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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... numbers of the bourgeoisie eat and sleep together ; but I remember Mr. Shandy the elder , who accounted for nothing like any body else , in speaking one evening of these matters , averred that chil- dren , like other animals , might be ...
... number of equipages in the courtyard seemed to justify the calculation , that I could have no nearer a prospect ... numbers of the first dukes and marquises and counts had hotels . - The Count de B- , of whom the bookseller at the ...
... numbers , numbers had made the same enquiry which I had done . – He had told them the same story , and always with so much modesty and good sense , that it had reach'd at last the king's ears ; — who , hearing the Chevalier had been a ...