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But it is something to have preached to princes doctrines till then unknown, or at least forgotten for many a generation free trade, peace, international arbitration, and the "carriere ouverte aux talents" for all ranks.
If I am any judge of physiognomy, such a man as that, having what the Negro has not yet had 'la carriere ouverte aux talents, might raise, not himself merely, but a whole tribe, to an altogether new level in culture and ability. Just after passing this gang we found, lying by the road, two large snakes, just killed, which I would gladly have preserved had it been possible.
Ses dernieres annees s'ecoulerent ainsi entre cette residence et la maison bien connue de Rutland Gate, ou sa table hospitaliere etait toujours ouverte a ses amis de France ou d'ailleurs. C'est a Foxholes que la mort est venue le chercher. 'Je n'ai pas la preention de prononcer devant vous l'eloge d'Henry Reeve; la competence me manque comme la preparation.
Therein, in all probability, lay a new stumbling block against which the conjugal harmony jarred, already shaken as it was by all the dissemblances of habit, appreciation, and of taste, which difference of nationality engendered. "Ce ménage ne fut pas concordant," says Saint-Simon; "quoique sans brouillerie ouverte, et les époux furent quelquefois bien aises de se séparer."
There the best traditions of the previous century were constantly reinforced by accessions of fresh intellect. The charmed circle was indeed essentially, but it was not exclusively, aristocratic; genius held the key, and there was a carrière ouverte aux talents.
The most talented of all would be the very men to see a better 'carriere ouverte aux talens' than the world could give; to long for deeper and loftier meditation than could be found in the court; for a more divine life, a more blessed death, than could be found in the camp and the battle-field.
They have declared la carriere ouverte aux talents, and every Bursch marches with a professor's gown in his knapsack. Let him become a great scholar, or man of science, and ministers will compete for his services. In Germany, they do not leave the chance of his holding the office he would render illustrious to the tender mercies of a hot canvass, and the final wisdom of a mob of country parsons.
And in a voice like a drum he rolled the noble lines of Ronsard "Ou pour l'honneur de Dieu, ou pour le droit de mon prince, Navre, poitrine ouverte, au bord de mon province." "Sakes alive!" said the American gentleman, almost in an awed tone. Then he added, "Are there two maniacs here?" "No; there are five," thundered Moon. "Smith and I are the only sane people left."
Egremont regarded with great annoyance, though they only consisted of such phrases as 'Back on Wednesday. Find an excuse, or in French, 'Envoyez moi la petite boite! 'Que la porte soit ouverte apres minuit. 'That was the way, groaned Mr. Egremont. 'The scoundrel! he kept all those to be able to show me up to the General if he chose!
"Ou donc est l'ecrin de Madame la Marquise? La fenetre est ouverte. Il a disparu!" "Window open and jewel-case gone, by Jove!" exclaimed Lord Amersteth. "Mais comment est Madame la Marquise? Est elle bien?" "Oui, milor. Elle dort." "Sleeps through it all," said my lord. "She's the only one, then!" "What made Mackenzie Clephane bolt?" young Crowley asked me. "Said there were more of them below."
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