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Rocquain, "L'etat de la France au 18 Brumaire," 360, 362: "Inertia or absence of the national agents. .. It would be painful to think that a lack of salary was one of the causes of the difficulty in establishing municipal administrations.
If I had been told that you had become devout, I might have believed it, for that would be to pass from a human passion to the love of God, and give occupation to the soul. But not to love, is a species of void, which can not be consistent with your heart. Ce repos languissant ne fut jamais un bien; C'est trouver sans mouvoir l'êtat où l'on n'est rien.
They saw how his imprisonment on the rock "Ma fé, think of it! all through that storm, too!" had told upon him. His cheeks were hollow, and his eyes sunken, and he looked very weary "and, man doux, no wonder, after eighteen days on L'Etat!" though their friendly shouts had put a touch of colour in his face and a spark in his eyes for the moment. "Now, away home, all of you!" ordered the Sénéchal.
"As you were leaving him last night?" and the old man gazed at her as though he doubted his ears or her right senses. "But yes," she cried impatiently. "I swam across there last night to see if Bernel was there and to take him some food. But you are not to tell that to any one. And he told me " "You swam across? to L'Etat?" "Yes, yes! We have done it many times, and, besides, I had the bladders "
But when the men landed on the rock, and overran it in their search, he could not fail to see their figures on the ridge against the sky, and an exclamation of surprise roused Nance. "What is it?" she jerked. "They have landed over there. They seem to be searching the rock." "Then " and she sat up suddenly and gazed intently across at L'Etat, and then sprang to her feet, a new creature.
"Parlamentarismus und Demokratie," edition of 1911, pp. 131-134. "Parlamentarismus und Demokratie," edition of 1911, pp. 131-134. "Le Syndicalisme contre L'État," pp. 223-235, 239-242. "Parlamentarismus und Demokratie," p. 114. After describing the Utopian Socialism of Fourier, of Saint-Simon and of Owen, the "Manifesto" says:
"I wanted him to take the bladders, but he would not; and it was the first night after the storm, you see, and the waves were big still, and he never got to L'Etat, and he never came back; so, you see " "Truly, you are being sorely tried, my child. But your brother was a better swimmer than most. May we not hope "
In Assyria, as in most Oriental countries, the keystone of the social arch, the central point of the system, round which all else revolved, and on which all else depended, was the monarch. "L'etat, c'est moi" might have been said with more truth by an Assyrian prince than even by the "Grand Monarque," whose dictum it is reported to have been.
"Here's a very remarkable thing," pursued Corentin, replying to his own thought; "the French language, more just than public opinion, has given us our right place, for it has made the word police the synonym of civilization and the antipodes of savage life, when it said and wrote: 'l'Etat police, from the Greek words state and city.
Parker revived sufficiently, at all events, to pay off some of the more pressing of his private debts. Napoleon, or somebody, once remarked: "L'ETAT, C'EST MOI." Mr. Parker thought highly of a strong character like Napoleon. He used to say, when talking things over with his lady in her "boudoir" at the Residency: "The Club, that's me."
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