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Pierre donc etait un homme petit, d'une physionomie peu agreable; mais il avait ce courage, cette constance, cet enthousiasme, cette energie de sentiment qui ecrase toute opposition, et qui fait que la volonte d'un seul homme devient la loi de toute une nation. Pierre a promis; et les Croises se fient a sa parole, comme les Israelites se fiaient a celle de Moise et de Josue."
One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella, is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue. For as Galiani said, who was obliged to know it: VERTU EST ENTHOUSIASME.
He tried it but it was quite a failure; Lady Cecilia, as he overheard, whispered to Helen what was once so happily said "Ah! le pauvre homme! comme il se batte les flancs d'un enthousiasme de commande." Horace was too clever a man to persist in a wrong line, or one in which his test of right success did not crown his endeavours.
Autour de lui, le silence de la terreur et du respect.... C'est alors qu'il repondait aux questions, annoncait l'avenir, le destin des batailles, la volonte des dieux; et, chose etonnante! au sein de ce delire, de cet enthousiasme religieux, son langage etait grave, imposant, son eloquence noble et persuasive."
Et d'un ton plein de franchise il s'ecria, Vive la Croix, vive la Religion, vive la Roi L'auditoire repeta les mêmes mots avec la même enthousiasme, et y ajouta, 'Vive les Missionaries." On the 19th, the following day, a solemn service was performed for the dead in the cemetry of St.
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