Short Selections for Translating English Into French: Including a Few Examination Papers |
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50 Progressive adjective Amicis André Theuriet arts astonished Autres Contes avoir Balzac bell Bercy bien Blanks Boards Boum-Boum Bourgeois Gentilhomme Brahmin c'était Cæsar CASTEGNIER Catherinette Choisis Conjugation construe Coppée's Corneille Cyrano de Bergerac Daudet definite article deux Diogenes DuCroquet's Enfants England English Erckmann-Chatrian être Eugène Scribe faire fait faut followed Fontaine France French Language French Verbs friends George Ohnet German Verb give goat Grammaire hand happiness homme imagined Jean Racine John Maynard Jules Jules Claretie Julius Cæsar l'homme l'on lady language Langues Latin literature lived livre Molière never noun o'clock Paper Clo Paris participle Paul Bercy Petit Chose pleasure Poésies poetry preposition pronoun Put the definite qu'il qu'on replied Roman rose Sauveur SIR JOHN LUBBOCK speak stories subjunctive temps things thou tout translated Tres Otros Cuentos turn words
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Page 125 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman ? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak, for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Page 126 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth: As which of you shall not? With this I depart: That, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 76 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 125 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.
Page 75 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Page 31 - I did not understand him, till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, " You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps...
Page 86 - ... into what dangerous and miserable servitude does he fall who suffereth pleasures and sorrows (two unfaithful and cruel commanders) to possess him successively ? " 1 I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as on the Happiness of Duty ; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves, is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
Page 125 - Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men...
Page 125 - Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.