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Pagina xii
... or if I despised them because they do not live upon roast beef and plumb - pudding - if I felt that kind of antipathy or rather jealousy towards them which I have remarked among some of my countrymen — if I thought all their women ...
... or if I despised them because they do not live upon roast beef and plumb - pudding - if I felt that kind of antipathy or rather jealousy towards them which I have remarked among some of my countrymen — if I thought all their women ...
Pagina 5
Those gentlemen who , to use the French expression , “ eat their fortunes , " are here ; and here are the gamblers of the stock exchange , of the salon , and of Frascati's — the passionate race who crowd existence into a day , who live ...
Those gentlemen who , to use the French expression , “ eat their fortunes , " are here ; and here are the gamblers of the stock exchange , of the salon , and of Frascati's — the passionate race who crowd existence into a day , who live ...
Pagina 14
This is your Tantalus of modern days - one of those who live upon the brink of all the pleasures of their time -- this is a miser without a treasure , playing an imaginary stake ; a 94 THE CAPITAL .
This is your Tantalus of modern days - one of those who live upon the brink of all the pleasures of their time -- this is a miser without a treasure , playing an imaginary stake ; a 94 THE CAPITAL .
Pagina 15
... skilled in all the chances of the game , and like those thieves who are no longer frightened at the galleys , are come to make their three coups , and to carry off immediately the probable winnings on which they live .
... skilled in all the chances of the game , and like those thieves who are no longer frightened at the galleys , are come to make their three coups , and to carry off immediately the probable winnings on which they live .
Pagina 16
... the power and the pleasure , the idle and voluptuous habits , the morbid and active spirit of our race — all that advances and instructs , and degrades and disgraces the age in which we live — are found side by side together .
... the power and the pleasure , the idle and voluptuous habits , the morbid and active spirit of our race — all that advances and instructs , and degrades and disgraces the age in which we live — are found side by side together .
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France, Social, Literary, Political, Volume 1 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Volledige weergave - 1834 |
France, Social, Literary, Political, Volume 1 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Volledige weergave - 1834 |
France, Social, Literary, Political, Volume 1 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Volledige weergave - 1834 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | France, Social, Literary, Political, Volume 1 Volume 61 van Collection of ancient and modern English authors |
| Auteur | Henry Lytton Bulwer |
| Editie | 2 |
| Uitgever | Baudry's European Library, 1834 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Université de Lausanne |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 14 aug 2008 |
| Lengte | 357 pagina's |
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