La récréation: revue pour tous1904 |
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Page 197 - Vous vous fiez à l'ordre actuel de la société, sans songer que cet ordre est sujet à des révolutions inévitables , et qu'il vous est impossible de prévoir ni de prévenir celle qui peut regarder vos enfants. Le grand devient petit , le riche devient pauvre , le monarque devient sujet : les coups du sort sont-ils si rares que vous puissiez compter d'en être exempt? Nous approchons de l'état de crise et du siècle des révolutions * . Qui peut vous répondre de ce que vous deviendrez alors?
Page 4 - The west wind always brings wet weather, The east wind wet and cold together, The south wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. " If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in grey, The next will be a rainy day.
Page 14 - ... never moved a muscle of his face. When he drew out the dirk, he leaned forward and stretched out his neck ; an expression of pain for the first time crossed his face, but he uttered no sound. At that moment the kaishaku, .who, still crouching by his side, had been keenly watching his every movement, sprang to his feet, poised his sword for a second in the air ; there was a flash, a heavy, ugly thud, a crashing fall ; with one blow the head had been severed from the body.
Page 55 - Might just as well ask the cat to find anything as expect you people to find it." And, when half an hour had been spent in tying up his finger and a new glass had been got, and the tools, and the ladder, and the chair, and the candle had been brought, he would have another go, the whole family, including the girl and the charwoman, standing round in a semicircle, ready to help. Two people would have to hold the chair and a third...
Page 72 - Quoth the foreman who sat on the corse ; ' A lawyer ? Alas ! ' said another, ' Undoubtedly died of remorse ! ' A third said, ' He knew the deceased, An attorney well versed in the laws, And as to the cause of his death, 'Twas no doubt from the want of a cause.
Page 253 - Ces dômes où les nids s'étaient multipliés; Et les brutes des bois sortant de leurs repaires , Et les oiseaux fuyant les cimes séculaires, Contemplaient la ruine avec un œil d'horreur, Ne comprenaient pas l'œuvre, et maudissaient du cœur . Cette race stupide acharnée à sa perte , Qui détruit jusqu'au ciel l'ombre qui l'a couverte. Or, pendant qu'en leur nuit les brutes des forêts Avaient pitié de l'homme et séchaient de regrets, L'homme , continuant son ravage sublime , Avait jeté...
Page 14 - I, and I alone, unwarrantably gave the order to fire on the foreigners at Kobe, and again as they tried to escape. For this crime I disembowel myself, and I beg you who are present to do me the honour of witnessing the act.
Page 198 - Hors de la société, l'homme isolé, ne devant rien à personne, a droit de vivre comme il lui plaît; mais dans la société, où il vit nécessairement aux dépens des autres, il leur doit en travail le prix de son entretien; cela est sans exception. Travailler est donc un devoir indispensable à l'homme social. Riche ou pauvre, puissant ou faible, tout citoyen oisif est un fripon.
Page 72 - Here's an opening at last!" And in less than a jiffy was in it! Next morning twelve citizens came ('Twas the coroner bade them attend), To the end that it might be determined How the man had determined his end! "The man was a lawyer, I hear," Quoth the foreman who sat on the corse.
Page 55 - ... standing round in a semicircle, ready to help. Two people would have to hold the chair and a third would help him up on it and hold him there, and a fourth would hand him a nail, and a fifth would pass him up the hammer, and he would take hold of the nail and drop it. "There!" he would say, in an injured tone, "now the nail's gone.