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... THOMAS CARLYLE INDEX A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution (INDEX) Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsy... ...MAS CARLYLE INDEX A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution (INDEX) Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...LYLE INDEX A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution (INDEX) Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution (INDEX) Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University... ...nave, Coblentz intrigues, and Lamotte’s Memoires, dur- ing Twentieth June, during Tenth August, as captive, and Prin- cess de Lamballe, in Temple Pris... ...emands arrears, general mutiny of, outbreak of, Nanci military executions, Royalists leave, state of, in want, recruited, Revolutionary, fourteen armi... ...oming defunct, September massacres, dissolved. ASSIGNATS, origin of, false Royalist, forgers of, coach-fare in. AUBRIOT, Sieur, after King’s capture. ... ...re. BASTILLE, Linguet’s Book on, meaning of, shots fired at, sum- moned by insurgents, besieged, capitulates, treatment of cap- tured, Queret-Demery, ...

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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

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...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...t to glide into Gascony, to rebuild Chateaus there, (Arthur Young, Travels during the years 1787-88-89 (Bury St. Edmunds, 1792), i. 44.) and die inglo... ...nger-stricken vagabonds to be sent wandering again over space—for a time. ‘During one such periodical clearance,’ says Lacretelle, ‘in May, 1750, the ... ...most unexpected from a Philosophe: “Madame, the trade I live by is that of royalist (Mon metier a moi c’est d’etre royaliste).” So thinks light Maurep... ...s they please to call him, will fly far; borne about in endless banter; in Royalist satires, in Republican didactic Almanacks. (Actes des Apotres (by ... ...re. BASTILLE, Linguet’s Book on, meaning of, shots fired at, sum- moned by insurgents, besieged, capitulates, treatment of cap- tured, Queret-Demery, ...

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...s, oppositions, trines, squares, sextiles) between dates of two historical events explain their similar or opposite character. This is illustrated by the example of the Munich Conference (1938) and the birth dates of its participants. Historical repetitions connected with the 60 years period of the Chinese horoscope are considered (Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, 60 years a...

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...wo words contain respectively m and n letters, where n is greater than or equal to m. Suppose that they have exactly p letters in common counted with the possible repetitions. Then the correlation between the two words is equal to p/m. For instance, the correlation between the words « Italy » and « Sicily » is 3/5 (one has m=5, n=6 and p=3). The one between the words ...

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...Preface. Chapter 1. The Chinese horoscope and parallel events. Chapter 2. Comparison between five geographic regions. Names of persons and places of battles. Appendix 1. Beginnings and ends of the years according to the Chinese horoscope. App...

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still gree...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

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...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... .............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ...em, should I have been allowed to do so by strangers. For it happens that, during the fourteen last years, I have received from many quarters in Engla... ...ster’s bed. I have reason to believe that a very long interval had elapsed during this wandering or suspension of my perfect mind. When I returned to ... ...eir confidence, happened, when travelling up to Dublin in com- pany with a royalist, to speak half mysteriously, half ostenta- tiously, upon the delic... ...ey were not 213 Autobiographic Sketches favorable in their results to the insurgents. The mail coaches, agreeably to the preconcerted plan, had all b... ...der the title of Father Murphy. The campaign opened inauspiciously for the royalists. The rebels had posted themselves on two eminences—Kilthomas, abo... ... posted to intercept their retreat. This fear effectually halted them. The insurgents, through a prejudice natural to inex- perience, had an unreasona...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... his former career seemed to these worthy people profoundly immoral; then, during this very year, he had made still further inroads into his capi- tal... ...ion, to /make his way/. Weak, impatient grief cannot easily be shaken off. During his mourning, Godefroid tried the various chances and dis- tractions... ...l religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a French woman that Godefroid resolved to leave no stone unturned to make him... ... had it protested, and sued Mongenod for me. Meantime the disasters of the French armies had produced such depreciation of the Funds that investors co... ...s of the Emperor. Moreover, this man had long courted the good-will of the royalist families by his devotion to the royal cause during the Revolution.... ...hanked for his services by Louis XVIII., but com- pletely set aside in the royalist affairs, he had returned to live on his property, now much encumbe... ... the interests of the Comte de Lille and a reverence for the memory of the insurgents who lost their lives at the West, disguising with 93 Balzac gre...

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...RIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...f wealth and position. It is plain that if mankind thus acted and suffered during all these gen- erations, they hoped some benefit, some ease, some we... ...cots. He was next obliged to leave his house and flee from place to place, during which wanderings he lost his horse. His wife and children were turne... ...ou must die,’ but never added, ‘If you submit you may live!’* Meantime the insurgents proceeded on their way. At Carsphairn they were deserted by Capt... ...that, and his final flight, appear to indicate that he was an agent of the Royalists, for either the King or the Duke of York was heard to say, ‘That,... ... hands, From Remonstra- tors with associate bands, Good Lord, deliver us!’ Royalist Rhyme, Kirkton, p. 127. L ATE ON THE FOURTH night of November, exa... ... enemy! Here come the enemy!’ Unwilling to believe their own doom– for our insurgents still hoped for success in some negotiations for peace which had... ...t consecration on her now articulate love. Into the wine-shop there came a French gentleman, ar- rayed in the last refinement of the fashion, though a...