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Soon he will go home and sit down and write a letter to La Belgique, in which he will recall the happier days, and tell of how one once was able to dine at the Taverne Royale for the sum of two francs, fifty, or three francs, fifty, enumerating carefully and lovingly the various courses.
Elles leur prouveront qu'en Belgique l'état florissant de certaines manufactures y avôit fort avancé l'art de la peinture et du dessin. Mais je reviens aux trois traités de notre volume.
M. Delebeuf, in a paper read before the Academie Royale de Belgique, and published in the Revue Scientique, reviews the attempts of various naturalists to make comparisons between the strength of large animals and that of small ones, especially insects, and shows that ignorance or forgetfulness of physical laws vitiates all their conclusions.
This is a disturbing phenomenon which students of mental disease will study later, but on the examination of which we cannot here embark. It is not for us to seek the pathological cause for this moral decay this decadence. We have only to note its effects. L.H. Grondijs, "Les Allemands en Belgique," p. cxix. Liebknecht was too honest and embarrassing a witness for Germany.
Voyage dans la ci-devant Belgique, et sur la Rive Gauche du Rhin. Par Briton, et Brun père et fils. Paris, 1802. 2 vols. 8vo. Commerce, manufactures, arts, manners, and mineralogy, enter into these volumes. Sometimes, however, rather in a desultory and superficial style.
The sight of those facades, so proud in death, recalled a phrase used soon after the fall of Liege by Belgium's Foreign Minister "La Belgique ne regrette rien " which ought some day to serve as the motto of the renovated city. We were turning to go when we heard a whirr overhead, followed by a volley of mitrailleuse.
"In Belgium, sir," replied McLeish, who always answered when he could, though in general knowledge he was far behind his American classmates. "What is the French name?" "La Belgique." "The German?" "Belgien." "What is the French adjective?" "Belge."
Kipling would say, 'another story. The district in which Westende lies, with Lombaerdzyde, Nieuport, Furnes, and Coxyde close together, is the most interesting on the coast of Flanders. Le Coq, on the other hand, is in that part of the dune country which has least historical interest, and is chiefly known as the place where the Royal Golf Club de Belgique has its course.
The third edition, preserved in a single MS., ends with the death of Philip VI in 1350, and, written after 1400, is even more hostile to England than the second. The best edition of Jean le Bel is by Polain for the Académie royale de Belgique. A few of the more important French chronicles after 1328 may be mentioned shortly.
If the Société Générale de Belgique had not done so, all notes of the Bank of Belgium would have been declared valueless by Germany. A very prominent Englishman, married to a Belgian lady, told me a story about this gold reserve which is amusing enough to repeat, and which has a certain appearance of truth.