A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyAlan Rodgers Books LLC, 2005 - 108 Seiten
CALAIS When I had fished my dinner, and drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen, but, on the contrary, high honor for the humanity of his temper, -- I rose up an inch taller for the accommodation. -- No -- said I -- the Bourbon is by no means a cruel race: they may be misled, like other people; but there is a mildness in their blood. As I acknowledged this, I felt a suffusion of a finer kind upon my cheek -- more warm and friendly to man, than what Burgundy (at least of two livres a bottle, which was such as I had been drinking) could have produced. -- Just God! said I, kicking my portmanteau aside, what is there in this world's goods which should sharpen our spirits, and make so many kind-hearted brethren of us fall out so cruelly as we do by the way? |
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... for an advocate . I have behaved very ill , said I within myself ; but I have only just set out upon my travels ; and shall learn better manners as I get along . - - THE DESOBLIGEANT . CALAIS . Whe hen a man is LAURENCE STERNE.
... désobligeant . PREFACE . IN THE DESOBLIGEANT . It must have been observed by many a peripatetic philosopher , That nature has set up by her own unquestionable authority certain bounda- ries and fences to circumscribe the discontent of ...
... désobligeant , and Mons . Dessein speaking of it , with a shrug , as if it would no way suit me , it immediately struck my fancy that it belong'd to some Innocent Traveler , who , on his return home , had left it to Mons . Dessein's ...