"Aller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Himmel sah herab Auf aller Menschen Kinder, Zu schauen sie er fich begab, Ob er Jemand wird finden, Der sein'n Verstand gerichtet haett Mit Ernst, nach Gottes Worten thaet Und ...
— The Hymns of Martin Luther • Martin Luther
... Naechsten tobend, als ein toerichter Hund mit offenem Maul ohne Unterlass wagest. Du treuloser Bube und teuflischer Moench! Du deklarierter Mameluck and verdammter Zwiedarm, deren neun einen Pickharden gelten. Ich sage vornehmlich, dass du selbst der aller unverstaendigste Bacchant und zehneckichte Cornut und Bestia bist. Du meineidiger, treuloser und ehrenblosser Fleischboesewicht! Pfui dich nun, du sakrilegischer, der ausgelaufenen Moenche und Nonnen, der ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente
... had declared to itself that those who were not with it were against it; that its neighbors should be either friends or foes; that it would understand nothing of neutrality. This was often mortifying to me, but I think I liked it better on the whole than the laisser-aller ...
— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope
... Sir W. Batten and may do me good. He gone, I to supper with my wife, very pleasant, and then a little to my office and to bed. My mind, God forgive me, too much running upon what I can 'ferais avec la femme de Bagwell demain', having promised to go to Deptford and 'a aller a sa maison avec son mari' ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... certain that the old gentleman, who had lived in days gone by with that feminine nation now as much forgotten as many other great things,—like the Jesuits, the Buccaneers, the Abbes, and the Farmers-General,—had acquired an irresistible good-humor, a kindly ease, a laisser-aller devoid of egotism, the self-effacement of Jupiter with Alcmene, of the king intending to be duped, who casts his thunderbolts to the devil, wants his Olympus full of follies, little suppers, feminine profusions—but with Juno out of the way, be ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac
... Marian' s'en allant au moulin, Pour y faire moudre son grain, Ell monta sur son ane, Ma p'tite mam'sell' Marianne! Ell' monta sur son ane Martin Pour aller ...
— Honey-Bee - 1911 • Anatole France
... defile, ideas which, if carried out, would be the worst and most crushing kind of despotism. I would rather live under the feet of the Czar than in those states of perfectibility imagined by Fourier and Cabet, if I might choose my 'pis aller.' All these speculators (even Louis Blanc, who is one of the most rational) would revolutionalise, not merely countries, but the elemental conditions of humanity, it seems to me; none of them seeing that antagonism ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... showed it either to a railway employe or to a matelot, and I was sure to hear 'All right,'—I have learnt that at least. But upon my life, to this day I can't explain why no one seemed to understand me, even at Inverary, at the hotel. I asked: 'Quel chemin doit on prendre pour aller chez Monsieur Amertone, dans l'ile d'Ineestreeneeche sur le lac Ave?' That was quite plain, was not it?... Well, they only shook their heads till I gave them the address you had written for me, then of course ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... eine Hoehe des Kummers, auf welcher angelangt wir einer einzelnen Empfindung nicht nachspringen, sondern sie laufen lassen, weil wir den Blick fuer das schmerzliche Ganze nicht verlieren, sondern eine gewisse kummervolle Sammlung behalten wollen, die bei aller scheinbaren Aussenheiterkeit recht gut fortbestehen kann."[107] Hoelderlin, as we have noted,[108] not infrequently pictures himself as a sacrifice to the cause of liberty and fatherland, to the new ...
— Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry • Wilhelm Alfred Braun
... are lined with hedges of false coffee, where thrifty people live, and again there are open spaces with vistas of little houses in groves, rows of tiny cabins close together. Everywhere are picturesque disorder, dirt, rubbish, and the accrued wallow of years of laissez-aller; but the mighty trade-winds and the constant rains sweep away all bad odors, and there is no ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... pas, que pour cesser d'etre malheureux, ce n'est pas ta place qu'il faut changer, c'est ton coeur. Que tu disparaisses sous les flots, qu'un plomb meurtrier brise ta tete, ou qu'un poison subtil glace tes veines; quoi que tu fasses, et ou que tu ailles, tu n'y peux aller qu'avec toi-meme, qu'avec ton coeur, qu'avec ta misere! Que dis-je? Tu y vas avec un compte de plus a rendre, a la rencontre du grand Dieu qui doit te juger; tu y vas avec l'eternite de plus pour souffrir, et le temps de ...
— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris
... without diminishing their load, and then the notice that is said to have been affixed to one of the Diligences, may very well be appended to all. "MM. les voyageurs, sont pries, quand ils descendent, de ne pas aller plus vite que la voiture:" passengers are requested, when they descend, not to go faster than the vehicle. A most necessary request! La Fontaine, when he wrote the fable in which he gives an account of a vehicle ascending ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... must gain you the good-will and first sentiments of men, and the affections of the women. You must carefully watch and attend to their passions, their tastes, their little humors and weaknesses, and 'aller au devant'. You must do it at the same time with alacrity and 'empressement', and not as if you graciously condescended to ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... animals. And still they not natives. So I think it over when I milk la vache, and Sam he pushed open la porte and he show me fine cross-fox he caught, and that make me emulous. So I take my wage le maitre he give, and exchange for the traps. When my work is done, en avant, on I go to the great woods. Aller a pied—I walk—I carry my traps, I set them with much bait. I get nothing. Le chien—the dog—he follows, he gets in the traps. Then I try again. I go far away this time. I set my traps, I await with tranquillity. It is far in the woods. I wait trois days. Then I go to see if le renard, ...
— Winter Adventures of Three Boys • Egerton R. Young
... Vous ne hocherez la teste, vous ne remuerez point les jambes, ny ne roueillerez les yeux, ne froncerez point les sourcils, ou tordrez la bouche. Vous vous garderez de laisser aller auec vos paroles de la saliue, ou du crachat aux visages de ceux, auec qui vous conversez. Pour obvier a cet accident, vous ne vous en approcherez point si pres; mais vous les entretiendrez ...
— George Washington's Rules of Civility - Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway • Moncure D. Conway
... the sojourn at Marienbad, this writer speaks of Chopin's polichinades: "He imitated then this or that famous artist, the playing of certain pupils or compatriots, belabouring the keyboard with extravagant gestures, a wild [echevele] and romantic manner, which he called aller a la ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... exclusivement; ce n'est pas non plus afin de sortir ma definition des theories et de la rendre le plus possible utile aux naturalistes descripteurs et nomenclateurs, c'est aussi par un motif philosophique. En toute chose il faut aller au fond des questions, quand on le peut. Or, pourquoi la reproduction est-elle possible, habituelle, feconde indefiniment, entre des etres organises que nous dirons de la meme espece? Parce qu'ils se ressemblent et uniquement ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... for the candlestick, never more literally a stick than now, and thrust it under the arch, stooping down so as to see what the farther darkness might contain. We above could see nothing, but, after an anxious pause, he cried On peut aller! with a lively satisfaction so completely shared by Mignot, that that worthy person was on the point of letting Renaud's blouse go, in order to indulge in gestures of delight. The step-cutting went on merrily after this announcement, and one by one we came to the arch and passed through, finding ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne
... nous n'avons pas voulu aller au-devant d'infortunes honorables, dans la crainte d''etre tromp'es par des mis'eres fictives: que la douleur frappe ...
— The Countess Cathleen • William Butler Yeats
... high office in the Prussian service. In 1759 his attainder was reversed, but he continued to live abroad. In one of his letters to Madame de Boufflers he says, in speaking of Rousseau, "Je lui avais fait un projet; mais en le disant un chateau en Espagne, d'aller habiter une maison toute meublee que j'ai en Ecosse; d'engager le bon David Hume de vivre avec ...
— Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica • James Boswell
... speak of him as in this position; but their evidence is overborne by more numerous and conclusive authorities, among them Vaudreuil, governor of Canada, and Contrecoeur himself, in an official report. Vaudreuil says of him: "Ce commandant s'occupa le 8 [Juillet] a former un parti pour aller au devant des Anglois;" and adds that this party was commanded by Beaujeu and consisted of 250 French and 650 Indians (Vaudreuil au Ministre, 5 Aout, 1755). In the autumn of 1756 Vaudreuil asked the Colonial Minister to procure a pension for Contrecoeur and Ligneris. He says: ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... depouille de ses etats par les Sarrasins. Il imagina d'aller solliciter les secours des Tartares, qui en effet prirent les armes pour lui et le retablirent. Ses negociations et son voyage lui parurent meriter d'etre transmis a la posterite, et il dressa des memoires qu'en mourant il laissa entre les mains d'Hayton son neveu, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... of his mystical and spiritual religion. Other significant books from his pen are his translation of Erasmus' Moriae Encomion ("Praise of Folly"), with very important additions; Von der Eitelkeit aller menschlichen Kunst und Weisheit ("The Vanity of Arts and Sciences"), following the treatise by Agrippa von Nettesheim; Von dem Baum des Wissens Gutes und Boeses ("Of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones
... chaloupe, et venus a Batavia en aporter la nouvelle, se rendit au parage ou le Dragon avoit peri, et alla mouiller l'ancre dans l'endroit qui parut le plus propre pour son dessein. Aussi tot la chaloupe fut armee pour aller chercher ceux qui s'etoient sauvez le long du rivage. Elle s'aprocha d'abord du bris, pardessus lequel les vagues passoient; puis elle nagea vers le lieu ou l'on avoit dresse des tentes, quand la chaloupe du vaisseau ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia - Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 • Phillip Parker King
... the valley. Two days later he was found, twenty miles away, wandering towards Italy. 'Perdu' was his only explanation, but it was not believed, for now began that continual demand: 'Je voudrais aller a Lyon, voir mon oncle—travailler!' As the big cavalryman put it: 'He is bored here!' It was considered unreasonable, by soldiers who found themselves better off than in other hospitals; even the 'Powers' considered ...
— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy
... mantle; which without farther parley unfolding, he deposited therefrom what seemed some Basket, overhung with green Persian silk; saying only: Ihr lieben Leute, hier bringe ein unschatzbares Verleihen; nehmt es in aller Acht, sorgfaltigst benutzt es: mit hohem Lohn, oder wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird's einst zuruckgefordert. 'Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness employ it: with high recompense, or else ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle
... motivee par le fait qu'elle ne pouvait acquitter une dette de moins de 500 francs... Aussi les malheureux qui avaient perdu leur avoir, ou qui ne pouvaient faire face a leurs engagements, etaient-ils, pour ainsi dire, jetes dans les bras du crime. Plutot que d'aller moisir dans les cachots, ils prenaient la fuite, et comme il faut manger, ils demandaient le necessaire a la societe. Ils le demandaient de facons variees: l'une des plus repandues, et qui est relativement honorable, ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... who, in a letter to the Governor, reclaims her as 'Un vaisseau arme, en guerre, et pret a mettre a la voile;' and describes her object in these expressions; 'Cet usage etrange de la force publique contre les citoyens d'une nation amie qui se reunissent ici pour aller defendre leur freres,' &c. and again; 'Je requiers, monsieur, l'autorite dont vous etes revetu, pour faire rendre a des Francois, a des allies, &c. la liberte de voler au secours de leur patrie.' This transaction being ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... astonished housemates. He was close-muffled in a wide mantle; which without further parley unfolding, he deposited therefrom what seemed some Basket, overhung with green Persian silk; saying only: Ihr lieben Leute, hier bringe ein unschaetzbares Verleihen; nehmt es in aller Acht, sorgfaeltigst benuetzt es: mit hohem Lohn, oder wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird's einst zurueckgefordert. "Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... thirty-sixth year, Goethe renewed his acquaintance with Oeser, he wrote of him to Frau von Stein: "C'est comme si cet homme ne devroit pas mourir, tant ses talents paroissent toujours aller en s'augmentant."] ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown
... d'Europe, conduite par le plus fameux conqurant qu'ait connu l'univers, tenta de submerger l'immense empire russe; mais l'empire tait trop grand pour la grande arme et rien ne revint des solitudes glaces de la steppe.... Puisse, de mme, aller loin, toujours plus loin, l'arme allemande dj dcime, haletante, puise! Puisse-t-elle pousser jusqu'au ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... clearly knowing the reason, that when Albertine Zehme so eloquently declaimed the lines of Madonna, the sixth stanza of part one, beginning "Steig, o Mutter aller Schmerzen, auf den Altar meiner Toene!" that the background of poignant noise supplied by the composer was more than apposite, and in the mood-key of the poem. The flute, bass clarinet, and violoncello ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... un autre aueugle guide, L'un par l'autre en la fosse tombe: Car quand plus oultre aller il cuide, La MORT l'homme iecte ...
— The Dance of Death • Hans Holbein
... Natuerlichen und Kreuterwein, aller Verstandt. Vber den Zusatz viler bewerter Kuenst, insonders fleissig gebessert und corrigirt aus Apitio, Platina, Varrone, Bapt. Fiera cet.'; Francofurti, apud Egenolfum, ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... [gave] him hostages and mickle oaths, and eke they promised him that their King should receive baptism. And this they fulfilled. And three weeks after came King Guthrum with thirty of the men that in the host were worthiest, at Aller, that is near Athelney. And him the King received at his baptism, [Footnote: That is, was his godfather.] and his chrisom-loosing [Footnote: That is, he laid aside the chrisom or white garment which a newly baptised person wore.] was at Wedmore. And he was twelve ...
— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... would be inharmonious. Euphony with him is a matter of more importance than grammatical correctness. Bescherelle gives many examples of moi in the nominative. Here are two of them: "Mon avocat et moi sommes de cet avis. Qui veut aller avec lui? Moi." If we use such phraseology as "It is me," we must do as the French do—consider me as being in the nominative case, and offer euphony as our reason for thus ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
... scattered over all the West of Germany, in readiness for nothing but plunder, had to fall more or less distracted in their turn; and do a number of astonishing things. To try this and that, of futile, more or less frantic nature; be driven from post after post; be driven across the Aller first of all;—Richelieu to go home thereupon, and be succeeded by ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.—1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle
... supposer qu'un negre esclave, fatigue de travail depuis le commencement de l'annee jusqu'a la fin, oblige, sous peine du fouet, d'aller aux champs, qu'il soit ou non en etat de sante, ne voye dans la liberte que la faculte de ne plus travailler. Tant qu'il etait esclave, il etait plus ou moins mal nourri, mais il l'etait sans aucun soin de sa part, et sans qu'un travail plus assidu, plus actif, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... humilitatem perducentibus intelligi voluit (Civ. D. xi, 31).—D'autres Peres, saint Jerome par exemple, sont moins exclusifs; et de fait, pourquoi la maxime, dans sa plenitude, ne comprendrait-elle pas toutes sortes de chutes, peches ou afflictions? En tout cas, c'est aller trop loin que de vouloir prouver par la la these catholique sur l'impossibilite morale d'eviter pendant longtemps tout peche de fragilite. L'ecrivain sacre veut dire autre chose, et nous avons ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle
... looked up quickly. Surely that was the name given by the messenger who handed Boss Stobart's note to the boy in the middle of the night. The blacks laughed at the drover's question, and one of them pointed towards the troughs. "Him tummel aller same kangaroo," he said, with a grin, making movements with his body like a man being flung off a horse. "Him come down cropper, I think," and he rubbed the back of his head and made grimaces which caused the others to laugh heartily. ...
— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman
... a prize which he might stoop to carry off, or neglect, at his pleasure, than every step which the poor girl had taken, in the innocence and openness of her heart, to form a sort of friendship with me, seemed in my eyes the most insulting coquetry.—"Soh! she would secure me as a pis aller, I suppose, in case Mr. Rashleigh Osbaldistone should not take compassion upon her! But I will satisfy her that I am not a person to be trepanned in that manner—I will make her sensible that I see through her arts, and ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... chose? dit l'Etre. —Les yeux de l'elephant, le cou du taureau, maitre. —Prends.—Je demande en outre, ajouta le Rampant, Le ventre du cancer, les anneaux du serpent, Les cuisses du chameau, les pattes de l'autruche. —Prends.—Ainsi qu'on entend l'abeille dans la ruche, On entendait aller et venir dans l'enfer Le demon remuant des enclumes de fer. Nul regard ne pouvait voir a travers la nue Ce qu'il faisait au fond de la cave inconnue. Tout a coup, se tournant vers l'Etre, Iblis hurla —Donne-moi ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... hundred people crowded a small whitewashed building. The village of Allerfoot itself is a little place, but it is the centre of a wide pastoral district, and the folk assembled were brown-faced herds and keepers from the hills, plough-men from the flats of Glen Aller, a few fishermen from the near sea-coast, as well as the normal inhabitants ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... importance in the military literature of the period. A later French translation by Bouchard de Bussy. La Milice des Grecs on Tactique d'Elien (Paris 1737 and 1757); Baumgartner's German translation in his incomplete Sammlung aller Kriegsschriftsteller der Griechen (Mannheim and Frankenthal, 1779), reproduced in 1786 as Von Schlachtordnungen, and Viscount Dillon's English version (London, 1814) may also be mentioned. See also R. Forster, Studien zu den griechischen ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... land Of any lord that is in Engleland, To make him live by his proper good, In honour debtless, *but if he were wood*, *unless he were mad* Or live as scarcely as him list desire; And able for to helpen all a shire In any case that mighte fall or hap; And yet this Manciple *set their aller ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... other day of a conversation which Polignac had recently had with the King, in which his Majesty said to him, 'Jules, est-ce que vous m'etes tres-devoue?' 'Mais oui, Sire; pouvez-vous en douter?' 'Jusqu'a aller sur l'echafaud?' 'Mais oui. Sire, s'il le faut.' 'Alors tout ira bien.' It is thought that he has got into his head the old saying that if Louis XVI. had got upon horseback he could have arrested the progress ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville
... illustrious Hanoverian house at present reigning in Great Britain. Duke William held his Court at Celle, a little town of ten thousand people that lies on the railway line between Hamburg and Hanover, in the midst of great plains of sand, upon the river Aller. When Duke William had it, it was a very humble wood-built place, with a great brick church, which he sedulously frequented, and in which he and others of his house lie buried. He was a very religious lord, and called William the Pious by his small ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs (St. Petersburg, 1776), p. 36; August Freiherr von Haxthausen, Studien ueber die innere Zustaende das Volksleben und insbesondere die laendlichen Einrichtungen Russlands (Hanover, 1847), ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... indication in favour of the last one, not very strong, it is true, but still not to be neglected. I-tsing tells us: 'Le roi me donna des secours grace auxquels je parvins au pays de Mo-louo-yu; j'y sejournai derechef pendant deux mois. Je changeai de direction pour aller dans le pays de Kie-tcha.' The change of direction during a voyage along the east coast of Sumatra from Palembang to Atjeh is nowhere very perceptible, because the course is throughout more or less north-west, still one may speak of a change of direction at the mouth of the River ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... dit: 'L'empire est chancelant; La victoire est peu sure.' Il cherche a s'en aller, furtif et ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... 3. A. 1749. Projet pour mon arrive a Paris, et Le Conduit de Mr. Benn. Mr. Benn doit s'en aller droit a Dijon et son Compagnion Mr. Smith a Paris; Il faudra pour Mr. Smith une Chese [chaise] qu'il acheterra a Luneville, ensuite il prendra Le Domestique du C. P. a Ligny, mais en partent d'icy il faudra que le Sieur Smith mont a Chevall ...
— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang
... the manager originally displaced by Farfrae's arrival. Henchard had frequently met this man about the streets, observed that his clothing spoke of neediness, heard that he lived in Mixen Lane—a back slum of the town, the pis aller of Casterbridge domiciliation—itself almost a proof that a man had reached a stage when he would ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... a quele heure nous estoioms s^{r} le chymyn env's Tours et encostoavit dev's Orliens et lendemein la ou nous estoions loggiez aviens novelles qe les ditz Sire de Creon et Busigaut estoient en un chastel bien p's de n're loggiz et p'ismes p'pos de y aller et venismes loggier entour eux et acordasmes d'assailler le dit lieu lequel estoit gayne p' force ou estoient tout plein de lo'r gentz p's et mortz auxint les uns des n'res y furent mortz mes les ditz Sires de Creon et Busigaut se treerent en une fort Tour qil y avoit la quele se tenoit ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous
... bigan to springe, Up roes our host, and was our aller cok, And gadrede us togirde, alle in a flok, And forth we riden, a litel more than pas Unto ...
— England of My Heart—Spring • Edward Hutton
... confined in the castle of Alden, situated on the small river Aller, in the duchy of Zell. She terminated her miserable existence, after a long captivity of thirty-two years, on the 13th of November 1726, only seven months before the death of George the First; and she ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... Voulant aller au ciel, si je suis empeschee, Les ieuz des assistans en larmes couleront; Si pleurent sans regret ie ne suis pas faschee Car quaud j'iray ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder
... d'etymologie. Le voici dans son expression la plus nette. Tout mot vient du mot qui lui ressemble le mieux. Cela pose, Menage, avec son erudition polyglotte, s'abat sur le grec, le latin, l'italien, l'espagnol, l'allemand, le celtique, et ne fait difficulte d'aller jusqu'a l'hebreu. C'est dommage que de son temps on ne cultivat pas encore le sanscrit, l'hindotistani, le thibetain et l'arabe: il les eut contraints a lui livrer des etymologies francaises. Il ne se met pas en peine des chemins ...
— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench
... to laisser-aller, every system of morals is a sort of tyranny against "nature" and also against "reason", that is, however, no objection, unless one should again decree by some system of morals, that all kinds of tyranny and unreasonableness are unlawful What is essential and invaluable in ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche
... Geronte's reiterated complaint 'Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?'—Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671), ii, VII; and the phrase in Cyrano de Bergerac's Le Pedant Joue (1654): 'Ha! que diable, que diable aller faire en cette galere?... Aller sans dessein dans une galere!... Dans la galere d'un Turc!'—Act ii, IV. In France this phrase ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... Sie, Sie, Sie, immer vor"? Or to these repetitions from a series of notes written also from Toeplitz in the summer of 1812? "Leben Sie wohl liebe, gute A." "Liebe, gute A., seit ich gestern," etc. "Scheint der Mond .... so sehen Sie den kleinsten, kleinsten aller Menschen ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... aconvenient figure for reference, apostrophe, and appeal. The novelist makes also, like Sterne, mock-pedantic allusions, once indeed making a long citation from a learned Chinese book. An expression suggesting Sterne is the oath taken "bey den Nachthemden aller Musen,"[78] and an intentional inconsequence of narration, giving occasion to conversation regarding the author's control of his work, is the sudden passing over of the six years which Tobias ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer
... aimable, lovable, sweet, easy. aimer, to love. ainsi, thus; — quo, as well as; il en est — de, such is the case with. airain, m., brass. alarme, f., alarm, fear. alarm, alarmed, frightened. allegresse, f., joy. aller, to go. allumer, to light, kindle. alors, then, at the time, in those days. altr de, thirsting for. alternativement, alternately. alti-er, -re, haughty. Amalcite, Amalekite. Aman, Haman. amas, m., heap. amasser, to heap up, collect. amateur, m., lover. ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... came by the special order—one version has it by the very hand—of George the Elector, the owner of the ladies Schulemberg and Kilmansegge. Sophia Dorothea was banished for the rest of her life to the Castle of Ahlden, on the river Aller. In the old schloss of Hanover the spot is still shown, outside the door of the Hall of Knights, which tradition has fixed upon as the spot where the ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy
... hat nichts in der Philosophie zu thun, Sie ist ein machtiges Wesen fuer sich, woran die gesunkene und leidende Menschheit von Zeit zu Zeit sich immer wieder emporgearbeitet hat, und indem man ihr diese Wirkung zugesteht, ist sie ueber aller Philosophie erhaben und bedarf von ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack
... among many things. I saw, or rather felt, that he was wrong; and yet, as I have said already, I could not answer him; and, had he not been my guest, should have got thoroughly cross with him, as a pis-aller." ...
— Phaethon • Charles Kingsley
... ayant este informe a la fin du mois passe que deux particuliers avoient fait depuis peu un armement dans les Portes de Zelande, et qu'ils en essoient partis avec deux Vaisseaux armez en guerre pour aller dans les Isles d'Amerique faire la guerre a ses Sujets sous la Commission de Monsieur l'Electeur de Brandenbourg, Sa Majeste fit partir pour les dites Isles M. le Comte d'Estrees avec une escadre de quatorze vaisseaux pour les prendre ou couler a fonds. Et comme ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... demain a 1 heure, et amenez notre brave ami Forster. J'attends la perle fine des couriers. Vous l'immortalisez par ce certificat—la difficulte sera de trouver un maitre digne de lui. J'essayerai de tout mon coeur. La Reine devroit le prendre pour aller en Saxe Gotha, car je suis convaincu qu'il est assez intelligent pour pouvoir decouvrir ce Royaume. Gore House vous envoye un cargo d'amities des plus sinceres. Donnez de ma part 100,000 kind regards a Madame Dickens. Toujours votre affectionne, ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... sorry for five minutes, and then be glad again; his chance to-day may be ours to-morrow; and what does it signify? The next best thing to victory is honourable death; but it is a PIS-ALLER, and one would rather a foe had ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... bien chose assez deplorable De voir (helas) son haineux a sa table Rire, chanter et vivre opulement De ce qu'avions garde soigneusement? En nostre lict quand il veut il se couche, Faict nos maris aller a l'escarmouche Ou a la breche, enconstre notre foy, Pour resister a ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... Les traces de Leonard permettent d'entrevoir que le canal commencant soit aupres de Tours, soit aupres de Blois et passant par Romorantin, avec port d'embarquement a Villefranche, devait, au dela de Bourges, traverser l'Allier au-dessous des affluents de la Dore et de la Sioule, aller par Moulins jusqu' a Digoin; enfin, sur l'autre rive de la Loire, depasser les monts du Charolais et rejoindre la Saone aupres de Macon. It seems to me rash, however, to found so elaborate an hypothesis on these sketches of rivers. The slight stroke going to Lione is perhaps only an indication ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... Walker, qu'il jugeait etre le meilleur predicateur des environs, et qui l'etait en effet, et un brave homme. Il aurai rencontre une punaise de bois en chemin, qu'il aurait parie sur le temps qu'il lui faudrait pour aller ou elle voudrait aller, et si vous l'aviez pris au mot, it aurait suivi la punaise jusqu'au Mexique, sans se soucier d'aller si loin, ni du temps qu'il y perdrait. Une fois la femme du cure Walker fut tres malade pendant longtemps, il semblait qu'on ne la sauverait ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... pas encore le theatre des hostilites. Un homme de ma Nation y exercant paisiblement son commerce fut attaque chez lui, eut les portes de sa maison enfoncees par les soldats, fut temoin deux fois du pillage de sa boutique et force pour sauver ses jours d'aller sejourner dans le bois; ce malheureux n'a d'autre ressource maintenant que le travail de ses mains, ce fait contre lequel il eut ete de mon devoir de reclamer vient seulement de ...
— Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, - from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 • Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald
... religise Gegenstnde glaubten wir uns selbst aufgeklrt zu haben, und so war der heftige Streit franzsischer Philosophen mit dem Pfafftum uns ziemlich gleichgltig. Verbotene, zurn Feuer verdaminte Bcher, welche damals grossen Lrmen machten, bten keine Wirkung auf uns. Ich gedenke statt aller des Systme de la Nature, das wir aus Neugier in die Hand nahmen. Wir begriffen nicht, wie ein solches Buch gefhrlich sein knnte. Es kam uns so grau, so cimmerisch, so totenhaft vor, das wir Mhe hatten, seine Gegenwart auszuhalten, dass wir davor wie vor einern Gespenste schauderten. ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... On laisse aller la tragedie jusqu'a la scene ou Aristocles va pour placer le bandeau royal sur la tete de Timophane, sous pretexte que le peuple de Corinthe ...
— The French Revolution - A Short History • R. M. Johnston
... roi Edouard ordonne a Harold d'aller apprendre au duc Guillaume qu'il sera un jour ...
— Normandy Picturesque • Henry Blackburn
... others, suppose the Fosi to have been the same with the ancient Saxons: but, since they bordered on the Cherusci, the opinion of Leibnitz is nearer the truth, that they inhabited the banks of the river Fusa, which enters the Aller (Allera) at Cellae; and were a sort of appendage to the Cherusci, as Hildesheim now is to Brunswick. The name of Saxons is later than Tacitus, and was not known till the reign of Antoninus Pius, at which period they poured forth from the Cimbric Chersonesus, and afterwards, ...
— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus
... ne puis-je aller ou s'en vont les roses, Et n'attendre pas Ces regrets navrants que la fin des choses Nous ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... remained encamped in the neighbourhood of Hoya till the twenty-fourth of August, when, upon advice that the enemy had laid two bridges over the Aller in the night, and had passed that river with a large body of troops, he ordered his army to march, to secure the important post and passage of Rothenbourg, lest they should attempt to march round on his left. He encamped that night at Hausen, having ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... in the crime, were placed, to the number of four thousand five hundred, in the hands of the King; and, by his order, all had their heads cut off the same day, at a place called Werden, on the river Aller. After this deed of vengeance the King retired to Thionville to ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various
... they also forbade any knight to enter the lists with more than two servants, one mounted and the other on foot. The spur taken from the German the previous Saturday was now restored to him, and the trumpets sounded a charge, while the heralds and kings-at-arms cried Legeres aller! legeres aller! ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various
... the trumpets of the heralds had ceased, when the words "Laissez aller!" were pronounced, when the lances were set and the charge began, this momentary admiration was converted into a cry of derision, by the sudden restiveness of the Burgundian's horse. This animal, of the pure race of Flanders, of a bulk approaching to clumsiness, ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... travail, Toujours comme du sable craser des corps d'hommes, Toujours du sang jusqu'au poitrail; Quinze ans son dur sabot, dans sa course rapide, Broya les gnrations; Quinze ans elle passa, fumante, toute bride, Sur le ventre des nations; Enfin, lasse d'aller sans finir sa carrire, D'aller sans user son chemin, De ptrir l'univers, et comme une poussire De soulever le genre humain; Les jarrets puiss, haletante et sans force, Prs de flchir chaque pas, Elle demanda grce son cavalier corse; Mais, bourreau, ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... has "done the Comstock." He is tired of drifts, gallery, machinery, miners, and the "laissez-aller" of Nevada hospitality. The comfort of Colonel Joe's bachelor establishment places the stranger in ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... (says she) une fort honnete resolution d'aller a votre terre d'Avignon, voir des gens qui vous donnent de si bon coeur ce qu'ils donnoient ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes
... finding themselves barred or derailed from the main object of existence, have turned their energies to 'business' or 'money-making' or 'social advancement' or something equally futile, as the only poor substitute and pis aller open to them. ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... page de Jean Casimir, et avait pris a sa cour quelque teinture des belles-lettres. Une intrigue qu'il eut dans sa jeunesse avec la femme d'un gentilhomme Polonais ayant ete decouverte, le mari le fit lier tout nu sur un cheval farouche, et le laissa aller en cet etat. Le cheval, qui etait du pays de l'Ukraine, y retourna, et y porta Mazeppa, demi-mort de fatigue et de faim. Quelques paysans le secoururent: il resta longtems parmi eux, et se signala dans plusieurs courses contre ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... attention, and do exactly as I tell you, and all will be well. In the first place, we want to get to the Black Mountains; so you must repeat after me these words: 'Uller; aller; iller; oller!'" ...
— Twinkle and Chubbins - Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland • L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
... manifest caricatures, too, especially the famous Ballio of the Ps., whom even Lorenz properly describes as "der Einbegriff aller Schlechtigkeit," though he deprecates the part as "eine etwas zu grell and zu breit angefuhrte Schilderung."[168] "Ego scelestus," says Ballio himself.[169] He calmly and unctuously pleads guilty to every charge of "liar, thief, perjurer," etc., and can never be induced to ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke
... Napkin From Serviette. Gigot (of mutton) ... " Gigot. Reeforts Radishes " Raiforts. Grosserts Gooseberries " Groseilles. Gardyveen Case for holding wine " Garde-vin. Jupe Part of a woman's dress " Jupe. Bonnaille A parting glass with a " Bon aller. friend going on a journey Gysard Person in a fancy dress " Guise. Dambrod Draught-board " Dammes. Pantufles Slippers " Pantoufles. Haggis Hashed meat " Hachis. Gou Taste, smell " Gout. Hogue Tainted " Haut gout. ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... von Leiden giebt, so hat Israel die hoechste Staffel erstiegen; wen die Dauer der Schmerzen und die Geduld, mit welcher sie ertragen werden, adeln, so nehmen es die Juden mit den Hochgeborenen aller Laender auf; wenn eine Literatur reich genannt wird, die wenige klassische Trauerspiele besitzt, welcher Platz gebuehrt dann einer Tragodie die anderthalb Jahrtausende wahrt, gedichtet und dargestellt von den Helden selber?"—ZUNZ: ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... Varasenne, capitain des navires esquippez pour aller au voyage des Indes, lequel fist, nomma, ordonna, counstitua et estably son procureur general et certains messagiers eapeciaulx cest asscavoir Jerosme de Vurasenne son frere et heritier et Zanobis do Rousselay en plaidoirie et par eapeciaL de recevoir tout ce qui au dit constituant est, sera peult ...
— The Voyage of Verrazzano • Henry C. Murphy
... de le nommer, et il ne faudra pas m'en vouloir. C'est ... c'est le cochon. Ce n'est pas precisement flatteur pour vous; mais nous en sommes tous la, et si cela vous contrarie par trop, il faut aller vous plaindre au bon Dieu qui a voulu que les choses fussent arrangees ainsi: seulement le cochon, qui ne pense qu'a manger, a l'estomac bien plus vaste que nous et c'est toujours une consolation."—(Histoire d'une Bouchee ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... afterwards Guthorn, accompanied by thirty of his noblest warriors, entered Alfred's camp, which was pitched at Aller, a place not far from Athelney. An altar was erected and a solemn service performed, and Guthorn and his companions were all baptized, Alfred himself becoming sponsor for Guthorn, whose name was changed to Athelstan. The Danes remained for ...
— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty
... cette sommite, qui n'avoit point de nom, celui de Cime des Fours, a cause du passage qu'elle domine. De grandes plaques de neige couvroient en divers endroits la route que j'avois a faire pour y aller; le roc se montroit cependant assez pour que l'on ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... no reference to Germany, the French 'argot,' and we 'Thieves' Language,' finds in this language the most decisive evidence of this fact (Kleine Schrift. vol. iv. p. 165): Der nothwendige Zusammenhang aller Sprache mit Ueberlieferung zeigt sich auch hier; kaum ein Wort dieser Gaunermundart scheint leer erfunden, und Menschen eines Gelichters, das sich sonst kein Gewissen aus Luegen macht, beschaemen manchen Sprachphilosophen, der von Erdichtung ...
— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench
... melancholy fact, that my history must here take leave of the fair Cecilia, who, like many a daughter of Eve, after the departure of Edward, and the dissipation of certain idle visions which she had adopted, quietly contented herself with a PIS-ALLER, and gave her hand, at the distance of six months, to the aforesaid Jonas, son of the Baronet's steward, and heir (no unfertile prospect) to a steward's fortune; besides the snug probability of succeeding to his father's office. ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... par malheur retranches, Que vous pouviez m'epargner de peches! Quand un valet me dit, tremblant et have, Nous n'avons plus de buches dans la cave Que pour aller jusqu'a demain matin, Je peste alors sur mon chien de destin, Sur le grand froid, sur le bois de la greve, Qu'on vend si cher, et qui si-tot s'acheve. Je jure alors, et meme je medis De l'action de mon ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton
... was gay and lively, as such entertainments with such participators usually are. If nothing in the world is more heavy than your formal banquet,—nothing, on the other hand, is more agreeable than those well-chosen laissez aller feasts at which the guests are as happily selected as the wines; where there is no form, no reserve, no effort; and people having met to sit still for a few hours are willing to be as pleasant to each other as if they were never ...
— Godolphin, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... toujours quelqu'un qu'il est necessaire de radouber par des accidents arrives dans la traversee. Si le Roy faisoit cesser ici la construction de ses vaisseaux, tous les ouvriers qui y sont employes seroient forces d'aller ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... Heraut maint jour Si com il dut a grant enor. A maint riche torneiement Le fist aller mult noblement. Chevals e armes li dona Et en Bretaigne le mena Ne sai de veir treiz faiz ou quatre Quant as ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... that I only look upon games as a pis-aller. I would always rather take a walk than play golf, and read a book than play bridge. Bridge, indeed, I should regard as only one degree better than absolutely vacuous conversation, which is certainly the ...
— From a College Window • Arthur Christopher Benson
... were then forced to retire towards Heilsberg, where they halted, and maintained their position, during a whole day, in the face of an enemy prodigiously superior in numbers. The carnage on both sides was fearful; and Bennigsen, continuing his retreat, placed the river Aller ...
— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart
... beaucoup d'inclination et d'empressement pour aller a l'eglise lesjours de Fetes et Solemnites; mais pour ouir la Messe les jours de preceptes, pour se confesser et communier lorsque la Sainte Eglise l'ordonne, il faut employer le fouet, et les traiter comme des enfans a l'ecole." ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 • Emma Helen Blair
... les hommes sont heureux d'aller a la guerre, d'exposer leur vie, de se livrer a l'enthousiasme de l'honneur et du danger! Mais il n'y a rien au-dehors qui soulage les femmes."—Corinne, ou L'Italie, Madame de Stael, liv., xviii. chap. v. ed. 1835, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... Cazales sent in his resignation, in order to go and fight (aller combattre). The most prominent members of the right side, amongst whom were Maury, Montlozier, the abbe Montesquieu, the abbe de Pradt, Virieu, &c. &c., to the number of two hundred and ninety, ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... I have lived in Paris, I have never yet been to the Gobelins!' says Mrs. Waldoborough. 'Mademoiselle' (that was Arachne) 'm'accuse toujours d'avoir tort, et me dit que je dois y aller, n'est ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... an old proverb, "I will not beat the bush that another may have the birds." To "go about the bush" would seem to have been used originally of a hesitating hound. The two expressions have coalesced to express the idea for which French says "y aller par quatre chemins." Crestfallen and white feather belong to the old sport of cock-fighting. Jeopardy is Old Fr. jeu parti, a divided game, hence an equal encounter. To run full tilt is ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... sous le soleil tomber bien d'autres choses Que les feuilles des bois, et l'ecume des eaux, Bien d'autres s'en aller que le parfum des roses Et le chant ...
— The Lowest Rung - Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy • Mary Cholmondeley
... t'obeissais, tu m' etais soumise; O grenier dore! te lacer! te voir Aller et venir des l'aube en chemise, Mirant ton jeune ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... left the maternal purgatory, she rose at once into the conjugal paradise prepared for her by Felix, rue du Rocher, in a house where all things were redolent of aristocracy, but where the varnish of society did not impede the ease and "laisser-aller" which young and loving hearts desire so much. From the start, Marie-Angelique tasted all the sweets of material life to the very utmost. For two years her husband made himself, as it were, her purveyor. He explained to her, by degrees, and with great ...
— A Daughter of Eve • Honore de Balzac
... solve the problem the latter appealed to the shogun, Yoshimasa, who authorized the death of Masanaga. Tokuhon, in his capacity of kwanryo, naturally had much weight with the shogun, but Yoshimasa's conduct on that occasion must be attributed mainly to a laisser-aller mood which he had then developed, and which impelled him to follow the example set by the Imperial Court in earlier times by leaving the military families in the provinces to fight their own battles. Masanaga sought succour ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi
... of the journey ahead to his true fatherland, repeating the words of the hymn: "Ich hab' vor mir ein' schwere Reis' Zu dir in's Himmels Paradeis, Das ist mein rechtes Vaterland, Darauf du hast dein Blut gewandt." Shortly before his death he prayed the stanza: "Mach' End', o Herr, mach' Ende An aller unsrer Not, Staerk' unsre Fuess' und Haende Und lass bis in den Tod Uns allzeit deiner Pflege Und Treu' empfohlen sein, So gehen unsre Wege Gewiss zum Himmel ein." Muhlenberg's funeral was attended by eight Lutheran pastors, the Reformed minister Schlatter, and a great concourse of ...
— American Lutheranism - Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod • Friedrich Bente
... qu'ils n'en peuuent sortir sans vn merveilleux regret, de maniere qu'il leur tarde infiniment qu'ils n'y reuiennent.—Marie de la Ralde, aagee de vingt huict ans, tres belle femme, depose qu'elle auoit vn singulier plaisir d'aller au sabbat, si bien que quand on la venoit semondre d'y aller elle y alloit comme a nopces: non pas tant pour la liberte & licence qu'on a de s'accointer ensemble (ce que par modestie elle dict n'auoir iamais faict ny veu faire) mais parce que ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... however, could hardly have taken anything amiss from Louis. After having for so many years withheld all the lassez-aller of paternal affection, when the right chord had once been touched, his fondness for his grown-up son had the fresh exulting pride, and almost blindness that would ordinarily have been lavished on his infancy. Lord Ormersfield's sentiments were few and slowly adopted, ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... die Meister aller Welt In allen ernsten Dingen, * * * * * Was Man als fremd euch hoechlichst preist Um eurer Einfalt Willen, Ist deutschen Ursprungs allermeist, Und ...
— The European Anarchy • G. Lowes Dickinson
... ordered him a new pair of trousers." Meanwhile no other convict was to be seen—"Eh bien," said the Resident, "ou sont vos prisonniers?" "Monsieur le Resident," replied the gaoler, saluting with soldierly formality, "comme c'est jour de fete, je les ai laisse aller a la chasse." They were all upon the mountains hunting goats! Presently we came to the quarters of the women, likewise deserted—"Ou sont vos bonnes femmes?" asked the Resident; and the gaoler cheerfully responded: "Je crois, Monsieur le Resident, qu'elles ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... with an assault by the allies. Field after field was red with blood as the hosts of France drove their vanquished foes before them. On the 10th of June, Alexander, with Frederic William riding by his side, had concentrated ninety thousand men upon the plains of Friedland, on the banks of the Aller. Here the Russians were compelled to make a final stand and await a decisive conflict. As Napoleon rode upon a height and surveyed his foes, caught in an elbow of the river, he said energetically, "We have not a moment to lose. One does not twice catch an enemy in such a trap." ...
— The Empire of Russia • John S. C. Abbott
... 'laissez aller'—knights and dames I sing, Such as the times may furnish. 'T is a flight Which seems at first to need no lofty wing, Plumed by Longinus or the Stagyrite: The difficultly lies in colouring (Keeping the due proportions still in sight) With nature ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... que Concord est une petite ville situee sur la Merrimac, de 14,000 a 15,000 habitants, mais ce que je puis vous dire c'est qu'il faudrait aller bien loin pour trouver une ville plus intelligente et plus eclairee, je dirais meme plus patriarcale. Tout le monde s'y connait et s'estime l'un l'autre. Il y a dans cette ville une emulation pour le bien et pour l'instruction qui ne ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 • Various
... plus tot, si je n'avais ete tres-afflige de ce que le roi ne veut pas me permettre d'aller en campagne. Je le lui ai demande quatre fois, et lui ai rappele la promesse qu'il m'en avait faite; mais point de nouvelle; il m'a dit qu'il avait des raisons tres-cachees qui l'en empechaient. Je le crois, car je suis persuade qu'il ne ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... with the theory of universal borrowing from one center advocated by Stucken (Astralmythen), Winckler (Himmels- und Weltensbild der Babylonier als Grundlage der Weltanschauung und Mythologle aller Voelker), Jeremias (Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients), Jensen (Das Gilgamesch Epos), ...
— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy
... is to the conclusion of Le Monde comme il va:—'Il resolut ... de laisser aller le monde comme il va; car, dit il, si tout riest pas bien, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... and French and piano-playing for a man of that sort? What does a shopkeeper want of a piano? Pickle-jars and butter-tubs are useful to him, but not my French! I am curious as to how he would speak to me: Moi aller, vous joli ...
— Armenian Literature • Anonymous
... manque a votre gloire, pas meme une apparence d'oubli. Des triomphes des autres vous n'avez recueilli que les rayons extremes: ceux qui ont franchi la cime des arcs de triomphe pour aller au loin, coups egares de la grande ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... que je fis, fut de laisser ma mule aller a discretion, c'est-a-dire au petit pas. Je lui mis la bride sur le cou, et, tirant mes ducats de ma poche, je commencai a les compter et recompter dans mon chapeau. Je n'etois pas maitre de ma joie; je n'avois jamais vu tant d'argent; ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... paces," the two champions took up a position opposite each other, with difficulty, as it seemed, reining in their pawing chargers, and awaiting the signal of attack to be given by Sir John Finett, the judge of the tournament. This was not long delayed, and the "laissez aller" being pronounced, the preux chevaliers started forward with so much fury, and so little discretion, that meeting half-way with a tremendous shock, and butting against each other like two rams, both were thrown violently backwards, exhibiting, ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Gruyere," so runs the chronicle, "barred the gates of the city to prevent their departure, by force the gates were burst, and the poor maidens wept as they listened to the standard-bearers cry, a hundred times repeated, "En Avant la Grue, S'agit d'aller, reviendra qui pourra." How wide is the ocean we must cross," they asked as they galloped down the valleys, "as wide as the lake we must pass when we go to pray to our Lady ...
— The Counts of Gruyere • Mrs. Reginald de Koven
... times when laissez-aller carries all before it, and Hyde was in just such a mood. "I'll run the chance," he said. "I'll risk it. I'll let things take their course." Then he began to dress, and as doubt of any kind is best ended by action, he gathered confidence ...
— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr
... d'entendre reciter: Ecoutez tous avec un grand zele, Avec ferveur et piete, Le voeu que nous avons fait, D'aller au grand Saint Jacques; Grace a Dieu nous l'avons accompli, ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... soupe et s'il se coucha sans manger comme font quelques faiseurs de romans qui reglent toutes les heures du jour de leurs heros, les font se lever de bon matin, confer leur histoire jusqu'a l'heure du diner, reprendre leur histoire ou s'enfoncer dans un bois pour y aller parler tout seuls, si ce n'est quand ils out quelque chose a dire aux arbres et aux rochers" ("Roman comique," ...
— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand
... manner that would satisfy his taste. It marked a fundamental difference between him, at bottom a New-Englander, and his friends of Latin blood, he thought, that he had not the limberness, the laisser-aller, the lack of self-consciousness and stupid shame, which enables them so good-humoredly to take the chance of appearing fools. And so before this romance he was only a reader; they ...
— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall
... bei aller Ritterschaft! Durch meine, nicht durch Feuers Kraft." 10 Der Juengling spricht's, ihn Kraft durchdringt, Das Schwert er hoch in ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... how yer talkin'," said Mammy, "givin' me all dat sass. You're de sassies' chile marster's got. Nobody can't nuver larn yer no manners, aller er sassin ole pussons. Jes keep on, an' yer'll see wat'll happen ter yer; yer'll wake up some er deze mornins, an' yer won't have no hyar on yer head. I knowed er little gal onct wat sassed her mudder, ...
— Diddie, Dumps & Tot - or, Plantation child-life • Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle
... few considerate persons would have entrusted the board and lodging of a horse or a dog; they formed the worthy cornerstone of a structure, which, for absurdity and a magnificent high-minded LAISSEZ-ALLER neglect, has rarely been ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... exemple Que la Ninon donne a tous les mondains, En se logeant avecque les nonais, Combien de pleurs la pauvre jouvencelle A repandus quand sa mere, sans elle, Cierges brulants et portant ecussons, Pretres chantant leurs funebres chanson, Voulut aller de linge enveloppee Servir aux ...
— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.
... ist in aller Welt Dir an Schoenheit gleichgestellt! Reizumflossen, wunderhold, Perl' der Schoepfung, Herzensgold! Tag's Gedanken, Traum der Nacht, Schweben um Dich, ...
— The 'Mind the Paint' Girl - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur Pinero
... voulut qu'elle fust congneue a sa gloire; et fiet que, au bout de quelque temps, un des navires de ceste armee passant devant ceste isle, les gens qui estoient dedans adviserent, quelque fumee qui leur feit souvenir de ceulx qui y avoient este laissez, et delibererent d'aller veoir ce que Dieu en avoit faict. La pauvre femme, voiant approcher el navire, se tira au bort de la mer, auquel lieu la trouverent a leur arrivee. Et, apres en avoir rendu louange a Dieu, les mena en sa pauvre maisonnette, et leur monstra de quoy elle vivoit durant sa ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
