French and English: A ComparisonRoberts Brothers, 1891 - 480 páginas |
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... superior quali- ties of the foreigner . I should like to write with complete impartiality , if it were possible . I have at least written with the most sincere desire to be impartial , and that perhaps at the cost of some popularity in ...
... superior quali- ties of the foreigner . I should like to write with complete impartiality , if it were possible . I have at least written with the most sincere desire to be impartial , and that perhaps at the cost of some popularity in ...
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... superior . When a country is left to itself a natural law produces the sort of Government which answers for the time . I look upon all Governments whatever as merely temporary and provisional expedients , usually of an unsatisfactory ...
... superior . When a country is left to itself a natural law produces the sort of Government which answers for the time . I look upon all Governments whatever as merely temporary and provisional expedients , usually of an unsatisfactory ...
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... superior to any modern literature whatever . French education insisted chiefly upon Latin . Frenchmen take " learning " to be equiv- alent to Latin . They call a man instruit when he has learned Latin , although he may have a very ...
... superior to any modern literature whatever . French education insisted chiefly upon Latin . Frenchmen take " learning " to be equiv- alent to Latin . They call a man instruit when he has learned Latin , although he may have a very ...
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... superior to the French , - that English Tenderness of sympathy with the lower animals . The French are for the Lower humane enough where human beings are concerned , but their humanity , as a rule , is confined to pity for the ...
... superior to the French , - that English Tenderness of sympathy with the lower animals . The French are for the Lower humane enough where human beings are concerned , but their humanity , as a rule , is confined to pity for the ...
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... superior to English in providing two- wheeled carts with breaks . I remember seeing the horses suffer very much for the want of them in steep roads and streets in England . The French , too , are usually very careful about balan- cing ...
... superior to English in providing two- wheeled carts with breaks . I remember seeing the horses suffer very much for the want of them in steep roads and streets in England . The French , too , are usually very careful about balan- cing ...
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Página 124 - Freedom of discussion is, then, in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury, consisting of twelve shopkeepers, think it expedient should be said or written.
Página 334 - ... materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. It misleads the young, makes the worldly more worldly, the limited more limited, the stationary more stationary.
Página 162 - Oh! he's a Quaker; the law don't help Quakers." That was the truth — the hard, grinding truth — in those days. Liberty, justice, were idle names to Nonconformists of every kind; and all they knew of the glorious constitution of English law, was when its iron hand was turned against them. I had forgotten this; bitterly I remembered it now. So, wasting no more words, I flew along the churchyard, until I saw, shining against the boles of the chestnut-trees, a red light.
Página 3 - Keats are sorry for the ill health that spoiled the latter years of his short life, but they remember with satisfaction that the ethereal poet was once muscular enough to administer " a severe drubbing to a butcher whom he caught beating a little boy, to the enthusiastic admiration of a crowd of bystanders.
Página 413 - Emerson, he points out, has almost nothing to say of death, and 'little to say of that horrid burden and impediment on the soul which the churches call sin, and which, by whatever name we call it, is a very real catastrophe in the moral nature of man ; — the courses of nature, and the prodigious injustices of man in society affect him with neither horror nor awe.
Página 251 - Twill amply suffice for the maid ; Meanwhile I will smoke my canaster, And tipple my ale in the shade.
Página 286 - For the Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.