AMUSANTES ET INTÉRESSANTES. AMUSING AND INTERESTING TRUTHS: UPWARDS OF A THOUSAND APOTHEGMS, APHORISMS, OPINIONS, SENTIMENTS, IDEAS, THOUGHTS, SAYINGS, &c. EXTRACTS CHIEFLY FROM WORKS OF FRENCH WRITERS OF ACKNOWLEDGED CELEBRITY, OF THE PRESENT AND TWO PRECEDING CENTURIES. BY H. W. JAMES, TEACHER OF THE FRENCH AND LATIN LANGUAGES. "La lecture des Pensées est comme un voyage dans les montagnes où tout change d'aspect à chaque pas." The reading of thoughts is like a journey in the mountains, where, at each step, every thing changes its appearance. LONDON: SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, AND THOMAS HURST; THOMAS RICHARDSON, DERBY; R. M. TIMS, DUBLIN; W. WHYTE AND CO., AND WILLIAM OLIPHANT, EDINBURGH; A. AND W. GALIGNANI, RUE VIVIENNE, NO. 18, A PARIS. 1833. |