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If you have, 'tis but Trick for your Trick, Seignior Scaramouch, and you may spare the Pumping. Scar. For once, Sirrah, I'll bring you off, and deliver your Letters. Sir, do you not know who this is? Why, 'tis a Rival of mine, who put on this Disguise to cheat me of Mistress Mopsophil. See, here's a Billet to her. Doct. What is he? Scar.
Bonaparte was much pleased with General Sebastiani's conduct when he was sent to Constantinople, after the peace of Amiens, to induce the Grand Seignior to renew amicable relations with France. At the period here alluded to, namely, before the news of the evacuation of Egypt, that country greatly occupied Bonaparte's attention.
You have no enemy to follow you into Acadia?" The flaxen head was shaken for reply. "But what brings a man from Fort Orange here?" "There be nearly a hundred men in Fort Orange," whispered Antonia. "He says," announced the Swiss, "that he is cousin and agent of the seignior they call the patroon, and his name is Van Corlaer." "Do you know him, Antonia?" "Yes." "And is he kindly disposed to you?"
'If this Prince was the Eagle's eldest Son, he might have a Just Right from the concession of his Father, because the Right being inherent, he only receiv'd from him an Investiture of Time, but as this young Gentleman is a second Son he has no more Right, his elder Brother being alive, than your Grand Seignior, or Czar of Muscovy in your World.
"Well," said I, "Seignior Portuguese, but that is not our business now; the great question is, if you can carry us up to the city of Nankin, from whence we can travel to Pekin afterwards?" He said he could do so very well, and that there was a great Dutch ship gone up that way just before.
Only the Lady Elizabeth and her son Agnew Greatorix dwelt there, and the farmer's cow and the cottager's pig grazed and rooted unharmed not always, however, it was whispered, the farmer's daughter, for of all serfdoms the droit du seignior is the last to die.
Pierre Willemsz, of Amsterdam, was appointed admiral of this fleet; and Francois de Wittert, of the ancient baronial family of that name seignior of Hoogeland, Emeeclaar, etc. was made vice-admiral and president of the council-in-ordinary, with full power to take the place of the admiral, who was very old and infirm."
'A happy time of it I should have had, thought he, after he was mounted, 'to have been so closely allied to this superb specimen of pride and self-opinion and passion. A colonel! why, he should have been a generalissimo. A petty chief of three or four hundred men! his pride might suffice for the Cham of Tartary the Grand Seignior the Great Mogul! I am well free of him.
By crossing the river, we should lose time and incur fatigue to no purpose wherefore should we do so?" "Only because pilgrims, as they call themselves, destined for Cologne," said Hayraddin, "do not usually descend the Maes so low as Liege, and that the route of the ladies will be accounted contradictory of their professed destination." "As you will, my good seignior," replied the Bohemian.
Lorenzo was deeply offended, yet he judged it discreet rather to win the new Prior over by kindness than to wage war with him. The Seignior only deepened Savonarola's contempt by sending rich gifts to the convent and by sending five of the chief citizens to him in order to induce him to modify the strain of his preaching.
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