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Vous avez raison lorsque vous dites qu'il ne faut pas rompre les vieilles liaisons pour en chercher de nouvelles; personne plus que moi n'est pénétré de ces puissantes admirables expressions de Shakespeare «those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.»
On lit dans le Moyen de parvenir, cette demande facétieuse: S'il y avoit en un sac un sergent, un meunier et un couturier, qui sortiroit le premier? Voire, voire, ce serait un larron. Un proverbe analogue, probablement ancien, existe aussi en Angleterre: Put a miller a tailor and a weaver in a bag and skake them, the first that cometh out will be a thief.
Cheer'd with the news, his Captains all as one, In humble manner do address the throne, And press the King to give them his commission To join the English in this Expedition. To their request the cheerful King assents.
The Canadians and Indians at the left having come helter-skelter, the woods being full of them, running with undaunted courage right down hill upon us, expecting to make us flee as they had before done at the , and just now did to our men.» Extrait d'une lettre du général américain Pomeroy, alors colonel dans les milices de New-York,
Adhémar and Delisle have, since their first arrival in England, paid a visit to the continent, and on their return have made application for the admission of three young Eclesiasticks, whom they proposed to take out with them from the Seminary of St.-Sulpice at Paris, but the same reasons which operated with you, have produced a negative to that requisition.
I have been particularly strenuous in my application, that in the choice of these gentlemen, great care may be taken that their characters are fair and that they may possess the advantages of good education and talents, and I trust, that I shall not be disappointed in my expectations respecting them. «Mr.
I sincerely hope that the French government may find them as anxious as we have been to maintain the closest possible union between France and England; more anxious, whatever may have been said or thought to the contrary, I am quite sure they cannot be. Yours sincerely.
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 'armed cap a pic' Cap = 'head' is obsolete except in this expression and in a few technical terms. 11 20 Branle-bas de combat! 11 24 entre drap et flanelle: transl.
That the English were much dissatisfied with that mischievous trade the French and Dutch have had and still continue, by selling guns, powder and shot to all the Indians, which rendered them insolent, etc.
Well! let them go!... C'est nous les rejoindre, ajouta John. C'est un canot de missionnaires, dit Baptiste. On voit les robes-noires, continua Félix. Je ne sais pas si les Couteaux-jaunes sont arrivés au fort, reprit l'ex-élève. The Yellow knives? demanda John I guess so!... On le saura bientôt, dit Baptiste, car dans six heures on touchera terre.
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