Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Random House, 1930 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 145
... French are accused of promising more than they perform . That may be , and yet they may perform as many good - natured acts as the English , if the latter are as averse to perform as they are to promise . Even the professions of the French ...
... French are accused of promising more than they perform . That may be , and yet they may perform as many good - natured acts as the English , if the latter are as averse to perform as they are to promise . Even the professions of the French ...
Pagina 363
... French grace is not better than English awkwardness - a French cook if all sauces are alike — a French blacklegs if all throws are equal on the dice ? It is curious that the French nation restrict rigid rules and fixed principles to ...
... French grace is not better than English awkwardness - a French cook if all sauces are alike — a French blacklegs if all throws are equal on the dice ? It is curious that the French nation restrict rigid rules and fixed principles to ...
Pagina 366
... FRENCH REVOLUTION ( THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON , VOL . I , 1828 ) BUONAPARTE was not quite twenty years old , when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. From the time of his being employed at the siege of Toulon and in the war of Italy ...
... FRENCH REVOLUTION ( THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON , VOL . I , 1828 ) BUONAPARTE was not quite twenty years old , when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. From the time of his being employed at the siege of Toulon and in the war of Italy ...
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