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After all these discussions you will now understand the true meaning of the famous pamphlet published by Abbé Sieyes in 1788 and so before the French Revolution which was summed up in these words: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que le tiers état? rien! qu' est qu'il doit être? Tout!"
Dinnie," Tommy answered, a little puzzled himself now. "I saw them so clear." "And yet until Betsy came to you, you had never heard tell of them?" "No." "And on reflection you don't care a doit about them?" "N-no." "And you care as little for Betsy?" "No now, but at the time I a kind of thought I was to be married to Andrew."
Mais l'on doit trancher court auec les personnes affairées & ne leur presenter plus aux nez toutes ses agreables fleurettes: il les faut épargner, & se faire entendre plustost par mines, qu'auec des paroles. Time and place, age and the difference between persons, ought to regulate the whole custom of compliments as is done amongst the most polite, especially compliments that consist in words.
"No, she cared not a doit for him. I question if she's the kind that could care for anyone. It's plain by her thrawn look when you speak to her about her mother that she has no affection even for her. However, there she was, prepared to leave Ballingall to his fate if I did not grant her request, and I had to yield to her." "You promised?"
Tout doit etre subordonne a ce but. L'Homme sur le premier plan, le reste au fond. This passage is interesting as coming from the first great French dramatist who employed archaeology on the stage, and whose plays, though absolutely correct in detail, are known to all for their passion, not for their pedantry for their life, not for their learning.
They exhaust their Revenues in Acts of Charity, and every great Man among us is a Husband and Father to the Widow and Orphan. They esteem themselves Stewards to the Poor, and that in a future State they are accountable for every Doit lavish'd in Equipage or superfluous Dishes.
Sydney Smith. "Quand on doit et qu'on ne paye pas, c'est comme si on ne devait pas." Araene Houssaye. "Of what a hideous progeny is debt the father! What lies, what meanness, what invasions on self-respect, what cares, what double-dealing! How in due season it will carve the frank, open face into wrinkles: how like a knife, it will stab the houeat heart." Douglas Jerrold.
I shall not make a doit out of the whole transaction!" "Then you're a d d fool," said Blaydes, in a passion. "And a dishonest fool besides!" "Easy, please! What hold should I have on this girl this splendid creature if I were merely to make money out of her? As it is, she's obliged to me she treats me like a gentleman. I thought you had matrimonial ideas."
Cumont in his Les Religions Orientales dans le Paganisme Romain, speaking of the influence of the Mysteries upon Christianity, remarks acutely, "Or, lorsqu'on parle de mysteres on doit songer a I'Asie hellenisee, bien plus qu'a la Grece propre, malgre tout le prestige qui entourait Eleusis, car d'abord les premieres communautes Chretiennes se font fondees, formees, developpees, au milieu de populations Orientales, Semites, Phrygiens, Egyptiens."
Yes, I remember, he suggested: calling the prosecutor and Dmitri Dmitritch, I believe...; qui me doit encore quinze roubles I won at cards, soit Ait en passant. Enfin, je n'ai pas trop compris. But I got the better of them, and what do I care for Dmitri Dmitritch? I believe I begged him very earnestly to keep it quiet; I begged him particularly, most particularly.
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