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The French ambassador has delivered to me a despatch from his government, in which M. Guizot describes in strong terms the feeling which has prevailed for some time past in the French Chambers and generally in France, relative to the right of search.
11 12 les attendait toujours: 'continued to wait for them'; note this force of toujours; cf. 26 11, 71 20. 'armed cap a pic' Cap = 'head' is obsolete except in this expression and in a few technical terms. 11 20 Branle-bas de combat! 11 24 entre drap et flanelle: transl.
On public as well as on private grounds, he thanked the noble Duke for that part of his speech. There could be little difference of opinion as to the injustice and the want of generosity, of speaking in harsh and insulting terms respecting the ambassador of a friendly power, resident amongst us.
That the English engaged in no war before they had full and satisfying evidence that it was just, nor before peace, upon just terms, had been offered and refused. That the Mohawks, not being subject to them, nor in league with them, they could not require an account of their proceedings, and had no means of information what they had to say for themselves.
Apart from M. de La Rochefoucauld, La Fontaine was the only one of the many great men of her time with whom Mme. de La Fayette was on terms of friendship. Boileau has left his opinion of our author in a pithy sentence. "Mme. de La Fayette," said he, "est la femme qui écrit le mieux et qui a le plus d'esprit." But this is all.
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