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...echnology had taken over most of the work of the stoop labor farmers, the conductors on busses, and many of the jobs of the building trades. Increas... ...ear the reduction of your Anglo population. The Britons, the Germans, the French, the Chinese all espouse the wish to keep their populations as ethn... ...e to ascertain if they have special talents, particularly in mathematics, music, the arts, sports, language facility. This helps the parents to help... ... television and films, and participation in things like sport and art and music. But not just watching people sing, act or play, we think it‟s a was... ...st achievement in a society. The same is true for actors and many popular musicians. But it also holds for many in business or in government. Fame s... ...ho have moved from poor to richer countries. “And don‟t forget that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant.” ...

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...affections! The only person in whom mamma takes much interest is the great French critic, M. Lejaune, whom we have the honour to carry with us. We hav... ...ad them for the style; you know he is one of the new Academicians. He is a Frenchman like any other, except that he is rather more quiet; and he has a... ...as a gray mustache and the ribbon of the Legion of Honour. He is the first French writer of distinction who has been to America since De Tocqueville; ... ... was only reassured by seeing a Bible in every room. When we came down our musical hostess expressed no hope that the rooms had pleased us, and seemed... ...o question of the Queen over here, of course, and American no doubt is the music of the future. Poor dear future, how “expressive” you’ll be! For wome... ...e, considerable; but there is usually much to inquire into by the way. The conductors of the trains, with whom I freely converse, are often men of vig...

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...ing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; sketch of Dumas in 1869, French artist Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsy... ...d Danglars. “No! — you undertook to do so.” “True,” replied Danglars; “the French have the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate... ...the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate, while the French in- vent.” “Do you invent, then,” said Fernand impatiently. “Waiter,... ...ling of envious discontent filled his mind as the sound of mirth and merry music from the joyous revellers reached even the miserable hostelry to whic... ... great, and she developed with his growing fortune. She learned draw- ing, music — everything. Besides, I believe, between ourselves, she did this in ... ...ce. The usual guide from the hotel having followed them, they had paid two conductors, nor is it possible, at Rome, to avoid this abun- dant supply of... ... and confidingly surrendered themselves into the care and custody of their conductors. Albert had already made seven or eight similar excursions to th... ...evenings mostly pass at Italian theatres; that is, not in listening to the music, but in paying visits and conversing. The Countess G—— wished to revi...

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...ify Britain by prohibiting the residence of Charles within any part of the French dominions. It was in vain that France endeavoured to lessen the disg... ... to a dignified sub- mission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and send- in... ... confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to t... ...en Prince of Wales, in 1641. The catch in the text has been happily set to music.] As the chorus ended, there followed a loud and hearty laugh by way ... ... been repeatedly hinted to me, had no good name; and the attraction of the music, without rivalling that of the si- rens in melody, might have been fo... ...it was into knells and sand-pits, would permit me to obtain a sight of the musicians before I should be observed by them. As I advanced, the old ditty... ...rtfully spread, subdued every scruple, and early assimilated them to their conductors.’—Ibidem, p. 19.] That is what I call plain speaking on the part...

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...iginal will have little doubt that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, wh... ...e of the most intensely na- tional. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not more English, “Rob Roy” not more Scotch, than “Don ... ... like that of Motteux’s version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt. It is the grave matter-of-factness of t... ...acles from saints; but merely to take care that your style and diction run musically , pleasantly, and plainly, with clear, proper, and well-placed wo... ...lling her Dulcinea del Toboso -she being of El Toboso—a name, to his mind, musical, uncommon, and significant, like all those he had already bestowed ... ...te that he was in some famous castle, and that they were regaling him with music, and that the stockfish was trout, the bread the whitest, the wenches... ...plume from his poor jade’s tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. His conductors tried to punish the audacity of the boys, but there was no possi...

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...on of Reptilian Bird Culture into Living Humans Cultures Pg 1736 The evil of Music Pg 1737 Human Enlightenment: Carrol and Stevenson Pg 1752 Bob... ...ines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a musical scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the h... ...roperties of both waves and particles. This is why the main vibration of any musical note exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why... ...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ... ...g in a business culture are not really a cultural force. Actors, and Symphony Conductors and singers becoming millionaires off the sale of mass tick...

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...has passed, and where it has been most favourably noticed by the respected conductors of the public Press, and by the No- bility and Gentry. He is pro... ...l sweetness of temper has charmed her aged and her youthful companions. In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of em- broidery and nee... ...o come in, Miss Sharp ad- vanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, “Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes a... ...iselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.” Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing u... ...ve been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue. But that talki... ...ore, of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course o... ...urse of study which was considered necessary for ladies in those days. Her music she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and ...

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... Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French Revolution A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication A Tale of T... ...unity University. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [A story of the French Revolution] Book the First—Recalled to Life I The Period IT WA S T... ...of travelling, sir, in T ellson and Company’s House.” “Yes. We are quite a French House, as well as an English one.” “Yes, sir. Not much in the habit ... ... is if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it! If you touch, in touching my ... ...nhappily, I am!” The plaintive tone of her compassion merged into the less musical voice of the Judge, as he said something fiercely: “Answer the ques... ...nion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pic tures: or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.” Sydney Carton drank the punch at ... ...or (in a few cases) to be sent back to their cells. That, presented by his conductors to this Tribunal, he had announced himself by name and professio...

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...the great nobles, where the pomp and state of a court was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and ... ..., the pleadings and judgments were delivered in the same tongue. In short, French was the lan- guage of honour, of chivalry, and even of justice, whil... ...d, occasioned the gradual formation of a dialect, com- pounded betwixt the French and the Anglo-Saxon, in which they could render themselves mutually ... ... riders. As the procession entered the lists, the sound of a wild Barbaric music was heard from behind the tents of the challengers, where the perform... ... lances! stand forth gallant knights, fair eyes look upon your deeds!” The music also of the challengers breathed from time to time wild bursts expres... ... over- thrown two knights, and foiled a third. At length, as the Saracenic music of the challengers con- cluded one of those long and high flourishes ... ...h lay betwixt it and the open common. He was compelled to follow his rough conductors into the very depth of this cover, where they stopt unexpectedly...

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...irst summer after their marriage that he was charmed with the vivacity and musical talent of her young sister Angela, now upon the world again. Angela... ...uch attraction towards the Salvation Army, that her brother declared their music to have been the chief deterrent from her becoming a “Hallelu- jah la... ...the winter’s journey to Italy. Poor man, he little knew what he undertook. Music, art, Roman Catholic services, and nov- elty conspired to intoxicate ... ...He is a far better sub-editor and reporter than I was at his age, with his French wit and clev- erness. The only fault I find with him is that he long... ...with an engagement to meet at the circus on the part of the boys and their conductors. Fergus was greeted with open-mouthed, open-armed de- light by a... ...uture.” “Our future,” repeated Dolores. 134 The Long Vacation CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH... ...R XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEA CHAPTER XX. FRENCH LEAVE VE VE VE VE She came, she is gone, we have met, And meet perha...

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...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ...main five minutes in the same cavern with their beloved ones. And then the music! There is always a piano in a hotel drawing-room, on which, of course... ...e pianos are in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, ... ...em. And they, as they fall with a continual roar, not hurting the ear, but musical withal, will seem to move as the vast ocean waters may perhaps move... ...re and the vicinities of fashionable life. The street cars are manned with conductors, and, there- fore, are free from many of the perils of the omnib...

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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... ...bove the accidents to which they are exposed from the unskilfulness of the conductors of this paper money, they are liable to several others, from whi... ...hey are liable to several others, from which no prudence or skill of those conductors can guard them. An unsuccessful war, for example, in which the e... ...en, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of ... ...e declamation of the actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of the musician, the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its produ... ...he owners of the great mercantile capitals are necessarily the leaders and conductors of the whole industry of every nation; and their example has a m... ...er the direction of the public magistrate, in gymnas- tic exercises and in music. By gymnastic exercises, it was intended to harden his body, to sharp...

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... sufficient mea- sure by which fully to express himself. He had no ear for music and no eye for painting, and the finest qualities in the creations of... ...o get him- self employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes wil... ...what time, or by what means, he had acquired a competent knowledge both of French and Italian, I do not know; but he was so well skilled in them, as t... ... year. He also wrote an ‘Essay on Epitaphs,’ and an ‘Epitaph on Philips, a Musician,’ which was afterwards published with some other pieces of his, in... ...nson. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. Adams. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compil... ...es Burney, who has since distin- guished himself so much in the science of Musick, and obtained a Doctor’s degree from the University of Oxford, had b... ... the few people present were assembled, publick notice was given, that the conductors to the wheels, suns, stars, &c., were so thoroughly water-soaked...

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... used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- ing, ran as ... ...reast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that re- fined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the g... ...who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families. He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones. And also ... ...her young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for their musical talent, to sing some- thing. Natasha, who was treated as though she... ...king but of thee! That while her fingers touch the harp Wafting sweet music music the lea, It is for thee thus swells her heart, Sighing its... ...dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. Pierre was sitting in the drawing-ro... ... led up to some object he noticed a hesitation and uncer- tainty among his conductors. He heard those around him disputing in whispers and one of them...

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...t the whole thing was a living affair. The rate at which new readings, new conductors of sense interposed, to make any total sense at all right, becam... ...e to speak worse even to oblige her. “When I speak worse, you see, I speak French,” he had said; intimating thus that there were discriminations, doub... ...aken this, she let him know, as a reflexion on her own Book I, Chapter 1 5 French, which she had always so dreamed of making good, of making better; t... ... he had described to her this experience. He called it a “serenade,” a low music that, outside one of the windows of the sleeping house, disturbed his... ...dinner Charlotte Stant played to him; seated at the piano and requiring no music she went through his “favourite things”—and he had many favourites—wi... ...en playing lawn tennis or endlessly and rhythmically waltzing. His love of music, unlike his other loves, owned to vaguenesses, but while, on his comp... ...w strokes on the wall; then she made out what the Ambassador was saying in French, what he was apparently 144 The Golden Bowl repeating to her. “A de...