Select Comedies of Mr. de Molière, Volume 2

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John Watts, 1732
 

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Page 58 - Jourdain. Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien; et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela.
Page 58 - Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien, et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela. Je voudrais donc lui mettre dans un billet...
Page 81 - MR. JORDAN. Hold your prate, I tell you you are ignorant creatures, both of you, and don't know the advantage of all this. MRS. JORDAN. You ought much rather to think of marrying your daughter, who is of age to be provided for. MR. JORDAN. I shall think of marrying my daughter, when a suitable match presents itself; but I shall think too of learning the belles sciences.
Page 81 - For these vapours that I speak to you of, passing from the left side, where the liver is, to the right side, where the heart is, finds that the lungs, which we call in Latin, Armyan, having communication with the brain, which in Greek we name, Nasmus, by means of the hollow vein, which in Hebrew we call, Cubile, meets in its way the said vapours, which fill the ventricles of the omoplate: and because the said vapours comprehend this reasoning well, I pray you; and because the said vapours have a...
Page 111 - ... physician ! How deeply am I obliged to you, Sir, for this marvellous cure ! And what can I do for you after such a service ? SGAN.
Page 21 - When a man has been guilty of a defect in his conduct — be it in the affairs of his family, or in the government of the state, or in the command of an army — don't we always say, such a one has made a false step in such an affair?
Page 145 - See there the sentiments of a little soul, to desire always to continue in a mean condition. Let me have no more replies; my daughter shall be a marchioness in spite of the world; and if you put me in a passion, I'll make her a duchess. SCENE XIII Mrs.

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