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'On ne pent rien manger, she said, 'sans que ces diables y touchent. This was quite true; but it was not the flies' fault that their parents were prolific, and that they had been hatched in a climate eminently conducive to their vigour and happiness. Their numbers and their voracity showed that they, too, were compelled by the struggle for life to be active and enterprising.
"Lui et l'individu touchent leurs grenouilles par derriere, et la grenouille neuve se met a sautiller, mais Daniel se souleve lourdement, hausse les epaules ainsi, comme un Francais; a quoi bon? il ne pouvait bouger, il etait plante solide comma une enclume, il n'avancait pas plus que si on l'eut mis a l'ancre. Smiley fut surpris et degoute, mais il ne se doutait pas du tour, bien entendu.
She lingered a moment, returned to the drawing-room, and for the rest of the evening was unusually animated, gracious, fascinating. As she retired with her lady guests for the night she looked round, saw Colonel Morley, and held out her hand to him. "Your nephew comes here to-morrow," said she, "my old play-fellow; impossible quite to forget old friends; good night." "Les extremes se touchent."
"Yes, provided you keep to the proverb, 'Les extremes se touchent, and the lovely grandchild accompany the venerable grandmamma." "What would Evelyn say?" retorted Caroline. Lumley sighed, and made no answer. Mrs. Merton, who had hung fire while her daughter was carrying on this "aside," now put in, "Suppose I and Caroline take your britzka, and you go in our old coach with Evelyn and Mrs.
Prince Metternich, who was busy when we entered with a group, examining some views of Venice, received me with that quaker-like simplicity which forms the last polish of the perfect gentleman and man of the world; "les extremes se touchent," in manners as in literature: but for the riband of the Golden Fleece, which crossed his breast, there was nothing to remind me that I was conversing with the statesman, who, after the armistice of Plesswitz, held the destinies of all Europe in his hands.
A few steps sufficed to transfer us from here a representation of the extreme western portion of Europe to the most eastern country on the Eastern Hemisphere Japan; which fact demonstrated the verity: Les extremes se touchent. Entering the Japanese bazaar, we observed Japanese ladies and gentlemen selling articles manufactured in and imported from Nipon.
It is as follows: "Les juges federaux tranchent presque toujours seuls les questions qui touchent de plus pres au gouvernement du pays."
Entre son berceau et sa tombe qu'y a-t-il? la carriere d'un soldat parvenu, des champs de bataille, une mer de sang, un trone, puis du sang encore, et des fers. Sa vie, c'est l'arc en ciel; les deux points extremes touchent la terre, la comble lumi-neuse mesure les cieux.
"Yes, provided you keep to the proverb, 'Les extremes se touchent, and the lovely grandchild accompany the venerable grandmamma." "What would Evelyn say?" retorted Caroline. Lumley sighed, and made no answer. Mrs. Merton, who had hung fire while her daughter was carrying on this "aside," now put in, "Suppose I and Caroline take your britzka, and you go in our old coach with Evelyn and Mrs.
A somewhat paradoxical outcome of the speculations of those who profess to rely exclusively on the testimony of sense. "Les extrêmes se touchent," and extreme sensationalism shakes hands with the "das seyn ist das nichts" of Hegel. Altogether the hypothesis of Pangenesis seems to be little, if at all, superior to anterior hypotheses of a more or less similar nature.
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