.................................................................. 261 TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA ................................................. ...allow that it is impossible to form any idea of Him: they exclaim with the French poet, Pour dire ce qu’il est, il faut etre lui-meme. Lord Bacon says... ...His readings were not always well chosen; among them were the works of the French philosophers: as far as metaphysical argument went, he temporarily b... ...n, and boys Wake in this scene of legal misery. ... T T T T TO O O O O THE REPUBLICANS OF NOR THE REPUBLICANS OF NOR THE REPUBLICANS OF NOR THE REPUBL... ...R THE REPUBLICANS OF NOR THE REPUBLICANS OF NOR THE REPUBLICANS OF NOR THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA TH AMERICA TH AMERICA TH AMERICA TH AMERICA Pu... ...heists gone; 12 30 4: 12 30 4: 12 30 4: 12 30 4: 12 30 4: How Atheists and Republicans can die; 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Aught but a lifeless clod, until revive...

... In short, I am, as to classical education, another Shakespear. I can read French as easily as English; and under pressure of necessity I can turn to ... ...e every famous name in literature. I should probably know as much Latin as French, if Latin had not been made the excuse for my school impris- onment ... ...m of mourning is carried in France; but judging from the appearance of the French people I should say that a Frenchwoman goes into mourning for her co... ...er what its political con- victions may be, that there are Monarchists and Republicans and Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should know...

...antenac meets the royal- ists, under the idea that he is going to meet the republicans, it seems as if there were a hitch in the stage mechanism. I ha... ...k more and more towards the professional Don Juan. With a leer of what the French call fatuity, he bids the belles of Mauchline beware of his seductio... ...e sudden interest in politics which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. His only political feeling had been hith- erto a sentime... ...ause he lay out of the way of active politics in his youth. With the great French Revolution, something living, practical, and feasible appeared to hi... ... subsequent sale four carronades, and despatched them with a letter to the French Assembly. Letter and guns were stopped at Dover by the English offic... ... these pointed occasions are most useful and inspiring. As those who speak French imperfectly are glad to dwell on any topic they may have 60 Robert ...

...on might defeat the allied sovereigns; but such an Englishman would kill a French cuirassier rather than be killed by him just as ener- getically as t... ...rels and to put upon Gallifet the brand that still makes him impossible in French politics as it was for Victor Hugo to bombard Napoleon III from his ... ...poet and composer of Siegfried, with the levity of a schoolboy, mocked the French republicans who were do- ing in 1871 what he himself was exiled for ... ...d composer of Siegfried, with the levity of a schoolboy, mocked the French republicans who were do- ing in 1871 what he himself was exiled for doing i... ...for personal spite against his own countrymen than he ever had against the French. No doubt his outburst gratified the pettier feelings which great me...

...l it shall be otherwise or dained by Congress; if a personal esteem for the French INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 14 nat... ...We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would w... ...n of our Federal Govern ment. With the catastrophe in which the wars of the French Revolution terminated, and our own subsequent peace with Great Bri... ...ame from the hands of the Conven tion which formed it, many of the sternest republicans of the day were alarmed at the extent of the power which had ... ...d, and with respect to which we ought not to be, in a partisan sense, either Republicans or Democrats, but fellow citizens and fellowmen, to whom the ... ...Italy and the mountaineer in the Andes. It confers a common dignity upon the French INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 304 so... ...ster, screen actor, and Governor of California. In the election of 1980, the Republicans won the White House and a majority in the Senate. On inaugura...

...e like a town bull’s; it won’t matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians— they will be the Germans or Brazilians... ...nt at missing trains. The Belgian State Railway has a trick of letting the French trains miss their connections at Brussels. That has always infuriate... ... of a second for the one coming from Calais or from Paris. And even if the French train, are just on time, you have to run—imagine a heart patient run... ...castic sentences. That was when she wished to appear like the heroine of a French comedy. Because of course she was always play acting. But what she d... ...d discovered it was only that he was a Democrat. My own people were mostly Republicans. It seemed to make it worse and more darkly mysteri- ous to the...

...ed unmoved and imperial with an air-pump thrust into one eye. Portraits of French sheriffs and Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic now as when in life, loo... ...ineteenth century; the time and place made sorcery impossible. The idol of French scepticism had died in the house just opposite, the disciple of Gay-... ...t me, without making you blush for it, and without giving you so much as a French centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, ... ...nk or two in the government booth, to doctor doctrinaires, and warm up old Republicans, to touch up the Bonapartists a bit, and revictual the Centre; ... ...eathed several amounts to public 149 Balzac institutions in his will, the French Government sent in a claim for the remainder to the East India Compa... ..., everything lies under his feet. From this time forth the axiom that ‘all Frenchmen are alike in the eyes of the law,’ is for him a fib at the head o...

...ks into the newspapers, nothing new does ever happen in for eign parts, a French revolution not excepted. What news! how much more important to kno... ...e acquainted with them. I know a woodchop per, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to “keep h... ... cried up, unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quar... ...e with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him he would sus... ...nd Walden 135 somely written in the snow by the highway, with the proper French accent, and knew that he had passed. I asked him if he ever wished t... ...e field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On ev...

... into one of a yellowish green. The colour, examined more carefully, was a French grey, with numerous minute spots of bright yellow: the former of the... ... distance all colours were blended into a most beau- tiful haze, of a pale French grey, mingled with a little blue. The condition of the atmosphere be... ...loped out of sight. Another attack was still more quickly repulsed. A cool Frenchman managed the gun; he stopped till the Indians approached close, an... ...of wil horses. These animals, as well as the cattle, were introduce by the French in 1764, since which time both have greatl increased. It is a curiou... ...o conten against pre-existing enemies, in the fox and some larg hawks. The French naturalists have considered the black variety a dis- tinct species, ... ... benefited by being compelled to turn their attention to agriculture, were republicans in the most absolute sense. In Tierra del Fuego, until some chi...

...n, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named ... ... came, I passed the examination, taking a good standing in that branch. In French, the only other study at that time in the first year’s course, my st... ...nd of my class, in any one study, during the four years. I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tac- tics, and conduct. Early in th... ...not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the “wide awakes” —Republicans—in their rooms, and su- perintended their drill. It was evident... ...ceived at once, however, that Hardee’s tactics—a mere translation from the French with Hardee’s name attached —was nothing more than common sense and ... ...the country all aglow. This was the first great political campaign for the Republicans in their canvass of 1864. It was followed later by Sheridan’s c... ...s to the Rio Grande to have him where he might aid Juarez in expelling the French from Mexico. These troops got off before they could be stopped; and ...

... in jelly, and suck with placidity, in the intervals of a curt exchange of French with the wife of the Hon. Melville, a ringleted English lady, or of ... ...- cately perceptible to the Comte, and not a soul saw it but that wretched Frenchman! He came to me: “Madame,” he said, “is a question permitted?” I r... .... The gift would be base that you did not embellish.” He lifted his hands, French- fashion: “Madame, it is that I have received the gift.”—”In- deed! ... ...t.” He should have stopped there; but you cannot have the last word with a Frenchman—not even a woman. Fortunately the Queen just then made her entry ... ...e waiter carelessly for some light supper dish, he sug- gested the various French, with ‘not that?’ and the affable naming of another. ‘Nor that? Dear... ... who gave the supper—he’s evidently one of your beastly rich old ruffianly republicans—spent part of his time in America, I dare say. Put two and two ...