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Carson, doubtless, has "autres fonctions" than that of Jack Ketch who has always been so efficient and constant an instrument of Government in Ireland but I am never able to regard one part of the official machinery by which wronged nations are held down as very different from the other.
He was trained in realities even more than in ideas; and hence he is original, forcible, clear, an enemy of all philosophic indefiniteness and obscurity; so that it may well be said of him, in the words of a writer in the Revue Contemporaine, ce n'est pas un philosophe comme les autres, c'est un philosophe qui a vu le monde.
The day, the long-expected day, that was to crown all her hopes, at length arrived. "On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." The following paragraph extracted from the newspapers of the day, will, doubtless, be acceptable to a large class of readers. "Yesterday, Sir John Hunter, of Hunter Hall, Devonshire, Bart., led to the hymeneal altar the accomplished Mrs.
If you have made his acquaintance, my dear Pelham, I advise you most soberly to look to yourself, for if he doth not steal, beg, or borrow of you, Mr. Howard de Howard will grow fat, and even Mr. Aberton cease to be a fool. And now, most noble Pelham, farewell. Il est plus aise d'etre sage pour les autres que de l'etre pour soi-meme."
No one starting now could anticipate any such result in old age, and so without affectation I can say autres temps autres moeurs, which may be freely translated as 'present times much the worst. More pleasant is it to turn to a few brief memories of Cork. It was a cheerful place at the time I am speaking of, for there was plenty of entertaining and truly genial hospitality.
Meanwhile the poor old maire, who had been an employe in the stormy days of the revolution, and also under Napoleon, and who full concurred with Swift that "a crowd is a mob, if composed even of bishops," firmly believed that the uproar beneath in the street was the announcement of a new change of affairs at Paris, determined to be early in the field, and shouted therefore with all his lungs "vive le peuple" "Vive la charte" "A bas les autres."
Doubtless, Ma'am, every thing must be infinitely novel to you. Our customs, our manners, and les etiquettes de nous autres, can have little very resemblance to those you have been used to. I imagine, Ma'am, your retirement is at no very small distance from the capital?"
Your English doctors had told you you were going to die. That an operation would be fatal so your good friend Madame Brandt informed us but we nous autres Francais are more enterprising. Kill or cure. We performed the operation we didn't kill you and here you are cured." My heart sickened with a horrible foreboding.
“Il ne peut y avoir qu’une méthode parfaite, qui est la méthode naturelle; on nomme ainsi un arrangement dans lequel les êtres du même genre seraient plus voisins entre eux que ceux de tous les autres genres; les genres du même ordre, plus que ceux de tous les autres ordres; et ainsi de suite.
Nous autres, nous aimons un cheval entier, de bonne race; les Maures n'estiment que les jumens.
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