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...had far rather become the founder of some establishment that might relieve women from the op- pressive task-work thrown on them in all their branches ... ...Yes, I work here,” said Rachel. Vainly did Lady Temple look for that which women call work. “I have hitherto ground on at after-education and self-im-... ...ke half measures,” muttered Rachel. “I do not approve of encouraging young women to crowd the over- stocked profession of governesses.” Fanny opened h... ...t one of these Grace rang, and obtained admittance to a parlour with crazy French windows opening on a little strip of garden. In a large wheeled chai... ...nt polish of manner that the old Scottish nobility have inherited from the French of the old regime—a man- ner that, though Colin possessed all its es... ...ce—how much brandy and silk had there been landed in the time of the great French war, and how once, when hard pressed, a party of smugglers, taking a... ...d her content with the handsome creature’s black depth of eye; and the cat executed a promenade of tenderness upon Alick. “How are the peacocks, Alick...

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... Urban, Montague, and others, and a new interest in foreign works, German, French and Italian, which had either become classical or were attract- ing ... ... but it has been found that there is much in the lives of ordinary men and women which bears a humiliating resemblance to the delu- sions of the insan... ...remove it, but there will be no such effect if you say the same thing to a French- man who knows no English. The effect of words upon the hearer is a ... ...between the brain of a man who speaks English and that of a man who speaks French, between the brain of a man who has seen New York and can recall it,... ...it, ‘close box’ when he closes it, and ‘put doll in box ‘ when that act is executed. This is repeated over and over again. In the process of time it c... ...ly the word is uttered without the movement of going towards the box being executed…. Habits are formed of going to the box when the arms are full of ... ... Great Britain is an island, that whales are mam- mals, that Charles I was executed, and so on; and at first sight it seems obvious that such beliefs,...

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........................................................... 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING .......................................... ... the game,” continued Hop-Frog, “lies in the fright it occasions among the women.” “Capital!” roared in chorus the monarch and his ministry. “I will e... ...vage cries, among the crowd of delicately and gor- geously habited men and women. The contrast is inimitable!” “It must be,” said the king: and the co... ...ts of some kind in real- ity, if not precisely ourang-outangs. Many of the women 27 V olume Five swooned with affright; and had not the king taken th... ...and led happily ever afterward a new life. 61 V olume Five WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING IT’S ON MY VISITING CARDS sure enough (... ... Sans que mon cœur fit tic ni tac, Présenter du tabac. French Vaudeville THAT PIERRE BON-BON was a restaurateur of uncommon qualif... ... but the foreigner elevated his nose, and asked me if our steel could have executed the sharp carved work seen on the obelisks, and which was wrought ...

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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... ...followed the example set by Santa Anna himself a few years before, when he executed the en- tire garrison of the Alamo and the villagers of Goliad. In... ...hould be done, and of the time, place and distance separat- ing us, when I executed him. If I should do another such a wrong as to justify him in kill... ...from Monterey. Both this place and Cerralvo were nearly deserted, and men, women and children were seen running and scat- tered over the hills as we a... ...as designated to act in his place. This charge was ill-conceived, or badly executed. We be- longed to the brigade commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Garl... ...ver after saw such consternation depicted on the faces of the people. Men, women and chil- dren came out of their doors looking pale and frightened at... ...em. The plantations were all deserted; the cotton and corn were ripe: men, women and children above ten years of age could be employed in saving these...

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...d. “The measures, then,” he continued, “ were good in their kind, and well executed; their defect lay in their being inappli- cable to the case, and t... ... they have insinuated the term ‘analysis’ into application to algebra. The French are the originators of this particular deception; but if a term is o... ... frantic behavior of a man with a musket. He had fired it among a crowd of women and children. It proved, however, to have been without ball, and the ... ...he “Isitsoornot” for the means of correcting the error. “Le mieux,” says a French proverb, “est l’ennemi du bien,” and, in mentioning that Scheherazad... ... accomplishment involved a chance of detection. At length, in reading some French Memoirs, I found an account of a nearly fatal illness that occurred ... ...illustrious of the empire. His bride was the loveliest and most devoted of women. His possessions had been always ample; but on the attainment of his ... ... stately court, and the mad clangor of arms, and the radiant loveliness of women, bewil- dered and intoxicated my brain. But as yet my soul had proved...

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...ired,” said Miss Havisham. “I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play.” I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, t... ...k; and I must remark of my sister, what is equally true of all the violent women I have ever seen, that passion was no excuse for her, because it is u... ...yard; and there was a surgeon, and there was Joe, and there was a group of women, all on the floor in the midst of the kitchen. The unemployed bystand... ...n as we touched the town, and put myself out of his hearing. This device I executed suc- cessfully. My little portmanteau was in the boot under my fee... ...y , who went through – I will not say sustained – the role (if I may use a French expression) of Claudius King of Denmark. That is his employer, gentl... ...good workman. The Recorder’ s report is made to-day , and he is sure to be executed on Monday. Still you see, as far as it goes, a pair of pigeons are... ...la and I played at cards, as of yore -only we were skilful now, and played French games – and so the evening wore away, and I went to bed. I lay in th...

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...nd customs of their country, know that it is part of the worship of God, not to kill another man; not to know more women than one; not to procure abor... ...ation: when ideas float in our mind, without any re- flection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie; our language h... ...ive times that people use to make to chickens when they call them. I set down the words of this worthy dialogue in French, just as Prince Maurice said... ... any fur- ther than that does. For, by the first of them, it must be allowed possible that a man born of different women, and in distant times, may be... ...imals and vegetables. What must we do for the rest? But in those too it is not sufficient: for if history lie not, women have conceived by drills; and... ...was; and it is 442 Human Understanding certain, a figure a little more oddly turned had cast him, and he had been executed, as a thing not to be allo... ...iar in our language: and he that says it is a discretive conjunction, and that it answers to sed Latin, or mais in French, thinks he has sufficiently ...