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That was the distinguishing characteristic of Alcibiades, and a happy one it was, that he could occasionally, and with so much ease, adopt the most different, and even the most opposite habits and manners, that each seemed natural to him. How do your exercises go on? Can you manage a pretty vigorous 'sauteur' between the pillars? Are you got into stirrups yet? 'Faites-vous assaut aux armes?
The tone-deaf gentleman who insists on whistling a popular melody is almost as trying as the lady suffering from the same weakness, who shouts, “Ninon, Ninon, que fais-tu de la vie!” until you feel impelled to cry, ”Que faites-vous, madame, with the key?”
Starting, turning, I met a face bent to encounter mine; a frowning, almost a shocked face it was. "Que faites-vous ici?" said a voice. "Mais, Monsieur, je m'amuse." "Vous vous amusez! et a quoi, s'il vous plait? Mais d'abord, faites- moi le plaisir de vous lever; prenez mon bras, et allons de l'autre cote." I did precisely as I was bid.
The siege of Avaricum by Caesar The complete subjugation of Gaul The statue of the Dying Gaul at Rome Beauty of Bourges The cathedral Not completed according to design Defect in height Strict geometrical proportion in design not always satisfactory Necessity of proportion for acoustics Domestic architecture in Bourges The house of Jacques Coeur Story of his life A rainy day Why Bourges included in this book A silver thimble Que de singeries faites-vous la, Madeleine?
I may be permitted to add a word on the respect with which Miss Edgeworth treats the public their former indulgence has not made her careless or presuming. The dates subjoined to these stories show that they have not been hastily intruded upon the reader. Edgeworthstown, March, 1809. "'Que faites-vous a Potzdam? demandois-je un jour an prince Guillaume.
The optimism of Leibnitz was ridiculed specially in the Candide of Voltaire, ingeniously defended by Rousseau, magnificently defended by Victor Hugo in the following verses, well worthy of Leibnitz: "Oui peut-etre au dela de la sphere des nues, Au sein de cet azur immobile et dormant, Peut-etre faites-vous des choses inconnues Ou la douleur de l'homme entre comme element."
That was the distinguishing characteristic of Alcibiades, and a happy one it was, that he could occasionally, and with so much ease, adopt the most different, and even the most opposite habits and manners, that each seemed natural to him. How do your exercises go on? Can you manage a pretty vigorous 'sauteur' between the pillars? Are you got into stirrups yet? 'Faites-vous assaut aux armes?
Monsieur Lofe!" cried, or rather screeched the epicier, darting across the room, and seizing the chef by the tail of his coat, just as he was half way through the door, "come back! Quelle mauvaise plaisanterie me faites-vous ici? Did you not tell me that lady was single? Am I married or not: Do I stand on my head or my heels?" "Hush-hush! mon bon bourgeois!" whispered Mr.
"Mais! que de singeries faites-vous la, Madeleine?" said he, and flip! with his pencil he sent the thimble out from her hand, flying neither he, nor the girl, nor I saw whither it went, or where it fell. And just thus stands the author of this little work, offering his trifle to the gentle and well-disposed reader, who is inclined, may be, to be pleased with it, and to adopt it.
The spirits of Master Felix had manifested themselves already in his skilfully standing a book upright on the teacher's chair, so that when Egger subsided from his obeisance he sat down on a sharp edge and was thrown into confusion. "Monsieur Felix," cried his mother, "que faites-vous la?
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