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"A faineant, a dilettante; a man with all the God-given ability to do as he will and to succeed, and yet who will not take the trouble to persevere." Winton smiled, a grim little smile. "You are not quite like any other woman I have ever known not like any other in the world, I believe.
Gresham will arise and shake themselves, and turn you all out." "We must look to ourselves, Lady Glencora." "Indeed, yes; or you will be known to all posterity as the fainéant government." "Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a fainéant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something." "Mr.
This young man had married the daughter of Charles IV. of Spain; and, for the aggrandizement of his son-in-law, that roi fainéant, was ready, nay eager, to bargain away a quarter of a continent; and he did so by a secret convention signed at St. Ildefonso on October 7th, 1800.
Of the 350 male revelers more than 100 were costumed as Louis XV., while but three considered Washington worthy of imitation. Was this the result of admiration in New York's "hupper sukkles" for this wretched Roi Faineant, or King Donothing, whose palace was a brothel, and whose harlots stripped his subjects of their paltry earnings and left them to perish?
After drinking the health of His Royal Highness in iced Rhine wine, we make our adieux, and escape from our splendid pajongs of rainbow hue on the steps of the Great Entrance, conveying our thanks through the medium of an interpreter. These fainéant princes learn no tongue but their own, greatly to the advantage of their Dutch masters.
Looking forward to Feodor's death, Boris makes ready to mount the throne; and he sees what all other "Mayors of the Palace," climbing into the places of fainéant kings, have seen that he must link to his fortunes the fortunes of some strong body in the nation; he breaks, however, from the general rule among usurpers, bribing the Church, and determines to bribe the nobility.
I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht." Mr.
Wynn the elder could not bear to be totally dependent on his sons, nor to live the life of a faineant while they laboured so hard; he demanded some manual task, and believed himself of considerable use, while they had often to undo his work when he turned his back; and at all times the help was chiefly imaginary.
MM. T and S will be left there: T an intelligent, hard-working Frenchman with whom I am well pleased; he can speak English and Italian well, and has been two years at Genoa. S is a French German with a face like an ancient Gaul, who has been sergeant-major in the French line, and who is, I see, a great, big, muscular fainéant.
Her explosion first fell on the head of Phineas Finn, whom she found at home with his wife, deploring the necessity which had fallen upon him of filling the fainéant office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. "Mr. Finn," she said, "I congratulate you on your colleagues." "Your Grace is very good. I was at any rate introduced to many of them under the Duke's auspices."
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