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More "Ce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... le profit de ceux a qui cela pourrait faire plaisir M. John ATWOOD.SLATER, cet artist nous communique benevolement ce renseignegnement tres special: Il est encore fort nageur! C'est lui qui aux dates de 22, 28 et 29 aout a ete signale par la Normandie pour avoir fait a la nage le tour du Mont St. Michel: ce que personne jusqu'ici n'avait ...
— Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes • J. Atwood.Slater
... We remark first that each portion of a wave ought to spread in such a way that its extremities lie always between the same straight lines drawn from the luminous point. Thus the portion BG of the wave, having the luminous point A as its centre, will spread into the arc CE bounded by the straight lines ABC, AGE. For although the particular waves produced by the particles comprised within the space CAE spread also outside this space, they yet do not concur at the same instant to compose a wave which terminates the movement, as they ...
— Treatise on Light • Christiaan Huygens
... appears to be confusing charity with an approbation of things in the strict sense damnable when he makes the Mother of Christ abet a Nun whose wanderings have no nobler excuse than a carnal desire—savoir enfin ce que c'est un homme. Between forgiving a lapsed man or woman and abetting the lapse I now, in a cooler hour, see an immense, an essential, moral difference. But I confess that the foregoing paper was written while my sense of this ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the important incidents of a man's life, such as birth, reaching certain periods of a child's life, marriage, fatherhood, old age and death, as well as all the physical and physiological functions of everyday routine, like morning ablutions, dressing, eating, et tout ce qui s'en suit, from a man's first hour to his last sigh, everything must be performed according to a certain Brahmanical ritual, on penalty of expulsion from his caste. The Brahmans may be compared to the musicians of an orchestra in which the different musical instruments ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... we burst out. Thereupon reprimand, with all the anathemas of the Church hurled out on us; which we had to take with a contrite penitent air, a thing not easy to bring your face to at the moment. In a word, this dog of a Franke [he died within few months, poor soul, CE CHIEN DE FRANKE] led us the life of a set ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... casa, e poi pranziamo da un trattore, e dopo pranzo scriviamo, e poi sortiamo, e indi ceniamo, ma che cosa? Al giorno di grasso, un mezzo pollo ovvero un piccolo boccone d'arrosto; al giorno di magro un piccolo pesce; e di poi andiamo a dormire. Est-ce que vous avez compris? —Redma dafir Soisburgarisch, don as is gschaida. Wir sand Gottlob gesund da Voda und i. [Footnote: "I rise generally every morning at 9 o'clock, but sometimes not till 10, when we go out. We dine at ...
— The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, V.1. • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
... pusillanime que moi quand je fais un plan militaire; je me grossis tous les dangers et tous les maux possibles dans les circonstances; je suis dans une agitation tout a fait penible; je suis comme une fille qui accouche. Et quand ma resolution est prise, tout est oublie, hors ce qui peut la ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring
... suffering came a wonderful ease, an ability to deal with the details of life. When at eight o'clock her maid came in and, pulling the curtains, exclaimed with Gallic candor, "Oh, comme madame a mauvaise mine ce matin!" she smiled at her with unusual gentleness. Later, when Mathilde came down at her accustomed hour, and lying across the foot of her mother's bed, began to read her scraps of the morning paper, Adelaide ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller
... him the landscape was the thing. Indeed, the five little figures may have been inserted by him as an afterthought, to point and balance the composition. Vaguely he remembered hearing of Macbeth, or reading it in some translation. Ce Sac-espe're...un beau talent...ne' romantique. Hugo he would not have attempted to illustrate. But Sac-espe're—why not? And so the little figures came upon the canvas, dim sketches. Charles Lamb disliked theatrical productions of Shakespeare's plays, because of the constraint thus laid ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm
... him—a Regular Row. He, saying what he thinks of my deception; me, defending myself and the real Ellaline by saying what I think of his general beastliness. If it came to that, I might in my rage wax unladylike; so perhaps, of the two evils, the lesser would be the sneak act—n'est ce pas? Well, I shall see when ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... Bobwitz.—Ce sont de beaux hommes bourtant; point de tenue militaire, mais de grands gaillards; si je les avais dans ma compagnie de la Garde, ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... savent que M. le Ministre de l'instruction publique a porte au budget soumis en ce moment a l'examen de la Chambre, une somme de 3,000 francs destinee a acquitter les frais auxquels donnera lieu le systeme d'echange de livres commence par l'entremise de M. Vattemare entre la ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... last intrenchments by the sophistries of the wily aristocrat, objected timidly, "Mais, Monseigneur, j'aime mon mari." For a moment the Marquis was surprised, and seemed to reflect. Then he said, "Tiens—tu aimes ton mari? C'est bizarre: mais—apres tout—ce n'est pas defendu." As he spoke, he smiled upon his simple vassal—evidently wavering ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence
... made a great mistake. If there is any doubt about it to-day, there certainly will be none to-morrow. Ce ...
— The Europeans • Henry James
... plus compter ses bonnes fortunes, est de tous, celui qui connoit le moins les faveurs. C'est le coeur qui les accorde, & ce n'est pas le coeur qu'un homme a la mode interesse. Plus on est prone par les femmes, plus il est facile de les avoir, mais moins il est ...
— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke
... two men and an old woman should attack an armed camp. Indeed, although he was not acquainted with the saying, Otter's feelings would have been correctly summed up in the well-known phrase, "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre." ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard
... himself from contact or connexion with it:—"Ce qui me distingue de mes contemporains et fait de moi un homme rare dans le siecle ou nous vivons, c'est que je ne veux pas etre roi, et que j'evite soigneusement tout ce qui pourrait me mener la." Chadwick and Cobden are agreed upon pauperizing the whole kingdom; but the former insists upon keeping the paupers in bastiles, whilst the latter requires them in cotton manufactories; both are agreed upon the propriety of reducing ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... mieux que vous ce dont vous avez besoin, et c'est pour cela qu'il veut que vous le lui demandiez; car Dieu est lui-meme votre premier besoin, et prier Dieu, ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson
... vos lumieres," and immediately following my name, which I had put at the bottom of the cover: "Si quelquun necoute pas l'Eglise regardez le comme un Paien, et un Publicain." Matth. xviii. 17; adding the following observations: "Dans ce livre, on ne dit pas un mot de la penitence qui afflige le corps. Cependant il est de foi qu'elle est absolument necessaire au salut apres le peche, c'est a l'Eglise de J. C. qu'il appartient de determiner le ...
— The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America • John West
... you if you were successful. So I mention that other secret just to show that the understanding you wish to arrive at may be mutual—there may be two sides to it. I hear my father coming. That is his voice at the gate. We will leave things as they stand: n'est ce pas?" ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... its members could agree with no other party. He names as its leaders Northumberland, Southampton, Cumberland, Cobham, Ralegh, and Griffin Markham. They are described by him as 'gens seditieux, de caractere purement Anglais, et prets a tout entreprendre en faveur des nouveautes, fut-ce contre le Roi.' Northumberland he induced by a large pension to collect for him secret intelligence, though he did not believe it. All he obtained from 'Milords Cobham et Raleich' was that, when he broached to them his ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing
... parmy les Hurons, c'est que tous les iours ie me confesse, et puis ie dis la Messe, comme si ie deuois prendre le Viatique et mourir ce iour l, et ie ne crois pas qu'on puisse mieux viure, ny auec plus de satisfaction et de courage, et mesme de merites, que viure en un lieu, o on pense pouuoir mourir tous les iours, et auoir la deuise de S. Paul, Quotidie morior, fratres, ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman
... pervert her mind also." Othello would not "kill Desdemona's soul." Mr. Bowles exculpates himself from Mr. Gilchrist's charge; but it is by substituting another charge against Pope. "A step beyond decorum," has a soft sound, but what does it express? In all these cases, "ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute." Has not the Scripture something upon "the lusting after a woman" being no less criminal than the crime? "A step beyond decorum," in short, any step beyond the instep, is a step from a precipice to the lady who permits it. For the gentleman who makes it it is ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... to Quatrain 234 admits that, however clear the mystical meaning of such Images must be to Europeans, they are not quoted without "rougissant" even by laymen in Persia—"Quant aux termes de tendresse qui commencent ce quatrain, comme tant d'autres dans ce recueil, nos lecteurs, habitues maintenant a 1'etrangete des expressions si souvent employees par Kheyam pour rendre ses pensees sur l'amour divin, et a la singularite des images trop orientales, d'une sensualite quelquefois revoltante, n'auront pas de ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam
... Henriette d'Angleterre elle-meme parlant au marquis de Vardes. La politesse de la cour de Louis XIV., l'agrement de la langue Francaise, la douceur de la versification la plus naturelle, le sentiment le plus tendre, tout se trouve dans ce peu de vers." After Dryden had broken away from the heroic style, he speaks out more plainly. In the Preface to his "All for Love," in reply to some cavils upon "little, and not essential decencies," the decision about which he refers to a master ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... nos deux grandes langues du Nouveau Monde [the Iroquois and the Algonkin] etaient tres claires, tres precises, exprimant avec facilite non seulement les relations exterieures des idees, mais encore leur relations metaphysiques. C'est ce qu' out commence de demontrer mes premiers chapitres de grammaire, et ce qu'achevera de faire voir ce que je vais dire sur les verbes."—Rev. M. Cuoq, Jugement Errone de M. Ernest Renan sur les Langues Sauvages. p. ...
— Aboriginal American Authors • Daniel G. Brinton
... that such may be the case, even if the purity of the masses be so great as not to admit of such sinister influence, the bare possibility, I say, is calculated to lower the respect in which it is most desirable the judiciary should ever be held,[CE] and to deter the most pure and high-minded citizens from offering their services. The salaries of the Judges range ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... "Ce fu el tans d'este, el mois de mai, que li jor sont caut, lonc, et cler, et les nuits coies et series. Nicolete jut une nuit en son lit, et vit la lune cler par une fenestre, et si oi le lorseilnol center en garding, ...
— Dante: His Times and His Work • Arthur John Butler
... author of playful and occasionally satirical papers, had caught my fancy in Rabelais, {vii} where he says of himself, "A moy n'est que honneur et gloire d'estre diet et repute Bon Gaultier et bon Compaignon; en ce nom, suis bien venue en ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun
... be flung more 'mong people to fetch out what's in me. Then thar's Marann, which is gittin' to be nigh on to a growd-up woman; an' the child need the s'iety which you 'bleeged to acknowledge is sca'ce about here, six mile from town. Your brer Sam can stay here an' raise butter, chickens, eggs, pigs, an'—an'—an' so forth. Matt Pike say he jes' know they's money in it, an' special with a housekeeper keerful ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... la cinquieme division cimentee (dans le mur) de ce onzieme Ahau-Katun qu'arriverent les Espagnols et qu'ils s'etablirent a Ti-Uoh de ce pays de Ti-Ho, et c'est a la neuvieme de cet Ahau que s'etablit le Christianisme, cette annee meme que vinrent nos seigneurs les Espagnols en cette contree, c'est a ...
— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various
... 3: Avant nostre arrivee elle mist en deliberation avec aulcungs de ses plus confidens ce qu'elle debvroit faire, advenant la dicte morte; la quelle treuva, que incontinant la dicte morte decouverte, elle se debvoit publier royne par lettres et escriptz, et qu'en ce faisant, elle conciteroit plusieurs a se declairer pour la maintenir telle, (et aussy que y a quelque ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude
... is none of our acquainta[u]ce wil retourneth we haue made to longe tariaunce that wyll ye say perchaunce And they ...
— The Interlude of Wealth and Health • Anonymous
... effigies. On donne ce nom a une sorte de joueet d'enfans qui est compose de quelques batons croises sur lesquels on etend du papier, et exposant cette petite machine a l'air, le moindre vent la fait voler. On la retient et ...
— Notes and Queries, Issue No. 61, December 28, 1850 • Various
... been admirably said by a French critic, "est la condensation et le resume de toute une existence. C'est le resultat et la conclusion de plusieurs annees de passions et de pensees, la formule derniere et complete de la philosophie personnelle que l'on s'est faite sur tout ce que l'on a vu et senti." Such an experiment, argues Planche, is not twice repeated in a lifetime: the soil which produced so rich a crop can but yield a poorer aftermath. Behind Tom Jones there was the author's ebullient youth and manhood; ...
— Fielding - (English Men of Letters Series) • Austin Dobson
... doivent servir venger la mmoire du philosophe de la patrie de Leibnitz, et dans l'ouvrage que nous nous proposons de publier sous le titre "D'Holbach jug par ses contemporains" nous esprons faire justement apprcier ce savant si estimable par la profondeur et la varit de ses connaissances, si prcieux sa famille et ses amis par la puret et la simplicit de ses moeurs, en qui la vertu tait devenue une habitude et la bienfaisance un besoin." This work ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... to civilization that Gregory should regard him with affection, that he should be known as 'Good King Guntram' and that the church should actually have canonized him after his death. Good King Guntram; Michelet has summed him up in a phrase 'Ce bon roi a qui on ne reprochait que deux ou ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power
... for the moment Harrison was too dumbfounded to reply, while Mammy in the pantry, having overheard every word, was noiselessly clapping her old hands together and murmuring: "Ma Lawd! Ma Lawd! Now I knows de sou'ce ob dat chile's tears." Before Harrison could recover herself Mrs. ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... most important unpublished documents on Wolfe's operations against Quebec is the long and elaborate Journal memoratif de ce qui s'est passe de plus remarquable pendant qu'a dure le Siege de la Ville de Quebec (Archives de la Marine). The writer, M. de Foligny, was a naval officer who during the siege commanded one of the principal batteries of the town. ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... school, and actually to take his form myself, for simply the undermasters can't keep up discipline or their own tempers. As to poor M. le Blanc, I find him dancing and shrieking with fury in the midst of a circle of snorting, giggling boys; and when he points out ce petit monstre, Jock coolly owns to having translated 'Croquons les,' let us croquet them; or 'Je suis ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... was a footlights favourite; wore her mane in plaits and a star-spangled bearing-rein and surcingle to improve her fig-u-are; did pretty parlour tricks to the strains of the banjo and psaltery. N'est-ce ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917 • Various
... He was once my friend, or, I thought he was; but I hate him now. And he was your father, and Amy Crawford was your mother? N'est ce pas? ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... in the disastrous year 1525, the year of the battle of Pavia, and the captivity of Francis the First. . His parents died early, and to him, as the younger son, his mother's little estate, ce petit Lire, the beloved place of his birth, descended. He was brought up by a brother only a little older than himself; and left to themselves, the two boys passed their lives in day-dreams of military glory. Their education was neglected; "The ...
— The Renaissance - Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Pater
... a Messieurs les Docteurs de Sorbonne, qu'il y a des cas, quoique tres rares, ou une mere ne scauroit accoucher, & meme ou l'enfant est tellement renferme dans le sein de sa mere, qu'il ne fait paroitre aucune partie de son corps, ce qui seroit un cas, suivant les Rituels, de lui conferer, du moins sous condition, le bapteme. Le Chirurgien, qui consulte, pretend, par le moyen d'une petite canulle, de pouvoir baptiser immediatement l'enfant, ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... Ce que vous me dites que le bill contre les titres ecclesiastiques ne menera a rien, me parait vraisemblable, grace aux moeurs du pays. Mais pourquoi faire des lois pires que les moeurs? C'est le contraire ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley
... administration of prisons and the treatment of crime, and during recent years great efforts have been made to improve the machinery of assistance on discharge, fully impressed as we are with the truth of the old French saying, "Le difficile ce n'est pas emprisoner un homme, c'est de le relacher." We have tried to avail ourselves fully of the resources offered by such powerful agencies as the Church Army, Salvation Army, as well as other societies who have for years ...
— Regeneration • H. Rider Haggard
... tudes et d'une vie innocente autant qu'on la puisse mener, et malgr tout ce qu'on m'avoit pu dire, la peur de l'Enfer m'agitoit encore. Souvent je me demandois—En quel tat suis-je? Si je mourrois l'instant mme, serois-je damn? Selon mes Jansnistes, [he had been reading the books of the Port Royal,] ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... says George Sand, in Le Peche de M. Antoine, "de notre epoque est le plus triste, le plus incommode et le plus disgracieux, que la mode ait jamais invente, c'est surtout au milieu des champs que tous ses inconvenients et toutes ses laideurs revoltent.... Au milieu de ce cadre austere et grandiose, qui transporte l'imagination au temps de la poesie primitive, apparaisse cette mouche parasite, le monsieur aux habits noirs, au menton rase, aux mains gantees, aux jambes maladroites, et ce roi ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various
... saw Kaethchen as a married woman in Leipzig in 1776, when he wrote to the lady who then held his affections (Frau von Stein): "Mais ce ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown
... who was expected at eleven, should come. Till about that hour he spoke with great facility. Mr. Farquhar came at the time appointed, and he was then visibly dying. When the valet-de-chambre returned, after attending Mr. Farquhar out of the room, Mr. Gibbon said, 'Pourquoi est ce que vous me quittez?' This was about half-past eleven. At twelve he drank some brandy and water from a teapot, and desired his favourite servant to stay with him. These were the last words he pronounced articulately. To the last he preserved his senses; ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison
... to it these seventy-five years, man and boy;" whereby, no doubt, the dreary confusion of the unhappy being's mind. Figurez donc, mon cher. Qui-que-ce-soit, fifty-five years or so of commercial breakfasts and dinners in such a place as Ullerton! Five-and-fifty years of steaks and chops; five-and-fifty years of ham and eggs, indifferently buttered toasts, and perennial sixes of brandy-and-water! After rambling to ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... "O que si ce bon roy eusse vescu," says Montluc, "ou si ceste paix ne se fust faite, qu'il eust bien rembarre les Lutheriens en Allemagne." Memoires, Petitot ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... scene on that unfortunate House with the elegant and pathetick reflections of Voltaire, in his Histoire Generale. 'Que les hommes prives,' says that brilliant writer, speaking of Prince Charles, 'qui se croyent malheureux, jettent les yeux sur ce prince et ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... effort which its persevering persuasion of the justice and advantages of the treaty authorize the United States to expect from it. "Son intention est" (I quote literally), "en outre" (that is, besides using those endeavors above mentioned), "de faire tout ce que not re constitution permet pour rapprocher autant que possible l'epoque de la presentation nouvelle de la loi rejettee." Your excellency can not fail to have observed two distinct parts in this ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 2) of Volume 3: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) • James D. Richardson
... was, "Je le vois en ce moment; il est fort laid et fort vilain; il est deguise en conseiller d'etat." (I see him at this moment; he is very ugly and very hideous; he is disguised ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... himself admits that he thought so. "Cette partie la etant, a ce que je crois, dependante de l'Acadie." La Jonquiere au Ministre, ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... argumentation which I have seen on the nature of the soul, or of the Deity, seems to me nothing but worship of this unnameable idol. Pour savoir ce qu'est Dieu, says Bielfeld, although nobody listens to the solemn truth, il faut etre Dieu meme—and to reason about the reason is of all things the most unreasonable. At least, he alone is fit to discuss the topic who perceives at a ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various
... Slingsby, achieves a success unequalled since Mr. BANCROFT played the parvenu swell Hawtree. It should be borne in mind that Mr. KERR only recently played admirably the poor stuttering shabby lover in The Struggle for Life. Il ira loin, ce bon M. KERR. Miss JULIA NEILSON looks the part to the life: when she has ceased to give occasional imitations of Miss ELLEN TERRY, and can really play the part as well as she looks it, then nothing more ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 31, 1891 • Various
... M. Hart est tres curieux, tres utile et fort interessant. Il ne me reste plus qu'a souhaiter que l'auteur nous donne maintenant une traduction d'un autre ouvrage, tres precieux, qu'il a publie recemment sous ce titre: The Violin and its Music (Londres, Dulau, 1881, in 4o). Il nous aura rendu alors un ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart
... views in a child of twelve! How well one feels that, whatever may be his fate, such a nature will never lose its independence, nor allow prejudice to carry it beyond the limits of honor and of justice, and that its device will always be, "Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra." "I do what I ought, come ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli
... now prayed with Esther, and tried a little amateur exorcism, including the use of slips of paper, inscribed with Habakkuk ii. 3. The ghosts cared no more than Voltaire for ce ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang
... no one ever smiled now with anything but real pleasure at sight of her calm and truly sweet smile, and the scent of soap on her pale hands. "Cher fils, je croyais que ceci vous donnerait un peu de plaisir. Voyez-vous comme c'est commode, n'est ce pas?" Each newcomer to the wards was warned by his comrades that the English angel with the grey hair was to be taken without a smile, exactly as if ...
— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy
... of Allah!" he murmured again. "But I will promise you an invitation for your chaperon and arrange for the name of the lady later—n'est-ce-pas?" ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... work. Its object was to harmonize the present use of the language with the past usage, in order that the present usage may possess all the fullness, richness, and certitude which it can have, and which naturally belong to it. His words are: 'Avant tout, et pour ramener ['a] une id['e]e m['e]re ce qui va [^e]tre expliqu['e] dans la Pr['e]face, je dirai, d['e]finissant ce dictionnaire, qu'il embrasse et combine l'usage pr['e]sent de la langue et son usage pass['e], afin de donner ['a] l'usage pr['e]sent toute la pl['e]nitude ...
— Society for Pure English Tract 4 - The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin • John Sargeaunt
... parmi nous," said the novelist, as she hurried him away. "Moi aussi," she added to herself, "je me promets un beau plaisir en faisant la connaissance de ce jeune homme." ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... ici-bas ne termine et n'acheve; Les pires des humains sont comme les meilleurs; Nous nous eveillons tous au meme endroit du reve: Tout commence en ce monde et ...
— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion
... the first critical moves in every science are necessarily entangled in the assumptions of the science which they are intending to combat, so Proudhon's work Qu'est ce que la propriete? is a criticism of political economy from the standpoint of political economy. Since the criticism of political economy forms the chief subject of interest, we need not here examine the legal section of the book, which criticizes law from the standpoint of ...
— Selected Essays • Karl Marx
... ainsi notre vie, Sans rever a ce qui suit; Avec ma chere Sylvie Le tems trop vite me fuit. Mais si, par un malheur extreme, Je perdois cet objet charmant, Oui, cette compagnie meme ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole
... moi, qui lui ravis le jour. Loi fatale! Cruel remords! Ma peine est sans egale, Dans ce moment funeste, Le desespoir, la mort, C'est tout ce qui ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... Lane..... So by coach home and to my office, where Browne of the Minerys brought me an Instrument made of a Spyral line very pretty for all questions in Arithmetique almost, but it must be some use that must make me perfect in it. So home to supper and to bed, with my mind 'un peu troubled pour ce que fait' to-day, but I hope it will be 'la ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... ans! et sur ton front aucun baiser de mere Ne viendra, pauvre enfant, invoquer le bonheur; Treize ans! et dans ce jour mil regard de ton pere Ne ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... face, who confided to me that she was "quite in love with the doctor, he was so quaint;" and numerous others belonged to that class; and finally a considerable sprinkling of the really criminal classes who seemed to find in the Anarchist doctrine of "Fais ce que veux" that salve to their conscience for which even the worst scoundrels seem to crave, and which, at worst, permitted them to justify their existences in their own eyes as being the "rotten products of ...
— A Girl Among the Anarchists • Isabel Meredith
... hardest place I ever worked in, and eleven years of it have pretty nearly broken me up. Nevertheless I shall always, please God, wherever I am, 'open my mouth for the dumb,' and adhere to my favourite motto: 'Fais ce ...
— The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II • Isabel Lady Burton & W. H. Wilkins
... ce livre apris, Que Gresse ot de chevalerie Le premier los et de clergie; Puis vint chevalerie a Rome, Et de la clergie la some, Qui ore est en France venue. Diex doinst qu'ele i soit retenue, Et que li lius li abelisse Tant que de France n'isse L'onor ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various
... 'Ce ne sera rien. It's the best thing that could happen to him. He'll be all right.... I suppose you want ...
— Love at Second Sight • Ada Leverson
... a desert island," returned the young man, smiling significantly; "Oh, le premier jour, c'est bon; le deuxieme jour, ce n'est pas si bon; le troisieme jour—mon Dieu, mais ...
— The Pagans • Arlo Bates
... 1766, M. Duchesne informed the world of the generosity of "M. Monti, Docteur de Philosophie et de Medecine a Boulogne en Italie," who divided with him a dried specimen taken from his own herbarium, "Ce present pretieux m'ote toute incertitude sur la nature de ce Fraisier et sur ses caracteres monstrueux. Il paroit ne pas avoir aujourd'hui ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... commentary on the arithmetic of Gemma Frisius (1563 ed., fol. 77), and in his own work (1570 Lyons ed., p. 14): "La valeur des Figures commence au coste dextre tirant vers le coste senestre: au rebours de notre maniere d'escrire par ce que la premiere prattique est venue des Chaldees: ou des Pheniciens, qui ont ete les premiers ...
— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith
... German shells fell in it and burst. The good wife and I" (here a wan smile) "thought the climate no longer sanitary. We ran away that night on foot. Much misery for old people. Last night we slept in a barn with hundreds of others. But some day we go back to restore that garden. N' est-ce pas vrai, cherie?" ...
— Fighting For Peace • Henry Van Dyke
... Pooh! Il ne faut pas cependant les prendre pour des signes d'intelligence. Il ne vole pas, ordinairement; il fait rarement meme des echanges de parapluie, et jamais de chapeau, parceque son chapeau a toujours un caractere specifique. On ne sait pas au juste ce dont il se nourrit. Feu Cuvier etait d'avis que c'etait de l'odeur du cuir des reliures; ce qu'on dit d'etre une nourriture animale fort saine, et peu chere. Il vit bien longtems. Enfin il meure, en ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... AEgi'na AEscula'pius Ae'thra Aido'neus Alces'tis Althe'a Andro'geos Androm'eda Apol'lo Araech'ne Arca'dia Ar'gos Ar'gus Ariad'ne Ar'temis A'sia Atalan'ta Athe'na Ath'ens At'ropos Bac'chus Bos'phorus Cadme'ia Cad'mus Cal'ydon Cau'casus Ce'crops Cer'cyon Ce'res Chei'ron Clo'tho Coro'nis Cran'ae Crete Cyclo'pes Cy'prus Dae'dalus Dan'ae Daph'ne De'los Del'phi Deuca'lion Dian'a E'gypt Eleu'sis Epime'theus (thus) Euro'pa Eu'rope Gor'gons Greece Ha'des Haermo'nia ...
— Old Greek Stories • James Baldwin
... guerre de Gallipoli etait tres borne sur le terrain. Ce front restreint a permis a chacun de vos soldats de vous connaitre. Autant qu'avec leurs armes, ils combattaient avec votre ardeur de grand ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... in primal beauty, paled the day, The wondering waters hushed, They yearned in sighs That shook the world—tumultuously heaved To a great throne of azure laced with light And canopied in foam to grace their queen. Shrieking for joy came O-ce-an'i-des, And swift Ner-e'i-des rushed from afar, Or clove the waters by. Came eager-eyed Even shy Na-i'a-des from inland streams, With wild cries headlong darting through the waves; And Dryads from ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson
... "Est-ce possible? Do I onderstand? Nozing? You have not brought nozing for Jean's jour de fete? But perhaps I do ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton
... "Ce serait toujours un pis aller," said Jacobi, seating himself with calmness in Ratcliffe's favourite chair by ...
— Democracy An American Novel • Henry Adams
... mon ancienne lettre amicale. Oui, chere Ellen Terry; ce que j'ai donne vous appartient; ce que j'ai dit, je le peux encore, et je vous aime et admire ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry
... livre de Mlle. Trotter. Dans la dedicace elle exhorte M. Locke a donner des demonstrations de morale. Je crois qu'il aurait eu de la peine a y reussir. L'art de demontrer n'est pas son fait. Je tiens que nous nous appercevons sans raisonnement de ce qui est juste et injuste, comme nous nous appercevons sans raison de quelques theoremes de Geometrie; mais il est tousjours bon de venir a la demonstration. Justice et injustice ne dependent seulement de la nature humaine, mais de la nature de la substance intelligente ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... Poesie est une imitation. La Poesie Bucolique a pour but d'imiter ce qui a passe et ce qui ce dit entre les Bergers. Mem. de Lit. ...
— An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie
... Uncpapa, Oncpapa, etc), should be compared with the Yanktonai name Hunkpatina; both refer to the hunkpa or ends of a tribal circle. A Hunkpapa man in 1880 gave the following as the names of the gentes: 1, Tcanka-oqan (Canka-ohan) Sore-backs (of horses), not the original name. 2, Tce-oqba (Ce-ohba), in which tce (ce) has either a vulgar meaning or is a contraction of tceya (ceya), to weep, and oqba (ohba), sleepy. 3, Tinazipe-citca (Tinazipe-sica), Bad-bows. 4, Talo-nap'in (Talo-napin), Fresh-meat-necklace. ...
— Siouan Sociology • James Owen Dorsey
... n'avait rien dit par rapport aux observations de votre Excellence sur ce qui arriverait si un tranger, un Anglais par exemple, se trouvait dans des circonstances analogues, j'ai pri son Altesse de considrer et de faire considrer au Ministre Ottoman, dans quelle position la Porte se mettrait ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various
... mets la Gabelle de niveau avec la Taille. Je n'ai jamais rien trouve de si bizarrement tyrannique que de faire acheter a un particulier, plus de sel qu'il n'en veut et n'en peut consommer, et de lui defendre encore de revendre ce qu'il a de trop." ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various
... first encroachment would have made the stronger stronger still. It is, therefore, matter of absolute demonstration, that either the Parliament was stronger than the Crown in the reign of Henry VIII., or that the Crown was stronger than the Parliament in 1641. "Hippocrate dira ce que lui plaira," says the girl in Moliere; "mais le cocher est mort." Mr Mill may say what he pleases; but the English constitution is still alive. That since the Revolution the Parliament has possessed great power in the State, is what nobody will dispute. The King, ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4) - Contributions To The Edinburgh Review • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... such as the growth of ecclesiastical power and the evolution of dogma. For a few years the orthodox in France generally spoke of the new tendency as loisysme. It was not till 1905 that Edouard Le Roy published his 'Qu'est-ce qu'un dogme?' which carried the discussion into the domain of pure philosophy, though the studies of Blondel and Laberthonniere in the psychology of religion may be said to involve a metaphysic closely resembling ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge
... fact that the area of the outer ring or annulus is exactly equal to the area of the inner circle. Compare Diagram 2 with Diagram 1, and you will see that as the square of the diameter CD is double the square of the diameter of the inner circle, or CE, therefore the area of the larger circle is double the area of the smaller one, and consequently the area of the annulus is exactly equal to that of the inner circle. ...
— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney
... and of some gratifying, perhaps startling, demonstrations of national gratitude." Voyez, mon cher Monsieur, comme depuis 8 jours ces pauvres Deputes qui ont vote pour le Ministre sont traites, Si vous etes a la maison ce soir, dites-le-moi, je desire vous ...
— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles
... etait un alkali fixe, et pas du tout du nitre comme quelques auteurs l'ont pense; ce qui semblerait appuyer cette opinion, c'est que lea femmes egyptiennes se servaient de natrum pour faire leur lessive, comme on as sert aujourd'hui ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... Why mention I this now, and desire these men to be called? By the gods, I will tell you the truth frankly and without reserve. Not that I may fall a-wrangling, to provoke recrimination before you, [Footnote: Similarly Auger: "Ce n'est pas pour m'attirer les invectives de mes anciens adversaires en les invectivant moi-meme." Jacobs otherwise: Nicht um durch Schmahungen mir auf gleiche Weise Gehor bei Euch zu verschaffen. But I do not think that [Greek: emauto logon poiaeso] can bear the sense ...
— The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes • Demosthenes
... placed in the lobby leading to the second staircase, which mirror terminated the view. "L'une perspective bien menagee charmait la vue; ici, la magic de l'optique la trompoit agreablement. En un mot, le plus curieux des hommes n'avait rien omis dans ce palais de ce qui pouvait contenter la curiosite de ceux qui ...
— Recollections of the late William Beckford - of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath • Henry Venn Lansdown
... swore Peter in the old Island fashion—"Vous jurez par la foi que vous devez a Dieu que vous direz la verite, et rien que la verite, et tous ce que vous connaissez dans cette cause, et que Dieu vous soit en aide! (You swear by the faith which you owe to God that you will tell the truth, and only the truth, and all that you know concerning this case, and so ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham
... wonder from the first, seemed resolved to fill up the little leisure left her, by contemplating closer the extraordinary animals that chance had brought to her mistress's hotel. She put her hands on her sides, and, opening her black eyes wide, gave us a long stare, exclaiming, "Eh, mon Dieu! est-ce donc possible!" ...
— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello
... Napoleon, the greatest of the author's followers if not disciples, to draw inspiration and suggestion from his Florentine forerunner and to justify the murder of the Due d'Enghien by a quotation from The Prince. 'Mais apres tout,' he said, 'un homme d'Etat est-il fait pour etre sensible? N'est-ce pas un personnage—completement excentrique, toujours seul d'un cote, avec le monde de l'autre?' and again 'Jugez done s'il doit s'amuser a menager certaines convenances de sentiments si importantes pour le commun des hommes? Peut-il considerer les liens du sang, les affections, les puerils ...
— Machiavelli, Volume I - The Art of War; and The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli
... headword spelled "ms" Minor difference, generally an added or omitted macron or a predictable vowel variation such as for . form of "ms" The referenced word is an inflected form. A few very common patterns such as adverbs in "-lce" listed under adjectives in "-lic" are not individually noted. redirected to "ms" The cross-referenced form ...
— A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - For the Use of Students • John R. Clark Hall
... their language. Le Dictionnaire des Anglicismes, lately published by Delagrave, has two hundred pages, and is much praised by a reviewer in the Mercure de France, Feb. 15, p. 246: but it does not give the current French pronunciations of the English words. The reviewer writes: 'Ce qui me gene bien davantage, c'est que M. Bonnaffe supprime, partout, avec rigueur, la facon francaise de prononcer le mot anglais. Etait-il superflu de dire comment nous articulons shampooing? Nous n'avons, je crois, qu'une forme orale pour boy, ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 5 - The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems • Society for Pure English
... depicted leaping out of window, at the very moment when a Cossack with his lance appears outside the palings. "Vite," says the marshal, in the peculiar patois adopted by the English caricaturists of the early part of the century, "Courez, mon Empereur, ce Diable de Cossack, dey spoil ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt
... maxim about firmness with children has suggested the above. "Ce que plie ne peut servir d'appui, et l'enfant veut etre appuye. Non-seulement il en a besoin, mais il le desire, mais sa tendresse la plus constante n'est qu'a ce prix. Si vous lui faites l'effet d'un autre ...
— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps
... however, those of danger die away by frequent reiteration; the men who carried me seemed amazed that I should feel any emotions of fear. Qu'est ce donc, madame?[Footnote: What's the matter, my lady?] was the coldly-asked question to my repeated injunction of prenez garde[Footnote: Take care.]: not very apparently unnecessary neither, where the least slip must have been fatal both to ...
— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi
... by the banished Duke with a message to Rosalind. Of course, he meets Celia, and at first is brusquerie itself. But in the second act he comes to think there is something in her name 'qui resonne autrement que dans tout nature. Est-ce une douceur qui charme l'oreille?' Celia for a long time plays with him, but in the end they arrive at a mutual declaration of affection. 'I have always tenderly loved Jaques,' says Georges Sand in her ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams
... remercie de votre billet. J'espere comme vous que bientot nos manufactures auront du coton. Je n'ai pas de tout ete choque de ce que Lord Russell n'ait pas recu Mr. Lindsay. Celui-ci m'avait demande l'autorisation de rapporter au principal secretaire d'Etat notre conversation et j'y ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... fly some arrows at the Diamond Swan, but she dove under the water and the missiles fell harmless. When Coo-ce-oh rose to the surface she was far from the shore and she swiftly swam across the lake to where no arrows ...
— Glinda of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... un homme de beaucoup d'esprit, a ce qu'on dit, a ce que je crois meme, mais il faut vous apprendre qu'il n'est pas des NOTRES." My father spoke of Pamela, Lady Edward Fitzgerald, and explained how he had defended her in the Irish House of Commons; instead of ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... repugnant to his better nature and to the higher developments of his "common-sense." The tendency to exalt the letter of what is spoken or written, at the expense of the spirit, is as much of the essence of ecclesiasticism as of legalism. "Si dans les regles du salut le fond l'emporterait sur la forme, ce serait la ruine du sacerdoce." And, as a matter of experience, the hair-splitting puerilities of Pharisaism under the Old Dispensation have been matched, and more than matched, in the spheres of ritual, of dogmatic ...
— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes
... Bath Arrived Mr. Fancy and Lady Hogarth, Who looked so enchanting last week at the races, And nemine contra pronounced by the graces. Effusions of friendship or letters of love— All beautiful, candid, as true as a dove. J'espere, ma chere ami, qui ce bien avec vous, And friendly whip syllabub chat entre nous. The merchant, the lover, the friend, and the sage Will daily applaud Mr. Palmer's ...
— The King's Post • R. C. Tombs
... can hardly fail to be cross-fertilised by the many flies and small Hymenoptera which visit the flowers. (5/18. Hermann Muller 'Befruchtung' etc. page 96. According to M. Mustel as stated by Godron 'De l'espce' tome 2 page 58 1859, varieties of the carrot growing near each other readily intercross.) A plant of the common parsley was covered by a net, and it apparently produced as many and as fine spontaneously self-fertilised fruits or seeds as ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin
... qui ne peut plus compter ses bonnes fortunes, est de tous, celui qui connoit le moins les faveurs. C'est le coeur qui les accorde, & ce n'est pas le coeur qu'un homme a la mode interesse. Plus on est prone par les femmes, plus il est facile de les avoir, mais moins il ...
— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke
... easily lost: ce n'est rien pour Admete et c'est beaucoup pour lui.(55) If Dangeau is in the game he will win all the pools: he is an eagle. Then will come to pass, my daughter, all that God may vouchsafe—il en arivera, ma fille, tout ce qu'il ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... 20 missionaries: "La nation des Torgotes (savoir les Kalmuques) arriva a Ily, toute delabree, n'ayant ni de quoi vivre, ni de quoi se vetir. Je l'avais prevu; et j'avais ordonne de faire en tout genre les provisions necessaires pour pouvoir les secourir promptement: c'est ce qui a ete 25 execute. On a fait la division des terres: et on a assigne a chaque famille une portion suffisante pour pouvoir servir a son entretien, soit en la cultivant, soit en y nourissant des bestiaux. On a donne a chaque particulier des etoffes ...
— De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars • Thomas De Quincey
... mwore do zee your fece, Up sters or down below, I'll zit me in the lwonesome plece, Where flat-bough'd beech do grow; Below the beeches' bough, my love, Where you did never come, An' I don't look to meet ye now, As I do look ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... to have been borne some years before in the American service, but no one appeared to know much about it—was not an old man. He could not have been, at this time, much more than fifty, but English-speaking acquaintances often called him "old Stewart," and others "ce vieux Stewart." Indeed, at a first glance he might have passed for anything up to sixty, for his face was a good deal more lined and wrinkled than it should have been at his age. Ste. Marie's adjective had been rather apt. The man had a desiccated appearance. Upon examination, however, ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... faculty-index, in which the members of the professorial body told something about themselves in a great variety of handwriting: among other things, their full names and addresses, and their natures in so far as penmanship might reveal it. Ca; Ce; Cof; Collard, Th. J., who was an instructor in French and lived on Rosemary Place; Copperthwaite, Julian M., Cotton ... No Cope. He looked again, and further. No slightest ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... is introduced early in the piece as sent by the banished Duke with a message to Rosalind. Of course, he meets Celia, and at first is brusquerie itself. But in the second act he comes to think there is something in her name 'qui resonne autrement que dans tout nature. Est-ce une douceur qui charme l'oreille?' Celia for a long time plays with him, but in the end they arrive at a mutual declaration of affection. 'I have always tenderly loved Jaques,' says Georges Sand in her preface, and 'I have taken the great liberty of bringing ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams
... Je suis un soldat de France!... Dans les tranchees pour cinq mois!... Qu'est-ce que mes camarades vont dire, 'cre nom de Dieu? et mon capitaine? C'est emmordant apres toute ma service comme brave soldat. Mais, ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... I've brought you one of my very good friends, an English gentleman of the most high importance. He will have dejeuner—tout ce qu'il y a de mieux. None of your cabbage-soup and eels and andouilles, but a good omelette, some fresh fish, and a bit of very tender meat. Will that suit you?" ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... Cette note n'est pas juste. Il semble que M. de La Monnoye veuille taxer Baillet de n'avoir pas sontenu le caractere de modestie, qu'il affectoit. Baillet ne faisoit pas le modeste, il l'etoit veritablement par etat et par principe; et s'il eut entendu le mot immodeste, ce mot lui auroit ete suspect; il eut eu recours a l'original, ou il auroit trouve Diablo, et non Diabolo, Cojuelo et non Cojudo, et auroit bien vite corrige la faute. Mais comme il n'entendoit ni l'un ni l'autre ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... Henry!" said Peter, "fiddlers is mighty sca'ce dese days, but I reckon ole 'Poleon Campbell kin make you shake yo' feet yit, ef Ole Man Rheumatiz ain' ketched holt ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt
... delices de Venus, la Rose de Junon, qu'Anguillara designa sous le nom d'Ambrosia, probablement a cause de son parfum suivant, et pent etre aussi de sa soidisante divine origine, se place tout naturellement a le tete de ce groupe splendide." "C'est le Lis classique, par excellence, et en meme temps ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... do sich a thing a-tall," admitted the Persimmon, "but I jes' natchelly got to git ten dollars to he'p pay on my divo'ce." ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... trempant le pinceau dans ma mémoire, j'ai peint ses joues pour qu'elles prissent l'exacte ressemblance de la vie, et j'ai enveloppé le mort dans les plus fins linceuls. Rhamenès le second n'a pas reçu des soins plus pieux! Que ce livre soit aussi durable ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore
... long forgotten, were made to involve a wilderness of sensation, a world of rich incident, an universe of varied emotion, of excitement the most passionate and spirit-stirring. "Oh, le bon temps, que ce siecle ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... likes places where many alleys meet; or which, like the Belle-Etoile, are kept up "by a special gardener," and admires at the Table du Roi the labours of the Grand Master of Woods and Waters, the Sieur de la Falure, "qui a fait faire ce ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... m'en fiche" said Madame Brack, Coralie's mamma, taking a great pinch out of Lord Colchicum's delicate gold snuff-box. "Je m'aime que les hommes faits, moi. Comme milor. Coralie! n'est-ce pas que tu n'aimes que les hommes faits, ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... singularity (?) pervading their writings and conversation, but no proof of moral depravity." Another justly observes, Les peuples primitifs n'y entendent pas malice: ils appellent les choses par leurs noms et ne trouvent pas condamnable ce qui est naturel. And they are prying as children. For instance the European novelist marries off his hero and heroine and leaves them to consummate marriage in privacy; even Tom Jones has the decency to bolt the door. But the Eastern story teller, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... Ce mecanicien habile fait des mains dont les doigts ont les mouvements naturels; et son establissement est l'unique ...
— A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium • Richard Boyle Bernard
... waited for our happiness two years. We will make the happiness of others now first, n'est ce pas?" she whispered. ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... to the sole of her slipper, and appear most lovely to her own gaze, can never be certain of her power to please until the suffrage of society confirm the opinion formed in seclusion; and "Qu'est ce que la beaute s'elle ...
— Zophiel - A Poem • Maria Gowen Brooks
... i. p. 234. Larrey in his History of England seems to have given currency to the legend that Cardan foretold the Archbishop's death. "S'il en faut croire ce que l'Histoire nous dit de ce fameux Astrologe, il donna une terrible preuve de sa science a l'Archeveque qu'il avoit gueri, lorsque prenait conge de lire, il lui tint ce discours: 'Qu'il avoit bien pu le guerir de sa maladie; mais qu'il n'etoit pas en son pouvoir de changer sa destinee, ni d'empecher ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... c'est qu'il ne faille pas payer ces beaux resultats par le bouleversement de l'industrie rationale; la seconde, c'est que la Belgique en accepte sincerement es charges en meme temps qu'elle en recuiellera les profits, et qu'en consequence elle se prete a tout ce qui sera necessaire pour mettre NOTRE INDUSTRIE A L'ABRI DE L'INVASION DES PRODUITS ETRANGERS, et pour que les interets de notre Tresor soient a couvert." This is plain speaking; the Government journal of France ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various
... not Fortune, son, but blame thy love therefor; For I perceive thou art in love, and then[ce] thy trouble is more. ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... as to say that you consider me a liar! Go to the bottom your own way, mon ami: ce n'est pas mon affaire,' said Montesma, turning on his heel, and leaving his ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... never seemed to have acquired any influence over her feeble husband, and found herself powerless to arouse him to any sense of his position, "La dicte fille" says Commines, "etoit fort courageuse et eut volontier donne credit a son mary, si elle eut pu, mais il n'etoit guere saige et revelait ce qu'elle lui disait." Lodovico treated both his nephew and niece with the utmost respect, and discussed the situation freely with the Florentine ambassador Pandolfini, saying that King Ferrante's envoy had lately gone ...
— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright
... MINISTRE: J'ai l'honneur de remettre sous ce pli a votre Excellence une lettre que j'ai recue d'un de mes concitoyens les plus distingues, avec une correspondance touchant une matiere a laquelle il me semble que le Danemark ne soit guere moins interesse que ne le sont les Etats ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... interest in you," said the Contessa sweetly. "You shall come and see me, cher petit Marquis, in my little house that is to be, in Mayfair; for you have found me, n'est ce pas, a little house in Mayfair?" she said, turning ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... my remembraunce Suche trewe examples / I tenderly dyde wepe Remembrynge well / goddes hyghe ordyna[un]ce Syghynge full oft / with inwarde teres depe Tyll at the last / I fell in to a slepe And in this slepe / me thought I dyde repayre My selfe alone / in to a ...
— The coforte of louers - The Comfort of Lovers • Stephen Hawes
... her heart is leetla. But perhaps it is your mind not so big enough to see—hein?" The priest laughed noiselessly, showing white teeth. "Was it so selfish in Madame to refuse the name of Finden— n'est-ce pas?" ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... faire peser, ordonner de peser avec une balance, ils crivent p'ingseleboumbi; boumbi est la forme factive ou causative; cette terminaison sert aussi pour le passif; de sorte que ce verbe peut signifier aussi tre pes ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... residerende; onse seer Goede vrinden den directe[)u]r ende Raed van Nieu-Nederlande, wensen v[)w]e Edn: eerenfesten, ende wijse voorsinnige gel[)u]ck salichitt [gelukzaligheid?], In Christi Jesu onsen Heere; met goede voorspoet, ende gesonthijt, naer siele, ende lichaem. Amen.[CE] ...
— Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' • William Bradford
... staircase, Pixis came up, looking over his spectacles in order to see who was speaking above to his bella. He may not have recognised us at once, quickened his steps, stopped before us, and said to her harshly: "Qu'est-ce que vous faites ici?" and gave her a severe lecture for receiving young men in his absence, and so on. I addressed Pixis smilingly, and said to her that it was somewhat imprudent to leave the room in so thin a silk dress. At last the old man became calm—he took me by the arm ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... tous les amateurs de cafe; contenant l'histoire, la description, la culture, les proprietes de ce vegetal. Paris, 1790. 2 ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... shall we expect to see if not the State Sup'inten'ent Public Education? And if yea, then welcome, thrice welcome, the surprise! We shall not inquire him; but as a stranger we shall show him with how small reso'ce how large result." He put ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... mon corbillon: qu'y met-on? A vous, Marthe. O," exclaimed Jeanne, "tu y mets ton chignon? Eh bien, tu sais, n'est-ce pas, beta, qu'il faut que tu t'y mettes avec!" and into the basket she went after ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 23, 1917 • Various
... said, meaning the heat. "I cannot stand it! Ce climat me tue!" And, after a short talk about the horrors of the Russian climate, she gave the men a ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... coeur se guermentait De la grande douleur qu'il portait, En ce plaisant lieu solitaire Ou un doux ventelet venait, Si seri qu'on le sentait Lorsque ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge
... wrong hour! In this world, which mankind fits still so badly, the wish and its fulfilling are rarely in unison, rarely in harmony, but follow each other, most often, like vibrations of different instruments, at intervals which can only jar. The n'est-ce que cela, the inability to enjoy, of successful ambition and favoured, passionate love, is famous; and short of love even and ambition, we all know the flatness of long-desired pleasures. King Solomon, who had not been enough of an ascetic, as we all know, and therefore ...
— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee
... curiosity has a hold of you, Molly; remember the fable they made us repeat: De loin c'est quelque chose, et de pres ce n'est rien. Now you shall go straight into your bed, and ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... voice tremulous with tragic appeal]. Et ce que vous etes un homme de bon coeur? Je ...
— The Man from Home • Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson
... devaient le mettre a meme de determiner les Tarifs des droit d'importation en France des produits fabriques en Angleterre. Pour Consacrer le Souvenir de cette enquete, l'une des plus importantes de ce genre qui aient ete faites en France, le Gouvernement a fait frapper une medaille commemorative et il a decide qu'un exemplaire en bronze de cette medaille serait mis a la disposition des Industriels qui ont depose dans l'enquete. J'ai l'honneur, Monsieur, ...
— Six Years in the Prisons of England • A Merchant - Anonymous
... and then with fine earth pressed in, and close about them) when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground; and thus placed at a yard distant, they will immediately furnish a kind of copp'ce. But in case you plant them of rooted trees, or smaller sets, fix them not so deep; for though we bury the trunchions thus profound, yet is the root which they strike, commonly but shallow. They will make prodigious shoots in 15, or 16 years; but then ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn
... days ago. Mr. Chevons had passed through Bruges in his Red Cross motor-car. They seemed uncertain whether Viola was Mrs. Chevons or Mrs. Furnival, and they addressed her indifferently as either. An awful indifference had come to them. Of the war they said, "C'est triste, nest-ce pas?" We left them, sitting pallid and depressed behind the barricade of their bureau, gazing after us with the ...
— The Belfry • May Sinclair
... 'Mais dites-leur que ce n'est pas pour les cierges que je leur donne, mais pour qu'ils se regalent de the. Chay, chay pour vous, mon vieux!' he said with a smile. And he patted Kasatsky on the shoulder with ...
— Father Sergius • Leo Tolstoy
... devront conduire comme les cochers ordinaires a yeux nus ou avec les lunettes ordinaires de myopes ou de presbytes. Nos sportsmen declarent que ces lunettes de motoristes favorisent l'anonymat. Ces lunettes sont de veritables masques. On fait sous ce masque ce qu'on n'oserait pas faire a visage decouvert. En France il est defendu de se masquer en dehors du temps de carnaval ... si le masque tombe, la vitesse des motors deviendra fatalement normale."—M. N. de Noduwez ...
— Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton
... enthusiastic biographical sketch, see Pouchet. For comparison of his work with that of Thomas Aquinas, see Milman, History of Latin Christianity, vol. vi, p. 461. "Il etat aussi tres-habile dans les arts mecaniques, ce que le fit soupconner d'etre sorcier" (Sprengel, Histoire de la Medecine, vol. ii, p. 389). For Albert's biography treated strictly in accordance with ecclesiastical methods, see Albert the Great, by Joachim Sighart, translated by the Rev. T. A. Dickson, ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... your way; Gervase thinks he will have his way; I think I will have my way; but as a matter of fact there is only one person in this affair whose 'way' will be absolute, and that person is the Princess Ziska. Ce que ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... known as "ce Vassili"—a term of mingled contempt and distrust—bowed very low. He was a plain commoner, while his interlocutor was a baron. The knowledge of this was ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... was always a student. As a young man in the university, he was devoted to certain theories of his own. N'est-ce pas vrai, mon drole?" she asked, turning to put her arm on her father's shoulder as he dropped weakly on the ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough
... step is the only difficulty," is an old proverb. Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute, said the old facetious duchesse de Rambouillet, when touching on certain extravagancies of a young female. It was oddly enough applied lately by a lady, who hearing a clergyman declare, "That St. Piat, after his head was cut off, walked two entire miles with ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 • Various
... break with France, and was simply bent upon selling her neutrality to the best advantage. Instead, however, of being able to prescribe terms to Napoleon, she was compelled to accede to his. Napoleon said to Haugwitz, "Jamais on n'obtiendra de moi ce qui pourrait blesser ma gloire." Haugwitz had been instructed through the duke of Brunswick: "Pour le cas que vos soins pour retablir la paix echouent, pour le cas ou l'apparition de la Prusse sur le theatre de la guerre soit ...
— Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4 • Wolfgang Menzel, Trans. Mrs. George Horrocks
... deck-house, running almost her whole length. In this are the officers' cabins, the saloon and the passengers' cabins (two), both large and beautifully fitted up. Captain Verdier exceedingly pleasant and constantly saying "N'est-ce pas?" A quiet and singularly clean ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... — Leaf 10 of Codex Borbonicus with figure of the god of the underworld (Mictlantecutli) as regent of the tenth of the 20 sections, each of 13 days, of the tonalamatl, which begins with "one flint'' (ce ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... cross the great river which divides France into two lands widely differing he must leave the city by the east gate; for the only bridge over the Loire within forty miles of Angers lay eastward from the town, at Ponts de Ce, four miles away. To this gate, therefore, past the Rue Toussaint, he whirled his party daringly; and though the women grew pale as the sounds of riot broke louder on the ear, and they discovered that they were approaching instead of leaving the danger—and though Tignonville for an instant thought ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman
... Histoire. Et voila bien assez de mes Egoismes. Adieu, Madame; dites-moi tout franchement votre opinion sur ce petit Livre; ah! vous n'en pouvez parler autrement qu'avec toute franchise—et croyez moi, tout ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) • Edward FitzGerald
... tale-tellers always harp upon this theme, the cunning precautions taken by mankind and their utter confusion by "Fate and Fortune." In such matters the West remarks, "Ce que femme ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... heavy overwhelming Daun and his Austrian and Reichs masses; and that Napoleon, I know not after what degree of study, pronounced this Campaign of 1761 to be the masterpiece of Henri, and really a considerable thing, "La campagne de 1761 est celle ou ce Prince a vraiment montre des talents superieurs; the Battle of Freyberg [wait till next Year] nothing in comparison." [Montholon, Memoires de Napoleon, vii. 324.] Which may well detain soldier-people upon it; but must not ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... along with apparent indifference, carrying a loaf of bread under his remaining arm, and shouting "Vive l'Empereur!" I asked him if the French were coming.—"Je le crois bien," returned he, "preparez un souper, mes bourgeois—il soupera a Bruxelles ce soir."—Pretty information for me, thought I. "Don't believe him, sir," said a Scotchman, who lay close beside me, struggling to speak, though apparently in the last agony. "It's all right—I—assure—you—." The whole of Friday night was passed in ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 351 - Volume 13, Saturday, January 10, 1829 • Various
... 'Mais c'est un horreur ce que vous dites la, Monsieur,' cried Mlle. Boncourt, looking angrily at the boys, who were ...
— Rudin • Ivan Turgenev
... triste orphelin sur terre, A respirer cet air impregne de misere?... Est-ce que Dieu sur moi fera peser son bras, Pere? Et quel ...
— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee
... notre langue fort difficile, n'est-ce pas?" continued madame, who recovered her good humour, and smiled ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... recently left Saxonland, where public opinion is opposed to everything that has the faintest shade of Magyarism, that I felt in the state of Victor Hugo's hero, of whom he said, "Son orientation etait changee, ce qui avait ete le couchant etait le levant. Il s'etait retourne." The transition was certainly curious, but I confess to getting rather tired of the mutual recriminations of political parties; respecting each other's good qualities, they ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse
... ravi que le roi, notre sire, Aime la Montespan; Moi, Frontenac, je me creve de rire, Sachant ce qui lui pend; Et je dirai, sans etre des plus bestes, Tu n'as que mon reste, Roi, Tu n'as que ...
— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan
... meet at dinner recently, a person of this class, and a conversation having arisen on the subject, he said, "I aam pe-fectly ce-tain no one caaen know that I aam an I-ishman;" and the next instant, turning to a servant, he added, "Po-ta, if you plaze." When this thoroughly low-bred Irishism came out I could not help smiling, and caught at the same moment the eye of a lady opposite, who seemed greatly amused. In ...
— Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! - As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration • Jasper W. Rogers
... {60} "Invitatorium." Ce nom est donne a un verset qui se chante ou se recite au commencement de l'office de marines. Il varie selon les fetes et meme ...
— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler
... to speak in Russian, she would say, "Parlez, donc, francais," as though on purpose to annoy us, while, if there was any particularly nice dish at luncheon which we wished to enjoy in peace, she would keep on ejaculating, "Mangez, donc, avec du pain!" or, "Comment est-ce que vous tenez votre fourchette?" "What has SHE got to do with us?" I used to think to myself. "Let her teach the girls. WE have our Karl Ivanitch." I shared to the full his ...
— Childhood • Leo Tolstoy
... me semble que les personnages de Stevenson ont justement cette espece de realisme irreal. La large figure luisante de Long John, la couleur bleme du crane de Thevenin Pensete s'attachent a la memoire de nos yeux en vertue de leur irrealite meme. Ce sont des fantomes de la verite, hallucinants comme de vrais fantomes. Notez en passant que les traits de John Silver hallucinent Jim Hawkins, et que Francois Villon est hante par ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp
... poor little Belgium with the great German army moving on Liege? Everybody has faith, however, in the Allies, and in the streets it is pathetic to hear people assuring each other, "O, oui, les Francais viennent ce soir" (Oh, yes, the French are coming to-night). There are many German troops in town already, who somehow have pushed their way in between the firing, but the city will not cede the forts, so the bombardment may begin at any ...
— Lige on the Line of March - An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium • Glenna Lindsley Bigelow
... engendrent la mythologie sont les memes que celles qui engendront la philosophie, et ce n'est pas sans raison que l'Inde et la Grece nous presentent le phenomene de la plus riche mythologie a cote de la plus profonde metaphysique. "La conception de la multiplicite dans l'univers, c'est le polytheisme chez les peuples enfants; c'est la science chez ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... antique ne pourra etre vendu sauf au Departement des Antiquites du pays, mais si ce Departement renonce a l'acquerir la vente en deviendra libre. Aucune antiquite ne pourra sortir du pays sans un permis d'exportation ...
— How to Observe in Archaeology • Various
... further: Nous ne sommes que ceremonie; la ceremonie nous emporte, et laissons la substance des choses. Nous nous tenons aux branches, et abandonnons le tronc et le corps. Nous avons appris aux dames de rougir, oyans seulement nommer ce qu'elles ne craignent aucunement a faire: Nous n'osons appeller a droit nos membres, et ne craignons pas de les employer a toute sorte de debauche. La ceremonie nous defend d'exprimer par paroles les choses licites et naturelles, et nous l'en croyons; la raison nous defend de n'en ...
— All for Love • John Dryden
... introduced to Mr. Garrick, Count Neni, a Flemish Nobleman of great rank and fortune, to whom Garrick talked of Abel Drugger as A SMALL PART; and related, with pleasant vanity, that a Frenchman who had seen him in one of his low characters, exclaimed, 'Comment! je ne le crois pas. Ce n'est pas Monsieur Garrick, ce Grand Homme!' Garrick added, with an appearance of grave recollection, 'If I were to begin life again, I think I should not play those low characters.' Upon which I observed, 'Sir, you would be in the wrong; for your ...
— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell
... that makes me always have a weakness for rascals?' I told him it was the devil. I was not a priest then. I could not be so sure with my answer now." And then Padre Ignacio repeated Auber's remark in French: "'Est-ce le bon Dieu, oui est-ce bien le diable, qui veut tonjours que j'aime les coquins?' I don't know! I don't know! I wonder if Auber has composed anything lately? I wonder ...
— Padre Ignacio - Or The Song of Temptation • Owen Wister
... not tell you he would not find in me that narrow-shouldered, smooth-faced stripling of five years ago?" he asked. "N'est-ce pas, friend Delesse?" ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... the part of the audience; the men not daring to make any comment, the women not daring to look at each other, until the widow, suddenly seizing upon the situation, clapped her little hands roguishly, and avowed in a babyish voice that "C'etait bien gentil et original, n'est ce pas," which she didn't think ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest
... c'est moi, qui lui ravis le jour. Loi fatale! Cruel remords! Ma peine est sans egale, Dans ce moment funeste, Le desespoir, la mort, C'est ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... l'avez releve; votre main souveraine L'a rendu d'un seul coup a la famille humaine. De ce premier bienfait, Sire, soyez content: L'Indien fera ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... est tres haut...' floated down the village street, instead of the sentence of good-bye. Even the Postmaster took it for granted that he was not leaving. Gygi, standing in the door of his barn, raised his peaked hat and smiled. 'Fait beau, ce matin,' he said, 'plus tard il fera rudement chaud.' He spoke as if Rogers were off for a walk or climb. It was the same everywhere. The entire village saw him go, yet behaved as if he was not really leaving. How fresh and sweet the ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... est a l'advenuee Pres la porte de ce verger, Qui, par une sente cognuee, En l'estang se va descharger; Comme on voit les grandes rivieres Se perdre au giron de la mer, Ainsi ces sources fontenieres ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan
... Organon, heat (i.e. really the conditions of the feeling of it) is called a kind of motion; and Darwin, in his Zoonomia, after describing idea as a kind of notion of external things, defines it as a motion of the fibres. Cousin says: 'Tout ce qui est vrai de l'effet est vrai de la cause,' though, the reverse might be true; and Coleridge affirms, as an evident truth, that mind and matter, as having no common property, cannot act on each other. The same fallacy led Leibnitz to his pre-established harmony, and Malebranche to ...
— Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic • William Stebbing
... while the barometer stands at 27.5 inches. It is evident from these data, that the air contained in ACD is pressed upon by the weight of the atmosphere, diminished by the weight of the column of mercury CE, or by 27.5 - 6 21.5 inches of barometrical pressure. This air is therefore less compressed than the atmosphere at the mean height of the barometer, and consequently occupies more space than it would occupy at the mean pressure, the difference ...
— Elements of Chemistry, - In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries • Antoine Lavoisier
... cachet accorde a La Cour, 1745, Mai 23e. Les Seigneurs du Conseil Prive de Sa Majeste, par leur ordre ou Conseil de ce Jour authorisent (sic) la Cour d'Auregny d'avoir un cachet pour certifier tous et tels ecrits qui leur pourront etre presentes pour y opposer ...
— The Coinages of the Channel Islands • B. Lowsley
... Heciyatankan meaxta nipi, qua tapi kin, hena yuuytaya nicayaco u kta, Woniya Wakan kin he wicauada; Omniciza, wakan Owaneaya kin Owaneaya kin, Wicaxta Wakan Okodakiciye kin; Woartani kajujupi kin; Wicatancan kini kte cin; Qua wicociououihanke wanin ce cin; ...
— Three Years on the Plains - Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 • Edmund B. Tuttle
... rassembler les matriaux qui doivent servir venger la mmoire du philosophe de la patrie de Leibnitz, et dans l'ouvrage que nous nous proposons de publier sous le titre "D'Holbach jug par ses contemporains" nous esprons faire justement apprcier ce savant si estimable par la profondeur et la varit de ses connaissances, si prcieux sa famille et ses amis par la puret et la simplicit de ses moeurs, en qui la vertu tait devenue une habitude et la bienfaisance un besoin." ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... itself with sour vin ordinaire; but beer is the same for all, and in some breweries each one must search for a glass, rinse it, and present himself in his turn at the shank window, to which there is no royal road. "La biere," which a great writer calls "ce vin de la reforme," is essentially a democratic drink. It became popular at a time when a fatal blow had been struck at class privileges ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... you?" he asked, with suave gentleness. "Then if you feel insulted I expect you lay claim to being a lady. But I reckon that don't fit in with holding up strangers at the end of a gun. If I've insulted you I'll ce'tainly apologize, but you'll have to show me I have. We're in Texas, which is next door but ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... extraordinaire! Perhaps you will do me the favour to sit with me, monsieur; and, if I mistake not, you have a request to make of me—n'est-ce pas?' ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat
... profession to make compliments,' Villedo broke in; and then, turning to Morenita, 'N'est-ce pas, ma belle creature? But really'—he turned to me again—'but very sincerely, all that there is of most sincerely, dear madame, your libretto is made with a virtuosity astonishing. It is du theatre. And with that a charm, ...
— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett
... brought me up the valley only winked, but did not choose to speak. At last at breakfast I asked the pretty little maid who waited what was the meaning of the noise I heard in the night, and she answered, to my intense amusement, "Ah! bah! ce n'etait qu'un tremblement de terre; il y en a ici toutes les six semaines." Now the secret was out. The little maid, I found, came from the lowland far away, and did not mind telling the truth: but the good people ...
— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley
... had been living at Nanterre for about a month; he had worked at a mason's, his face whitened with plaster, and his clothes very shabby. At Nanterre the lad was supposed to be about eighteen years old, for the whole month he must have been nursing that brat (nourri ce poupon, i.e. hatching ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... - Ce polisson! Oh, sacre bleu! Son sabre, son plomb, et ses gigots Comme cela m'ennuye, ...
— Fifty Bab Ballads • William S. Gilbert
... became of the brain of TALLEYRAND. Graphically written is his visit to THIERS on behalf of ROCHEFORT. Says THIERS to him, "Cent journaux me trainent tous les matins dans la boue. Mais savez-vous mon procede? Je ne les lis pas." To which HUGO rejoined, "C'est precisement ce que je fais. Lire les diatribes, c'est respirer les latrines de sa renommee." Most public men, certainly most authors, artists, and actors, would do well to remember this advice, and ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 • Various
... Madame, where we saw two petit pieces, Le Mariage de Raison, and Le plus beau jour de ma vie—both excellently played. Afterwards at Lady Granville's rout, which was as splendid as any I ever saw—and I have seen beaucoup dans ce genre. A great number of ladies of the first rank were present, and if honeyed words from pretty lips could surfeit, I had enough of them. One can swallow a great deal of whipped cream, to be sure, and it does not ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... be——This is your mystery, n'est ce pas? Mamma was my grandmamma. My own mother was far too young when mamma gave her in marriage; and, to make amends, mamma adopted me and left me her name and her fortune. So that I am very wealthy. And now shall I keep ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various
... comparatively anti-social proclivities of the American compared with the Frenchman. The one, he says, is inspired by the spirit of individuality, the other by the spirit of society. In America he sees the individual absorbing society; as in France he sees society absorbing the individual. "Ce peuple Anglo-Saxon," he says, "qui trouvait devant lui la terre, l'instrument de travail, sinon inepuisable, du mons inepuise, s'est mis a l'exploiter sous l'inspiration de l'egoisme; et nous autres Francais, nous ...
— Character • Samuel Smiles
... the French biographer, speaks of the wailings of his grief, of its injustice and its follies. "Ciceron etait trop plein de son malheur pour donner entree a de nouvelles esperances," he says. "Il avait supporte ce malheur avec peu de courage," says another Frenchman, M. Du Rozoir, in introducing us to the speeches which Cicero made on his return. Dean Merivale declares that "he marred the grace of the concession in the eyes of posterity"—alluding to the concession made to popular feeling by his voluntary ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope
... tragic outcries were all on the higher ground of the loss to Art. They were glad to see him go from the house. Soon he returned to demand Wilfrid's address. Arabella wrote it out for him with rebuking composure. Then he insisted upon having Captain Gambier's, whom he described as "ce ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... poursuivant l'idee jusqu'au bout, et ne la laissant que lorsqu'elle est epuisee, comme le souffle ou l'attention de celui qui lit.... Aussi le plus souvent sa phraseologie est-elle fort complexe, et pour suivre le fil de l'idee premiere, faut-il apporter une attention soutenue. Ce qui est deja une difficulte de lecture dans le texte italien, devient un obstacle tres serieux quand on a a traduire ces interminables phrases en francais moderne, prototype de precision, de clarte, de logique grammaticale.... Je sais bien qu'il y a un moyen commode de ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio
... "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cette merveille?" she enquired; to which Mme. de Brecourt made answer that it was a little American her brother had somewhere dug up. "And what do you propose to do with it, may one ask?" Mme. d'Outreville demanded, looking at Gaston with an eye that seemed to read his secret ...
— The Reverberator • Henry James
... que nous sommes partis en guerre, A tous les militaires, On a decide de plaire. Aussi depuis ce temps la, a l'intendance c'est dit, De nous mettr' tous en khaki. Maint'nant voila l'beau temps qui vient d' paraitre Aussi repetons tous le coeur ...
— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
... recueil manuscrit original de pieces d'orgue de Pasquini, dont j'ai extrait deux toccates, composees en 1697. Ce manuscrit est indique d'une maniere inexacte dans le catalogue de la bibliotheque de ce professeur (Berlin, 1859) de cette maniere: Pasquini (Bernardo) Sonate pei Gravicembalo (libro prezioso). Volume grosso E scritto di suo (sua) mano in questo libro. Ce meme catalogue indique ...
— The Pianoforte Sonata - Its Origin and Development • J.S. Shedlock
... I had heard all about the strike, chiefly from a baker. He said he was not going to "Chomer." I said, "Qu'est-ce que c'est que le chome?" He said, "Ils ne veulent pas travailler." I said, "Ni moi non plus," and he thought I was a class-conscious collectivist proletarian. The whole thing was curious, and the true moral ...
— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton
... that of ce-calli, '1 house,' and the day Nahui-atl all was lost. Even the mountains sunk into the water, and the water ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly
... le fiel et dans l'absinthe. Il est vrai que plusieurs de ses remarques sont fondees, et qu'a l'erreur qu'il indique, il joint en meme tems la correction. Mais il n'est pas toujours equitable, et ne manque jamais d'insulter. Que peut {24} apres tout prouver son livre, si ce n'est que la quarante-cinquieme partie d'un tres-ample et tres-utile Recueil n'est pas exempte d'erreurs? Devoit-il confondre avec des Ecrivains superficiels, dont la Liberte du Corps ne permet pas de restreindre la fertilite, cette foule de savans du Premier ordre, ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... Antonio Piementel de Prado, Envoye Extraordinaire de sa Majeste le Roi d'Espagne a sa Majeste la Reine de Suede, soit maintenant sur son retour de ce lieu a Neufport en Flandres, dont son Excellence est Gouverneur; et qu'il ait juge a propos d'envoyer partie de son train et bagage par mer de Hambourg a Dunquerque, ou public autre port des Provinces Unies a present sous l'obeissance de ...
— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke
... circumstances, it is in vain that I endeavour to make that discovery which your excellency assures me requires only a moment's reflection: "Au reste" (your excellency says), "que V'e. Ex'ce. reflechisse un moment, celle trouvera que le Gouvernement de S.M.I. simplement et uniquement pour faire plaisir a V'e. Ex'ce. a s'est attire une enorme responsabilite dans les engagemens pris avec V'e. Ex'ce." It is not one moment only nor one hour that I have reflected on these words, ...
— The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. • Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
... between two of Julie's solemn utterances. "Perhaps she is thinking of her brother—Prince Martin. He is always getting into scrapes—ce jeune homme." ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman
... qui lui ravis le jour. Loi fatale! Cruel remords! Ma peine est sans egale, Dans ce moment funeste, Le desespoir, la mort, C'est ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... to end good. He has made a rapport to de king, and de king has resolved et tout a fait en faveur du Major. "Monsieur," m'a dit Son Excellence, "vous comprenez bien, que tout depend de la maniere, dont on fait envisager les choses au roi, et vous me connaissez. Cela fait un tres-joli garcon que ce Tellheim, et ne sais-je pas que vous l'aimez? Les amis de mes amis sont aussi les miens. Il coute un peu cher au Roi ce Tellheim, mais est-ce que l'on sert les rois pour rien? Il faut s'entr'aider en ce monde; et quand il s'agit ...
— Minna von Barnhelm • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
... nous avons tant soufferts! Ah! mon Dieu!—point de l'eau—rien a manger," cried Madame de Fontanges: then smiling through her tears, "mais ce rencontre est charmant;—n'est ce pas, mon ami?" continued the lady, appealing to ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... to refresh your memory with an old French proverb, "Ce qui est differe n'est pas perdu" [What is put off is not given up], and give me the hope that soon after my return to Weymar we may occupy ourselves seriously with the performance of ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: - Years of Travel as a Virtuoso" • Franz Liszt; Letters assembled by La Mara and translated
... le Grand Vizir n'avait rien dit par rapport aux observations de votre Excellence sur ce qui arriverait si un tranger, un Anglais par exemple, se trouvait dans des circonstances analogues, j'ai pri son Altesse de considrer et de faire considrer au Ministre Ottoman, dans quelle position la Porte se mettrait vis vis du Gouvernement ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various
... evil. 'Le Zoroastrisme,' as Burnouf says, 'en se detachant plus franchement de Dieu et de la nature, a certainement tenu plus de compte de l'homme que n'a fait le Brahmanisme, et on peut dire qu'il a regagne en profondeur ce qu'il perdait en etendue. Il ne m'appartient pas d'indiquer ici ce qu'un systeme qui tend a developper les instincts les plus nobles de notre nature, et qui impose a l'homme, comme le plus important de ses devoirs, ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller
... admits that he thought so. "Cette partie la etant, a ce que je crois, dependante de l'Acadie." La Jonquiere ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... ends in s, sh, ch, ce, se, or x, the additional s makes another syllable in pronouncing the word; as, James's, Charles's, witness's, duchess's, countess's, Rush's, March's, prince's, horse's, fox's. In poetry the terminal s is sometimes omitted for the sake of ...
— Slips of Speech • John H. Bechtel
... Roumanian slave-drivers was in the habit of paying us a daily visit and talking in the bombastic fashion the Roumanians adopted when boasting of their impending victories. The word "Mackensen" occurred in Randa's answer. The Roumanian was surprised to hear the name, unknown to him, and said: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce Mackensen? Je connais beaucoup d'Allemands, mais je n'ai jamais fait la connaissance de M. Mackensen." "Eh bien," replied Randa, patting him on the shoulder, "vous la ferez cette connaissance, je vous en guarantie." Three months after that Mackensen had occupied all ...
— In the World War • Count Ottokar Czernin
... moyens a la distraire de son chagrin. Elle devint plus gaie, quand elle nous raconta des histoires et fit des jeux avec nous. Nos parents se faisaient un plaisir de l'observer parfois quand elle ne s'endouta pas, se disant: "Voila ce qu'il fallait a notre vieille Catherine, ce sont les enfants qui ...
— Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories • Edited by P. H. Emerson
... Anglo-Saxons might a plump, square hit. Sometimes a little unconscious pathos mingles with the mocking vein, for courage is moving when it is light-hearted. When a Frenchman tells you he has eaten nothing for two days, he adds, "Ca, ce n'est pas drole" ("Now, that's no joke"). "Coeur d'artichaut" (a heart like an artichoke) is a felicitous expression for a person who has a succession of caprices and short-lived fancies; and there is something to the point in the satire which calls a surgical instrument "baume d'acier" (steel ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various
... you see, from disgrace: if she falls, she and it, and all together, are trampled under foot. But why should I address all this to my dear niece? Whither have the terror and confusion I was thrown into by this strange report about you and Lord —— led me? And yet one cannot be too cautious—'Ce n'est que le premier mot qui coute'—Scandal never stops after the first word, unless she be instantly gagged by a dexterous hand. Nothing shall be wanting on my part, but you alone are the person who can do any thing effectual Do not imagine that I would have you quit Lady ——; that is the ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth
... on prices is taken from Renouard's "Catalogue d'un Amateur." "Les premieres editions latines de ce singulier livre, celles des traductions francoises, toutes egalement remplies de figures en bois, ne deplaisent pas aux amateurs, mais jamais ils ne les ont payees un haut prix. La traduction angloise faite en 1509, sur le francois, et avec des figures ...
— The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 • Sebastian Brandt
... Madame, je le say bien. Or vous rejouissez et louez Dieu, car il est heure de le louer. J'ay aujourd'huy recouvre mon heritage et le royaume d'Angleterre, que j'avoye perdu.' Ainsi se tint le Roy ce jour delez sa mere." ...
— Notes & Queries 1849.12.22 • Various
... as "ce Vassili"—a term of mingled contempt and distrust—bowed very low. He was a plain commoner, while his interlocutor was a baron. The knowledge of this was ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... the young man, taking his seat at the rude naked table which bore their meal. "I had quite forgotten my appetite-mais ca viendra en mangent, n'est-ce pas?" and he looked at the ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... fourteen books) is in folio, written most beautifully in two columns, and is adorned with miniatures, vignettes, and initials, but much of its interest lies in the note at the end, placed there by Robortet, secretary to the Due de Bourbon: "En ce livre a douze ystoires les troys premieres de l'enlumineur du duc Jehan de Berry, et les neuf de la main du bon paintre et enlumineur du roy Loys XIe Jehan Foucquet, natif de Tours." And we gather from another note that the book had been entrusted to Fouquet for completion by Jacques ...
— Illuminated Manuscripts • John W. Bradley
... Mlle. Trotter. Dans la dedicace elle exhorte M. Locke a donner des demonstrations de morale. Je crois qu'il aurait eu de la peine a y reussir. L'art de demontrer n'est pas son fait. Je tiens que nous nous appercevons sans raisonnement de ce qui est juste et injuste, comme nous nous appercevons sans raison de quelques theoremes de Geometrie; mais il est tousjours bon de venir a la demonstration. Justice et injustice ne dependent seulement de la nature humaine, ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... expect to see if not the State Sup'inten'ent Public Education? And if yea, then welcome, thrice welcome, the surprise! We shall not inquire him; but as a stranger we shall show him with how small reso'ce how large result." He ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... which characterises his style, Buffon wrote, nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, in his famous "Theorie de la Terre": "Pour juger de ce qui est arrive, et meme de ce qui arrivera, nous n'avons qu'a examiner ce qui arrive." The key of the past, as of the future, is to be sought in the present; and, only when known causes of change have been shown to be insufficient, have we any right to have recourse to unknown causes. Geology ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley
... table. Madame de Longueville, who had not the luxurious tendencies of her friend, writes: "Je vous demande au nom de Dieu, que vous ne me prepariez aucun ragout. Surtout ne me donnez point de festin. Au nom de Dieu, qu'il n'y ait rien que ce qu'on peut manger, car vous savez que c'est inutile pour moi; de plus j'en ai scrupule." But other friends had more appreciation of her niceties. Voiture thanks her for her melons, and assures her that they are better than ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... of an heroic act by Pro-tes-i-laʹus, king of Phylʹa-ce in Thessaly, who boldly leaped ashore as soon as the vessels touched the land. The prediction of Calchas was soon fulfilled. Protesilaus was struck dead in the first fight by a spear launched by the hands of the Trojan leader, Hector. The bravery of the Thessalian king, and the grief ...
— The Story of Troy • Michael Clarke
... MM. les chauffeurs. Ils devront conduire comme les cochers ordinaires a yeux nus ou avec les lunettes ordinaires de myopes ou de presbytes. Nos sportsmen declarent que ces lunettes de motoristes favorisent l'anonymat. Ces lunettes sont de veritables masques. On fait sous ce masque ce qu'on n'oserait pas faire a visage decouvert. En France il est defendu de se masquer en dehors du temps de carnaval ... si le masque tombe, la vitesse des motors deviendra fatalement normale."—M. N. ...
— Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton
... you he would not find in me that narrow-shouldered, smooth-faced stripling of five years ago?" he asked. "N'est-ce pas, friend Delesse?" ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... once my friend, or, I thought he was; but I hate him now. And he was your father, and Amy Crawford was your mother? N'est ce pas? Answer me!' ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... Blackbird" African steam ship fussed its way out of the Mersey, having on board the British scape-goat sent away—"by the hand of a fit man"—one "Captain English"—into the wilderness of Fernando Po. "Unhappily," commented Burton, "I am not one of those independents who can say ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute." The stoic, however, after a fair fight, eventually vanquished the husband. Still he did not forget his wife; and in his Wanderings in West Africa, a record of this voyage, there is a very pretty compliment to ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... that she at first set him down as a countryman, travelling under an English appellation, as a nom de guerre. While this dialogue was at its height of interest—for Paul Blunt discoursed with his companion of Paris and its excellencies with a skill that soon absorbed all her attention, "Paris, ce magnifique Paris," having almost as much influence on the happiness of the governess, as it was said to have had on that of Madame de Stael, Eve's companion dropped his voice to a tone that was rather confidential for a stranger, although it ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... perles, d'astres, et de fleurs, Bourbon, le ciel fit tes couleurs, Et mit dedans tout ce melange L'esprit ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason
... letter—'Good-bye.' He has lost his reason. Mad with despair, he has flung himself before an electric car, and is killed.... It is strange," she added to the poet, who regarded her with consternation, "that I did not think sooner of the ring that was always on my finger, n'est-ce-pas? It may be that never before had I felt so furious an impulse to desert him. It may be also—that there was no ring and no pastrycook!" And she broke into ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... vendu son lien Qu'il me coute deja la moitie de mon bien, Et quand tu vois ce beau carrosse, Ou tant d'or se releve en bosse, Qu'il etonne tout le pays, Et fait pompeusement triompher ma Lais, Ne dis plus qu'il est amarante, Dis plutot qu'il est de ...
— The Learned Women • Moliere (Poquelin)
... him. And all that day they journeyed; and when the land grew dark they came to the city of Pherae [Footnote: Phe'-rae.], and there they rested; and the next day, travelling again, came to Lacedaemon [Footnote: La-ce-dae'-mon.], to the palace of ...
— The Story Of The Odyssey • The Rev. Alfred J. Church
... ces deux princes se rencontrerent a Pontlevoi sur le Cher, ou ils se livrerent bataille le 6 Juillet, 1016. Foulke eut d'abord quelque desavantage; mais Herbert, Comte du Maine (dit Eveillechien), etant venu a son secours, il rallia ses troupes, and defit absolument, &c. Depuis ce temps-la le cri des anciens Comtes d'Anjou etoit Rallie. Et a ce propos je vous rapporterai ce qu'en dit Maitre Vace, surnomme le Clerc de Caen, dans son Roman ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 • Various
... Yes. They are asleep. He is really holding her hand. "Et ces quatre petits enfants qui ont perdu leur pere et leur mere. C'est triste, n'est-ce pas, Mademoiselle?" ...
— A Journal of Impressions in Belgium • May Sinclair
... absolutely antagonistic to one another; in the highest life there is still much death, and in the most complete death there is still not a little life. La vie, says Claud Bernard, {73a} c'est la mort: he might have added, and perhaps did, et la mort ce n'est que la vie transformee. Life and death are the extreme modes of something which is partly both and wholly neither; this something is common, ordinary change; solve any change and the mystery of life and death will be ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler
... son champ de ses propres mains. Pour tirer parti de cette colonie, l'on doit donc proteger l'importation des Negres qui y sont en trop petit nombre; mais il est en meme temps de l'interet du Gouvernement, de veiller a ce que les habitans n'y abusent pas du pouvoir que la loi et droit de propriete ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... read "L'Eve Future" gathered force in my mind, and I decided that the next time I went away for a week-end I would take it with me. This was in France. I took it away with me. I read a hundred pages on the outward journey and I got on terms with "L'Eve Future." "Ce livre m'attendait," as a certain French novelist said when he read "Tom Jones." On the return journey I was deep buried in "L'Eve Future," when a fearful jolting suddenly began to rock the saloon carriage in which I was. The jolting grew worse, very much worse. Women ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett
... I would marry you if you were successful. So I mention that other secret just to show that the understanding you wish to arrive at may be mutual—there may be two sides to it. I hear my father coming. That is his voice at the gate. We will leave things as they stand: n'est ce pas?" ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... with involuntary apology in her tone, "we just wished to know which of these roads went to South Middlemount. We've come from the hotel, and we wa'n't quite ce'tain." ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... of the actor. Moliere was rather fond of making allusions in his plays to the infirmities or peculiarities of some of his actors. Thus, in the Miser (l'Avare) Act I, Scene 3, he alludes to the lameness of the actor Bejart, "Je ne me plais point a voir ce chien de boiteux-la." "I do not like to see that lame dog;" in the Citizen who apes the Nobleman (le Bourgeois gentilhomme), Act iii. sc. 9, he even gives ...
— The Love-Tiff • Moliere
... j'ai ete conduit, dans ma definition de l'espece, a mettre decidement la ressemblance au-dessus de caracteres de succession. Ce n'est pas seulement a cause des circonstances propres au regne vegetal, dont je m'occupe exclusivement; ce n'est pas non plus afin de sortir ma definition des theories et de la rendre le plus possible utile aux naturalistes descripteurs et nomenclateurs, c'est aussi par un motif philosophique. ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... The Abbe Calippe summarises St. Thomas's doctrine as follows: 'Le droit de propriete est un droit reel; mais ce n'est pas un droit illimite, les proprietaires ont des devoirs; ils ont des devoirs parce que Dieu qui a cree la terre ne l'a pas creee pour eux seuls, mais pour tous' (Semaine Sociale de France, 1909, p. 123). According to Antoninus ...
— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien
... the work was then thrown aside, and resumed some years after. [1] It afforded occupation and amusement for idle and solitary hours, and was published in the belief that the author's name never would be guessed at, or the work heard of beyond a very limited sphere. 'Ce n'est que le premier pas qu'il coute' in novel-writing, as in carrying one's head in their hand; The Inheritance and Destiny followed as matters of course. It has been so often and confidently asserted that ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... deux grandes langues du Nouveau Monde [the Iroquois and the Algonkin] etaient tres claires, tres precises, exprimant avec facilite non seulement les relations exterieures des idees, mais encore leur relations metaphysiques. C'est ce qu' out commence de demontrer mes premiers chapitres de grammaire, et ce qu'achevera de faire voir ce que je vais dire sur les verbes."—Rev. M. Cuoq, Jugement Errone de M. Ernest Renan sur les Langues Sauvages. p. ...
— Aboriginal American Authors • Daniel G. Brinton
... vous communiquer. Si ce n'est pas une indiscretion je vous prirai de passer un moment ici d'autant plus que j'espre le Sindic de la ville voudra y venir aussi ainsi que ...
— Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. - A Memoir • Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
... have no nearer synonym than fish stew, which is a libel, is the pice de rsistance of the luncheon. It is probably the most famous fish dish ...
— Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them • Cora Moore
... with the prisoner, who said in English: "Thank you, doctor." Then he continued: "Jesus, Marie, Joseph, assistez moi en ce dernier moment." ...
— The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief • Joseph Edmund Collins
... nos Rois tres Chretiens et les Anglais en ce Royaume de France guerroyant ruinerent en quelque facon Roc-Amadour; mais plus que tous Henri III., Roi d'Angleterre, ingrat des graces que son pere Henri II. y avait recues, en depit de son pere qui affectionnait cette Eglise, son avarice ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... levity and rashness with which his ministry threw their nation into a tremendous war, insomuch that it has become one main cause why he is so commonly charged, very unfairly, with the whole responsibility for the blind haste that led to the defeat and dismemberment of his country. 'Oui, de ce jour commence pour les ministres mes collegues et pour moi, une grande responsabilite. Nous l'acceptons le coeur leger.' The words were at once taken up sharply and severely; and M. Ollivier went on to explain that he meant a heart not weighted by remorse, since ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
... counsellor, M. Dufour, and Dr. Gross, waited upon him after the battle of Luetzen, he expressed himself in the following terms respecting the corps of revenge: Je sais bien que c'est chez vous qu'on a forme ce corps de vengeance, mais qui enfin n'est qu'une policonnerie qui n'a ete bon a rien. It was on this occasion also that the deputies received from the imperial ruffian one of those insults which are so common with him, and which might indeed be naturally expected from such an upstart; ...
— Frederic Shoberl Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred In and Near Leipzig • Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853)
... moi, parmi des fautes innombrables, Je n'en connais que deux considrables, Et dont je fais ma dclaration, C'est l'entreprise et l'excution; A mon avis fautes irrparables Dans ce volume.'' ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley
... as is aptly remarked in one of the weekly papers, "'Arry has taken to going to the Grosvenor;" and "ce n'est pas tout que d'etre honnete," he says, lightly paraphrasing Alfred de Musset, "il ...
— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler
... wave ought to spread in such a way that its extremities lie always between the same straight lines drawn from the luminous point. Thus the portion BG of the wave, having the luminous point A as its centre, will spread into the arc CE bounded by the straight lines ABC, AGE. For although the particular waves produced by the particles comprised within the space CAE spread also outside this space, they yet do not concur at the same instant to compose a wave which terminates the movement, as they do precisely ...
— Treatise on Light • Christiaan Huygens
... nil alienum puto. The grace of God is woorth a fayre Black will take no other hue Vnum augurium optimum tueri patria. Exigua res est ipsa justitia Dat veniam coruis uexat censura columbas. Homo hominj deus Semper virgines furiae; Cowrting a furye Di danarj di senno et di fede Ce ne manco che tu credj Chi semina spine non vada discalzo Mas vale a quien Dios ayuda que a quien mucho madruga. Quien nesciamente pecca nesciamente ua al infierno Quien ruyn es en su uilla Ruyn es en Seuilla De los leales se hinchen ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... 44. Daemonum cernuntur et audiuntur ibi frequentes illusiones, unde viatoribus cavendum ne ce dissocient, aut a tergo maneant, voces enim fingunt sociorum, ut a recto itinere ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... replied Kintchin. "Testament ain't gwine be no mo' fo'ce wid dem niggers den de Lawd's pra'r would wid er wild haug. Huh, I'se er dreadin' eber step o' de ...
— The Starbucks • Opie Percival Read
... is chiefly used in the bible, and denotes the beginning of a new subject. Quotation is used to distinguish what is taken from an author in his own words. Section shews the division of a chapter. Ellipsis is used when part of a word or sentence is omitted, as p—ce. Index denotes some remarkable passage. Asterisk refers to some note in the margin, or remarks at the bottom of the page; and when many stand together, thus ***, they imply that something is wanting, or not fit to be read, in the author. The Obelisk or ...
— A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies - A Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses • Unknown
... sister Janet! She ma'ied a doctuh, an' all dat, an' she lives in a big house, an' she's be'n roun' de worl' an de Lawd knows where e'se: but Mis' 'Livy don' like de sight er her, an' never will, ez long ez de sun rises an' sets. Dey ce't'nly does favor one anudder,—anybody mought 'low dey wuz twins, ef dey didn' know better. Well, well! Fo'ty yeahs ago who'd 'a' ever expected ter see a nigger gal ridin' in her own buggy? My, my! but I don' know,—I don' know! It don' look right, ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... in the year Ce Tecpatl, One Flint, it was the day Nahui-Quiahuitl, Fourth Rain. Now, in this day in which men were lost and destroyed in a rain of fire, they were ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... orage On me laisse perir; En courant au naufrage Je vois chacun me plaindre et mil me secourir, Felicite passee Qui ne peux revenir Tourment de ma pensee Que n'ai-je en te perdant perdu le souvenir! Le sort, plein d'injustice M'ayant enfin rendu Ce reste un pur supplice, Je serais plus heureux si j'avais ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... of another than Rosalie. The younger man was much affected; he groaned aloud and covered his face with his hands. Not so the old general. 'Tenez,' said he, wiping the barrel of his weapon on his glove, 'c'est dommage! je ne contais pas la-dessus; mais, que voulez-vous? Peste! ce ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville
... D'Orsay, spoken on the eve of some duel, 'We are not fairly matched. If I were to wound him in the face it would not matter; but if he were to wound me, ce serait vraiment dommage!' There we have a pure example of a dandy's peculiar vanity—'It would be a real pity!' They say that D'Orsay killed his man—no matter whom—in this duel. He never should have gone out. Beau Brummell never risked his dandyhood in these mean encounters. But D'Orsay ...
— The Works of Max Beerbohm • Max Beerbohm
... removed from his mind; and Clothilde, who was an enfant gatee to him as to others, exclaimed joyfully, "Oh, Alphege, maman is really better—elle va se guerir, elle est hors de danger, n'est ce pas?" And she came behind him and put her arms round his neck as he tried to eat, and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various
... quoique jeune, parla avec eloquence et force. Il dit que la question n'etoit pas reduite, comme la Chambre des Communes le pretendoit, a guerir des jalousies et defiances, qui avoient lieu dans les choses incertaines; mais que ce qui ce passoit ne l'etoit pas, qu'il y avoit une armee sur pied qui subsistoit, et qui etoit remplie d'officiers Catholiques, qui ne pouvoit etre conservee que pour le renversement des loix, et que la subsistance de l'armee, quand il n'y a aucune guerre ni au dedans ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... La Cour, 1745, Mai 23e. Les Seigneurs du Conseil Prive de Sa Majeste, par leur ordre ou Conseil de ce Jour authorisent (sic) la Cour d'Auregny d'avoir un cachet pour certifier tous et tels ecrits qui leur pourront etre presentes pour y ...
— The Coinages of the Channel Islands • B. Lowsley
... out fer myself, in due course I'll wed with ye. Ef I don't, I won't, but——" Her voice broke so suddenly out of the quiet plane in which it had been pitched, that her climax of words came like a sharp thunder clap on still air. "But ef ye seeks ter fo'ce me, or ef ever ergin ye lays a hand on me or teches me, 'twell I tells ye ye kin, afore God in Heaven, one of us has got ter die! An' I won't never ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... ma train et maintenant je ne sais pas ou le trouver encore. Est-ce que vous pouvez me montrer le route ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous
... circus won't move 'way from Dinah," she laughed. "When I goes on de police fo'ce I takes good care ob my beat, and you needn't be a-worryin', Freddie, de Snoopy kitty cat and de Downy duck will be heah when you comes back," and she nodded her wooly ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore • Laura Lee Hope
... mighty true, Mistah man," said the hesitating darkey; "but flouah am mighty sca'ce erroun' de cabin en we hain't had no bacon since day befoh yistiddy; en I see a dimmycrat candahdate comin' down de big road a-whuppin' ob his hosses like he hed flouah en hog-meat on behin' en bringin' ...
— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller
... n'a pense aux navigations des Normands comme precurseurs des Genois. Cette idee ne se presenta que soixante quatre ans apres la mort du grand homme. On savait par ces propres recits 'qu'il etoit alle a Thule' mais alors ce voyage vers le nord ne fit naitre aucun soupcon sur la priorite, de la decouverte.... Le merite d'avoir reconnu la premiere decouverte de l'Amerique septentrionale par les Normands appartient indubitablement au geographe Ortelius, qui annonca cette opinion des ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton
... takee him safee," the younger of the Eastern adventurers went on, pointing to his father. "Then me makee walkee all alonk you, takee you back same placee you comee from. Little white devils waitee for you on ce load. You comee with? Not? Lillee girlee not cly. John givee her one piecee pletty-pletty. Come makee ...
— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit
... we don't admire the same lady, then," said Nick. "Pierrot," he cried, turning to one of the boatmen, "il y a des belles demoiselles la, n'est-ce pas?" ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... the Marquis de Noailles to the young people whom he honored with his attention, and who were becoming heated in some naive discussions of differing opinions,) "that it is scarcely possible to talk about any thing to any body." (Qu'il n'y a guere moyen de causer de quoi que ce soit, avec ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... from a deep dream of peace, And saw, among the gifts piled on the floor (Making the room look like a department store), An Angel writing in a book of gold. Now much applause had made Ben Woodrow bold And to the Presence in the room said he, "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ca que tu ecris?" Or, in plain English, "May I not inquire What writest thou?" The Angel did not tire But kept on scribing. Then it turned its head (All Europe could not turn Ben Woodrow's head!) And with a voice almost as sweet as Creel's Answered: ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... The young girl now asked for her dismissal. She wished to return to her peasant home, to tend her parent's flocks again, and to live at her own will in her native village. ["Je voudrais bien qu'il voulut me faire ramener aupres mes pere et mere, et garder leurs brebis et betail, et faire ce que je voudrois faire."] She had always believed that her career would be a short one. But Charles and his captains were loth to lose the presence of one who had such an influence upon the soldiery and the people. They persuaded her to stay with the army. She still showed the same ...
— The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo • Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.
... banished Duke with a message to Rosalind. Of course, he meets Celia, and at first is brusquerie itself. But in the second act he comes to think there is something in her name 'qui resonne autrement que dans tout nature. Est-ce une douceur qui charme l'oreille?' Celia for a long time plays with him, but in the end they arrive at a mutual declaration of affection. 'I have always tenderly loved Jaques,' says Georges Sand in her preface, and 'I ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams
... noo mwore do zee your fece, Up sters or down below, I'll zit me in the lwonesome plece, Where flat-bough'd beech do grow; Below the beeches' bough, my love, Where you did never come, An' I don't look to meet ye now, As ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... de guerre de Gallipoli etait tres borne sur le terrain. Ce front restreint a permis a chacun de vos soldats de vous connaitre. Autant qu'avec leurs armes, ils combattaient avec votre ardeur de grand chef et ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... in which the members of the professorial body told something about themselves in a great variety of handwriting: among other things, their full names and addresses, and their natures in so far as penmanship might reveal it. Ca; Ce; Cof; Collard, Th. J., who was an instructor in French and lived on Rosemary Place; Copperthwaite, Julian M., Cotton ... No Cope. He looked again, and further. ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... Monsieur?" said she, looking at the Yorkshireman. He, too, assured her that he was very much flattered, and was beginning to excuse himself, when the Countess interrupted him somewhat abruptly by turning to Mr. Jorrocks and saying, "He sall be your son—n'est ce pas?" "No, my lady, I've no children," replied he, and the Countess's eyes in their turn ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees
... voies de Dieu ne sont pas nos voies:' nous y marchons sans les connaitre; croire sans voir et prier sans prevoir, c'est la condition que Dieu a faite a l'homme en ce monde, pour tout ce qui en ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... donc ton seule asile! Ah! dans la tombe, au moins, repose enfin tranquille! Ce beau lac, ces flots purs, ces fleurs, ces gazons frais, Ces pales peupliers, tout t'invite a la paix. Respire, donc, enfin, de tes tristes chimeres. Vois accourir vers toi les epoux, et les meres. Contemple les amans, qui viennent chaque jour, Verser sur ton tombeau ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth
... a psychologue; he had the power, I cannot say it in English, de deviner ce qu'il ne savait pas en puisant dans le fond et le trefond de ...
— Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches • Maurice Baring
... turned crimson. "Oui," he admitted unhappily. He turned pleading eyes on the captain. "Please," he said. "In Paris tout le monde—everybody he think differently of those things—no?" He twisted uncomfortably. "Please, you will not tell Marie, n'est-ce pas?" ...
— Valley of Dreams • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... -que, -ne, -ve, -ce, -met, -dum are appended to words, if the syllable preceding the enclitic is long (either originally or as a result of adding the enclitic) it is accented; as, misero'que, hominisque. But if the syllable still remains short after the enclitic has been added, it is not accented ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... district, and in civil life was a tram conductor for the L.C.C. on the Norwood section. He has been out here two years, and won the Military Medal for gallantry on the Somme. Very interesting to meet one of the "dim millions" from one's own neighbourhood in this fashion, n'est ce pas? ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
... left Kipara in a number of canoes, and proceeded down the river to a place called Shaurakke,[CE] where the mother of one of the chiefs who was ...
— John Rutherford, the White Chief • George Lillie Craik
... them. The younger Scaliger, who seems to have been no great Friend to this Author, after having acquainted the World that his Father sold Herrings, adds these Words; La grande fadaise de Montague, qui a escrit, qu'il aimoit mieux le vin blanc—que diable a-t-on a faire de scavoir ce qu'il aime? For my Part, says Montague, I am a great Lover of your White Wines—What the Devil signifies it to the Publick, says Scaliger, whether he is a Lover of White ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... tout, mesmes que leurs confesseurs, parrains et confidants leurs en respondoient tout-a- fait, comme si Dieu leur en eust donne une patente; et ne regardant point a d'autres fautes passes, et que Dieu en garde la punition a ce coup la pour plus grande, despiteuse, et ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott
... salon of Mme. de Tencin, and shows how differently from Marmontel he regarded the spirit that marked those gatherings. As though to answer the latter's accusations, he exclaims: "On accuse quelquefois Ses gens d'esprit de vouloir briller; oh! il n'etait pas question de cela ici." "Ce n'etait point eux qui y mettaient de la finesse, c'etait de la finesse qui s'y rencontrait; ils ne sentaient pas qu'ils parlaient mieux qu'on ne parle ordinairement; c'etaient seulement de meilleurs esprits que d'autres."[22] All that was said there, ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... real answer was, "Je le vois en ce moment; il est fort laid et fort vilain; il est deguise en conseiller d'etat." (I see him at this moment; he is very ugly and very hideous; he is disguised as ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... dans l'Anjou et dans le Maine que Judas Iscariot est ne a Sable; la-dessus on a fait ce vers: ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 • Various
... et passer a l'instant De la vie, a la mort, ou de l'etre au neant. Dieux cruels, s'il en est, eclairez mon courage. Faut-il vieillir courbe sous la main qui m'outrage, Supporter, ou finir mon malheur et mon sort? Qui suis je? Qui m'arrete! et qu'est-ce que la mort? C'est la fin de nos maux, c'est mon unique asile Apres de longs transports, c'est un sommeil tranquile. On s'endort, et tout meurt, mais un affreux reveil Doit succeder peut etre aux douceurs ...
— Letters on England • Voltaire
... wounded commander, with a slight smile on his pale face. "Comment allez-vous ce matin?" (How do you do ...
— A Victorious Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray—Afloat • Oliver Optic
... bonne foi dans tout ce qu'il fait. Son procede est droit et sincere." Tallard to ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 5 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he done? That was Napoleon's test. What have you done? Turn up the faces of your picture- cards, my boy! You need not make mouths at the public because it has not accepted you at your own fancy-valuation. Do the prettiest thing you can ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... Go Cart safely tied His pretty feet go trotting side by side Old Granny smiles and grunting seems to say "Ce petit prodige c'est moi qui ...
— Life and Adventures of Mr. Pig and Miss Crane - A Nursery Tale • Unknown
... se guermentait De la grande douleur qu'il portait, En ce plaisant lieu solitaire Ou un doux ventelet venait, Si seri qu'on le sentait Lorsque la ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge
... big scholar," he said, "but it agrees exactly with what old Aunt Suse says. Paul Cotter was always huntin' fur books, an' books wuz mighty sca'ce ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
... the text at this point a play upon words which it is impossible to render in English. "Les toilettes terminees, le dejeuner fini, pris sur le pouce—et sur le pouce de ces demoiselles vous pensez ce qu'il peut tenir," etc., that is to say: "the breakfast at an end, taken upon the thumb—and you can imagine how much the thumbs of those young ladies would hold." To eat sur le pouce (eat upon the thumb) means to eat hastily, without ...
— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... venait lui faire une visite.' Casanova says that some one 'avoit, comme de raison, forme le projet d'allier Dieu avec le diable.' This is made to read: 'Qui, comme de raison, avait saintement forme le projet d'allier les interets du ciel aux oeuvres de ce monde.' Casanova tells us that Therese would not commit a mortal sin 'pour devenir reine du monde;' pour une couronne,' corrects the indefatigable Laforgue. 'Il ne savoit que lui dire' becomes 'Dans cet etat ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... moi, chaque jour courbant plus bas ma tete Je passe—et refroidi sous ce soleil joyeux, Je m'en irai bientot, au milieu de la fete, Sans que rien manque au ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... conclude, in the same manner, disputes, less difficult, and of less importance? Cela se peut pousser si avant, que M. l'Abbe de Lokkum, a concilie, actuellement les points si essentiels, de la justification, et du sacrifice de l'Eucharistie, et il ne lui manque de ce cote la, que de se faire avouer. Pourquoi ne pas esperer de finir, par les memes moyens, des disputes, moins difficiles, et ...
— The Life of Hugo Grotius • Charles Butler
... a jamais la reponse de ce prince a un etranger celebre [LALANDE?] qui le remerciait des sommes considerables accordees pour les progres de l'astronomie. 'Je fais les depenses de la guerre,' dit le roi, 'parcequ'elles sont necessaires; quant a celles des sciences, il m'est agreable des les ordonner; ...
— Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works • Edward Singleton Holden
... at these insults, I burst from the garden in a flood of tears. On passing the gate, I was accosted by a person who exclaimed in a tone of great kindness, "Qu'as tu, ma bonne? qu'est ce qui vous afflige?" Knowing the risk I should run in representing the real cause of my concern, I immediately thought of ascribing it to the loss of the property of which I had been plundered. I told him I was a poor milliner, and had been robbed of everything I possessed ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XV. and XVI., Volume 7 • Madame du Hausset, and of an Unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe
... de ceux a qui cela pourrait faire plaisir M. John ATWOOD.SLATER, cet artist nous communique benevolement ce renseignegnement tres special: Il est encore fort nageur! C'est lui qui aux dates de 22, 28 et 29 aout a ete signale par la Normandie pour avoir fait a la nage le tour du Mont St. Michel: ce que personne jusqu'ici n'avait ose pretendre faire a cause ...
— Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes • J. Atwood.Slater
... two others; they are put together only as parts in the same phantasm. Compare with La Louve, the strength of wild virtue in the "Louvecienne" (Lucienne) of Gaboriau—she, province-born and bred; and opposed to Parisian civilization in the character of her seamstress friend. "De ce Paris, ou elle etait nee, elle savait tout—elle connaissait tout. Rien ne l'etonnait, nul ne l'intimidait. Sa science des details materiels de l'existence etait inconcevable. Impossible de la duper!—Eh bien! cette fille si laborieuse et si econome n'avait meme pas la ...
— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin
... not like it much, because what makes a town pleasant ce sont les jolies femmes, * isn't that so? But now I like it very much indeed," he said, looking at her significantly. "You'll come to the costume tournament, Countess? Do come!" and putting out his hand ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... de l'Irlande est une enigme si on n'a pas sans cesse a l'esprit ce fait primordial que le climat humide de l'ile est tout a fait contraire a la culture des cereales, mais en revanche eminemment favorable a l'elevage du betail, surtout de la race bovine, car le ...
— The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge • Unknown
... small houses, ar but a small graunt into the kinges ha[n]- des: but this small graunt, will bee a waie and meane to pull doune the greate mightie fatte Abbees, & so it happened. But there is repentau[n]ce to late: & no ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... l'Antique glose, Idolatrant le hom, sans connoitre la Chose, Vrai Peste des beaux Arts, sans Gout sans Equite, Quitez ce ton pedant, ce mepris affecte, Pour tout ce que le Tems n'a ...
— Six Centuries of Painting • Randall Davies
... demandez de publier mon ancienne lettre amicale. Oui, chere Ellen Terry; ce que j'ai donne vous appartient; ce que j'ai dit, je le peux encore, et je vous ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry
... commune origine, Nous viens-tu d'un heros, d'un pieux paladin, Qui croyant honorer ainsi l'Agneau divin, Te prit en revenant des champs de Palestine. Mais qu'importe apres tout ... qu'il soit illustre ou non, Je ne ferai jamais une tache a ce nom. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... coupe" (a stroke no other Englishman but ourselves has ever been quite able to manage), and in all the different delicate "nuances" of header-taking—"la coulante," "la hussarde," "la tete-beche," "la tout ce que ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... those who were free to do as they would than by those who were under the compulsion of priestly authority. That is the feeling that prevails in Montaigne, and that is the idea of Rabelais when he made it the only rule of his Abbey of Theleme: "Fay ce que vouldras." ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... "Bon appetit—bonne conscience! Ce poulet va tomber jusqu'au fond de mes bottes," Vassenka, who had recovered his spirits, quoted the French saying as he finished his second chicken. "Well, now our troubles are over, now everything's going to go well. Only, to atone for my sins, I'm bound to sit on the box. ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... coquin blockhead, pudding-head; still, I love him much"—Dorothy visibly relented—"and he is brave man, and to be brave is not to be afraid of the devil, and that is much, nest ce pas? But what is it you want me for to do? The good mother is down at Croisettes and sends her love—Bah! what a foolish thing it is ...
— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie
... is it? I deemed that yonder honourable dame had kept thee from all the frolics and foibles of the poor old profession. Fear not to tell me, little one. Remember thine own mother hath a heart for such matters. I guess already. C'etait un beau garcon, ce pauvre Antoine." ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge
... life,—the terrible storming youth, afterwards renowned as Leon Michel Gambetta, had startled the quiet guests with his noisy eloquence, till the old habitues spilled their coffee, and the red-capped students said to each other, "Il ira loin, ce gaillard-la!" ...
— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... gentleman, I am sure, would have been guilty of such a thing. But these modern manners, and modern ways are quite beyond me. Perhaps it is the mode nowadays to ape the rude youths who hung about the London playhouses in my time. N'est'ce pas?' ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald
... and the window to the left stood an immense bookcase of Renaissance style, on the pediment of which, in letters of gold, was the world "Thibermesnil," and, below it, the proud family device: "Fais ce que veulx" (Do what thou wishest). When the guests had lighted their cigars, Devanne resumed ...
— The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar • Maurice Leblanc
... aspect, mille cris d'allegresse Ebranlent le palais et montent jusqu'au ciel: Le voila beau comme dans sa jeunesse, Alors qu'il recevait le baiser maternel. A ce peuple charme qui des yeux le devore Le bon Roi semble dire encore: 'Braves Gascons, accourez tous; A mon amour pour vous vous devez croire; Je met a vous revoir mon bonheur et ma gloire, ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles
... suivant la derniere jurisprudence du Parlement de Paris et la discipline actuelle du barreau, ou ne souffre point qu'un avocat intente une telle action. 1 Dupin, Profession d'Avocat, 110. Il est possible, que l'usage ne soit qu'un prejuge; mais ce prejuge a eu une salutaire influence sur la splendeur du barreau Francais. On ne pretend pas, en France, qu'un avocat n'a pas droit a un honoraire pour prix de ses travaux. Jamais on n'a refuse d'en allouer a ceux qui en ...
— An Essay on Professional Ethics - Second Edition • George Sharswood
... would find a place in a census paper one would be hard put to it to distinguish Cassandre from Helene. What charming things Ronsard has to say of either might be said of any charming woman—'le mignard embonpoint de ce sein,'— ...
— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry
... burst. The good wife and I" (here a wan smile) "thought the climate no longer sanitary. We ran away that night on foot. Much misery for old people. Last night we slept in a barn with hundreds of others. But some day we go back to restore that garden. N' est-ce pas ...
— Fighting For Peace • Henry Van Dyke
... "Que diable donc! Qu'il dort! M'sieur! Profondement! Est ce qu'il est mort? Ah! c'est une ...
— To-morrow? • Victoria Cross
... compared with the notes that youths even in this our boasted land of freedom are forced to take down from dictation. Of the 'good, long note' your French scholar might well remark: 'C'est terrible', but justice would compel him to add, as he thought of the dictation note: 'mais ce n'est pas le diable'. For these notes from dictation are, especially on a ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... hearts; the stars, their nuptial torches, shed Beauty upon the beautiful they lighted: Ocean their witness, and the cave their bed, By their own feelings hallowed and united, Their priest was Solitude, and they were wed:[ce] And they were happy—for to their young eyes Each was an ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... "You're ce'tainly in bad luck then," the boy shouted back tauntingly. "For I aim to stomp you out like I would a copperhead." Very distinctly he added his ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine
... the Orthodox fashion, and making the low prostrations of the Eastern Church, he began: "Ah! vieille planche peinte, tu n'as pas d'idee comme je me fiche de toi." More low prostrations, and then, "Et c'est toi vieille croute qui imagines que tu as chasse les Francais de ce pays en 1812?" More strenuous crossings, "Ah! Zut alors! et re-zut, et re-re zut! sale planche!" which may be Englished very freely as "Ah! you old painted board, you can have no conception of what I think of you! Are you really swollen-headed enough to imagine that it was you ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton
... not understand him," interposed the schoolmaster; "he means the shore, the bank of the river by the bord. N'est ce pas, Monsieur?" ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... bare knowledge that such may be the case, even if the purity of the masses be so great as not to admit of such sinister influence, the bare possibility, I say, is calculated to lower the respect in which it is most desirable the judiciary should ever be held,[CE] and to deter the most pure and high-minded citizens from offering their services. The salaries of the Judges range from 250l. ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... doute, tout meurt: ce monde est un grand reve, Et le peu de bonheur qui nous vient en chemin, Nous n'avons pas plus tot ce roseau dans la main, ...
— The Lowest Rung - Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy • Mary Cholmondeley
... New Rooms at Bath Arrived Mr. Fancy and Lady Hogarth, Who looked so enchanting last week at the races, And nemine contra pronounced by the graces. Effusions of friendship or letters of love— All beautiful, candid, as true as a dove. J'espere, ma chere ami, qui ce bien avec vous, And friendly whip syllabub chat entre nous. The merchant, the lover, the friend, and the sage Will daily applaud Mr. Palmer's ...
— The King's Post • R. C. Tombs
... ceux qui le contemplent attentivement; toutefois au rencontre de sa femelle, pour l'attirer a son amour, il deploye sa pompe, fait montrer et parade de son plumage bizarre, et RIOLLE PIOLLE se presente a elle avec piafe, et luy donne la plus belle visee de sa roue. De mesme ce Dieu admirable, amoreux des hommes, pour nous ravir d'amour a soy, desploye le lustre de ses plus accomplies beautez, et comme un amant transporte de sa bienaimee se {252} montre pour nous allecher a cetter transformation de nous en luy, de nostre misere ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 46, Saturday, September 14, 1850 • Various
... des savants qui raillent le sentiment religieux. Ils ne savent pas que c'est a ce sentiment, et par son moyen, que la science historique doit d'avoir pu sortir de l'enfance.... Depuis des siecles les ames independantes discutaient les textes et les traditions de l'eglise, quand les lettres ...
— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton
... couvrent le dos des Andes, sur une longueur de plus de quatre cent cinquante lieues, depuis mille jusqu'a quatre mille metres d'elevation au-dessus du niveau de l'Ocean. On dirait qu'un seul architecte a construit ce grand nombre de monumens." Vues ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
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