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A subject this which, transposed into an atmosphere at once more frankly sensuous and of a higher spirituality, might well have served as the basis for such a picture as Giorgione's Fête Champêtre in the Salon Carré of the Louvre! Magazine of Art, July 1895. Life and Times of Titian, vol. i. p. 111. La Vie et l'Oeuvre du Titien, 1887.
Snipers, machine gunners, artillerymen, airmen, engineers of the opposing sides, vie with each other in skill and daring, in order to secure that coveted advantage, the morale. Tommy calls it the "more-ale," but he jolly well knows when he has it and when he hasn't.
In short, the chief characteristic of George Sand's moral constitution was her incapacity of regarding anything she did otherwise than as right. What I have said is fully borne out by her Ma Vie and the "Correspondance," which, of course, can be more easily and safely examined than her deeds and spoken words.
Yes, my young friend," continued the captain, rolling up a fresh cigarette, "and we shall serve our King well in all this, and if some of us fall well, it will be in a good cause, and better than spending our lives in carrying smuggled goods silks and laces, eau de vie, cigars and tobacco duty free across these hills.
'Hillo! says Louvier, 'here is a financier who desires a hotel to vie with mine! He goes on Wednesday to my next-door neighbour. 'Friend, you want to sell your house. I want to buy the price? The proprietor, who does not know him by sight, says: 'It is as good as sold. M. Duplessis and I shall agree. 'Bah!
Your royal highness could not wish that I should give the lie to my whole life" que je dementisse toute ma vie. "Monsieur de Chateaubriand," replied the duchess, "you do not know my niece. She is so frivolous. Poor Caroline! But I will send for the Duke of Orleans. He can persuade you better than I can."
The subject of improving grounds, meanwhile, was still under consideration among the others; and Mrs. Grant could not help addressing her brother, though it was calling his attention from Miss Julia Bertram. "My dear Henry, have you nothing to say? You have been an improver yourself, and from what I hear of Everingham, it may vie with any place in England.
When they have money they spend it recklessly, regardless of the future. If the needs of the present are supplied, that is sufficient. When misfortune or disaster overtakes them they merely say: "It is the will of God." The temples built centuries ago are among the most wonderful structures in the world. They vie in size and grandeur with those of India.
As, therefore, nature has not only dispensed but cut off the other sex from this task, man must give a double attention to it if he wishes to vie with woman and be equal to her in what is of great interest in human life.
This absurdity, however, is happily confined to the would-be-genteel people in the country, who visit in the towns, and occasionally are ambitious enough to give large parties to the aristocracy of the towns. The others, who do not pretend to vie with the townspeople in such follies, are a great deal more easy and natural in their manners, and more truly independent and hospitable.
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