...ghter of Umcan for a wife -- Refusal leads to war -- Ceremony performed by the astrologers to forecast the result -- Defeat and death of Umcan - - Imp... ...d as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding their supernatural abilities they are c... ...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the city for a second time -- T... ...- Bougainville is entertained by an aged chief -- At the chiefs invitation the French pitch their tents upon the shore -- After a long and delightful ... ...4 Plan of Ciandu.......................................................... 105 Astrologers on the palace roof............................................ ...d spirits had set out on the high seas, encouraged by their victories over the French in England, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also dis... ...uch products. Being idolaters, they practised many curious rites, and employed astrologers to forecast the future of every enterprise which they under...

...s XLVII. Of the uncertaintie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus ... ...thes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a jerke of the French Iargon) wouldset it forth to the best service I might; and to bette... ...ot onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell them in their owne, what they wou... ...(Madame, now do I flatter you?) Yet this I may and must say, like in this French-mans report, our third in name, but fist and chiefe in fame, K. Edw... ...oller-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bugge-beares affrighted my un... ...tas. Their discommodities they know: One storme alike oer all doth grow. Astrologers may sport themselves with warning us, as they doe, of imminent ...

...eer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Dr.Jean Dezert, ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research), BP 72 F-92322 Chati... ...g treatments. Also they spent money in visiting temples, fortune-tellers, astrologers etc. which only made the disease chronic and more advanced. ... ...st is in information fusion were he works with Dr.Jean Dezert from ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research in Paris) in creasing...

... of the two I have mentioned, or any other of the fraternity, to be not only astrologers, but conjurers too, if I do not produce a hundred instances i... ...leave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon-ball. On the 6... ...noise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen... ...the hands of his enemies. On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made of a French The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers – Swift 9 Jesuit, giving poison ... ...which will make this month memorable to all pos- terity, is the death of the French King, Lewis the fourteenth, after a week s sickness at Marli, whic... ...dge Papers – Swift 10 of Tuscany, who is now about sixty-one years old. The French army acts now wholly on the defensive, strongly fortify d in their... ...rs may judge by the fulfilling of em, whether I am on the level with common astrologers; who, with an old paultry cant, and a few pothook for planets... ...e scandal of religion, and reproach of power; and if sover- eign princes and astrologers must make diversion for the vul- gar why then farewel, sa... ... not fallen out for several hundred years before, and is the reason why some astrologers have thought that this prophecy could never be fulfilled, bec...

...e, and under our own eyes, which surpasses all the signs and calculations of astrologers.” Since these portentous weathercocks have thus laid their he... ...r heard of in Little Britain; and they took to reading nov els, talking bad French, and playing upon the piano. Their brother, too, who had been arti... ...gen tility. The Miss Lambs might now be seen flaunting along the streets in French bonnets, with unknown beaux; and talking and laughing so loud that... ...ing. They even went so far as to at tempt patronage, and actually induced a French dancing master to set up in the neighborhood; but the worthy folk... ...he silent contempt they were so vociferous in expressing, for upstart pride, French fashions, and the Miss Lambs. But I grieve to say that I soon perc... ... landlady importuning her husband to let their daughters have one quarter at French and music, and that they might take a few lessons in qua “Little ...

...from you, but the rest, infi nitely the greater number (and especially we French and English), were so far from stooping to so base an example, that ... ...f the two I have mentioned, or any other of the fraternity, to he not only astrologers, but con jurers too, if I do not produce a hundred instances i... ...ave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon ball. On the 6th... ...ise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king’s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen ... ...e hands of his enemies. On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made of a French Jesuit giving poison to a great foreign general; and when he is put ... ... which will make this month memorable to all posterity is the death of the French king, Louis the Four teenth, after a week’s sickness at Marli, whic... ...may judge by the fulfilling of them, whether I am on the level with common astrologers, who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pothooks for planets, ... ...second. I never heard a finer piece of satire against lawyers than that of astrologers, when they pretend by rules of art to tell when a suit will end...

...end of November or the beginning of December 1664 when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at the upper end of ... ...d six. of the spotted-fever. It was, however, upon inquiry found that this Frenchman who died in Bearbinder Lane was one who, having lived in Long Acr... ...week the city continued free, there having never any died, except that one Frenchman whom I mentioned before, within the whole ninety-seven parishes. ... ...most all the na- tion, both man and beast. T o this, as I said before, the astrologers added stories of the conjunctions of planets in a malignant man... ...them to: and this was run- ning about to fortune-tellers, cunning-men, and astrologers to know their fortune, or, as it is vulgarly expressed, to have... ...ors themselves. One mischief was, that if the poor people asked these mock astrologers whether there would be a plague or no, they all agreed in gener... ...public danger. All the plays and interludes which, after the manner of the French Court, had been set up, and began to increase among us, were forbid ... ...d many the very same day they were taken; whether the dog-days, or, as our astrologers pretended to express themselves, the influence of the dog-star,... ...seemed a remarkable hand of Divine justice: viz., that all the predictors, astrologers, fortune-tell- ers, and what they called cunning-men, conjurers...

...w servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are a Frenchman, I believe,” asked Phileas Fogg, “and your name is John?” “Jean, ... ... is on board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would... ...er reading the passport. “I am.” “And this man is your servant?” “He is: a Frenchman, named Passepartout.” “You are from London?” “Yes.” “And you are ... ... “The servant seems to me less mysterious than the master; besides, he’s a Frenchman, and can’t help talking. Excuse me for a little while, consul.” ... ...rom the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta. The passengers o... ... at the dancers, who were ex- ecuting skilful steps and boundings, and the astrologers who stood in the open air with their telescopes. Then he came t...

...uage of the Merry Vicar Of Meudon, he has given us a marvellous picture of French life and manners in the sixteenth century. The gallant knights and m... ...th century. The gallant knights and merry dames of that eventful period of French history stand out in bold relief upon his canvas. The background in ... ...placed it beyond the reach of all but those thoroughly acquainted with the French of the sixteenth century. T aking into consideration the vast amount... ...ies which he has had to overcome, and which those best acquainted with the French edition will best ap- preciate, the translator claims the indulgence... ...re only planted at cer- tain celestial conjunctions ascertained by learned astrologers; at another that one should abstain from begetting children on ... ...his sweet repast, the seneschal’s lady took kindly to her siesta after the French fashion, while Bruyn took his ac- cording to the Saracen. But by the...

... time permits and teaches every one so to do, yet have I not plundered any Frenchman’s goods, or taken his money, and have lived upon what is my own, ... ... The Latin tongue is as it were natural to me; I understand it better than French; but I have not been used to speak it, nor hardly to write it, these... ... to be weaned from her childish simplicity. She was reading before me in a French book where the word ‘fouteau’, the name of a tree very well known, o... ...l known, occurred;—[The beech-tree; the name resembles in sound an obscene French word.]—the woman, to whose conduct she is committed, stopped her sho... ...eetly . And how little this talent is given to all is manifest by the many French scribblers of this age: they are bold and proud enough not to follow... ...h the great conjunction of stars which eight hundred and odd years ago, as astrologers suppose, produced great alterations and novelties in the world.... ...y all share in the mischief; the tempest rages every- where.”—AEneid, ii.] Astrologers may very well, as they do, warn us of great revolutions and imm...

...fteen, he visited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastorals,” and a portion of ... ...l, and accomplished—full of enterprise and spirit, too, although decidedly French in her tastes, manners, and character. Pope fell violently in love w... ... I must bring you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book called ‘Le Comte de Gabalis,’ which both in its title and size ... ...very power adored, But chiefly Love—to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of glove... ..., whom she subdued; 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert... ... away; 460 Hosts raised by fear, and phantoms of a day: Astrologers, that future fates foreshow; Projectors, quacks, and lawyers no...

...It is a science which I do not practise, like others who call them- selves astrologers, for hire or reward; for I have a competent estate, and only us... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ... miraculous presages, Of strange turns in the world’s affairs, Foreseen by Astrologers, Sooth-sayers, Chaldeans, learned Genethliacs, And some that ha... ...is dia- gram there was one significator, which pressed remarkably upon our astrologers attention. Mars having dignity in the cusp of the twelfth house... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h... ...d lulled by tales which you can only enjoy through the gauzy frippery of a French translation. O Matilda, I wish you could have seen the dusky visages... ...ring was agreeably surprised to find that Miss Bertram was well skilled in French and Italian, thanks to the assiduity of Dominie Sampson, whose labou... ...ags, dipped in tar, are employed, they are called Hards, probably from the French.] in the water on purpose-he doesna like to see onybody do a thing b...

... have served both the Portugal and the Spaniard, both the Dutchman and the Frenchman, and have made war on our own account with a crew of jolly fellow... ...at I possessed fully the mighty mystery of a farrier, or mareschal, as the French more honourably term us. These dog-hostlers, who, after all, are the... ...ish nether-stock over the Gascoigne hose, although thou seest how well the French hose set off the leg and knee, being adorned with parti-coloured gar... ...ut- ting her hand to his neck to kittle (i.e., tickle) him, smilingly, the French Ambassador and I standing beside her.”—Melville’s Memoirs, Bannatyne... ...ieve that which I see wished for and expected on earth, solely because the astrologers have read it in the heavens.” “Thou art right,” said Leicester,...

...ef productions which throw light on these, must for the present suffice. A French diplomatic personage, contem- plating Goethe’s physiognomy, is said ... ... last into a highly-probable Nonentity. Follow- ing Locke’s footsteps, the French had discovered that ‘as the stomach secretes Chyle, so does the brai... ...rried in 1773 to John George Schlosser. Goethe’ s education was irregular. French culture gave at this time the prevailing tone to Europe. Goethe coul... ... the side of the empire against Frederick the Great. Frankfort was full of French soldiers, and a certain Comte Thorane, who was quartered in Goethe’s... ...nfluence upon him, chiefly in introducing him to a wider circle of German, French, English and Italian poetry. But the person who had the strongest ef... ... be accomplished until this hour was passed. These good aspects, which the astrologers managed subse- quently to reckon very auspicious for me, may ha...

...g there be. We see likewise, the Scripture calleth envy an evil eye; and the astrologers, call the evil influences of the stars, evil aspects; so that... ...ore generative than dust. Of Seeming Wise I t hath been an opinion, that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they a... ...h not his own way. An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and re mover (the French hath it better, entreprenant, or remuant); but the exercised fortu... ...ures; rosemaryflowers; the tulippa; the double peony; the pale daffodil; the French honeysuckle; the cherry tree in blos som; the damson and plum tre... ...k, which comes later; honeysuckles; strawberries; bu gloss; columbine; the French marigold, flos Africanus; cherry tree in fruit; ribes; figs in fr... ...either can they be secret, and therefore not effectual; but according to the French proverb, Beaucoup de bruit, peu de fruit; Much bruit little fruit....

...lines into little squares, containing about a hundred heads of illustrious Frenchmen. This sheet was stuck on pasteboard for hanging on the wall, and ... ... of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revelled in the Cent Nouvelles of good King Louis XI. R... ...n mind—for the writer was Bishop of Agen, and his work was translated into French—as also the Dames Galantes of Brantome. Read the Journal of Heroard,... ...ave 11 Rabelais thought to improve him by trying to rewrite him in modern French, have been fools for their pains, and their insulting attempts have ... ...he task is no light one, and demands more than a familiarity with ordinary French. It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else. Italian, fro... ... which is that of titubation and trepidation, about which our crackbrained astrologers make such a pother. This, said Panurge, makes the saying good: ... ... alchemy; to the very bottom. Whom have you got o’ board? said I. Said he, Astrologers, fortune-tellers, alchemists, rhymers, poets, painters, projec-...

...e doubted whether ever before in the history of the world did soothsayers, astrologers, and unregistered thera- 10 Heartbreak House peutic specialist... ...rman engineering, as malignant abominations stand- ing towards British and French chemistry and so forth in the relation of heaven to hell, it was cle... ... have said if he had seen Ypres as it is now, or returned to Stratford, as French peasants are returning to their homes to-day, to find the old famili... ...MRS HUSHABYE. —de Rougemont? ELLIE [innocently]. No: de Larochejaquelin. A French fam- ily. A vicomte. His life has been one long romance. A tiger— MR...

...rrection which began at Palermo in 1282,— the famous Sicilian Vespers,—the French were driven from the island. 18 This brother was Robert, the third ... ...om the red light of Mars to the white light of Jupiter, a planet called by astrologers the “temperate” star, as lying between the heat of Mars and the...

... THERE IS AN OLD ILLUSION—it is called good and evil. Around soothsayers and astrologers hath hitherto revolved the orbit of this illusion. Once did o... ...revolved the orbit of this illusion. Once did one believe in soothsayers and astrologers; and therefore did one believe, “Everything is fate: thou sha... ...on clamber back to the conven- tions of the age they intended reforming. The French then say “le diable se fait hermite,” but these men, as a rule, ha...

...It was first discovered in 1772, by the Baron de Kergulen, or Kerguelen, a Frenchman, who, thinking the land to form a portion of an extensive souther... ...the Portuguese, and was visited afterward by the Dutch in 1643, and by the French in 1767. The three islands together form a triangle, and are distant... ...aken, the group has been much vis- ited since its discovery. The Dutch and French frequented it at a very early period. In 1790, Captain Patten, of th... ...It is that mollusca from the Indian Seas which is known to commerce by the French name bouche de mer (a nice morsel from the sea). If I am not much mi... ...ine orbs! they became to me twin stars of Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers. There is no point, among the many incomprehensible anoma- lies... ...r eyes—her mag- nificent eyes, had not belied her noble heart. Like a true Frenchwoman as she was she had obeyed the frank dictates of her reason—the ...