The Companion: After-dinner Table-talkG. P. Putnam, 1850 - 192 páginas |
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... French , from whence we borrow the word , have a quite different idea of the thing , and so had we in the politer age of our fathers . Raillery , was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection , but , by some turn ...
... French , from whence we borrow the word , have a quite different idea of the thing , and so had we in the politer age of our fathers . Raillery , was to say something that at first appeared a reproach or reflection , but , by some turn ...
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... French court to give up the gum trade- " As you have permitted the French to draw your teeth , they would be fools , indeed , to quarrel with you about your gums . " At the trial of the rebel lords , seeing Bethel's sharp visage looking ...
... French court to give up the gum trade- " As you have permitted the French to draw your teeth , they would be fools , indeed , to quarrel with you about your gums . " At the trial of the rebel lords , seeing Bethel's sharp visage looking ...
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... French government , or , at most , if the author is given up . At all events , we have no scruple to say , that to sacrifice twenty thousand lives , and a hun- dred millions of money , to resent Mr. Fievée's book , would be an ...
... French government , or , at most , if the author is given up . At all events , we have no scruple to say , that to sacrifice twenty thousand lives , and a hun- dred millions of money , to resent Mr. Fievée's book , would be an ...
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... FRENCH AND ENGLISH VANITY . The vanity of a Frenchman consists ( as I have somewhere read ) in belonging to so great a country ; but the vanity of an Englishman exults in the thought that so great a country belongs to himself . The root ...
... FRENCH AND ENGLISH VANITY . The vanity of a Frenchman consists ( as I have somewhere read ) in belonging to so great a country ; but the vanity of an Englishman exults in the thought that so great a country belongs to himself . The root ...
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... French ambassador to such a degree , by the various pretences under which he kept him at his court , that this lively member of the corps diploma- tique , one day , in a furious passion , attacked six or seven of his majesty's largest ...
... French ambassador to such a degree , by the various pretences under which he kept him at his court , that this lively member of the corps diploma- tique , one day , in a furious passion , attacked six or seven of his majesty's largest ...
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