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Oui; je connais leurs atroces statuts criminels, les meilleurs du monde, disent les middle classes anglaises, parce qu'ils écrasent l'individu et le convainquent de son rien en face de la loi et de la société. Peut-être la bourgeoisie britannique payera- t-elle cher, un jour, sa férocité
86 1 Mahom: the most usual form of the name 'Mohammed' during the Middle Ages; retained, for effect, in the oath par Mahom. l'échappa belle: 'had a narrow escape'; cf. note to 8 18. 86 3 si ... n'avait envoyé: note the omission of pas after the conjunction si; cf. note to 36 16. 86 7 l'homme
[Note 48: A renewal of the Covenants, National and Solemn League, A confession of sins and an engagement to duties and a testimony as they were carried on at Middle Octorara in Pennsylvania. Nov. 11, 1743, Psalm. LXXVI, 11. Jérémiah, I, 5. Cette curieuse et très-intéressante brochure a été réimprimée
The guard comes up because there are knives unsheathed and money missing. 4. One evening he strayed into the middle of this crowd. 5. The hero was thinking of the peace of his heart, when suddenly angry voices rose. 6. I am twenty francs short. 7. I ask no better. 8. He was proud to make the acquaintance of the prince whose title had dazzled him. 9. He turned toward Tartarin sneering. 10.
Il est dans la Tolbooth, ma mère; il est dans le coeur du Midlothian (Tolbooth, heart of Middle Lothian. Noms populaires de la prison d'
41 12 Zanzibar: capital, since 1832, of the Mohammedan power in East Africa, and place of entry for travelers to Central Africa in the middle of the nineteenth century; hence here representing the idea of an African capital, as Constantinople that of a Turkish capital. 41 13 en plein Tarascon: cf. note to 5 7.
7 26 dire: 'to say, 'relate impressively, 'sing', cf. 24 21 Robert le Diable: 'Robert the Devil, a famous opera by Meyerbeer, text by Scribe . The story, widespread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and later, is concerned with the struggle of a pious mother to rescue her son from the devil. She is successful Robert saves Rome from the Saracens and ends his life as a hermit.
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