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...onishing Discovery - Chapter 2. Ludwig van Beethoven - Chapter 3. Giuseppe Verdi - Chapter 4. Pablo Picasso - Chapter 5. Napoléon I - Chapter 6. Victor Hugo - Chapter 7. Winston Churchill - Chapter 8. The Complete Picture - Chapter 9. The Advantages - Chapter 10. Mikhail Gorbachev - Chapter 11. Nelson Mandela - Chapter 12. Christopher Columbus - Chapter 13. Kin...

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...Louise Victorine-Ackermann was a French poet. Her works were originally written in French, in verses and in rhymes. Reading this outstanding work is transcendental. I compare it to walking inside an empty cathedral, sitting by the s...

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... concerned. All right, to simplify it, let’s say for now this is a collection of poems written by some 19th-century French poet by the name of Louise-Victorine Ackermann – born Choquet – between France and Germany from adolescence – 1829 – up until 1877 by using poetry because she liked to write. Is that better? Not quite! If that was the case, the purpose of this essay wo...

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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Presentation of Louise-Victorine Ackermann……………….………………………………………..........3 About the translation…………………………………………………………………………...………...3 A- Works of Louise-Victorine Ackermann I- My life…………………………………...…………………………………………….........5 II- First poem...

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... Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, a country named after him. Venezuela's new strongman, Hugo Chavez, renamed his country The Bolivarian republic of Vene... ...ry and the glory which he would win who should liberate it" And, later, after a victory against the Spaniards in 1819: "The triumphal arches... ...shape with a flat, breastless, torso. The Elizabethan corset - as opposed to the Victorian one - was comfortable and supported the back. It evolv... ...f french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone to them (1597)" Victorian women were described by contemporaries as maintaining ... ...ound in literature. In "The Man Who Laughs", published in 1869, the French author, Victor Hugo (1802-1885), described the comprachicos thus: "Th... ... literature. In "The Man Who Laughs", published in 1869, the French author, Victor Hugo (1802-1885), described the comprachicos thus: "The compr... ...the stamps - as no other polity produced such. But it did carry the image of Queen Victoria. All British stamps since bear the simile of the reign...

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...f a loving person. When I think of this ideal, I am reminded of a line in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables: "To love another person is to see the face o... ...ing person. When I think of this ideal, I am reminded of a line in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables: "To love another person is to see the face of God."... ... weighed his options, and chose to do nothing. Ruby rejoiced in her small victory. I was impressed with her courage and conviction that she was righ...

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...xpediind poemele paradoxiste şi în portughez ă); Canada (Bal Sethi); Chia (Victor Changnone – cu poeme paradoxiste şi în limba chinez ă!); India (A.... ... Novi Sad, Iugoslavia, Nr. 351, p. 47, 23 II – 9 III 2001. [5 ] Neufeldt, Victoria; Guralnik, David B., editori, “Webster’s New World Dictionary of ... ...reira CANADA: Joel Kuper Michelle de Laplante David Rogers CHINA: Victor Changnone Charles Le ENGLAND: Richard Cheevers 56 Gerlad E... ...n Spania) Andrei Dorian Gheorghe Dumitru Ichim (din Canada) Liviu Jianu Victor Martin Emilian Mirea Marian Mirescu Florea Miu Doru Mo ţoc Tud... ...onesci zicea c ă din e şec în e şec, cu teatrul absurdului, el a ajuns la… victorie!). Ca s ă revin la o chestiune dintr-un e-mail: în Aut-Art ă (... ...stmodernism! Ce, nu se mai f ăcuse dadaism înainte de Tzara, Marcel Iancu, Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jean (Hans) Arp, Hans Richter? Texte inco...

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...was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor. All the monarchs of the Norman 5 Sir Walter Scott race had shown t... ... the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished have been so happily blended to- gether; and whi... ...icted, and to maintain a line of separation betwixt the descendants of the victor Normans and the vanquished Saxons. THE SUN WA S SETTING upon one of ... ...; “Here is some one either asleep, or lying dead at the foot of this cross—Hugo, stir him with the but-end of thy lance.” This was no sooner done than... ...ports, the arms and steed of the knight who is unhorsed are forfeit to his victor? Now I may be unfortunate, and so lose what I cannot replace or repa... ... It was the well-known consequence of this discord that Richard’s repeated victories had been ren- dered fruitless, his romantic attempts to besiege J...

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...A. Martin Secker, 1917. *“Karl Strickland: sein Leben und seine Kunst,” by Hugo Weitbrecht-Rotholz, Ph.D. Schwingel und Hanisch. Leipzig, 1914. 6 The... ...ody shovel. Woman had not yet alto- gether come into her own. I lived near Victoria Station, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable hou... ...e Colonel. He did not take my hand. “I’m just coming. If you’re walking up Victoria Street, I’ll come along with you.” “All right,” I said. “Come on.”... ... was a player who despised the opponent he van- quished; his exultation in victory made defeat more difficult to bear. On the other hand, if he was be... ...the streets for an hour of bitter cold, and then made his way to the Place Victor Gelu, where the sailor - men are wont to congregate. Dozing against ... ... he assigned to his charges; and every day they went with him to the Place Victor Gelu, whither came ships’ captains in search of a man. He was marrie...

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...oet who can compare with your grandfather? Let me see. There’s Chenier and Hugo and Alfred de Musset—wonderful men, but, at the same time, there’s a r... ...to a firm white ball. From the surrounding walls the heads of three famous Victorian writers sur- veyed this entertainment, and slips of paper pasted ... ...h had been set to an absurdly and charmingly sentimental air by some early Victorian composer. “It’s the vitality of them!” she concluded, striking he... ... keenly conscious of the degradation which is the result of strife whether victorious or not, she thought gloomily of her loneliness, of life’s futili... ...nwelcome thought, her mind went on with additional vigor, derived from the victory; on a sheet of paper lines of figures and symbols frequently and fi... ...d followed some such course in their thoughts too; they had been borne on, victors in the forefront of some triumphal car, spectators of a pag- eant e...

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...in any quarter. “Why you see,” she explained, “he’s as fine as ever in the victoria; so that when I leave him, as I often do almost for hours —he like... ...t, to reconstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein for once in a way to ... ...econstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein for once in a way to the joy... ...er mystery. While she rose, as he would have called it, to the question of Victor Hugo, her voice itself, the light low quaver of her deference to the... ...ery. While she rose, as he would have called it, to the question of Victor Hugo, her voice itself, the light low quaver of her deference to the solemn... ...d which, separated from them by the deep arch of the porte-cochere the low victoria that had conveyed her from her own hotel was drawn up. She made fo...

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...tes about to disintegrate? The notion sounds preposterous. Hale, affluent, mighty, victorious and assured - the USA appears to be beyond destructio... ...tion. International law has become the self-interested and biased "justice" of the victors, a policy tool, a discriminatory travesty, worthy only o... ... form a buffer zone against the Taliban, but without being able to gain substantial victories or to intervene in Tajikistan. Moreover, Russia has be... ...ndustries and services vanished and army recruitment stabilized with the Taliban's victories, salaries decreased by up to 40% while inflation picke... ...try, thought to be worth dozens of billions of dollars, may even be honored by the victors. Thus, the outlays on warfare will likely be dwarfed by... ...umma Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in his influential tome "Jure Belli ac...

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...diciary- Government leaders: Raul ALFONSIN, President (since December 1983); Victor MARTINEZ, Vice President (since Decem- ber 1983) 9 Argentina (con... ...efined the powers of the President National holiday: National Day, 26 March; Victory Day, 16 December Branches: constitution provides for uni- cameral... ...; Congress began meeting again in October 1982; judiciary Government leader: Victor PAZ Estens- soro, President (since August 1985) Suffrage: universa... ...not produce the required major- ity for any of the three leading candidates; Victor Paz Estenssoro, center-left leader of the Nationalist Revolutionar... ...olutionary Movement (MNR), placed second in the popular vote to center-right Hugo Banzer, head of the Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN); however, th... ...ionalist Democratic Action (ADN), continue to have a tactical alliance; MNR, Victor Paz Estenssoro; ADN, Hugo Banzer; Movement of the Revolutionary Le... ...ADN), continue to have a tactical alliance; MNR, Victor Paz Estenssoro; ADN, Hugo Banzer; Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Jaime Paz Zamora; ... ...Abeliuk; Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Gabriel Valdes; Republican Right, Hugo Zepeda; Socialist Party, Ri- cardo Nunez; the PR, PSD, PDC, Republi-... ...Party (PDC), Jose Antonio Morales Erlich; National Conciliation Party (PCN), Hugo Carrillo; Democratic Action (AD), Ricardo Gonzalez Camacho; Salvador...

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...y mediocrity, those ones accumulate a quantity of lines in a process that Hugo Friedrich qualifies generally with modern expressions such as: excell... ...Contemporary) of Ion Vinea and Marcel Iancu, 75 H.P. of Ilarie Voronca and Victor Brauner, illustrating the constructivism of the avant-garde, appear... ...ch he exposes himself. He always places his cards on the table and smiles victoriously: who does not like, may leave the game! As every abandon is a... ...rentin Smarandache, in “Argo”, Bonn, Germany, summer 1993, no.7. Martin, Victor, The mathematician and the poet Florentin Smarandache has written to... ...e”, in “Secolul 20”, no.8-9-10/1983. Franck Nicoleta, A Deafeting and a Victory, Bucuresti, Humanitas, 1982 (Postface by Dinu C. Giurescu). Grig...

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...le center; He is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, vii An idea is taken for granted i... ...er; He is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, vii An idea is taken for granted in the s... ... and are demanding the same rights as everyone else. Last year they scored a major victory when the United States Supreme Court ruled that companies ...

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... It is the pursuit that matters, the hunt more than the game and the game more than victory or gains. Serendipity cannot underlie an achievement. T... ...nexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exacerbated the grandiose fantasies of the Jews. Ma... ...provoked by the Arab states. It is true, though, that Israel unwisely leveraged its victories to oppress the Palestinians and for territorial gains,... ...when prisoners of war are butchered for the express purpose of being eaten by their victorious enemies. A notorious and rare representative of thi... ...estination, the struggle - rather than the attainment, the battle - rather than the victory, the effort - rather than the outcome, or, in short - th... ...umma Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in his influential tome "Jure Belli ac ... ...; nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him." (Hugo Grotius) The narcissistic leader is the culmination and rei...

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... It is the pursuit that matters, the hunt more than the game and the game more than victory or gains. Serendipity cannot underlie an achievement. T... ...nexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exacerbated the grandiose fantasies of the Jews. Ma... ...provoked by the Arab states. It is true, though, that Israel unwisely leveraged its victories to oppress the Palestinians and for territorial gains,... ...when prisoners of war are butchered for the express purpose of being eaten by their victorious enemies. A notorious and rare representative of thi... ...estination, the struggle - rather than the attainment, the battle - rather than the victory, the effort - rather than the outcome, or, in short - th... ...umma Theologicae", Francisco de Vitoria (1548-1617), Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in his influential tome "Jure Belli ac ... ...; nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him." (Hugo Grotius) The narcissistic leader is the culmination and rei...

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...t over a novel that did not exist before I wrote it? One hundred years later Victor Hugo echoed the same thoughts in a speech to the Conseil d’Etat an... ...a novel that did not exist before I wrote it? One hundred years later Victor Hugo echoed the same thoughts in a speech to the Conseil d’Etat and point... ...enterprise.” 49 This is the flip side of the arguments that Diderot and later Hugo put forward. Perhaps the romantic author does not create out of thin... ... private property. And, like the break- ing of a minor taboo that presages a Victorian literary character’s slide into debauchery, once that first wall... ...egime. Equally plausible scenarios see it as a dead end or as the inevitable victor in the war of productive processes. These are all guesses, however... ... the Database Directive in the United States. To date, they have failed. The victor, Hyperlaw, has since gone out of business. Westlaw has not. This l... ...eautifully captured in Catherine Seville, Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copy- right Act (Cambridge, U.... ..., 91. 42. Quoted in Hesse, Publishing and Cultural Politics, 100. 43. Victor Hugo, speech to the Conseil d’Etat, September 30, 1849, quoted in Bernard... ...–212, 275, 287, 290, 291, 292, 292n2. Hughes, Justin, viii, 36, 262n51, 271. Hugo, Victor, 31–32, 261n43. Hunter, Dan, 286. Hurricane Katrina, 124–126...

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...ke roses or buttercups) “in all the na- tions.” Sweet, innocent flowers of victory! there they are, my dear, sure enough, and a pretty considerable ho... ...the nation seemed to have found its Palladium again,—the sainted relics of victory.” At length, on the 14th, the coffin was transferred from the “Dora... ...over the place of their habitation. Strange coincidence! If I had been Mr. Victor Hugo, my dear, or a poet of any note, I would, in a few hours, have ... ...e place of their habitation. Strange coincidence! If I had been Mr. Victor Hugo, my dear, or a poet of any note, I would, in a few hours, have made an... ...bearing a bronze buckler on which was written, in gold letters, one of the victories of the Em- peror, and each decorated with enormous imperial flags... ...bout, with the imperial cipher and eagle, and the names of the battles and victories glittering in gold. The long avenues of the Champs Elysees had be...

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...hour of inevitable material weakness and disorganisation. Even four years of victorious warfare would dislocate the machinery of any great nation’s li... ...tic Statue of Liberty in butter for a World’s Fair, when the little Wingless Victory, tying on her sandal on the Acropolis, holds the whole horizon in... ...a halls enjoying with keen discrimination a tragedy by Racine or a drama of Victor Hugo’s. In America the “movie” and music hall audiences require no... ...s enjoying with keen discrimination a tragedy by Racine or a drama of Victor Hugo’s. In America the “movie” and music hall audiences require no higher...

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... by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Monsieur Victor Hugo, It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great... ...ore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Monsieur Victor Hugo, It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet a... ...e subterranean places of jour- nalism. For this reason I desired that your victorious name should help to win a victory for this work that I inscribe ... ...re living at Pekin and you in Greenland.” “The will of two lovers can rise victorious over all things,” said Lucien, lowering his eyes. “You will forg... ...g less than a little revolution. Who was responsible for it? Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger and Chateaubriand. Dav... ...than a little revolution. Who was responsible for it? Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger and Chateaubriand. Davrigny, ... ...r tears were ready to flow for every misfortune; she sang paeans for every victory. She sympathized with the fallen Napoleon, and with Mehemet Ali, ma... ...rn of the Bourbon Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo “a sublime child.” It depressed her that she could only know genius fr...

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...this morning. Everything wintry. I am very jolly, however, having finished Victor Hugo, and just looking round to see what I should next take up. I ha... ...rning. Everything wintry. I am very jolly, however, having finished Victor Hugo, and just looking round to see what I should next take up. I have been... ...d such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen to-day about my Victor Hugo. It is accepted. This ought to have made me gay, but it hasn’t.... ...a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen to-day about my Victor Hugo. It is accepted. This ought to have made me gay, but it hasn’t. I am n... ... Now Braemar is a place patronised by the royalty of the Sister Kingdoms – Victoria and the Cairngorms, sir, honouring that countryside by their con- ... ...f R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 and the old defeat becomes the scene of the new victory. Concern yourself about no failure; they do not cost lives, as in e...

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...re brought on the stage. In those days it was done in all simplic- ity. In Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was ... ...ght on the stage. In those days it was done in all simplic- ity. In Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provide... ...uld not be for such as they. It is prophesied that Thou wilt come again in victory, Thou wilt come with Thy chosen, the proud and strong, but we will ...

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...tion to elevate its ideals. Y.M. But as to merit—the personal merit of the victori ous coward’s project and achievement? O.M. There isn’t any. In the... ...rsonal merit in it anywhere; it will all have come from the outside. The Victoria Cross breeds more heroes than— Y.M. Hang it, where is the sense in... ... on the pier—with the last link—the conspicuous, the con summating, the victorious link: I was asked to write a book, and I did it, and called it... ...orch and clearly see every reign and its length, from the Conquest down to Victoria, then in the forty sixth year of her reign— eight hundred and seve... ...to my mind, for he just filled the stretch which went by the summer house. Victoria’s reign reached almost to my study door on the first little summit... ...ns to see. It is somehow not the same gaze that people rivet upon a Victor Hugo, or Niagara, or the bones of the mastodon, or the guillotine of the Re... ...appease and satisfy the thirst of a lifetime. Satisfy it—that is the word. Hugo and the mastodon will still have a de gree of intense interest therea...

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... quadruped been?—Nature is good, but she is not the best: here truly was the victory of Art over Nature. A thunderbolt indeed might have pierced thee;... ...ce, and the far stranger Force of Man, are cunning affinities and battles and victories of Force brought about; it is a little ganglion, or nervous cen... ...antle downwards, are emblematic, not of want only, but of a manifold cunning Victory over Want. On the other hand, all Emblematic things are properly ... ...egimental Schoolmaster), and talked to neighbors that would listen about the Victory of Rossbach; and how Fritz the Only (der Einzige) had once with h... ...rightness (Geradheit); that understood Busching’s Geography, had been in the victory of Rossbach, and left for dead in the camisade of Hochkirch? The ... ...n extant! Deuce on it (verdammt), the little spitfires!—Nay, I think with old Hugo von Trim berg: ‘God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing b...

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...rovided it be for the ideal cause, death may lose its sting, the grave its victory. In these states, the ordinary contrast of good and ill seems to be... ...ed, in Christian- ity, during the past fifty years, may fairly be called a victory of healthy-mindedness within the church over the morbidness with wh... ...e feels to be two deadly hostile selves, one ac- tual, the other ideal. As Victor Hugo makes his Mahomet say:— “Je suis le champ vil des sublimes c... ... to be two deadly hostile selves, one ac- tual, the other ideal. As Victor Hugo makes his Mahomet say:— “Je suis le champ vil des sublimes combats:... ...ommon moral notions, of which he must seek immediately to get rid. For him victory, success, must be everything. The most barbaric tendencies in men c... ..., the con- spiracy of those who suffer against those who suc- ceed and are victorious; here the very aspect of the victorious is hated—as if health, s...

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...ng him. In fact, she had been determined not to promise. Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance.... ...mon et Baucis. Cette vieillesse la, ressemblance du soir avec l’aurore.” — Victor Hugo: L’homme qui rit. MRS. GARTH, HEARING CALEB enter the passage a... ...Baucis. Cette vieillesse la, ressemblance du soir avec l’aurore.” — Victor Hugo: L’homme qui rit. MRS. GARTH, HEARING CALEB enter the passage about te...

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...ines Flight 175 was scheduled to depart for Los Angeles at 8:00. Cap- tain Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks piloted the Boeing 767, ... ...ertain to win power through the ballot box, the mili- tary preempted their victory, triggering a brutal civil war that continues today. Opponents of t... ...nce to the West and to America. He could present himself and his allies as victori- ous warriors in the one great successful experience for Islamic mi... ...ived little or no assistance from the United States. 23 April 1988 brought victory for the Afghan jihad. Moscow declared it would pull its military fo... ...ll set up some four years earlier. He died in a ferryboat accident on Lake Victoria just a few days after Bin Ladin arrived in Jalalabad, leaving Bin ... ...1, p.A6 (EPA says levels of airborne asbestos below threshold of concern); Hugo Kugiya,“Terrorist Attacks;Asbestos Targeted in Cleanup Effort; EPA’s W...