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"I'm sure you could read French easily in a month," said Tom. "They always gave a good grounding at Oldcastle. There's simply nothing in it." "Really!" Edwin murmured, relinquishing the book. "I must have a shot, I never thought of it." And he never thought of reading French for pleasure. He had construed Xavier de Maistre's "Voyage autour de ma Chambre" for marks, assuredly not for pleasure.
D'autres, avec plus de raison, se persuaderent qu'il avoit perdu la tête, et qu'il ne voyait et n'entendait plus rien de se qui se disoit et de ce qui se passait autour de lui. Le General Berthier vint le prier instamment de se retirer; au lieu de lui repondre il se coucha par terre.
I raised myself on my elbow, and looked about the room which was brightened by a lovely moonlight pouring straight through the window to see if it contained any pictures or ornaments that I could at all clearly distinguish. While my eyes wandered from wall to wall, a remembrance of Le Maistre's delightful little book, "Voyage autour de ma Chambre," occurred to me.
Krusenstern's Voyage round the World, 1803-6. 2 vols. 4to. Translated from the German. A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea, and Behring's Straits, in 1815-18. By Kotzebue. 3 vols. 8vo. 1821. Translated from the German, but badly. Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde. Par Choris. Livraison, 1-9. Paris, 1821.
It began in the region of ecclesiastical history, and soon passed to biblical exegesis, where the new heresy was at first called 'concessionism, The scope of the debate was enlarged with the stir produced by Loisy's 'L'Évangile et l'Église' and 'Autour d'un Petit Livre'; it spread over the field of Christian origins generally, and problems connected with them, such as the growth of ecclesiastical power and the evolution of dogma.
Voyage de Jacques l'Hermite autour du Monde. Amsterdam, 1705-12. This also is translated from the Dutch. Dampier's New Voyage round the World. London, 1711. 3 vols. 8vo. The French translation in 5 vols. 12mo. contains also the voyages of Wafer, Wood, Cowley, Robert, and Sharp. Dampier's and Cowley's are in Harris, vol. 1. A Voyage round the World. By Captain G. Shelvocke. London, 1757. 8vo.
At present I am spending this vacation in Berkshire, and only suffering from the excessive cold. I am reading with the greatest interest Baron Huebner's 'Promenade autour du Monde, which was reviewed in the 'Times' two or three days ago. It is a work of extraordinary merit and importance.
Even as long ago as the year 1605, Pyrard de Laval well exclaimed, "C'est une merveille de voir chacun de ces atollons, environne d'un grand banc de pierre tout autour, n'y ayant point d'artifice humain." The accompanying sketch of Whitsunday Island in the Pacific, copied from, Capt.
There is another instance mentioned by Amoretti in the preface to his translation of Pigafetta's journal of Magellan's voyage, and that was with Fabre's translation of the copy of the journal given by Pigafetta to the mother of Francis I. Premier voyage autour du monde. xxxii. The general cast of it, however, is simple and not unpleasing.
"Quand je le vis, pour la premi�re fois, en 1859, � la table de l'h�tel d'Angleterre, � Francfort, c'�tait d�j� un vieillard, � l'oeil d'un bleu vif et limpide, � la l�vre mince et l�g�rement sarcastique, autour de laquelle errait un fin sourire, et dont le vaste front, estomp� de deux touffes de cheveux blancs sur les c�t�s, relevait d'un cachet de noblesse et de distinction la physionomie petillante d'esprit et de malice.
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