Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 24, 2025
"He must have begun young. How old were you when you first became a preacher?" Helmichius. "Twenty-three or twenty-four years of age." The Queen. "It was with us, at first, considered a scandal that a man so young as that should be admitted to the pulpit. Our antagonists reproached us with it in a book called 'Scandale de l'Angleterre, saying that we had none but school-boys for ministers.
They had been called back to their country to defend its soil and, unlike the Englishmen drinking themselves fuddled, were intoxicated by a patriotic excitement. "Vive l'Angleterre!" An answer came back from the quayside: "Vive la France!" It was to this shout that we warped away from the jetty and made for the open sea.
Ong!" followed by flights of oratory in the English tongue which do not bear repeating, but which were received by the peasant as expressions of deep esteem and to which he replied by endeavouring to kiss the Tommies and shouting, "Vive l'Angleterre! All right! Hoorah!" Our guiding officer began to show some signs of anxiety to have us leave before ten o'clock, but the good-byes took some time.
"Vive l'Angleterre!" "Vive la France!" exhibiting in his cups the real cosmopolitan feelings which inspired him the feelings of most old soldiers of fortune.
The comment of M. Paul-Dubois on these attempts to foist on the Catholic Church responsibility for the evil case in which Ireland finds herself, deserves quotation: "Cette thèse grossière et fanatique ne vaut l'honneur d'un devellopment ni d'une discussion: contentons nous de remarquer comme il est habile et simple de rejeter sur Rome la responsabilité des malheurs d'Erin en disculpant ainsi et l'Angleterre et la colonie anglaise en Irlande!"
Now and then children waved to us from a cottage window, and in the fields old men and women and girls leaned silently on their hoes or their rakes and watched us pass. Occasionally an old reservist, guarding the railway line, would lift his cap and shout, "Vive l'Angleterre!" But more often he would lean on his rifle and smile, nodding his head courteously but silently to our salutations.
Ou bien, s'il cherche la gloire, c'est en Angleterre qu'il faut aller. C'est l'Angleterre, ou la France il n'y a que ces deux pays en Europe dans le monde."
In the museum of Stuttgard, is a portrait of the Countess of Salzburg, who, at the age of 50 years, had mustachios, whiskers, and a beard, as long and as black as those of any man. The following anecdote is given in "Lettres tres sur l'Angleterre par A. de Stael Holstein."
This stone, which is formed, so to speak, under our eye, has been found solid enough to be employed for building."-Esquiros, L'Angleterre, etc., in Revue des Deux Mondes, 1864, pp. 44, 45.
Knox, who was presented to Buonaparte, and who saw all the wonderful presentations, says that it was a huddled business, all the world received in a very small room. Buonaparte spoke more to officers than to any one else, affected to be gracious to the English. He said, "L'Angleterre est une grande nation, aussi bien que la France, il faut que nous soyons amis!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking