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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...tic ă. Dennis râdea când a v ăzut meniul: – Florentin, comand ă Escargot Florentine Parmezan (parmezan florentin de melci)!... Camera de oaspe ţi,... ...Apa şe. 4 $ intrarea. Limbile Navajo şi Apa şă sunt asem ăn ătoare, cumva dialectale. YA-TA-HEY înseamn ă salut, iar YÁ Á TÉÉH – bine a ţi venit, î... ...darrama. Iar cartea de logic ă neutrosofic ă tradus ă în limba chinez ă (dialectul oficial Mandarin) de profesorul Feng Liu de la Universitatea Xia... ...ce şase luni aici, iar celelalte şase – în Sco ţia. Sco ţienii vorbesc un dialect diferit de al englezilor şi vor s ă se declare independen ţi... C... ...un studiu al UNESCO se men ţioneaz ă c ă dintre cele 6.000 de limbi, plus dialectele, existente în prezent, numai 10% vor supravie ţui la sfâr şitul... ...au în alta. De pild ă, cu Gemma Piella din Barcelona (acolo se vorbe şte dialectul catalan al limbii spaniole). Pe un italian l-am chestionat ce fa...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...greatly overlooked; and the Universe, definable always in one or the other dialect, as the realized Thought of God, is considered a trivial, inert, co... ...ugh the usual des- tinies; been twice out campaigning as a soldier for the Florentine State, been on embassy; had in his thirty-fifth year, by natural... ...nt, some considerable number of years later, is a Letter of Dante’s to the Florentine Magistrates, written in answer to a milder proposal of theirs, t... ... his death- city Ravenna: Hic claudor Dantes patriis extorris ab oris. The Florentines begged back his body, in a century after; the Ravenna people wo... ...but more impor- tant. Mahomet speaks to great masses of men, in the coarse dialect adapted to such; a dialect filled with inconsistencies, 87 On Hero... ...low him in that. Luther’s Written Works give similar testimony of him. The dialect of these speculations is now grown obsolete for us; but one still r... ...legible enough; Luther’s merit in literary history is of the greatest: his dialect became the lan- guage of all writing. They are not well written, th... ...same Divine Idea: in every new generation it will manifest itself in a new dialect; and he is there for the purpose of doing that. Such is Fichte’s ph...

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Droll Stories Volume II : The Second Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ne used to see her and hear her chattering as en- tertainment many foreign dialects, such as the Greek or the Latin empire, Moorish, and, above all, F... ...at idle life which is the best all for those whose minds are occupied. The Florentine, out of bravado, came to the court gallantly at- tired, and from... ...mong these high-born ladies there came one day one by herself to the young Florentine, asking him why he was so shy, and if none of the court ladies c... ...e game of love, since one single day of it was worth a thousand lives. The Florentine chiselled away at his statues, thinking of his evening, and thus... ... This is the reason why all of them are accustomed to let it be taken. The Florentine has stolen a great number, and things were going on admirably, w... ...ion of that especial thing which good authors rightly find abominable. The Florentine exclaims between two hearty kisses— “Sweet one, do you love me m...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...can bear it. She looks just as her mother looked when she lay dead in that Florentine villa so long ago. The sweet placidity of death! it is more beau... ...l, and much more than full. He must have had to put aside his Warwickshire dialect, which wouldn’t be understood in London, and study English very har... ...are—I mean the Stratford one—not by experience. No one can talk the quartz dialect correctly without learning it with pick and shovel and drill and fu... ...se. I have been a surface miner—gold—and I know all its mysteries, and the dialects that belongs with them; and whenever Harte introduces that industr... ...ead languages. “All the valu able books then extant in all the vernacular dialects of Eu rope would hardly have filled a single shelf”—imagine it! T...

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My Dear Strunz: I Should Beungrateful If I Did Not Set

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ped, by promoting this marriage, to leave her rich and happy, according to Florentine custom. She had concluded that her daughter, emerging from a con... ...ger. Marco V endramini,—a name also pronounced V endramin, in the Venetian dialect, which drops many final letters,—his only friend, wrote to tell him... ...on are full of precious gifts; Massimilla will have none of them; she is a Florentine, and she will throw me over. I have to sit by her side like ice,... ...e spell. What a fine bed! and in the bed-place such a pretty lamp! Quite a Florentine idea!” There are some strongly blended natures on which extremes... ...uch had plunged it into dishonor. This none knew but he, for the beautiful Florentine ascribed so many virtues to her lover that the man she adored co... ...umi- 30 Massimilla Doni nated, stood out against the dark background. The Florentine attracted every gaze by her broad, high brow, as white as snow, ...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ry. He already knew Italian, and had also picked up a little of the Romaic dialect during voyages to the East; and by the aid of these two languages h... ...se of the Cascine, and spending two or three evenings at the houses of the Florentine nobility, he took a fancy into his head (having already visited ... ...r excellency’s pardon for keeping you waiting,” said the man, in the Roman dialect, “but I don’t think I’m many minutes after my time, ten o’clock his... ... none of those interesting adventures fell in his way; the lovely Genoese, Florentines, and Neapolitans were all faithful, if not to their hus- bands,... ...d you catch any of his words?” “I did; but they were uttered in the Romaic dialect. I knew that from the mixture of Greek words. I don’t know whether ... ...going on?” asked Franz of the count; for, as all the talk was in the Roman dialect, he had not perfectly understood it. “Do you not see?” returned the...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...to ascertain where the best accommodation was to be had. He pronounced the Florentine women the finest in the world, but had not an equally good opini... ... and since it is thought that hereabout nothing can be produced in our own dialect but what is barbarous and unpolished, it falls to you, who, besides... ...ure, it is recorded by the ancients— [Pliny, ‘ut supra’]—that Diodorus the dialectician died upon the spot, out of an extreme passion of shame, for no... ...proach in their wars any means which may help them to conquer. The ancient Florentines were so far from seeking to obtain any advantage over their ene... ...at short time in necessary instruction. Away with the thorny subtleties of dialectics; they are abuses, things by which our lives can never be amended... ...ves me so much trouble?”—[Diogenes Laertius, ii. 70.]—One offering at this dialectic juggling against Cleanthes, Chrysippus took him short, saying, “R... ..., as it roused and animated heresies; that, therefore, all contentions and dialectic dispu- tations were to be avoided, and men absolutely to acquiesc...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...interpre- tations of de T essin and talked to them directly in the strange dialect which I have inadvertently made for myself out of French, a disemvo... ...e a systematic Philistine, to express my preference for Marinetti over the Florentine British and generally to antagonise aesthetic prigs, I rejoiced ... ...iberal.” But I lit up an Italian—he is a Milanese manufacturer—with “these Florentine English who would keep Italy in a glass case.” “I know,” he said...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... jargon, which is hardly less remote from pure language than is the coarse dialect of the people. Such are the natural perils of literature amongst ar... ... whence everyone chooses pretty nearly at random. Almost all the different dialects which divided the idioms of European nations are manifestly declin... ...ading or manu- facturing people can be cited, from the Tyrians down to the Florentines and the English, who were not a free people also. There is ther... ... the same stock. Each tribe of the American con- tinent speaks a different dialect; but the number of languages, properly so called, is very small, a ...

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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

By: Honoré de Balzac

...f absorbed in reflec- tion. From all that he understood of this mercantile dialect, it appeared that books, like cotton nightcaps, were to be regarded... ...ris of the matter. “Why, I shall be delighted, quite delighted, sir. Mlle. Florentine can come to my shop and choose anything she likes. Ribbons are i... ...udently withdrawn from the case. “And I shall be obliged to do as much for Florentine!” old Cardot’s eyes seemed to say. Lucien at once began to under... ... Matifat, paling visibly. “No, fourteen,” said a voice in the doorway, and Florentine appeared. “I have come to look after ‘milord Cardot,’ “ she adde... ... Vernou, Blondet, Vignon, Philippe Bridau, Mariette, Giroudeau, Cardot and Florentine, and Bixiou. He had also asked all his friends of the Rue des Qu... ...re (with the consent of her creditors) to little old Cardot, who installed Florentine in the rooms at once. The tradition of the house remained unbrok...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...erwards that the heavenly hosts conversed among themselves in a queer little dialect of French English, expressing the properest sentiments, as when ... ...at twelve o’clock—she wandered with her cousin through the narrow and sombre Florentine streets, resting a while in the thicker dusk of some historic ... ... had it, for the effect of brilliancy, all their own way. They talked of the Florentine, the Roman, the cosmopolite world, and might have been disting... ...nt’s a sort of guarantee; I believe she may be depended on. Oh, she’s an old Florentine; I mean literally an old one; not a modern outsider. She’s a c... ...m and made him shiver, so that he returned to the garden to breakfast on the Florentine sunshine. 290 Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER 35 I sabel, when she... ...with eyes equally earnest perhaps, but less penetrating, on the terrace of a Florentine villa; except that Osmond had grown slightly stouter since his...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...wards that the heavenly hosts conversed among themselves in a queer little dialect of French-English, expressing the properest sentiments, as when Edw... ...welve o’clock—she wan- dered with her cousin through the narrow and sombre Florentine streets, resting a while in the thicker dusk of some historic ch... ...ad it, for the effect of brilliancy, all their own way. They talked of the Florentine, the Roman, the cosmopolite world, and might have been distingui... ...’s a sort of guarantee; I believe she may be depended on. Oh, she’s an old Florentine; I mean literally an old one; not a modern outsider. She’s a con... ...and made him shiver, so that he returned to the garden to breakfast on the Florentine sunshine. 364 The Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER XXXV Isabel, when ... ...th eyes equally earnest perhaps, but less penetrating, on the terrace of a Florentine villa; except that Osmond had grown slightly stouter since his m...

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Albert Savarus

By: Honoré de Balzac

... by side. The Italian and Tito talked with such extreme rapidity, and in a dialect unfamiliar to a man who hardly knew even the Italian of books, that... ...r, papa?” “I have heard about her. She was by birth a Princess Soderini, a Florentine, a very great lady, and quite as rich as her hus- band, who has ...

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The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

By: Mark Twain

...well to do, there in Italy, and we were their only child. We were of the old Florentine nobility”—Rowena’s heart gave a great bound, her nostrils expa... ...ng situation. He could neither read nor write, and his speech was the basest dialect of the Negro quarter. His gait, his attitudes, his gestures, his ...

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

...Both continued to keep up their early tutoiement, but only in their native dialect. When the re- ceiver-general of Bourges, the youngest of the brothe... ... faces seamed with deep-cut, rigid wrinkles, and bronzed like a 83 Balzac Florentine medal. These persons, stoically erect like statues, in their old... ...tapestry which nature makes of a forest in autumn. The oaks were a mass of Florentine bronze, the walnuts and the chestnuts displayed their blue-green...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...r cast four times in a furnace, and you get a sort of bastard imitation of Florentine bronze. Well, the thun- derbolts of numberless disasters, the pr... ...aron had given a long and copious explana- tion, in his hideous Polish-Jew dialect, of his meeting with Esther and the cry of the man behind the carri... ...as lead- ing ladies in the piece she was playing, Esther accepted T ullia, Florentine, Fanny Beaupre, and Florine—two dancers and two actresses —besid... ... is a way of speaking French which is as much like yours as the low Breton dialect is like that of Bur- gundy. It will be most amusing to hear you dis... ...head while still on the shoulders— la Sorbonne—shows the antiquity of this dialect which is mentioned by very early romance-writers, as Cervantes, the... ...dame de San-Esteban in the lingo agreed upon by this aunt and nephew. This dialect consisted in adding terminations in ar or in or, or in al or in i t...

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Beechcroft at Rockstone

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... I saw a rather nice-looking young woman in the department where they make Florentine mosaic, and I believe they said she was Miss White, but she cut ... ...ot had that these many years; but I declare, the first sound of our county dialect, when I got out at the station, made my heart leap into my mouth. I... ... couple should remain there for the winter, study- ing art, and especially Florentine mosaic, and return in the spring, when the Stebbings would have ...

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Virgin Soil

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...nds and feet, and her healthy, lithe- some little figure reminded one of a Florentine statuette of the sixteenth century. Her movements were free and ... ...ons, not even in decent Rus- 196 Virgin Soil sian, but in some outlandish dialect, but he took one by storm with his enthusiasm—went straight to the ...

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The Dove in the Eagles Nest

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ht her! T rudchen is wearying for her.” The words were in the most boorish dialect and pronun- ciation, the stranger to Christina’s ears, because inte... ...d to love tales of chiv- alry.” “Ah! Or wilt have the stern old Ghibelline Florentine, who explored the three realms of the departed? Deep lore, and w...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...n me, and scintillating with a million of flies, all buzzing in the Breton dialect!—in short, after a most grotesque residence in the Chateau du Gueni... ... five years you have made him save what others—Antonia, Malaga, Cadine, or Florentine—would have made him lose.” “I am not a lorette, I am an artist,”...

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

...id Porthos, with admira- tion. “I like to hear him talk,” said Athos; “his dialect amuses me.” “Gentlemen,” cried Aramis, “listen to this.” “Listen to... ...herself.” “The Marechale d’Ancre was no more than the Marechale d’Ancre. A Florentine adventurer, sire, and that was all; while the august spouse of y... ...ure. Athos pointed to the bastion. “But,” said Grimaud, in the same silent dialect, “we shall leave our skins there.” Athos raised his eyes and his fi...

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Vittoria

By: George Meredith

...al Govern- ment, you mean,’ she rejoined, and was quite a match for him in dialectics. The count chanced to allude further to the Signorina Vittoria. ... ...he had no comprehension of what they were utter- ing. ‘Oh, accursed French dialect!’ he groaned; discovering the talk to be in that tongue. The Signor... ...aroni, green figs, green and red slices of melon, chocolate, and a dry red Florentine wine. The countess let them eat, and then gave her son a letter ... ...r-box under that concealment, together with a printed song in the Milanese dialect. He lifted the paper to read it, and found it tough as Russ. She tr... ...ad beaten her on the essential point, and afford to give her any number of dialectical victories. “I really cannot answer why,” Violetta said; “unless...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...magnificent, old, and appertaining to the family. D’Artagnan stopped to look at a sideboard on which was a superb ewer of silver. “That workmanship is... ...fifty paces off, another man, also appareled as a cavalier, was talking to a Scotch sentinel, and, though a foreigner, he seemed to understand without...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...od and praise “To Filippo Argenti:” cried they all: And on himself the moody Florentine Turn’d his avenging fangs. Him here we left, Nor speak I of hi... ..., that my neighbour here Vitaliano on my left shall sit. A Paduan with these Florentines am I. Ofttimes they thunder in mine ears, exclaiming “O haste... ...eak and weep. Who thou mayst be I know not, nor how here below art come: But Florentine thou seemest of a truth, When I do hear thee. Know I was on ea... ...ed my land.” Joel, iii. 2. v. 32. Farinata.] Farinata degli Uberti, a noble Florentine, was the leader of the Ghibelline faction, when they obtained ... ... Flor. b. ii. v. 52. A shade.] The spirit of Cavalcante Cavalcanti, a noble Florentine, of the Guelph party. v. 59. My son.] Guido, the son of Caval... ... 1245. Both Frederick and Pietro delle Vigne composed verses in the Sicilian dialect which are yet extant. v. 67. The harlot.] Envy. Chaucer alludes ... ...vena to the east, and Reno to the west of that city; and by a peculiarity of dialect, the use of the affirmative sipa instead of si. v. 90. Hypsip...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...od and praise “To Filippo Argenti:” cried they all: And on himself the moody Florentine Turn’d his avenging fangs. Him here we left, Nor speak I of hi... ..., that my neighbour here Vitaliano on my left shall sit. A Paduan with these Florentines am I. Ofttimes they thunder in mine ears, exclaiming “O haste... ...eak and weep. Who thou mayst be I know not, nor how here below art come: But Florentine thou seemest of a truth, When I do hear thee. Know I was on ea... ...ed my land.” Joel, iii. 2. v. 32. Farinata.] Farinata degli Uberti, a noble Florentine, was the leader of the Ghibelline faction, when they obtained ... ... Flor. b. ii. v. 52. A shade.] The spirit of Cavalcante Cavalcanti, a noble Florentine, of the Guelph party. v. 59. My son.] Guido, the son of Caval... ... 1245. Both Frederick and Pietro delle Vigne composed verses in the Sicilian dialect which are yet extant. v. 67. The harlot.] Envy. Chaucer alludes ... ...vena to the east, and Reno to the west of that city; and by a peculiarity of dialect, the use of the affirmative sipa instead of si. v. 90. Hypsip... ...n all that remains of Europe, there is a third idiom subdivided into three dialects, which may be severally distinguished by the use of the affirma...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 1 Hell

By: Dante Aligheri

...or, and thank Him for it. All cried, “ At Filippo Argenti!” and the raging florentine spirit turned upon himself with his teeth. Here we left him; so ... ... that Sage, “and now attend 3 At Empoli, in 1260, after the defeat of the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti on the Arbia. 4 Guido Cavalcanti died in ... ... the mountain and the 2 Brunetto Latini, one of the most learned and able Florentines of the thirteenth century. He was banished with the other chief... ...w that my neigh- bor, Vitaliano, will sit here at my left side. With these Florentines am I, a Paduan; often they stun my ears shout- ing, “Let the so... ...8 In August, 1290, the town of Caprona, on the Arno, sur- rendered to the Florentine troops, with whom Dante was serving. 77 Dante “O me! Master, wh... ...were Lombards,” and in speaking he had used a form peculiar to the Lombard dialect. 94 The Divine Comedy – Hell saying, ‘Now go thy way, no more I ur...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...r, Whence I, at the beginning, wept thereat. Languages diverse, horrible dialects, Accents of anger, words of agony, And voices high and hoarse,... ...hey all were shouting, “At Philippo Argenti!” And that exasperate spirit Florentine T urned round upon himself with his own teeth. We left him the... ..., Will have his seat here on my left-hand side. A Paduan am I with these Florentines; Full many a time they thunder in mine ears, Exclaiming, ‘C... ... know not who thou art, nor by what mode Thou hast come down here; but a Florentine Thou seemest to me truly, when I hear thee. Thou hast to know ... ...e is lisped of in Siena, Where he was lord, what time was overthrown The Florentine delirium, that superb Was at that day as now ’tis prostitute. ... ...That seemed to me more ruddy than its wont. With all my heart, and in that dialect Which is the same in all, such holocaust To God I made as the n... ...ew more fair, With voice more sweet and tender, but not in This modern dialect, it said to me: “From uttering of the ‘Ave,’ till the birth In wh... ...ep-dame unto Caesar, But as a mother to her son benignant, Some who turn Florentines, and trade and discount, Would have gone back again to Simifo...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321

... Virg. Aen. ii. 794. Compare Homer, Od. xl. 205. v. 88. My Casella.] A Florentine, celebrated for his skill in music, “in whose company,” says L... ... The Arno leaves Arezzo about four miles to the left. v. 53. Wolves.] The Florentines. v. 55. Foxes.] The Pisans v. 61. Thy grandson.] Fulcieri... ...riginal. “In those days,” says the commentator, “no less than in ours, the Florentine ladies exposed the neck and bosom, a dress, no doubt, more su... ...died in 1285. v. 29. Ubaldino.] Ubaldino degli Ubaldini, of Pila, in the Florentine territory. v. 30. Boniface.] Archbishop of Ravenna. By Ve... ...n all that remains of Europe, there is a third idiom subdivided into three dialects, which may be severally distinguished by the use of the affirma...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ve per cent., and the Italian institutes run to about ninety per cent. The Florentine boasts a very beautiful and touch- ing series of putti by Delia ... ...79 H G Wells tion of the great synthetic process, of the past century upon dialects. But this natural advantage of the richer child is dis- counted in... ...not be. There is arising even now a standard of good English to which many dialects and many influences are contributing. From the Highlanders and the... ... to make the next generation, and, secondly, if we would replace divergent dialects and partial and con- fused expression by a uniform, ample and thor... ... is, for the English-speak- ing world to-day, English—not the weak, spoken dialect of each class and locality, but the rich and splendid language in w...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... his distinction was due to his knowledge of its popular speech. But these dialect-patriots have fallen out among themselves. To which dialect was he ... ...the Morgante Maggiore of Pulci. Had Rabelais in his mind the tale from the Florentine Chronicles, how in the Savonarola riots, when the Piagnoni and t... ...originally in the French tongue (as it comprehendeth some of its brusquest dialects), with so much ingeniosity and wit, that more im- pressions have b... ... them. An articu- 368 Gargantua & Pantagruel late voice, according to the dialecticians, hath naturally no signification at all; for that the sense a... ...together deaf, understood nevertheless everyone that talked in the Italian dialect howsoever he ex- pressed himself; and that only by looking on his e... ...? To the conditionals, which, according to the rules and pre- cepts of the dialectic faculty, admit of all contradictions and impossibilities. If my T...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ate Girl), miracles of an art, alas! so fugitive. The inimitable lustre of Florentine bronze took all the varying hues of the light; the painted glass... ... the snuff-boxes, and out of politeness they went into ecstasies over some Florentine bronzes which they held in their hands when Mme. Cibot announced... ...tell you thish—the dear man has treasursh!” he spoke with a broad Auvergne dialect. “Look here, I thought you were laughing at me the other day when m... ...erate gains. All his business transactions were carried on in the Auvergue dialect or charabia, as people call it. Remonencq cherished a dream! He wis... ...f clearness in the story, to give any further speci- mens of his frightful dialect). “If he would take fifty thou- sand francs for one up there that I... ... pass that in Del Piombo’s indolent genius Venetian color was blended with Florentine composition and a some- thing of Raphael’s manner in the few pic... ...ape by Breughel; and the fourth, a Holy Family by an unknown master of the Florentine School.” Remonencq’s receipt was worded in precisely the same wa... ...hreshold of his salon. There they were—his dear pictures, his statues, his Florentine bronzes, his porcelain; the sight of them revived him. The old c...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...oped thus, with luck, impudence, and a complete command of all the Eastern dialects and languages, from Burmah to Afghanistan, to pass scot-free throu... ...; a precious golden hanap carved by the cunning artifi- cer, Benvenuto the Florentine. “Drink, Bleu Sanglier,” said the Prince, “and put the goblet in... ...xons, and which a kneeling page tendered to her on a salver, chased by the Florentine, Benvenuto Cellini,)—”When do you think of going, Wilfrid my dea...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...dence. But bashful and timid as I was, knowing nobody, and ignorant of the dialect of drawing-rooms, I always came back as awk- ward as ever, and swel... ... out all the golden color in her eyes, in which blue streaks mingled as in Florentine marble; their expression seemed to increase the significance of ...

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