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... French language . - The School Board Chronicle , April 1st , 1882 . 99 For Englishmen generally the study of French is nowadays a necessity . But it may be said that few books pretending to aid in teaching that language are of much ...
... French language . - The School Board Chronicle , April 1st , 1882 . 99 For Englishmen generally the study of French is nowadays a necessity . But it may be said that few books pretending to aid in teaching that language are of much ...
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... French imports . The United States in 1938 supplied 11 percent of French imports . On balance , France had a substantial trade deficit , which was usually covered without difficulty by corresponding earnings from shipping services ...
... French imports . The United States in 1938 supplied 11 percent of French imports . On balance , France had a substantial trade deficit , which was usually covered without difficulty by corresponding earnings from shipping services ...
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... French with a capital F than in preparing you for the particular challenges of this test. Rather than waste your ... French? You can choose to take one of the two French Subject Tests: French or French with Listening. While the SAT ...
... French with a capital F than in preparing you for the particular challenges of this test. Rather than waste your ... French? You can choose to take one of the two French Subject Tests: French or French with Listening. While the SAT ...
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... French-language Community and the Permanent Council of the French-language Community. Besides these decision-making bodies, there are deliberating authorities in the shape of specific ministerial conferences: CONFEMEN (Conférence des ...
... French-language Community and the Permanent Council of the French-language Community. Besides these decision-making bodies, there are deliberating authorities in the shape of specific ministerial conferences: CONFEMEN (Conférence des ...
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... French Republic) whereas “Francophone” has become the shorthand for literature written in the French language by authors who are not from the Hexagon. Although the term is used for non-Western literatures from the overseas territories ...
... French Republic) whereas “Francophone” has become the shorthand for literature written in the French language by authors who are not from the Hexagon. Although the term is used for non-Western literatures from the overseas territories ...
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Page 545 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent ; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory ! NOTE ON PROMETHEUS UNBOUND, BY MRS.
Page 407 - Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar, and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes Impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal Mines or saleable Underwoods in the said Parish...
Page 147 - Act, to any person unknown to the seller, unless introduced by some person known to the seller ; and on every sale of...
Page 371 - ... the transformation of human life, from a conflict of classes struggling for opposite interests, to a friendly rivalry in the pursuit of a good common to all ; the elevation of the dignity of labour, a new sense of security and independence in the labouring class, and the conversion of each human being's daily occupation into a school of the social sympathies and the practical intelligence.
Page 561 - ... contractions of the whole thickness of its substance pass slowly and gradually from point to point, and give rise to the appearance of progressive waves, just as the bending of successive stalks of corn by a breeze produces the apparent billows of a cornfield.
Page 129 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament...
Page 427 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Page 443 - Church and Education. The Roman Catholic faith is the State religion ; but all other forms of worship are tolerated. The Portuguese Church is under the special jurisdiction of a ' Patriarch,' with extensive powers, two archbishops, and fourteen bishops. The Patriarch of Lisbon is always a cardinal, and, to some extent, independent of the Holy See of Rome. Under the Patriarch are five continental and five colonial bishops; under the Archbishop of Braga, who has the title of Primate, are six ; and...
Page 129 - All which they most humbly pray of your most excellent majesty as their rights and liberties, according to the laws and statutes of this realm ; and that your majesty would also vouchsafe to declare, that the awards, doings, and proceedings, to the prejudice of your people in any of the...
Page 561 - Each stinging-needle tapers from a broad base to a slender summit, which, though rounded at the end, is of such microscopic fineness that it readily penetrates, and breaks off in, the skin. The whole hair consists of a very delicate outer case of wood, closely applied to the inner surface of which is a layer of semi-fluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness.