...haped. It was now re- membered that Williams had recently borrowed a large French knife of peculiar construction; and accordingly, from a heap of old ... ...s waistcoat, and glued by gore to the lining of its pockets, was found the French knife. Next, it was matter of notoriety to everybody in the inn, tha... .... There went No. 5. Him succeeded a droller fellow than any of the rest. A French book-seller had caused a prose French translation to 77 Thomas de Q... ... in the title page. Our friend, No. 6, getting hold of this as an original French romance, translated it back into English prose, as a satisfactory no... ...au’s name was first published to London, by Prior’ s burlesque of what the French- man had called an ode. This gasconading ode celebrated the passage ... ...day would in any preceding one have been barren wastes. Of this our modern encyclopedias are the best proof. For whom are they designed, and by whom u... ...o in any age preceding the present would have drunk at no wa- ters at all. Encyclopedias are the growth of the last hundred years; not because those w...

...Parisian to the level of the natural savage—a republican, a conspirator, a French- man, an old man, who outdid all we have heard of Negro determinatio... ...ther country; for there is no more resemblance between the English and the French constitutions than between the two lands. Thus Marcas’ place was in ... ...ting a few articles on commercial affairs, and contributed to one of those encyclopedias brought out by speculation and not by learning. Finally a pap... ...mbers, men devoid of political talent, unable to speak without murder- ing French grammar, and among whom, in ten years, scarcely one statesman has be... ...ife. When we spoke of this matter, a perennial theme of conversation among Frenchmen, he simply remarked: “Gowns cost too much.” He saw the look that ...

...eau and Max Muller. He gravely taught them the letters on the backs of the encyclopedias, and when polite visitors asked about the mental progress of ... ...to give you a chance to get settled. I am Vida Sherwin, and I try to teach French and English and a few other things in the high school.” “I’ve been h... ...’ was the most interesting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warre... ...ven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid with the mirror and the loyal ears?” “Oh, wha... ...of four-flushing about that. He likes to have people think he keeps up his French and Greek and Lord knows what all; and he’s always got an old Dago b... ...mon, incorrect German of life and death and birth and the soil. I read the French and German of sentimental lovers and Christmas garlands. And 199 Si...

...et the “technical details,” upon which he set such store, he consulted the Encyclopedias again, and “worked in” a number of unfamiliar phrases and odd... ...ation; and isn’t study- ing medicine, Condy, better than piano-playing, or French courses, or literary classes and Browning circles? Oh, I’ve no patie...

...at which hour he regularly condensed himself into the limits of a dwarfish French bedstead in the back parlour; and the infantine sports and gymnastic... ...great satisfaction. ‘Now, gen’l’m’n, “fall on,” as the English said to the French when they fixed bagginets.’ It needed no second invitation to induce... ... shall consider extremely insulting.’ As Mr. Pickwick said this, he looked encyclopedias at Mr. Peter Magnus. Mr. Pickwick’s upright and honourable be...