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...l religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a French woman that Godefroid resolved to leave no stone unturned to make him... ...ometimes quite ferocious towards grass and flow- ers. One of the tenderest republicans of those days was heard to assert that the best of human beings... ... had it protested, and sued Mongenod for me. Meantime the disasters of the French armies had produced such depreciation of the Funds that investors co... ...el to bring you myself a little fortune; but the union of Holland with the French Empire caused the vessel to be taken by the English and sent to Jama... ...reover, which proved that these odi- ous enemies of the government and the French Empire were in the secret of the coalition of 1809 through com- muni... ...alier du Vissard, a young man something like the Fergus of Walter Scott, a French Jacobite. He developed the romance of an ardent young girl grossly d...

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...ntury in which men and things bore the characteristics of simplicity which French manners and customs are losing day by day. Follow the wind- ings of ... ...s a master-cooper, able to read, write, and cipher. At the period when the French Republic offered for sale the church property in the arrondissement ... ...the Empire he was called Monsieur Grandet. Napoleon, however, did not like republicans, and superseded Monsieur Grandet (who was supposed to have worn... ...ency of the weather, gave an appear- ance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which ... ... of Madame Grandet, old Monsieur de la Bertelliere, as a lieutenant in the French guard, and the deceased Madame Gentillet in the guise of a shep- her... ...Grandet. No one in Anjou heard better, or could pronounce more crisply the French language (with an Angevin accent) than the wily 84 Eugenie Grandet ...

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... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...runelleschi, Ghiberti, Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining... ...he Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part of Alice. This little pantomime did not ... ...ater was a dead man. Such men are the glory of the party they support. T o Republicans, the Marshal was the ideal of patriotism; and they all attended...

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...Before reaching this enclosure from the height of an emi- nence such as we Frenchmen rather conceitedly call a moun- tain, at the foot of which lies t... ..., whiter than the starry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born in Russia, who said as I approached her, “I had almost giv... ...ld turns upside down like an hour- glass, when the seas become continents, Frenchmen will find canons, steamboats, newspapers, and maps wrapped up in ... ... his eggs. The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courag... ...e be jealous of the late Mademoiselle Laguerre? Our modern Bourets have no French nobles now to show them how to live; they hire one opera-box among t... ...y tone of the wantons of the old time, “people must live, even if they are republicans.” The terrible Mademoiselle Cochet, her maid and female vizier,...

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...ding, as he did invariably, “And uh— Oh, and you might give me an order of French fried pota- toes.” When the chop came he vigorously peppered it and ... ...re’s a whole lot of valuable time lost even at the U., studying poetry and French and subjects that never brought in anybody a cent. I don’t know but ... ...mitation English hunt- ing-print, an anemic imitation boudoir-print with a French caption of whose morality Babbitt had always been rather suspicious,... ...that case, Carlo, just bring me a hunk o’ steak and a couple o’ bushels o’ French fried potatoes and some peas,” Rogers went on. “I suppose back in de... ... Garibaldi, just shoot me in that steak, with about two printers’-reams of French fried spuds 152 Babbitt on the promenade deck, comprehenez-vous, Mi... ...yor of Zenith on an alarming labor ticket. To oppose him the Democrats and Republicans united on Lucas Prout, a mattress-manufacturer with a perfect r... ...that there would some day be a Third Party which would give trouble to the Republicans and Democrats. Escott shook hands with Babbitt three times, at ...

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...ff; and he was seen no more till just before dinner, when, with a shade of French malice, Mrs. Frost inquired about Jane and the carpenter: she had se... ...at do they say in London about the invasion?’ It was the year 1847, when a French invasion was in every one’s mouth, and Sydney Calcott had been retai... ...the high-spirited girl. Formal walks, silent meals, set manners, perpetual French, were a severe trial, but far worse was the companionship. Petty van... ...h. Oh, so different from granny teaching me my notes, or Jem teach- ing me French—’ ‘Growling at you—’ ‘He never growled half as much as, I deserved. ... ...aning of this?’ asked James, as they went up stairs. Louis shrugged like a Frenchman, looked debonnaire, and said ‘Good-night.’ Again he came down; pr... ...ery minute, and, now that the panic was over, gave great credit to the Red Republicans for having served her so effectually, and forgave the young peo...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ...fortune in one of those wicked conceptions which reflect such discredit on French commerce, but which, in the year 1827, had not yet been exposed and ... ...rown pretentious with wealth, without, at the same time, learning to speak French. She was now very fat, and gave the idea, in her rich surroundings, ... ...o protect even its most devoted servants (witness the Gisquet affair), the republicans have ended by ruining Cerizet. I tell you this to explain how i... ...tence he received; declaring it to be a revengeful plot on the part of the republicans, who, he said, would never forgive him for the hard blows he ha...

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...f the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all histo... ...thor shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- cal. “With the Memoirs of De R... ....” Villemain declared their author to be “the most original of geniuses in French literature, the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in detail... ...-Simon and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Sa... ... Notwithstanding these acts of good- ness, they could scarcely look upon a Frenchman after the 12 Saint-Simon taking of the place; and one actually r... ...ll England and the United Provinces mourned the loss of William. Some good republicans alone breathed again with joy in secret, at having recovered th...

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...in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians, not only his glory , but the safety of him- self and hi... ... Mr. Le Quoi whether there is any danger.” It was not in the nature of the Frenchman to disappoint expectations so confidently formed; although he cat... ...er a precipice, which fell perpendicu- larly more than a hundred feet. The Frenchman, who by his position had a full view of their threatened flight, ... ...ing men seize at straws, he admirably served the purpose of an anchor. The Frenchman, who was on his legs, in the act of springing from the sleigh, to... ...tain just now.” “Praise be God, I no fly down into the lake,” returned the Frenchman, with a visage that was divided between pain, oc- casioned by a f... ...been many battles fought lately,” continued Marmaduke, “and the infuriated republicans are too often vic- torious. I cannot say , however, that I am s...

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...put up yesterday. And the descendants of the man who built it, through the French line (for a Norman baron wedded the daughter and heiress of the Saxo... ...ing destructive rather than generative, would not suffice for. There was a French man in the town—a M. Le Grand, secretly calling himself a Count—who... ...s praise and criticism, Ned soon grew to be the 33 Hawthorne pride of the Frenchman’s school, in both the active depart ments; and the Doctor himsel... ...perhaps not,” said the Warden, laughing frankly. “I have been amongst your republicans myself, a long 113 Hawthorne while ago, and saw that your coun... ...The ethereal delicacy of modern taste, the nice adjustment of flowers, the French style of cookery, was richly attended to; and the list was long of d... ...ou are too late,” said he, as the old man drew near. “Our friend has taken French leave.” “Mr. Warden,” said the old man solemnly, “let me pray you no...

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... the delicate cauliflower; egg plants, beets, lettuce, parsnips, peas, and French beans, early and late; rad- ishes, cantelopes, melons of all kinds; ... ...I went next in pursuit of a job at calking. It so happened that Mr. Rodney French, late mayor of the city of New Bedford, had a ship fitting out for s... ...ded and patronized my anti-slavery meetings, were, in truth, about as good republicans as the mass of Ameri- cans, and with this decided advantage ove... ...lared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, a...

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...n chambers, which upon the darkest nights have a watchful consciousness of French polish; the old Spanish mahogany winked at it now and then, as a doz... ...enew, which would have done honour to Napoleon Bonaparte in addressing the French army.’ 49 Charles Dickens ‘And pray,’ asked Mr Pecksniff, obviously... ... and finding it to be an odd volume of the ‘Bachelor of Salamanca,’ in the French tongue, cursed Tom Pinch’s folly twenty times. He was on the point o... ... went out to purchase it forthwith. He bought some cold beef, and ham, and French bread, and butter, and came back with his pockets pretty heavily lad... ...t grotesque of apes, or morally, as the mildest Nimrod among tuft- hunting republicans! ‘In short,’ said Mr Norris the father, settling the question c... ...k stockings. This suggested to him that they were great proficients in the French fashions, which soon turned out to be the case, for though their inf...

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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY ................................................. ................................................................. 547 12 The French Revolution THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE VOLUME ... ...the flock knows it, and heeds it not. At most, in the immeasurable tide of French Speech (which ceases not day after day, and only ebbs towards the sh... ...stitution whatsoever. Nay Departmental Deputies have come, the venerablest Republicans of each Department, with solemn message of Acceptance; and now ... ...ins is the greatest that Fouquier has yet had to do. Twenty-two, all chief Republicans, ranged in a line there; the most eloquent in France; Lawyers t... ... Rue Saint-Honore, as these continual Tumbrils pass, begin to look gloomy? Republicans too have bowels. The Guillotine is shifted, then again shifted;... ...arlyle sand. They are Ci-devants, Royalists; in far greater part, they are Republicans, of various Girondin, Fayettish, Un-Jacobin colour. Perhaps no ...

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...w from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

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...s, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s ... ...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ...who fakes a war to distract public attention from a domestic scandal. Some Republicans in Congress raised questions about the timing of the strikes. B... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th... ...urther training that he could use to carry out a potential attack. 92 As a French national who had overstayed his visa, Moussaoui could be detained im... ...t the case. 96 The FBI legal attaché’s office in Paris first contacted the French government on August 16 or 17, shortly after speaking to the Minneap...

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...aie took it upon himself, and there fol- lowed the duel which enriched the French language with the expression coup de Jarnac.” “Oh! does it go so far... ... Normanisms nor Gascon; he spoke pure and 16 The Firm of Nucingen correct French, and tied his cravat correctly (like Finot). He had neither father n... ...an about him. In accordance with the tradition 18 The Firm of Nucingen of French breeding, so urbane, so gracious as they are, you address your neigh... ... if he has seen the English at home, and recollects the charming, gracious French manners. Sir Walter Scott was afraid to paint women as they are for ... ...hope- lessly out of place. At that time Godefroid had blossomed out at the French Embassy in London, where he learned the adventures of T oby, Joby, P... ...lis, forsooth, and the octroi duties accord- ingly were insanely high. The Republicans got wind of this bread riot, they organized the canuts in two c...

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...rated at Saffron Walden yesterday, when Frederick James And though the New Republicans, in the existing lack of real guiding knowledge, will not dare ... ...arly apt to master and retain languages, and people try and inoculate with French and German as Lord Herbert of Cherbury would have inocu- lated child... ...ll solemnly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limi... ...ferent matter altogether. These things it is the clear business of our New Republicans to alter. It follows, indeed, but it is in no way secondary to ... ...d while they are doing this for the general linguistic atmosphere, the New Republicans could also attempt some- thing to reach the children in detail.... ...cate is seasoned with religious cant, lessons in piano-playing, lessons in French “made in En- gland,” mortarboard caps for the boys, and a high socia... ...ed into and assimilated and more or less completely superseded by English, French, and German works; but the schoolmaster, heedless of these things, s... ...ery painful and shocking thought indeed to an English parent to think that French was taught in school with a view to reading French books. It is taug... ...bably not be worth any one’s while to do so for many years unless some New Republicans conspire to make it so. The teaching of English requires its St...

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...ipalities, to whom belongs the title of highness. The disdain shown by the French nobility for the title of prince, and the reasons which caused Louis... ...caused Louis XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes... ... a greater than he. Be careful not to think him one of those narrow-minded republicans who would like to re- store the Convention and the amenities of... ...ose of conquest, which formerly feudalized it. From this point of view the republicans came nearest to his idea. That is why he lent 23 Balzac them h... ...uld not have loved me long,” said the prin- cess, shaking her head sadly. “Republicans are more absolute in their ideas than we absolutists, whose fau...

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...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ...any sideboard orna- mented with inverted glasses and old cruet-stands. The Frenchman had come to the house for shelter and food, and had been asked wh... ... habits of the Americans can tell more against them than the story of that Frenchman’s fate tells against those of our country. From which remarks I w... ... by the general tenor of my book. The American and the Englishman are both republicans. The governments of the States and of England are probably the ... ... very many such Americans. 230 North America V ol. 1 They call themselves republicans, and sneer at the idea of a limited monarchy, but they declare ... ...d as a minister, even by one of his own party. The Radical or Abolitionist Republicans all abused him. The Conservative or Anti-abolition Republicans,... ...nd other godly Protestants, they will submit to religious teaching, but as republicans they will have no priestcraft. The French at their revolution h...

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...able era in human affairs. He witnessed in the beginning the throes of the French Revolution. He saw 128 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two th... ...g the previously made provision. But in 1803 we purchased Louisiana of the French, and it in- cluded with much more what has since been formed into th... ...ne of con- tention, Kansas and Nebraska. Slavery already existed among the French at New Orleans, and to some extent at St. Louis. In 1812 Louisiana c... ...country, as far back as 1787, there were some slaves within it held by the French inhabitants of Kaskaskia. The territorial legislation admitted a few... ...there were some degraded be- ings called slaves in Kaskaskia and the other French settle- ments when our first State constitution was adopted; that is... ... or deny that the Judge’s mode of coercing them is not as good as any. The Republicans can fall in with it without taking back any- thing they have ev... ...d. But in all this it is very plain the Judge evades the only question the Republicans have ever pressed upon the De- mocracy in regard to Utah. That ... ...gging it in from the opposition to the Dred Scott deci- sion. He finds the Republicans insisting that the Declara- tion of Independence includes all m... ...case affords a strong test as to which party most favors amalgamation, the Republicans or the dear Union-saving Democracy. Dred Scott, his wife, and t...

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.... Thus it befel that Charles Jenkin, com- ing too late for the epic of the French wars, played a small part in the dreary and disgraceful afterpiece o... ...s.” … It is full of pictures of all classes, with a description of each in French. The pictures are a little caricatured, but not much.’ Doubt- less t... ... Paris, where Fleeming was put to school under one Deluc. There he learned French, and (if the captain is right) first began to show a taste for mathe... ...s, and dresses of all kinds out of the windows. They are not rogues, these French; they are not stealing, burning, or doing much harm. In the Tuilerie... ... and stolen nothing but queer dresses. I say, Frank, you must not hate the French; hate the Germans if you like. The French laugh at us a little, and ... ...de- parture of the troops speedily followed. Genoa was in the hands of the Republicans, and now came a time when the English residents were in a posit...

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.................................................................. 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...

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... 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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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 ...

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... 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 ...