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...2. Neutrosophy, a New Branch of Philosophy A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] mea... ...here confirm the rule! A minor poet, for example, who wrote in English or French or German is better known than a genius like Eminescu who wrote in ... ...g spheres. Freud was right... One uses women in espionage, in influencing politicians' decisions, in attracting businessmen - by their feminine char... ...am not able to do. I cannot for I can. Paradoxal sleep, from a French "Larousse" dictionary (1989), is a phase of the sleep when the drea... ..., Jean- Marie Benoist, Philippe Némo who represented the "New Philosophy" French group). The power of the monarch derives from his powerless pe... ... are not! People are the same, but... different. 44 His irony against politicians: "the politicians of the ancient world were always talking abo... ... Marcel wrote "Les hommes contre l'humain", speaking on brain-washing (in French: le lavage du cerveau), and on tabula rasa. Mass-media partially do... ...y occurs in the humanistic field? Let’s take the proposition “99% of the politicians are crooked” (Sonnabend 1997, Problem 29, p. 25). “No,” somebo... ...997, Problem 29, p. 25). “No,” somebody furiously comments, “100% of the politicians are crooked, even more!” How do we interpret this “even more” ...

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... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...ourse, is by far the most damaging. (5) Reallocation Fees Benefits paid (mainly to politicians and political decision makers) in order to affect th... ... towards rendering corruption obsolete. Note - The Psychology of Corruption Most politicians bend the laws of the land and steal money or solicit... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i... ...society and the individuals comprising it can maximize their worst outcomes. The French have a saying: "Good bookkeeping – makes for a good frien... ...says about the future of the Internet - click HERE. 4. The period between 1789 (the French Revolution) and 1989 (the demise of Communism) is likely ...

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...ife and Death and Respiration, W. Ogle, 1897. Poetica, with Notes from the French of D’Acier, 1705; by H. J. Pye, 1788, 1792; T . T win- ing, 1789,181... ..., 1891. De Virtutibus et Vitiis, by W . Bridgman, 1804. Politica, from the French of Regius, 1598; by W. Ellis, 1776, 1778, 1888 (Morley’s Universal L... ...them contrived to procure a monopoly for themselves: it is useful also for politicians to understand these things, for many states want to raise money... ...t, which have been proposed either by private persons, or philosophers, or politicians, all of which come much nearer to those which have been really ... ...e arts: therefore they are very tenacious of their liberty; but, not being politicians, they cannot reduce their neighbours under their power: but the...

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...d a little before and after. For we are told by a grave author, an eminent French physician [Fran ois Rabelais], that fish being a prolific diet, ther... ...s, with their wives and children who are beggars in effect; I desire those politicians who dis- like my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attemp...

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...them were intermingled the de scendants of Hollanders, Swedes, Germans, and French fugitives from the persecution of the revoker of the Edict of Nant... ...to establish among them that community of goods and of labor, which fanciful politicians, from the days of Plato to those of Rousseau, have recommende...

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...got up by my wife in Downing Street. MITCHENER. You dont mean to say its a French dress? BALSQUITH. Great Heavens, no. My wife isnt allowed even to pu... ...TH. Great Heavens, no. My wife isnt allowed even to put on her gloves with French chalk. Everything labelled Made in Camberwell. She advised me to com... ...The suffragets would degrade women from being rulers to being voters, mere politicians, the drudges of the caucus and the polling booth. We should los...

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...g is more bitter in all his writings than his comparison of the contemporary politicians to lions, centaurs, satyrs, and other ani- mals of a feebler ... ...tory of nations, as at the time of the Crusades or the Ref- ormation, or the French Revolution, when the same inspiration has taken hold of whole peop... ...t contain his disgust at the contemporary statesmen, sophists who had turned politicians, in various forms of men and animals, appearing, some like li... ...ed to reside? That we must discover, and then we shall see who are the false politicians who pretend to be politicians but 110 Statesman are not, alt... ...any windings in the argument appears to have been most justly fixed upon the politicians, as they are termed. STRANGER: And so our satyric drama has b...

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...ristianity could never have existed. Translators there have been, English, French, German, of Mahometan books, who have so colored the whole vein of t... ... for they went the length of promising, that he separately, as King of the French, would coerce Europe into peace. But, from the known good sense of t... ...sonally concurring to any war which might other- wise be attractive to the French government. 32 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One ha... ...ought by the superstitious, who should happen to recollect the sequel to a French king, of the very earliest movement in this direction: the great (bu... ...ey maintained the contest, (such as at this day divides ourselves from the French upon the question of opinion with regard to the so- cial rank of lit... ...y withdraw from the mission with which God had charged him, far less could politicians and magistrates under any allegation of public inconveniences p...

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... In short, I am, as to classical education, another Shakespear. I can read French as easily as English; and under pressure of necessity I can turn to ... ...e every famous name in literature. I should probably know as much Latin as French, if Latin had not been made the excuse for my school impris- onment ... ...of the nation get cured of this dis- ability. University men, sailors, and politicians are compara- tively free from it, because the communal life of ... ...m of mourning is carried in France; but judging from the appearance of the French people I should say that a Frenchwoman goes into mourning for her co... ... and statesmen are manifestly no more “captains of industry” or scientific politicians than our book- makers are mathematicians. For some time past a ...

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...hilosophers are ridiculous when they take to poli- tics, and I dare say that politicians are equally ridiculous when they take to philosophy: Every m... ...de of his disposition, may be found to take up arms against a whole tribe of politicians and lawyers, and be too much for them. Who is the true and wh... ...ld have said that not Pitt or Fox, or Can- ning or Sir R. Peel, are the real politicians of their time, but 47 Plato s Gorgias Locke, Hume, Adam Smit... ..., but his words perhaps borrowed from another the faded reflec- tion of some French or German or Italian writer, have the better of him. Though we are... ...ation of the better part of the world, and of the philosopher, to the mob of politicians: (12) the ironi- cal tale of the pilot who plies between Athe... ...itics or busi- 105 Plato s Gorgias ness, are as ridiculous as I imagine the politicians to be, when they make their appearance in the arena of philos...

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...intro- duced into the mint of England till the 18th of Henry the VIII. The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, T royes weight... ... of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained all of them originally a real pen... ...the penny and the pound. During the first race of the kings of France, the French sou or shilling appears upon different occasions to have contained f... ...eir neighbours, the ancient Franks. From the time of Charlemagne among the French, and from that of Will- iam the Conqueror among the English, the pro... ...bout a third only; the Scots pound and penny about a thirty-sixth; and the French pound and penny about a sixty-sixth part of their original value. By... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba... ... trade to the West Indies would, by a certain spe- 781 Adam Smith cies of politicians, be considered as extremely disadvantageous. But it so happens,...

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...hion; and we are in that other phase, famil- iarized by the history of the French Revolution, in which the primary assumption is that the country is i... ...ts on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- ests; but this unfort... ...ven make Europe a cockpit and Asia a shambles: no matter: if preachers and politicians, statesmen and soldiers, may do these things—if it is right tha...

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... ven geance; and on the Continent much of it continued to the time of the French Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organisation of... ... execute them turn their arms against them, there are people who think the French incapable of free govern ment. Because the Greeks cheated the Turks... ...el, or of Nadir Shah, or of Caligula; but it was bad enough to justify the French Revolution, and to palliate even its horrors. If an ap peal be made... ...d government is not prob able, though even then there are exceptions. But French *Especially is this true if we take into consideration Asia as well ... ...y successfully, and one of them, Margaret of Austria, as one of the ablest politicians of the age. So much for one side of the ques tion. Now as to t... ...verage, either for speculation or practice, than the more unexcitable. The French, and the Italians, are undoubt edly by nature more nervously excita...

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...g to hesitate any longer, she rang the bell, and was presently joined by a French lady of polished manners—Miss Carew’s maid who conducted her to the ... ...t yours. And look at the politics of it. We’ve heard a good deal about the French to-night. Well, they’ve got executive power. They know how to make a... ...d how to fight behind it when they’ve made it. What’s the result? Why, the French, if they only knew what they wanted, could have it to-morrow for the... ...n have held that Jews, Irishmen, Chris- tians, atheists, lawyers, doctors, politicians, actors, artists, flesh-eaters, and spirit-drinkers are all of ... ... letter. His restlessness only in- creased his agitation. The arrival of a Frenchman whom he employed to give lessons in fencing made the place unen- ... ...Who did I see here last Friday, the most honored of your guests? Why, that French- man with the gold spectacles. What do you think I was told when I a... ...e mortal. Who is the mortal to be? Not her cousin Lucian; for rising young politicians must have helpful wives, with feminine politics and powers of v...

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...e like a town bull’s; it won’t matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians— they will be the Germans or Brazilians... ...nt at missing trains. The Belgian State Railway has a trick of letting the French trains miss their connections at Brussels. That has always infuriate... ... of a second for the one coming from Calais or from Paris. And even if the French train, are just on time, you have to run—imagine a heart patient run... ...castic sentences. That was when she wished to appear like the heroine of a French comedy. Because of course she was always play acting. But what she d... ...haps, they imagined that I wanted to buy a newspaper, for they were either politicians or reporters, which, of course, comes to the same thing. As a m...

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...ove him inconsistent, if not insincere. This is the prevailing attitude of politicians and literary men. Must one conclude that the mass of mankind ha... ...ne thing. To morrow one hundred thousand Russians and one hundred thousand Frenchmen will meet to fight; they who fight the hardest and spare themselv... ...out waiting for him she had dressed and gone off to friends – a teacher of French in the school, a Russified Pole, and his wife – who had invited her ... ...large bites out of the apples on the spot, praising their taste, and spoke French to one another – Vassily quite understood it was all about him – and... ...owing neither fear nor blame. The fact that he had a natural son born of a Frenchwoman, whom he had settled abroad, did not lower his own self esteem....

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...ubled meadows and the dreamy flow of Tewin Water. She skirted the parks of politicians. At times the Great North 15 EM Forster Road accompanied her, ... ...ings. In their own fashion they cared deeply about politics, though not as politicians would have us care; they desired that public life should mirror... ...means pleased by everything. There was a thing—some- thing about a faun in French—which Helen went into ecstasies over, but I thought it most tinkling... ... lady’s lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman, in whose blood there runs the very spirit of persiflage and of g... ... cried: “And that’s the man who beat the Austrians, and the Danes, and the French, and who beat the Ger- mans that were inside himself. And we’re like... ...read the card with annoyance. It was covered with instructions in domestic French. When she and her sister had talked she was to come back for the nig...

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...ty which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the police... ...r the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German criticism. Read the best books first... ...ce. Hussein Effendi praised the epistolary style of Ibrahim Pa sha to the French traveller Botta, because of “the difficulty of understanding it; the... ... of the opium, betel, and tobacco chewers. Mount Saber, ac cording to the French traveller and naturalist, Botta, is cel ebrated for producing the K... ...aimed it.” 105 HenryDavidThoreau not been effectual? “ Assuredly,” says a French translator, speak ing of the antiquity and durability of the Chines... ... he was so old and gray headed that his scalp was worth nothing, since the French Governor offered no bounty for such. I have stood in the dent of his...

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...y-five years, she tells me. I’ve had her for fifteen years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think ... ... with colorless, limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He... ...as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French...and all of the arts. When he trims my hair and beard he likes to f... ...oint. Here, in the heart of France, when I am listening to Francesco talk French I am listening to a clever Frenchman. He could speak the language f... .... At lunch, F said: “I lost again at cards last night... I can’t speak French well enough to win. It’s lucky for me that everyone’s leaving here ... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ...ith a nod or lifted hand. They are masters of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the m...

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...formation Technology, Bond University, Australia; Dr. Jean Dezert, ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research), BP 72 F-92322 Chat... ... However, the results by FCM give as if there is no effect by teachers and politicians for the increase in child labor. Actually the increase in scho... ...is, industrialists who practice child labor, are a main source of help to politicians, and their victory/defeat depends on their (financial) support... ...eir victory/defeat depends on their (financial) support so the causes for politicians ignoring child labor is two-fold. Now we seek the opinion of... ...t is in information fusion were he works with Dr. Jean Dezert from ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research in Paris) in creating ...

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...surer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and was a chief leader in the movement of thought that preceded the Revolution. Though he lived to his eighty-fourth year, Voltaire was born with a weak body....

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...94. He lived until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and was a chief leader in the movement of thought that p... ...land minister appears as another Cato in presence of a juvenile, sprightly French graduate, who bawls for a whole morning together in the divinity sch... ...ners, and the rest of the nation kiss the chains they are loaded with. The French are of opinion that the govern- ment of this island is more tempestu... ...League execrable, and that of the Frondeurs ridiculous. That for which the French chiefly reproach the English na- tion is the murder of King Charles ... ...for a long se- ries of years by the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, and the French successively. William the Conqueror particularly, ruled them with a ... ...ual is hardly found in a thousand years, is the truly great man. And those politicians and conquerors (and all ages produce some) were generally so ma...

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...p a vote into the ballot-box. As for the prominent 10 Miscellaneous Prose politicians who have displaced their rivals partly on the strength of an im... ..., cold irony, raw banter, growl of menace, sharp snap, rounds of laughter. Frenchmen of the Young Repub- lic, not presently appreciated as offensive, ... ...m here, where the king is to decide upon either accepting or rejecting the French emperor’s advice, both of which decisions are fraught with considera... ...t confidence in Ricasoli, whose conduct, always far from obsequious to the French emperor, has pleased the nation. He is thought to be at this moment ... ... hard upon Italy for keeping her word with her ally, and that the brunt of French anger or disapproval will have to be borne by Prussia. This is the l... ...rom the Prussians has been refused, but another which the Em- peror of the French has advised them to accept might ulti- mately become a fact. For Ita...

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...med appropriate to this orga- nization in the opinion of the more advanced French T rade Unions. But the ideas are, in the main, derived from Anar- ch... ...is, where he be- came known as a Socialist and acquired a knowledge of his French predecessors.[Chief among these were Fourier and Saint-Simon, who co... ...its 15 Bertrand Russell expression, according to him, particularly in the French Revo- lution. The one in the future is the revolution of the wage- e... ...ly alliance to exorcise this spectre—Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition ... ...the letter of Social- Democratic orthodoxy. On the basis of the class war, French Syndicalists developed a criticism of Marx which goes much deeper th... ... development as showing the vanity of political triumphs. Very many French politicians who have risen to power have begun their political career as So... ...mentary majority. But Syndicalists have too little faith in the honesty of politicians to place any reliance on such a 50 Proposed Roads to Freedom m... ...han the official Guildsman would wholly approve. It is in the matters that politicians usually ignore—science and art, human relations, and the joy of...

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...greater political phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, i... ...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ...nerally succeeded in putting an early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des ... ...ance must be ascribed to the many valuable coun teracting elements in the French character, and most of all to the great individual energy which, tho... ... and struggling Anglo Saxons, has nevertheless manifested itself among the French in nearly every direction in which the operation of their institutio... ...t in the affair, what moral obligation is he likely to feel as to his own? Politicians are fond of treating it as the dream of en thusiasts that the ... ...one in whose case absolute impartiality , and freedom from connection with politicians or sections of politicians, are of any thing like equal importa... ... experience and of the conditions of Indian government than either English politicians, or those who supply the English public with opinions, have hit...

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... ters to Atticus, my father taking the trouble to translate to me from the French the historical explanations in Mingault’s notes. In Greek I read the... .... During this resi dence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaintance with the ordinary French litera ture; I ... ...difference between this manner of existence, and that of a people like the French, whose faults, if equally real, are at all events dif ferent; among... ... to myself, the contrast between the frank sociability and ami ability of French personal intercourse, and the English mode of existence, in which ev... ...and a year or two after the Peace. He was a man of the later period of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, o... ...ish precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English politicians and the En glish public concerning all social phenomena not ge... ... sooner or later compel the attention both of theoretical and of practical politicians. The chief of these last, is the distinction between the functi...

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...olphus after the Battle of Leipzig. — Progress of Gustavus Adolphus. — The French invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly... ...nd. — Death of Richelieu and Louis XIII. — Swedish Victory at Jankowitz. — French defeated at Freyburg. — Battle of Nordlingen gained by Turenne and C... ...itants of Geneva, for instance, of England, of Germany, or of Holland, the French Calvinist possessed a common point of union which he had not with hi... ... determine, on the banks of the Loire and the Seine, the succession of the French crown. The Dane crosses the Eider, and the Swede the Baltic, to brea... ...d surmounted the obstacles which this house had thrown between him and the French throne, had been no idle spectator of the troubles in Germany. This ... ...he timid mind of Louis with the most alarming fears. Not merely chimerical politicians, but many of the best informed Roman Catholics, fully believed ...

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........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ...nt in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last; As ... ...hunders all his own! Stood up to dash each vain pretender’s hope, Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope! If there’s a Briton then, true bred a... ... whom she subdued: 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert ... ...ndemn a play of theirs, and they evade it; Cry, ‘Damn not us, but damn the French, who made it.’ 10 By running goods these graceless owlers gain; Th... ...us virtue, which causes all the visions of wild en- thusiasts, projectors, politicians, inamoratos, castle-builders, chemists, and poets. He is immedi...

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...repositories of culture who had social opportunities of con- tact with our politicians, administrators, and newspaper pro- prietors, or any chance of ... ...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...

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...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ... a flame, it is well known that the antipathies of the English against the French, seconding the ambition, or rather the avarice, of a favorite leader... ... short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneous... ... moral and physical necessity. We might defy the little arts of the little politicians to control or vary the irresistible and unchange- able course o... ... an epidemical rage in Europe for this species of compacts, from which the politicians of the times fondly hoped for benefits which were never realize... ... diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as fee... ... to Kentucky, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain. Nay, the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in militiamen instead of louis d’ors and du...

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...t notion necessarily disturbed by such temporary aberrations as those of the French Revolution, the worst of which were the work of an usurping few, a... ...e. M. de T ocqueville, in his last important work, remarks how much more the Frenchmen of the present day resemble one another, than did those even of... ... that they have a will, disappears more and more from the minds of practical politicians; there ceases to be any social support for non conformity—any... ...tent to take the lead, and improvise some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil ...

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...n, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named ... ... came, I passed the examination, taking a good standing in that branch. In French, the only other study at that time in the first year’s course, my st... ...nd of my class, in any one study, during the four years. I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tac- tics, and conduct. Early in th... ...t of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates. There are always more of the... ...ection of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ma- turer ye... ...ceived at once, however, that Hardee’s tactics—a mere translation from the French with Hardee’s name attached —was nothing more than common sense and ... ...st Richmond and Lee, the credit would be given to them for the capture, by politicians and non-combatants from the section of country which those troo... ...ers of the two sections; and, fortunately, there has been none between the politicians. Possibly I am the only one who thought of the liability of suc... ...s to the Rio Grande to have him where he might aid Juarez in expelling the French from Mexico. These troops got off before they could be stopped; and ...

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...ealize that the great heroes who have ad- vanced human destiny are not its politicians, generals, and diplomatists, but the scientific discoverers and... ...endowed it with activities to be exercised upon the material received. His French successors razed away the powers and derived them also from impressi... ...rom what was essentially the rationalistic philosophy of Descartes and his French successors. But while French thought upon the whole developed the id...

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...e wants the thing, Is but a shadow scarce worth notic- ing. He learned the French, be’t spoken to his praise, In very little more than fourty days.” T... ...ot for him; France will gain him; and we will all set sail together in the French brig ‘L’Espoir,’ which is hovering for us off Eyemouth.” “Content am... ...and Tory, and when these nick- names shall only be used among coffee-house politicians, as ‘slut’ and ‘jade’ are among apple-women, as cant terms of i... ...lver that your lordship bestowed on Hew Hildebrand, your outrider; and the French velvet that went with my lord your father—be gracious to him!—my lor... ...tion, than an acquired habit of rapid exercise. The repeated bursts of the French horn, which was then always used for the encouragement and direction... ...n disposed to listen to such the other day, or even if I had been the wily politicians which you have been taught to be- lieve me, you, Master of Rave... ... though ’tis homely, And foreign dainties poisonous, though tasteful. —The French Courtezan. THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD took an opportunity to leave his...

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...ppeals; when the presid- ing genius that watched over the destinies of the French nation had played out all the best cards in his hand, and his advers... ... that the Queen of England did feel seriously alarmed at the notion that a French prince should occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly... ...stavus Adolphus Maximilian von Galgenstein, had been in the service of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a... ...erving Her Sacred Majesty, to be sure: long life to her, and down with the French King!” Bullock, a few of the men, and two or three of the boys, pipe... ...trebleu!” and it W AS ventrebleu with him, I warrant you; for bleu, in the French language, means “through;” and ventre—why, you see, ventre means— CA... ...ve all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for our own...

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...k more and more towards the professional Don Juan. With a leer of what the French call fatuity, he bids the belles of Mauchline beware of his seductio... ...e sudden interest in politics which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. His only political feeling had been hith- erto a sentime... ...ause he lay out of the way of active politics in his youth. With the great French Revolution, something living, practical, and feasible appeared to hi... ... subsequent sale four carronades, and despatched them with a letter to the French Assembly. Letter and guns were stopped at Dover by the English offic... ... these pointed occasions are most useful and inspiring. As those who speak French imperfectly are glad to dwell on any topic they may have 60 Robert ... ...over of Queen Isabel, and the leading patron of art and one of the leading politicians in France. And the poet might have inherited yet higher vir- tu...