckelaer, all the difficulties in the path of murder. And every phase of his spe... ...difficult task of haranguing the mob; but the mob preferred forcing the guard of the States — which, however, offered no re- sistance to the sovereign... ...e or a laboratory, that certainly is not living. Your time to die will also come; and if you are not then so fortunate as to have a son, you will let ... ...ensive savant. Engaging, heart and soul, in his pursuits of sowing, plant- ing, and gathering, V an Baerle, caressed by the whole fra- ternity of tuli... ...eather, footprints on the walks, or footprints in the borders. Y ou will listen at night whether our garden is not resorted to by cats. A couple of th...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...

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