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"Mon Dieu!" he exclaimed, with a snap of his fingers "Ze art is dead in Angleterre, zere is no musique, ze poesie. Zis is ze land of ze A-penny journal ze musique, ze poesie, ze science, ze politique, ze sentiment, one A-penny! Bah! Ca, ce, n'est pas possible! zis pauvre pays is kill avec ze vulgarite of ze cheap!
Il continua done son chemin, mais comme la fatigue estoit grande, 23 ou 24 hommes qu'il avoit menez jusques la le quitterent tous en une nuit, regagnerent le fleuve, et se sauverent, les uns a la Nouvelle Hollande et les autres a la Nouvelle Angleterre. But how was La Salle employed in the following year? The same memoir has its solution to the problem.
The 'Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres' has, in the 'Angleterre' section of its 'Correspondence Politique' and the 'Amerique' section of its 'Memoires et Documents, extensive material on the disputes with the English Government over Acadia.
You win your battles, they say, upon beer and cordials: it is why you never can follow up a success. Je tiens cela du Marechal Prince B . Let that pass. One groans at your intolerable tristesse. La vie en Angleterre est comme un marais. It is a scandal to human nature. It blows fogs, foul vapours, joint- stiffnesses, agues, pestilences, over us here, yes, here!
A Man was sitting near a Lady & very angry he was, & attempted often to hiss, but was for some time kept quiet by the Lady. At last he lost all Patience and exclaimed, "Ma Foi, Madame, Je ferai ici comme si jétais en Angleterre où on fait tout ce qu'on plait." And away he went to hiss; with what effect his determination a l'Angloise was attended, I have mentioned.
L'Ambassadeur en Angleterre au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Londres, le 17/30 Juillet 1914.
The taste of the Restoration times condemned Dryden to write in a way unworthy of himself for money. "Neither money nor honour that in two words was the position of writers after the Restoration."* *Beljame, Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres in Angleterre.
Wholly lacking in enthusiasm for any art, they almost resented the manner in which Cicely was thus brought forward as a kind of genius, a being superior to them all. Gigue sniffed the air, as though he inhaled offence in it. Then he shook his finger with a kind of defiance. "Mais pas en Angleterre!" he said "Ze petite va commencer a Milan- -St. Petersburg Vienna! Zen, ze Inglis vill say 'Ha ha!
"I will telephone to Cartier in the morning," and Verisschenzko opened the door for her, "if you bring me some interesting proof of your love for me to-night." And when she had gone he took up his letter again and looked at the address, To Lady Ardayre, Ardayre Chase, North Somerset, Angleterre. "I must keep to the things of the spirit with you, precious lady.
No. 31. L'Ambassadeur en Angleterre au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Londres, le 14/27 Juillet 1914.
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