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33 25 fez: 'fez', named from the city of Fez in Morocco, where it is made a felt or cloth cap, dark red, with a tassel a mesure: 'in proportion as it fell , cf. note to 58 18. 34 3 Malte: 'Malta, an island in the Mediterranean, between Sicily and Africa, which has belonged to England since 1814. 34 9 comme en l'air: 'as if they were sailing in the air', cf. note to 29 22.
49 24 il faisait un soleil, une poussière: faire may be used in almost any expression concerning the weather; faire chaud, du soleil, du vent, de la poussière, etc. Here, 'it was so terribly hot, so dusty. 49 25 d'un lourd: 'frightfully heavy', adjective used as an abstract noun, of such English usages as 'of a decided red. On the suppression cf. note to 15 21.
I am working at its preparation and write while the model reposes... it is not the preparation, as we say at Julian's, I am only doing studies for it must not be done in an atelier;... well, I was going to tell the great secret... I am glad to hear Miss Webb does good things, she is nice; mes très sincères amitiés to her and Miss B...
The undersigned therefore in transmitting to M. Guizot the accompanying papers, in order that they may be made known to the French Government, begs to assure M. Guizot that he makes the communication not in consequence of any doubt which Her Majesty's Government entertain of the sincerity and good faith of the Government of France, but because it is fitting that, in a matter of such deep importance to the peace of Europe, the French Government should know how much the language which is reported to have been used by one of his diplomatic agents differs from that which the French Government itself has held.
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.»
[Note 17: To take it again perforce! Johnson pense que Lear s'occupe ici du projet de reprendre ce qu'il a donné; les autres commentateurs appliquent ces paroles aux cinquante chevaliers supprimés par Gonerille; mais il me paraît clair que cela se rapporte
Our ulterior purpose is to transmit the portrait to the speakers of our Congress, and to request for it place in the library of that body, as a permanent memorial of the profound respect which we entertain for your personal character and intellectual trophies, and, in particular, of the gratitude which all Americans should feel for your liberal agency in exhibiting anew to Europe the true nature of their Revolution and the distinctive preeminence of its hero.
The picture which follows is interesting, it is overdrawn, however, since Algeria never was, and certainly is not today, as bad as Daudet paints it. 80 28 Zouzou: military slang for zouave. 81 1 le sergent La Ramée, le brigadier Pitou: popular names for the French soldier, the English "Tommy Atkins." 81 3 su: 'known how, 'been able.
One by one the Arabs gesticulated and laughed like madmen. 6. Tartarin clung to the hump and collapsed on it. 7. They had to give up the camel. 8. Out of consideration for Tartarin the prince wandered from plain to plain for nearly a month. 10. However bizarre their mount was, they felt that it was picturesque.
No more, America, in mournful strain Of wrongs, and grievance unredress'd complain, No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain, Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made and with it meant t' enslave the land.
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