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...his Johnson, right truly even in the Eigh- teenth century. The unbelieving French believe in their Voltaire; and burst out round him into very curious... ...us contrast. No people ever were so little prone to admire at all as those French of V oltaire. Persiflage was the character of their whole mind; ador... ...e of them; 16 Thomas Carlyle the thing they are all wanting to be; of all Frenchmen the most French. He is properly their god,—such god as they are f... ...hey, have to smart for it. Nature bursts up in fire- 41 On Heroes flames, French Revolutions and such like, proclaiming with terrible veracity that f... ...itative, enthusiastic in the Arab character. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted nobl... ... heartily in earnest. In earnest, if ever man was; as none of these French Philosophers were. Nay, one would say, of an earnestness too great for his ... ...appily into the region of Dreams and the Picturesque!—T o such comfortable philosophers, the Three Days of July, 183O, must have been a surprising phe... ...ave it made good; will have them- selves shot, if it be not made good. T o philosophers who had made up their life-system, on that “madness” quietus, ...

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... Everard, and his uncle’s friend Stukely Culbrett, expounded the nature of Frenchmen to him, saying that they were un- easy when not periodically thra... ...of our exhi- bition of ourselves in Europe. It looked as if the blustering French Guard were to have it all their own way. And what 9 George Meredith... ...fi- culties to be overcome. As regards his qualifications for ad- dressing Frenchmen, a year of his prae-neptunal time had been spent in their capital... ...nal time had been spent in their capital city for the purpose of acquiring French of Paris, its latest refinements of pronunciation and polish, and th... ...ts of pronunciation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’... ...t to be visited by the guests at T ourdestelle. In common with some French philosophers and English matrons, he cherished a sentimental sad enthusiasm... ... small things producing great consequences, which have inspired diminutive philosophers with ironical visions of history and the littleness of man), i... ... without ques- tion of man’s taking that which he has conquered. Poets and philosophers did the same. Again she beheld Nevil Beauchamp solitary in the...

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...rs inserted from non-periodical editions of “Autobiography.” CERTAIN MORAL PHILOSOPHERS, with a due disdain of the flimsy foundations of human pride, ... ... last general war, and, for a novelty, it oc- curred in an English ship. A French privateer captured the vessel on her passage home, the flaxseed was ... ...to think that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact should be conceale... ...The bargain was now commenced in earnest, offering an instructive scene of French protestations, assertions, contradictions and volubility on one side... ...opriety of using me himself that evening at the chateau of the King of the French. Fortunately, his monitress, though by no means of the purest water,... ...y of seeing it, I will give here. Super-extraordinary Pocket-Handkerchief, French cambric, trimmed and worked, in account with Bobbinet & Gull. DR. To...

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...r that matter, was either destroyed or disorganised by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected... ...t-sided windows of stained glass beyond the high altar. At the time of the French expedition into Spain to estab- lish Ferdinand VII once more on the ... ...edition into Spain to estab- lish Ferdinand VII once more on the throne, a French gen- eral came to the island after the taking of Cadiz, ostensibly t... ...re Favart in Spain. At last in the T e Deum no one could fail to discern a French soul in the sudden change that came over the music. Joy for the vict... ...Christian King evidently stirred this nun’s heart to the depths. She was a Frenchwoman beyond mistake. Soon the love of country shone out, breaking fo... ...and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually confound. Love implies a give a... ...ded, holding out a hand, which he kissed. “We will be like two grey-headed philosophers who have learned how to enjoy life to the last moment. I will ...

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...y made their way into the dining room of the hotel, which was a spa- cious restaurant, with a fountain in the middle, a great many tall plants in orna... ...roportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses. Within, the place was cool and vaguely lighted, with the plash of water, the odor of ... ...d, upon soundless carpets. “It’s rather like Paris, you know,” said the younger of our two travelers.” “It’s like Paris—only more so,” his companion r... ...rs.” “It’s like Paris—only more so,” his companion rejoined. “I suppose it’s the French waiters,” said the first speaker. “Why don’t they have French ... ...t a place where there’s an English waiter. Don’t you know what’s- his-name’s, close to the thingumbob? They always set an English waiter at me. I supp... ...and her curiosity insatiable, and, grateful in general for all her opportunities, she especially prized the privilege of meeting certain celebrated pe...

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... natives, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a litt... ...it, yet did not speak one word of German. I heard from a gendarme who had taught school in Rapa-iti that while the children had the utmost difficulty ... ...e had just been heard—a trial for infanticide against an ape- like native woman; and the audience were smoking ciga- rettes as they awaited the verdic... ... faces, barbaric dresses, they were now beheld and fingered, in the swerving cabin, with innocent excitement and surprise. Her Majesty was often recog... ...ally welcome: welcome to dip their fingers in the wooden dish, to drink cocoanuts, to share the circulating pipe, and to hear and hold high debate abo... ...anged her course, or lay becalmed. I used to regard the king with veneration as he thus pub- licly deceived himself. I saw behind him all the fathers ...

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...in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be re- garded as a classic, not only in the land ... ...e did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mi... ...collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition. By the favour of Mr F . W . Cosens, I have had by me, while... ...ed Latin, without suffering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning French, thanks to the German teacher whom his father had placed near him, a... ...t. Michael, which was, as he informs us himself, the highest honour of the French noblesse. According to Lacroix du Maine, Montaigne, upon the death o... ... inclination has not only reached but surpassed the theories of the wisest philosophers, regarding the duties and laws of the wedded state. And, at al... ...number.”—[Cicero, De Natura Deor., i. 37.] Cicero observes that of all the philosophers who have ac- knowledged a deity, Xenophanes the Colophonian on... ...takes upon himself to perform, he ever mixes his own part with it. Let the philosophers say what they will, the thing at which we all aim, even in vir... ...what is re- ported of the people about the cataracts of the Nile; and what philosophers believe of the music of the spheres, that the bodies of those ...

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...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 ... ...lyly, humbly but cunningly—to those whom he professed to regard as greater philosophers than himself. All parties found their account in the affair. P... ...he gates of cities, under the title of ‘swine,’ but caressed their infidel philosophers. Now, in this category of Jew and infidel, stood the author of... ... East and West, and all annuity offices, that stand opposed in interest to philosophers! In 1814, however, to my great regret, I did not see him; for ...

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...from you, but the rest, infi nitely the greater number (and especially we French and English), were so far from stooping to so base an example, that ... ...ave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon ball. On the 6th... ...ise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king’s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen ... ...e hands of his enemies. On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made of a French Jesuit giving poison to a great foreign general; and when he is put ... ... which will make this month memorable to all posterity is the death of the French king, Louis the Four teenth, after a week’s sickness at Marli, whic... ... though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline; Or, as philosophers, who find Some fav’rite system to their mind, In every point t... ... of the sun and moon—in short, the whole system of the universe, as far as philosophers have been able to discover and observe, are in the utmost degr...

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...by repeated doses of brandy, will be held, according to cer- tain leisured philosophers, to be happier than the huckster is. The one perishes in a bre... ...ure, but that is an effect of the constant calm affected by those profound philosophers with their long pipes, their 16 The Girl with the Golden Eyes... ...to his putative son; a generosity which did not cost Lord Dudley too dear. French funds were worth at that time seventeen francs, fifty centimes. The ... ...e, Don Hijos, Marquis de San-Real, who, since the oc- cupation of Spain by French troops, had taken up his abode in Paris, and lived in the Rue St. La... ... corvette built for speed, which rushes down upon the merchant vessel with French impetuosity, which grapples with her and sinks her at the same time.... ...th other houses. The porter is an old Spaniard, who never speaks a word of French, but peers at people as Vidocq might, to see if they are not thieves... ...ndent used; moreover, all the implements and stamps necessary to affix the French and English postmarks. He wrote the following letter, to which he ga...

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...ssumed was that of dialogue, a form later adopted by Plato and other Greek philosophers. As nothing was written and all instruction was transmitted or... ... in the seventeenth century. More than a century later the dis- tinguished French scholar, Anquetil Duperron, brought a copy of the manuscript from Pe... ...ht a copy of the manuscript from Persia to France and trans- lated it into French and Latin. Publishing only the Latin text. Despite the distortions w... ...(1775-1833). Since that time there have been various European translations—French, German, Italian and English. But a mere translation, how- ever accu... ...rsion. It has since appeared in various languages; and English, German and French writers are all agreed in pronouncing it one of the most perfect exp...

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...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ...839 he was elected to the Cham- ber of Deputies. He became a member of the French Acad- emy in 1841. In 1848 he was in the Assembly, and from June 2nd... ...rom the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pomp... ...b- scure democracy, which had as yet brought forth neither gen- erals, nor philosophers, nor authors, a man might stand up in the face of a free peopl... ...by sacrificing their opinions, they prostitute themselves. Mor- alists and philosophers in America are not obliged to conceal their opinions under the... ... which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving at this state. The philosophers of the eighteenth century explained the gradual decay of relig... ...d the empire of tradition, and overthrew the authority of the schools. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, generalizing at length the same pri...

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...imated at several mil- lions. All the members of the family spoke Italian, French, *Macedoine, in the sense in which it is here used, is a game, or ra... ...tery. But at that moment, it may be, there were in those gor- geous salons philosophers who said to themselves, as they discussed an ice or a sherbet,... ...ng escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing at him in the wings. It is hard t... ... him. As he left the theatre, a stranger grasped his arm. “‘Beware, Signor Frenchman,’ he said in his ear. ‘This is a matter of life and death. Cardin... ...man. She was waiting. “‘You are very late,’ she said. ‘Come.’ “She led the Frenchman through several narrow streets and stopped in front of a palace o... ...t as indicating extreme delicacy of feel- ing. This weakness delighted the Frenchman. There is so much of the element of protection in a man’s love! “...

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...: a boy, son to Page. SIR HUGH EVANS : a Welsh parson. DOCTOR CAIUS : a French physician. Host of the Garter Inn. (Host:) BARDOLPH, PISTOL and NY... ...man? Let us command to know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. Therefore. precisel... ...o’ the hoof; seek shelter, pack! Falstaff will learn the humor of the age, French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page. [Exeunt FALSTAFF and RO... ...l do you your master what good I can: and the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my master,—I may call him my master, look you, for I keep hi... ...ere is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor. FORD: Good mine host o’ the Garter, a word with you. [Drawi... ...go, An heires? SHALLOW: Have with you, mine host. PAGE: I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in his rapier. SHALLOW: Tut, sir, I could have t...

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... 210 to know that of your mouth, or of your lips: for diuers 211 Philosophers hold, that the lips is parcell of the mouth: 212 therfore... ...lter, packe: 374 Falstaffe will learne the honor of the age, 375 French- thrift, you Rogues, my selfe, and skirted Page. 376 Pist.... ... 483 Master what good I can: and the very yea, & the no is, y 484 French Doctor my Master, (I may call him my Master, 485 looke you, for... ... to be fought, betweene Sir 734 Hugh the Welch Priest, and Caius the French Doctor. [D5 735 Ford. Good mine Host o’th’ Garter: a word... ... Shal. Haue with you mine Host. 751 Page. I haue heard the French- man hath good skill 752 in his Rapier. 753 Shal. Tut ... ... Page. I thinke you know him: Mr. Doctor Caius the 1210 renowned French Physician. 1211 Euan. Got’s- will, and his passion of my hea...

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...old and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere to the medit... ...om Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evident after the French Revo- lution. The church of Scotland, which, as a whole, had ex- hib... ...ous organization of irreligion, which gave its most fearful aspects to the French Revolution. Other evils are in the rear as likely to arise out of th... ...g thus prepared, could not have failed, after a corresponding study of the French literature from 1750 to 1788, and in particular, after 84 Theologic... ... Other Papers – V olume Two collecting the general sense and temper of the French people from the Cahiers, (or codes of instruction transmitted by the... ...t is litterateurs) and arithmeticians, the poor remains of the orators and philosophers of the past, and engaged them to accompany him from Italy to F...

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...escaped him in any heat of dispute, on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. 12 many declar... ...leasing to be abridged; I shall give it, there- fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his ser... ...tes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The sailors, who took him for a foreign merchant, rather than a cav... ...d says (p. 8,) he ran home “because he would not trust his safety with the French clergy;” insinuating that he was likely to be murdered for his reli-... ...ere was Leviathan, no longer afraid of the daggers of English cavaliers or French clergy, but “frightened from his propriety” by a row in an ale-house... ... arose, did people (but observe, very great people) advance to four, P .M. Philosophers, who watch the “semina rerum,” and the first symptoms of chang...

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...lodgement there. It conducts the youthful man to temples of dusky thought: philosophers partaking of it are drawn by the arms of garlanded nymphs abou... ...to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon, which nature has not given: w... ...e had rueful qualms. We’ll try it.’ ‘You should dine with Victor Radnor.’ ‘French cook, of course!’ ‘Cordon bleu.’ 58 One of Our Conquerors ‘I like t... ...Cordon bleu. The miracle is, it ‘s a woman that Victor Radnor has trained: French, but a woman; devoted to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “bu... ...ed to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “but” a woman? There’s not a Frenchman alive to match her. Vatel awaits her in Paradise with his arms ex... ...letting a flutter of real envy be seen. ‘My wife would like to meet such a Frenchwoman. It must be a privilege to dine with him—to know him. I know wh... ..., and painfully, not ignobly—was in process of development: interesting to philosophers, if not to maidens. Victor accused her of paying too much heed...

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...ddressing her with the single word which consti- tuted the strength of his French vocabulary, and holding up one finger in a manner which appeared to ... ...n English. “Combien?” “Monsieur wishes to buy it?” asked the young lady in French. “Very pretty, splendide. Combien?” repeated the Ameri- can. “It ple... ... fixed him with her conscious, perceptive eye and asked him if he spoke no French. Then, “Donnez!” she said briefly, and took the open guide-book. 7 ... ...worth nothing less.” The gentleman in whom we are interested understood no French, but I have said he was intelligent, and here is a good chance to pr... ... Mr. Newman, unlike his companion, read the name with perfect gravity; all French names to him were equally droll. “And precisely, here is my father, ... ...nds foolish to say,” said Newman. “Hang it, no man is rich!” “I have heard philosophers affirm,” laughed M. de Bellegarde, “that no man was poor; but ...

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...r language looks a halfing boy along- side; philosophy so wise that our best philosophers find things therein to wonder at; all this travelled alongsi... ...mplicity of a decimal coinage which is revolting to the human mind; thus the French, in small affairs, reckon strictly by halfpence; and you have to s... ...my little restaurant at Monterey, we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we h... ... lost to the arts. Curious and not always edify- ing are the shifts that the French student uses to defend his lair; like the cuttlefish, he must some... ...o walk calmly into his favourite inns as if into a drawing-room at home, the French painter owned himself defenceless; he submitted or he fled. His Fr... ...an eye to nothing but defects. The Anglo-Saxon is essentially dishonest; the French is devoid by nature of the principle that we call “Fair Play .” Th...