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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: historian, moreover, should never forget that it is his duty to allot to each his part; that the rich and the poor are equal before his pen; and for him the figure of the peasant has the greatness of his miseries, the rich man the pettiness of his absurdities. After all, the rich have passions, the peasant knows nothing beyond natural cravings, and, therefore, the peasant's lot is doubly poor; and if it is a political necessity that his aggressions should be sternly checked, from a human and religious point of view he should be treated reverently. A BUCOLIC OVERLOOKED BY VIRGIL. When a Parisian drops down into some country place and finds himself cut off from all his accustomed ways, he soon finds time hang heavily on his hands in spite of the utmost ingenuity on the part of his entertainers. Indeed, your host and hostess being aware that the pleasures of a tete-a-tete (by nature fugitive) cannot endure for ever, will tell you placidly that you will find it very dull here; and, in fact, any one who wishes to know the delights of a life in the country must have some interest to keep him in the country, must know its toils and the alternations of pain and pleasure that make up harmony?the eternal symbol of human life. When the visitor has recovered from the effects of the journey, made up arrears of slumber, and has fallen in with country ways of life, a Parisian who is neither a sportsman nor a farmer, and wears thin walking shoes, is apt to discover that the early morning hours pass slowest of all. The women are still asleep or at their toilets, and invisible until breakfast time; the master of the house went out early to see after his affairs; and from eight o'clock till eleven, therefore (for in nearly all castles they breakfast at that hour), a Parisian is left to h...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217025645 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217025641 |
| Weight | 1.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 In |
| List Price | $33.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 424 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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