France and the French in the Second Half of the Nineteenth CenturyTrübner and Company, 1881 - 315 páginas |
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France and the French in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Karl Hillebrand Vista completa - 1881 |
France and the French in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Karl Hillebrand Vista completa - 1881 |
France and the French in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Karl Hillebrand Vista completa - 1881 |
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Página 68 - FAUST Du hast wohl recht; ich finde nicht die Spur Von einem Geist, und alles ist Dressur.
Página 191 - Denn wer leugnet es wohl, daß hoch sich das Herz ihm erhoben, Ihm die freiere Brust mit reineren Pulsen geschlagen, Als sich der erste Glanz der neuen Sonne heranhob, Als man hörte vom Rechte der Menschen, das allen gemein sei, Von der begeisternden Freiheit und von der löblichen Gleichheit!
Página 202 - ... these few days, the appearance of Paris was ghastly in the extreme. Corpses lay heaped together amid the blackened ruins in every variety of contortion and mutilation. It was estimated that ten thousand of the insurgents had been killed during the fighting of that week. — F. WATT. THE FRENCH PATRIOT. Thiers has more right than any other Frenchman to be taken as the representative of ' ' modern ' ' France, that is, of the good side of modern France.
Página viii - BO much heat between two nationalities as between the French and the German, it proves no little power of repression when an author is able to keep his own sentiments in the background. It must be remembered that it is only of modern France that the author is writing ; ' for ancient France he has as sincere an admiration as any one. Every cultivated person knows what she once did in philanthropy, science...
Página 179 - ... exercised such an evil influence on French society ; the means, as cruel as they were base, by which the new regime was founded ; the growth of the...
Página 79 - Conseil municipal — have hitherto been without power or importance, although it is considered a great honour to be a member of a Conseil gdndral.
Página 54 - ... as it appears at first sight. At the same time it is by no means so good a guarantee of impartiality as it is supposed to be.
Página 178 - France, whose name, set above that of his greater contemporaries, will always mark the third quarter of this century.
Página 3 - ... marriage.* Yet, taken as it stands, Droz's book gives a vivid picture of French married life, and of the cheerfulness and harmony which usually prevail in it. It is, however, characteristic that, with all her affection for her husband, a Frenchwoman is generally fonder of her children than of him. It is a well-known fact that in France the number of children is limited. French morality, taking its principles as it does from the conclusions of the understanding, not from the impulses of the heart,...
Página 193 - irresponsible " monarch, who did not atone for a great fault by an honourable death on the battlefield, ended his days in inglorious exile, as Charles X. and Louis Philippe before him ; while his " responsible " Ministers, like those of his predecessor, go where they list in their native laud without a blush on their face.