Often the world can enter fully into the nature of their loss: their son, admired, appreciated, you...
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better for the prosperity of the country. Therefore, supposing there are six millions of tax-payers...
The town of Alencon gabbled for two weeks over this luxury, which seemed unparalleled; but a few mo...
intrepid Voltairean, yet punctual at mass if a fashionable company could be met in Saint Thomas Aqu...
life still more sorrowful; for she now felt the suffering her uncle must have endured in witnessing...
Italian poet makes Angelica prefer Medoro, who was a blond Chevalier de Valois, to Orlando, whose m...
Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To the Comt...
fainting upon that bed, you were enchanting. I have never in my life seen a more beautiful person,-...
"THEY are all in the garden." No doubt the assembled stomachs were impatient; for on the appearance...
period of life when a man has judged men and social interests and relations,--the opinions for whic...
Bousquier; but pray explain to me why a woman is depraved because she prefers one man to another." ...
Presently, in spite of a driving rain, Mademoiselle Cormon drove away from Prebaudet, leaving her f...
have seemed so. An aquiline nose contrasted curiously with the narrowness of her forehead; for it i...
handsome things she had admired from her youth up she suddenly suspected of age and absurdity. In s...
observation, in days when religion is nothing more than a useful means to some, and a poesy to othe...