Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Mis à jour: 9 mai 2025
Loyalists and Americans settled near one another could not agree at least for some years, and the smallest triffle might be productive of outrages, from which great mutual mischief would ensue in spite of ail efforts on the part of the respective governments to prevent it; hence, my Lord, appears the great advantage which the land between the River St.-Lawrence and the Ottawa River towards Cataraqui possesses for making udefull and happy settlements for the Loyalists, and of which I have given in former letters an ample description.»
«It is proper that it should be known that liberty has been given to Messrs.
M. Lefevre saw it, and M. Tony asked me to give it for his atelier, but it is a portrait and cannot be given like that; then he said he would pose himself. Les orgues et les voix de femmes! Remember Carolus painted by Sargent. Goodness, non sum dignus!
In 17 20-21 we are given to understand that Tartarin's baobab, the most admired of his botanical rarities, is perhaps after all nothing but a turnip, and we are led to suspect that some of the others are not what they pretend to be.
"I believe that I shall carry away with me," he said, "many curious observations on my race, its virtues, its faults". And in speaking of the "Lettres de mon moulin," the only volume of his works in which his southern nature is given free rein, he says many years after its publication, after he had written his best novels, "That is still my favorite book."
47 23 Noiraud: 'Blacky, a pet name often given to animals. 48 1 réclamant ... Mustapha: 'shouting for her donkey till all the echos of Mustapha rang. Réclamer a = 'to demand from. 48 11 Va te promener! lit. 'go take a walk! transl. 48 17 l'on s'entendit: cf. note to 16 29.
A battle near Waterloo was expected, but it did not come off. Mr. Morgan and his friend returned to Brussels, and I quote his exact words, as given in the Pall Mall Gazette he «found the town on the verge of a turmoil. This was owing to General von Jarodzky's stupidity, and very nearly involved the town in the same rate which afterwards overwhelmed Louvain.
LORD HOLLAND There was one part of the noble Duke's speech which had given him the greatest pleasure and which reflected the highest credit upon the noble Duke. He need hardly say that he alluded to the temper, the manliness and generosity with which the noble Duke had animadverted upon what had fallen from the noble marquis with regard to prince de Talleyrand.
Mot du Jour
D'autres à la Recherche