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"Il n'y a rien dans l'histoire du monde de comparable aux forces navales de l'Angleterre,
Of him Montesquieu could not have said, with even epigrammatic truth: Il a plus que personne l'esprit que tout le monde a. Voltaire was the cleverest of all past and present men; but a great man is something more, and this he surely was not. As poets, the two live not in the same hemisphere, not in the same world.
"Etre soul au monde est bien ouneeyoung," she would say, glancing up at a print of a French carbineer in a green coat and brass cuirass which decorated her apartment "Depend upon it when Master Pendennis goes to College, his Ma will find herself very lonely. She is quite young yet. You wouldn't suppose her to be five-and-twenty.
That is the way of all those 'select' bodies. As Napoleon said, 'Le monde vient a celui qui sait attendre." The little Doctor's countenance now showed the most lively and eager interest. "You quite believe that, Monsieur Gervase? You are entirely sure of what you said just now?" "What did I say? I forget!" smiled Gervase, lighting a cigarette and beginning to smoke it leisurely.
Nothing but the knowledge, the turn, and the manners of the world; I mean the 'beau monde'. These it is impossible that you can yet have quite right; they are not given, they must be learned.
"Une belle femme qui a les qualités d'un honnête homme est-ce qu'il y a au monde d'un commerce plus delicieux; l'on trouve en elle tout le mérite des deux sexes." "In the heart of the best woman," says a German writer, "there glows a shovelful, at least, of infernal embers; in that of the worst, there is a little corner of Paradise."
Puissions nous nous revoir dans un monde meilleur! "Charles Edouard" Thus we see that the phenomena of Climax, Antithesis, and Anticlimax, alike result from this general principle. Improbable as these momentary variations in susceptibility may seem, we cannot doubt their occurrence when we contemplate the analogous variations in the susceptibility of the senses.
He got up hastily, overturning his stool as he did so, and went to the door to listen. 'I haven't heard that, he said, with some agitation, 'since my father's sister used to sing it me when I was a small lad, up at Augoumat in the mountains near Puy! Sur le pont d'Avignon Tout le monde y danse en rond; Les beaux messieurs font comme ca, Les beaux messieurs font comme ca.
He did not, however, introduce them to his charming Serafina; because not one of them had formerly treated her with that delicacy of regard which he thought her due; and some of them were much mortified at their neglect, when they saw what a dazzling figure she made in the beau monde.
I have, however, some delicacy in inflicting so great an incubus for it must seem such to the uninitiated upon one who like you is of the beau monde and used to its smooth ways. I speak knowingly, for I too in my day belonged to the beau monde, and am familiar with the easy, however volatile, flow of speech incident thereto."
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