The book of French exercises and composition1883 |
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accueil Adjectives admire adverb aimer Alexander aller avant avoir believe bien brother c'est Cæsar chercher cheval Christopher Columbus conj conquer côté courage croire dernier descendre deux devoir dire enemy English words entendre envoyer est-ce être EXERCISE expressed faire fait father fear Fitzroy Somerset Flora Macdonald flowers fois France French friends Gaul give Grammar homme honour hundred indef Infinitive jour lady live malè manière March mentum mettre mieux mother n'est ness never noble noun one's parenthesis partir passer past participle Perf petit pouvoir precare prep preposition pron Pronouns Queen Queen Elizabeth's Schools rappeler received reçu rendered revenir rien rire soldiers sortir speak Subj Subjunctive Mood substantive tatem tell temps thing thou tionem tout translated travailler tremere troops venir verb viaticum voir vouloir walk wish
Passatges populars
Pàgina 89 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her MARIE ANTOINETTE. with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
Pàgina 87 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Pàgina 105 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Pàgina 87 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pàgina 95 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Pàgina 97 - and tell you a truth which,- perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Pàgina 89 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Pàgina 88 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Pàgina 96 - Our own, our country's honor, calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
Pàgina 97 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.