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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...y James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publi... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penns... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Not... ...; for, to young wives who come merely to say, “I have seen it,” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on... ...easure; the fashion of rats so completely went out, that in these days few people knew anything of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora-... ...esterday, this letter of release is dated to-day. You see how powerful the people are who take an interest in Lucien.” At the sight of this document E... ...” “And your gown is said to have cost ten thousand francs?” “Yes, it is of Brussels point, and Delphine, his wife, is furi- ous. But I had a fancy to ...

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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ...ry Lane; but the effect of this splendid piece is lessened by a shabby old Brussels carpet, almost the only other article of furniture in the apartmen...

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...Introduction: This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866,1 from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. Thi...

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...l. I (Soc. Bibl. Belges., Mons., 1866). INTRODUCTION This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal ; edit... ...edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866, 1 from the MS. num bered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at... ...1 from the MS. num bered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. This MS. I find thus described in M. F. J. Marchal’s catalogue ... ...istory issued by the Benedictines of the Congregation of St Maur. Selections from the poems it contains are given in Sinner’s Extraits de Poesie du X... ...be, the Berne fragments are identical with the corresponding portions of the Brussels manuscript, and it is therefore safe to assume that the latter i... ..., Kent ENDNOTES: 1 6 vols. 8vo. Mons, 1866 1871. 2 Marchal “Cat.”, 2 vols. Brussels, 1842. Vol i.p. 223. 3 Lausanne, 1759. 4 3 vols. 8vo. Berne, 1... ... day that He was put on rood and crucified in order that He might redeem His people from the pains of hell. Josephus set it in remembrance by annuncia... ... appeared would ask not, whereof have many mischances sithence befallen much people.” III. W ith that, they left of talking, and the hermit led Messir... ... us, for he saith of remembrance that by envy was Adam betrayed, and all the people that were after him and the people that 88 The High History of th...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...oire du Droit Public de la France en matiere d’impots,” p. 654, printed at Brussels in 1779. 803 Tocqueville “… Every corporation and every community...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ...he camps of Germany, emanating originally from the mag- nificent courts of Brussels, of Madrid, and of Vienna, and propagated to this age by the links...

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...Excerpt: The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book--was a miserable loft in an unsavoury yard. Its atmos...

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...TIONAL CHARACTER THE SCHOOL AT WHICH young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book—the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparat... ... had written their own biographies in the same strain; it always appearing from the lessons of those very boast- ful persons, that you were to do good... ...y Hexam had risen in the jumble, taught in the jumble, and been re- ceived from the jumble into a better school. ‘So you want to go and see your siste... ...his, he was proud, moody, and sullen, desiring it to be forgotten. And few people knew of it. In some visits to the Jumble his attention had been attr... ...r ailing little creature has come to be what she is, surrounded by drunken people from her cradle—if she ever had one, Charley .’ ‘I don’t see what yo... ...one of the finders. He was mooning about, I suppose, taking liberties with people’s chins; but there he was, somehow. He brought the news home to my s... ...o a cool cabin on deck alongside his own, and his first school had been at Brussels as mine had been, and he had learnt French as I had learnt it, and...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ..., that not prospering, to retire over the Frontiers, and begin plotting at Brussels. (Montgaillard, ii. 286.) His Apartment will stand vacant; usefull...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...pitulated on August 4th (1695). The Marechal de Villeroy in turn bombarded Brussels, which was sorely mal- treated. The Marechal de Boufflers, who had... ...ole, his cousin-german, but after a time ceased to live with her. Being at Brussels he fell in love with Madame de Cantecroix, a widow. He bribed a co... ... Elector of Bavaria, stating that the King of Spain had been proclaimed at Brussels with much rejoicing and illuminations. On Sunday, the 28th, M. Vau...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ... every day, filled with men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- io... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ...ntance, was drafted in canal boats to Bruges and Ghent, thence to march to Brussels. Jos accompanied the la- dies in the public boats; the which all o... ...ay expected to them, and no enemy in front. When our travellers arrived at Brussels, in which their regiment was quartered, a great piece of good fort...

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...o of the women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have supposed we were all absconding from the law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no... ...table and that of the true steerage passenger was the table itself, and the crockery plates from which we ate. But lest I should show myself ungratefu... ...ical disparity; and even by the pal- ate I could distinguish a smack of snuff in the former from a flavour of boiling and dish-cloths in the second. A... ...ily men broken by adversity, elderly youths who had failed to place themselves in life, and people who had seen better days. Mildness was the prevaili... ...re a shipful of failures, the broken men of England. Yet it must not be supposed that these people exhibited depression. The scene, on the contrary, w... ...s Stevenson the reply, indicating, I fancy, a shade of difference in the social scale. When people pass each other on the high seas of life at so earl... ... at least, is one that I am seldom weary of entertaining. I remember, night after night, at Brussels, 79 Robert Louis Stevenson watching a good famil...

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... in the cathedral of Tours. The archbishop Helie de Bourdeilles was rising from his seat to give the benediction himself to the faithful. The sermon h... ...choed sighs, the edifice itself seemed endowed with life. The existence of Peoples has no more solemn scenes, no moments more majestic. To mankind in ... ... the organ, mingling with the vibrations of the loud “A- men” as it issued from the strong chests of the intoning clergy, sent a murmuring echo throug... ...opposite to the seat vacated of the burgher. A sil- ver-gilt lamp, hanging from the vaulted ceiling of the chapel before an altar magnificently decora... ...ike a scar upon the body which we carry through life! When these two young people looked at each other, the woman seemed to say to her lover, “Let us ... ... that he had found the Universal Panacea. According to many of the country-people to whom the townsfolk talked of him, Cornelius was a chimerical bein... ...ry strong iron grating. “Who is there?” “A friend, sent by Oosterlinck, of Brussels.” “What do you want?” 23 Balzac “T o enter.” “Your name?” “Philip... ...an sequins?” he said abruptly to his future apprentice. “Three-quarters at Brussels; one in Ghent.” “What is the freight on the Scheldt?” “Three sous ...

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...glish Church. I had accompanied Mr. Horne to the Rhine; and we had reached Brussels on our return, just at the close of that revolution which ended in... ...that such should be his resolution. This accomplished we were to return to Brussels; and thence, via Ghent, Ostend, and Dover, I to complete my legal ... ... more the peaceful retirement of Ollerton rectory. As we were to be absent from Brussels but one night we were enabled to indulge in the gratification... ... the peaceful retirement of Ollerton rectory. As we were to be absent from Brussels but one night we were enabled to indulge in the gratification of t... ... throwing the now hateful gar- ments into a corner, and protecting himself from the cold as best he might by standing with his knees together and his ... ...e other—the al- ready devoted goods of my most unfortunate companion! Down from the waistband, through that goodly expanse, a fell gash had already go... ... achieved, they pocketed their plun- der and prepared to depart. There are people who have a wonderful appetite for relics. A stone with which Wash- i... ...e place; and I was given to understand that he is determined to punish the people who have wronged him.” 23 Anthony Trollope “It can’t be the same,” ...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ... may turn out to be a mere military occupation. Many persons think so; and Brussels is full of fine people and ladies of fashion.” So it was 239 Thac... ...d have at the French king’s court at Ghent, or the great military balls at Brussels. “Ghent! Brussels!” cried out Amelia with a sudden shock and start... ... every day, filled with men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- io...

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...e Professor,” shortly after the appear- ance of “Shirley.” Being dissuaded from her intention, the authoress made some use of the materials in a subse... ...it has been represented to me that I ought not to withhold “The Professor” from the public. I have there- fore consented to its publication. A. B. Nic... ...ou, and I have reason to believe that you, on your part, were equally free from all romantic regard to me. Still, out of school hours we walked and ta... ...of respect to the peerage, oppose at every step the advancing power of the people, support your rotten order, and be ready for its sake to wade knee-d... ...y it if you dare.” “Oh, I shall not deny it! And if Hunsden hounded on the people to hiss you, he did quite right. You deserve popular execration; for... ... stillness near and far; the time of the day favoured tranquillity, as the people were all employed within-doors, the hour of evening release from the... ...ith invol- untary ardour. “Go: what the deuce hinders you? Y ou may get to Brussels, for instance, for five or six pounds, if you know how to man- age... ...“Go, then, and let your wits make a way for you when you get there. I know Brussels almost as well as I know X——, and I am sure it would suit such a o... ...had; and how could I get recommendation, or introduction, or employment at Brussels?” “There speaks the organ of caution. You hate to advance a step b...

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...ty’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania... ...sion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages; ‘T i... ... Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long seclusion From better company, have kept your own At Keswick, and, through still ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ... Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace. Without a friend, what were humanity, To hunt our er...

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... Messageries, the name given to the T ouchard enterprise to distinguish it from that of the Grandes Messageries of the rue Montmartre. At the time of ... ...long-tried coachman, although his vehicle and his horses might be in a far from reassuring condition. One of the lines which the T ouchards, father an... ...Paris and in foreign lands,—for the base and capital of the columns of the Brussels theatre are of Nogent stone. Though remarkable for its beautiful s... ... the rule of rivalry was founded on rea- sons that are easy to understand. From the Cave, the point on the route to England where a paved road (due to... ...e in that respect which won for them the grateful affection of the country-people, and also violent remon- strances on the part of strangers accustome... ...ise. Political events prevented both the count and the neighboring country-people from becom- ing aware of this investment, which was made in the name... ...po di Bacco! the Pope is laying it on heavily,” replied Schinner. “But the people are used to it. Besides, Italians are so good-natured that if you le...

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... a sort of panic terror, and I rushed into this Pref- ace, which is no more than an advertisement for readers. What am I to say for my book? Caleb and... ...leb and Joshua brought back from Palestine a formidable bunch of grapes; alas! my book produces naught so nourishing; and for the mat- ter of that, we... ...e mat- ter of that, we live in an age when people prefer a defini- tion to any quantity of fruit. 5 The Inland V oyage I wonder, would a negative be ... ...ng water. Next moment the Arethusa was after her. A steamer was com- ing down, men on the paddle-box shouted hoarse warn- ings, the stevedore and his ... .... The food, as usual in Belgium, was of a nondescript occasional char- acter; indeed I have never been able to detect anything in the nature of a meal... ...me to dinner at his own fireside. There is not enough exercise in such a life for any high measure of health; but a high measure of health is only nec... ...populated waters. At the last lock, just beyond Villevorde, there was a lock- mistress who spoke French comprehensibly, and told us we were still a co... ...wn; the air was chill; and we had scarcely a dry stitch between the pair of us. Nay, now we found ourselves near the end of the Allee V erte, and on t... ...his ledger, I venture to doubt whether he will be near so nice a fellow, and whether he would welcome, with so good a grace, a couple of drenched Engl...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ... submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the d... ...chyard, was a little creature of history, not really herself. They were at Brussels—half an hour for breakfast. They got down. On the great station cl... ...rsula again of home, of the Marsh, of her childhood, and of the journey to Brussels, and, strangely, of Anton Skrebensky. Oh, God, could one bear it, ...

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... ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOKS TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ... after he had come to the Gatehouse prison, (where he lay in no small pain from his wound, which inflamed and ached severely,) and with those thoughts... ...ing, Esmond knew at once that his visitor was his dear mistress. He got up from his bed, where he was lying, being very weak; and advancing towards he... ...o happened to be in the place; and the governor’s wife and ser- vant, kind people both, were with the patient. Esmond saw his mistress still in the ro... ...d more than a half of the nation were on this side. Ours is the most loyal people in the world surely; we admire our kings, and are faith- ful to them... ...hough a Tory herself, she represented the triumph of the Whig opinion. The people of England, al- ways liking that their Princes should be attached to... ...age certificate of the late Viscount Esmond with my mother, in the city of Brussels, in the year 1677, when the viscount, then Thomas Esmond, was serv... ...er husband long since, was alive, and a professed nun in the year 1685, at Brussels, in which year Thomas Esmond married his uncle’s daughter, Isabell... ...uke’s levees at St. James’s were as thronged as they had been at Ghent and Brussels, where we treated him, and he us, with the grandeur and ceremony o...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...ke of Alva presented to us in the persons of the Counts Horn and Egmont at Brussels,—[Decapitated 4th June 1568]—there were very remarkable passages, ...