France, Social, Literary, Political, Volume 1

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Pagina 59 - ... that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water; for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass that mean and small things discover great better than great can discover the small; and therefore Aristotle noteth well, that the nature of every thing is best seen in his smallest portions...
Pagina 62 - Hail ! ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight : 'tis ye who open the door and let the stranger in.
Pagina 87 - Soldats, dans mon exil j'ai entendu votre voix ; je suis arrivé à travers tous les obstacles et tous les périls. Votre général , appelé au trône par le choix du peuple et élevé sur vos pavois , vous est rendu: venez le joindre.
Pagina 74 - ... liaison continues. The quiet young banker, the quiet young stockbroker, the quiet young lawyer, live until they are rich enough to marry in some connection of this description. Sanctioned by custom, these left-handed marriages are to be found, with a certain respectability appertaining to them, in all walks of life.
Pagina 82 - Au toit du chef le protège endormi. Mais le soldat, teint du sang ennemi, Veille, et de faim meurt en gardant la porte. Et vers le ciel se frayant un chemin, Ils sont partis en se donnant la main.
Pagina 69 - That manner is gone ; the French, so far from being a polite people at the present day, want that easiness of behaviour which is the first essential to politeness. Every man you meet is occupied with maintaining his dignity, and talks to you of his position. There is an evident effort and struggle, I will not say to appear better than you are, but to appear all that you arc, and to allow no person to think that you consider him better than you.
Pagina 87 - Soldats , venez vous ranger sous les drapeaux de votre chef; la victoire marchera au pas de charge, l'aigle avec les couleurs nationales volera de clocher en clocher jusqu'aux tours de Notre-Dame.
Pagina 79 - ... tender, and touching, and thrilling tone, which tell you beyond denial that the heart your own yearns to is really and truly yours. The love which you find in France is the love made for society — not for solitude : it is that love which befits the dazzling salon, the satined boudoir ; it is that love which mixes with intrigue, with action, with politics, and affairs ; it is that love which pleases, and never absorbs ; which builds no fairy palace of its own, but which scatters over the trodden...
Pagina 87 - Soldiers ! in my exile I heard your voice. I have arrived through all obstacles and all perils.
Pagina 76 - Seine, m marriage 20,782 out of marriage 10,139. error there is no hope, — and six months frequently separate the honest girl of respectable parents and good prospects from the abandoned prostitute, associated with thieves, and whipped in Bridewell for her disorders.

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