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For an engraving of it see our chapter on Chaldæan sculpture. See an article published by M. J. HALÉVY in the Revue archéologique, vol. xliv. p. 44, under the title: L'Immortalité de l'Âme chez les Peuples sémitiques. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. p. 184. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, pp. 198, 199.
When they were exterminated by the wooden clubs of the Ainu, they raised their eyes to heaven, and, weeping, cried aloud to the gods, "Why were we made so small?" It should be said that Professor Schlegel and Mr. Savage Landor both seem to prefer the former etymology. Les Peuples Etrangers chez les Historiens Chinois. Extrait du T'oung-pao, vol. iv. No. 4.
Now she was going to spend the summer on their estate, Les Peuples, in an old family château built on the cliff near Yport; and she was looking forward to the boundless happiness of a free life beside the waves.
Briand speaks in the name of all "les gouvernements alliés unis pour la défense et la liberté des peuples." Briand's second declaration, dated January 10, 1917, is even more fundamentally important. It is a collective note of reply to President Wilson, delivered in the name of all the Allies to the United States Ambassador. The principles therein established are very clearly enunciated.
But when Babylon and Assyria ceased to be independent powers, and became provinces of Persia, Bel bowed down and Nebo stooped, not to rise again. The world of that day had no need of them. It had already attained in more than one country to a higher religion than that of these deities. The Histories of Antiquity, viz. Maspéro, Histoire ancienne des Peuples de l'Orient.
The baron would make a very stiff bow, and say in a solemn voice: "Your château at Les Peuples must be very cold, madame, with the sea-breeze blowing on it all day long." Then Jeanne put on a very prim look, and said with a smirk, moving her head all the time like a duck on the water: "Oh, monsieur, I have plenty to fill up my time.
She would sit motionless for hours, lost in thought, and she was very fond of Les Peuples, because it served as a scene for her dreams, the surrounding woods, the sea, and the waste land reminding her of Sir Walter Scott's books, which she had lately been reading. On rainy days she stayed in her room looking over what she called her "relics."
On January 10, 1917, Briand, speaking in the name of all the Allies, united at that time pour la défense et la liberté des peuples, put forward as a fundamental programme the restoration of Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro: Montenegro was in this on an equality with Belgium.
One morning a clerk came over from the attorney at Fécamp with the three thousand six hundred francs, the price at which an upholsterer had valued the furniture left at Les Peuples.
Of this splendid and interesting work, several editions have since been published in French, in twelve volumes octavo. It is upon it that his fame with the generality of readers mainly rests. II. Vues des Cordilleras et Monumens des Peuples Indigènes de l'Amerique two volumes folio: Paris, 1811.
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