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The Jesuits say that it was not the Christian Indians who insisted on burning him, but the French themselves, "qui voulurent absolument qu'il fut brule a petit feu, ce qu'ils executerent eux-memes. Un Jesuite le confessa et l'assista a la mort, l'encourageant a souffrir courageusement et chretiennement les tourmens."
If Napoleon did not possess feeling, or even common humanity, he was at least anxious that the people of France should believe that he had these good qualities. It is said that, on the evening before he left Paris on his last campaign, he sent for the tragedian Talma, and had taught to him the action, features and aspect which he the next day employed when he left his wife and child to the care of the national guard. The following scene will at once show his desire to be esteemed generous, and his utter meanness of character: "Un de ses Ministres l'aborde un jour et lui presente un rapport qu'il avait desiré; il s'agissait d'une conspiration contre sa personne. J'etais present
Il aurait rencontre une punaise de bois en chemin, qu'il aurait parie sur le temps qu'il lui faudrait pour aller ou elle voudrait aller, et si vous l'aviez pris au mot, it aurait suivi la punaise jusqu'au Mexique, sans se soucier d'aller si loin, ni du temps qu'il y perdrait.
Was he satisfied by the concrete doctrine of Marx that all the phenomena of civilisation at a given period are determined by the methods of production and distribution which then prevail? But the future of socialism is a minor issue, and the ultimate goal of humanity is quite uncertain. "Ce qu'il y a de consolant, c'est qu'on arrive necessairement quelque part."
It was said of Cardinal Mazarin, he is a great politician, but in all his politics there is one capital defect "C'est qu'il veut toujours tromper." "How tiresome those people were! I thought we never should have got away from them," said Mrs. Beaumont. "What possessed them to come this morning, and to pay such a horrid long visit?
On m'objectera, je m'y attends, qu'il est mal de prêter
It not only a desire, but a passion, for every spark of genius that shows itself among us; there is not a bull-calf in our national pasture that can bleat a rhyme but it is ten to one, among his friends and no takers, that he is the real, genuine, no-mistake Osiris. Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he done? That was Napoleon's test. What have you done?
'Qu'est ce qu'il dit? demanded his companion. 'Il dit que le jument est bien beau. 'Allons, mon ami, il est tard, said the beauty, with a scornful toss of her head; 'allons! 'Encore un moment, said Francis Ardry; 'and when shall I see you again? 'I scarcely know, I replied: 'I never saw a more splendid turn out. 'Qu'est ce qu'il dit? I said the lady again.
In fact, Fergus Mac-Ivor, of whom a Frenchman might have said as truly as of any man in the Highlands, 'Qu'il connoit bien ses gens' had no idea of raising himself in the eyes of an English young man of fortune by appearing with a retinue of idle Highlanders disproportioned to the occasion.
Caroline, perhaps, might have been piqued some months ago that he did not dance with her; but now, her heart such as it was felt preoccupied. L'ESPRIT de l'homme est plus penetrant que consequent, et embrasse plus qu'il ne peat lier.* VAUVENARGUES. * "The spirit of man is more penetrating than logical, and gathers more than it can garner."
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