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The artist has brought together many men who are well known in literature and science." Le Monde Illustre. Having hit upon the following method of mentally computing the day of the week for any given date, I send it you in the hope that it may interest some of your readers.
Born, 1739. Captain, 1763. Rear-Admiral, 1793. Vice-Admiral, 1794. Admiral, 1799. Died, 1807. Born, 1712. Entered the navy, 1730. Commanded the Illustre with success in North America in 1756. Second in command in the action off Ushant in 1778. Thrice fought Rodney in the West Indies in 1780. Fought Kempenfelt off the Azores in 1781. Died, 1790.
I read last week the Illustre Docteur Matheus, by Erckmann-Chatrian. How very boorish! There are two nuts, who have very plebeian souls. Adieu, dear good master. Your old troubadour embraces you, I am always thinking of Theo. I am not consoled for his loss. CCXLVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 8 December, 1872
Both squadrons now stood in shore, and anchored at about 6 P.M.; the British near Negapatam, the French some ten miles north. The loss in the action had been: British, 77 killed, 233 wounded; French, 178 killed, 601 wounded. On the following day Suffren sailed for Cuddalore. There he received word that two ships of the line the Illustre, 74, and St.
You will of course wish to express your sense of the compliment paid to your house by adding your name to the subscription list of the Petit Courier Illustré?" "Oh, by by all means with pleasure," faltered the propriétaire. "For how many copies, Monsieur Choucru? Shall we say six?" Monsieur looked at Madame. Madame nodded. Müller took out his pocket-book, and waited, pencil in hand.
When Micromegas, ah inhabitant of Sirius, whose adventures were evidently suggested by those of Gulliver, accompanied by an inhabitant of Saturn, leaves the latter planet, they are, in the first place, made to leap upon the Ring of Saturn, which they find tolerably flat, "comme l'a fort bien devine un illustre habitant de notre petit globe:" thence they go from moon to moon, and a comet passing close to one of these, they throw themselves upon it, with their attendants and instruments.
I exclaimed, as soon as we were outside the doors, "what will you do now?" "Do! Why, fetch my admirable maternal aunt and my interesting cousin, to be sure." "But you have raised a dinner under false pretences!" "I, mon cher? Not a bit of it." "Have you, then, really anything to do with the Petit Courier Illustré?" I wipe out the score from time to time by furnishing a design for the paper.
From the position of the seven van ships of the latter, such fire as they could make must needs be upon the extreme British van, and the Exeter was forced to leave the line. The loss of the French that day was 82 killed and 255 wounded; of which 64 killed and 178 wounded belonged to the Héros, Illustre, and Ajax.
The little attendant caught me by the sleeve, and gave a knowing smile at the letter which I was slipping into my pocketbook. "E d'una donna?" he asked. "What's that to you?" "I am sure of it; a letter from a man would never take so long to read; and, 'per Bacco', you were a time about it! 'Oh, le donne, illustre signore, le downe!" "That's enough, thank you."
There is the salle-a-manger, furnished with a nice sideboard in oak, and six chairs to match; on the left is their bedroom, and there is the baby's cot, a present from le grand, le cher et illustre maitre. Paul and Mrs. Paul get up at twelve, and they loiter over breakfast; some friends come in and they loiter over les petits verres.
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