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Pagina 381 - Eh! bien, malgré ces plates horreurs, si vous le compariez à la salle à manger, qui lui est contiguë, vous trouveriez ce salon élégant et parfumé comme doit l'être un boudoir. Cette salle , entièrement boisée, fut jadis peinte en une couleur indistincte aujourd'hui , qui forme un fond sur lequel la crasse a imprimé ses couches de manière à y dessiner des figures bizarres.
Pagina 329 - ... malum, nisi hoc peius 15 est, haec sufferre et perpeti. Quae res mihi non mediocrem consolationem attulit volo tibi commemorare, si forte eadem res tibi dolorem minuere possit. ex Asia rediens cum ab Aegina Megaram versus navigarem, coepi regiones circumcirca prospicere. post me erat Aegina, ante me Megara, dextra Piraeus, sinistra 5 Corinthus, quae oppida quodam tempore florentissima fuerunt, nunc prostrata et diruta ante oculos iacent.
Pagina 380 - ... wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian have been appropriated by the historical novelist. On the other hand, to extract the philosophy of history, to direct our judgment of events and men, to trace the...
Pagina 379 - HISTORY, at least in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. It impresses general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents.
Pagina 336 - He then proposed that he should himself start at once for Sparta, and that they should give him colleagues who were not to go immediately, but were to wait until the wall reached the lowest height which could possibly be defended. The whole people, men, women, and children, should join in the work, and they must spare no building, private or public, which could be of use, but demolish them all. Having given these instructions and intimated that he would manage affairs at Sparta, he departed. On his...
Pagina 381 - Cette salle, entièrement boisée, fut jadis peinte en une couleur indistincte aujourd'hui, qui forme un fond sur lequel la crasse a imprimé ses couches de manière à y dessiner des figures bizarres. Elle est plaquée de buffets gluants sur lesquels sont des carafes échancrées, ternies, des ronds de moiré métallique, des piles d'assiettes en porcelaine épaisse, à bords bleus, fabriquées à Tournai.
Pagina 286 - Candidates who shall have obtained a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the remaining Candidates, will be set forth in order of merit, and such Candidates shall be deemed to be selected Candidates for the Civil Service of India, provided they appear to be in other respects duly qualified.
Pagina 1 - An Act to enable her Majesty to endow new colleges, for the advancement of learning in Ireland,
Pagina 360 - Contemnere : sonat vitium percussa, maligne Respondet viridi non cocta fidelia limo. Udum et molle lutum es, nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota. Sed rure paterno Est tibi far modicum, purum et sine labe salinum...
Pagina 311 - I knew well enough (it could not be concealed from any body) the true state of things ; but, in my life, I never came with so much spirits into this house. It was a time for a man to act in. We had powerful enemies ; but we had faithful and determined friends; and a glorious cause. We had a great battle to fight ; but we had the means of fighting...

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