United States or Vatican City ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'Je voudrais être homme d'authorité, he adds, 'pour un jour seulement, afin d'enfermer ce poète entre quatre murailles pour toute sa vie. That Voltaire at this early date should have already given rise to such pious ecclesiastical wishes shows clearly enough that he had little to learn from the deists of England.
On being examined by the Committee, she still persisted that her design was "seulement pour voir comment etoit fait un tyrant;" and no instrument nor possible means of destruction was found upon her to justify a charge of any thing more than the wild and enthusiastic attachment to royalism, which she did not attempt to disguise.
It was better to smile if only with regret; better, above all, to pass lightly, swiftly, gaily over the depths as well as the surface of existence; for life is short almost as short as one of his own fables Qui de nous des clartés de la voûte azurée Doit jouir le dernier? Est-il aucun moment Qui vous puisse assurer d'un second seulement? The age was great in prose as well as in poetry.
Word Of The Day