Half-hours of translation, or Extracts from the best British and American authors to be rendered into French, and also passages translated from French contemporary writers to be reproduced into the original text, by A. MarietteAlphonse Mariette 1863 |
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... Noble Tribute to a Devoted Wife The Discovery of Memphis Mackintosh Oriental Ceremony ... ... On the Conduct of the Understanding Topsy and her Education Irish Feeling in 1785 ... ... ... ... Hoskins 147 Sydney Smith 150 Mrs. Stowe 152 ...
... Noble Tribute to a Devoted Wife The Discovery of Memphis Mackintosh Oriental Ceremony ... ... On the Conduct of the Understanding Topsy and her Education Irish Feeling in 1785 ... ... ... ... Hoskins 147 Sydney Smith 150 Mrs. Stowe 152 ...
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... Noble - hearted Gaoler ... Guizot 283 Mignet 285 ... Saintine 288 Duchesse d'Abrantès 293 Royer - Collard 295 The Death of Young Casabianca What a Judge should be The Liberty of Man ... The Bears ' Holiday ... ... ... Queen Elizabeth ...
... Noble - hearted Gaoler ... Guizot 283 Mignet 285 ... Saintine 288 Duchesse d'Abrantès 293 Royer - Collard 295 The Death of Young Casabianca What a Judge should be The Liberty of Man ... The Bears ' Holiday ... ... ... Queen Elizabeth ...
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... noble lords in office 50 to adopt a more gentle mode 8 1 Literally , " and putting abruptly the fish down ( à terre ) ” — 2 “ he cried " -3 " my master " has sent you , " sends you " -5 " said to him " - ” — is that the way you deliver ...
... noble lords in office 50 to adopt a more gentle mode 8 1 Literally , " and putting abruptly the fish down ( à terre ) ” — 2 “ he cried " -3 " my master " has sent you , " sends you " -5 " said to him " - ” — is that the way you deliver ...
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... noble lords who are now in office ; and consequently , they will have a watchful eye over 7 their liberties , to prevent the least encroachment on their hereditary rights . 8 This , my lords , though no new doctrine , has always been my ...
... noble lords who are now in office ; and consequently , they will have a watchful eye over 7 their liberties , to prevent the least encroachment on their hereditary rights . 8 This , my lords , though no new doctrine , has always been my ...
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... noble a charm to the assemblies of Paris . 16 The respect we pay to 14 wealth absorbs the respect we should 15 pay to genius . Literary men have not with us any fixed and settled position as men of letters . In the great game 17 of ...
... noble a charm to the assemblies of Paris . 16 The respect we pay to 14 wealth absorbs the respect we should 15 pay to genius . Literary men have not with us any fixed and settled position as men of letters . In the great game 17 of ...
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Page 264 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Page 271 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 215 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 224 - Certainly in taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior, for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith : It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence.
Page 273 - A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Page 271 - Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and He that riseth late must trot, all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let. not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, as Poor Richard says.
Page 54 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular; and that in order to make them kneel and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a common-prayer book : and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Page 131 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Page 273 - This Doctrine, my Friends, is Reason and Wisdom; but after all, do not depend too much upon your own Industry, and Frugality, and Prudence, though excellent Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous.
Page 216 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.