Passages in Foreign Travel, Volume 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1838 - Europe |
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Page 125 - Les Français ont le droit de publier et de faire imprimer leurs opinions, en se conformant aux lois qui doivent réprimer les abus de cette liberté.
Page 57 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Page 165 - ... Italy I dare to build the imitative rhyme, Harsh Runic copy of the South's sublime, THOU art the cause ; and howsoever I Fall short of his immortal harmony, Thy gentle heart will pardon me the crime. Thou, in the pride of Beauty and of Youth...
Page 15 - To Arthur, Duke of Wellington, and his brave companions in arms, this statue of Achilles, cast from cannon taken in the battles of Salamanca and Vittoria, Toulouse and Waterloo, is inscribed by their countrymen.
Page 123 - Ils sont tous egalement admissibles aux emplois civils et militaires 4. 4. Leur liberte" individuelle est egalement garantie, personne ne pouvant etre poursuivi ni arrete que dans les cas prevus par !a loi et dans la forme qu'elle prescrit 5. 5. Chacun professe sa religion avec une egale liberte, et obtient pour son culte la meme protection.
Page 57 - I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
Page 165 - Venice. Alas ! there was a wide chasm between my fancy and the reality. The countess before me, in her substantial flesh and bone, was a woman to whom you would involuntarily apply the descriptive word " dumpy." She had not even the merit of an Italian black eye, for hers was of a light blue ; and as for the hair, it was auburn, horridly approaching to red, — for Byron's sake you may call it Sicambrian yellow. Her form was short and thickish ; and as for her bearing, it was extremely unimpressive....
Page 179 - Estaminets, the Restaurants, and the Cafes of Paris. The general distinctions between them are these. An estaminet is a place where tobacco is. smoked, various sorts of beverages are drunk, and generally cards and billiards played. A restaurant is one, where breakfasts and dinners are eaten. A cafe is another, where breakfasts are taken, dominos played, and where coffee, ices, and all refreshing drinks may, at any hour, be enjoyed. In Paris there are more than four hundred Cafes. Of these, the most...
Page 93 - That reader, I trust, will join me in saying that a Sabbath in this metropolis, so far from being set apart as a day of seriousness for its religion, is only set apart as a larger receptacle for its amusements, and that if for six days the rein be freely flung upon the neck of licence, upon the seventh it is cast clean over its head. Paris wants a Luther in l836, as much as Europe wanted one in the sixteenth century.
Page 167 - ... chandeliers, listening to sweetest music, watching their motions in the dance of the fairest and the proudest daughters in Europe, — such, in part, may be the agreeable employment of a stranger at a ball of the Citizen King at the Tuileries. All is for the ear and the eye. You have nothing to do but look and listen. To converse in such a scene as this, — ridiculous ! You may hardly chat. This is a show, a sight, a lion, and as such should be enjoyed ; and knowing indeed is that traveller...