 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...his friends; there are too many interests incorporated against the royal hypocrite. " On peut 6tre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que " tous les autres." Nor can a sovereign attach men by lucrative gratifications or high sounding titles. That he should... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 406 pages
...expected day, that was to crown all her hopes, at length arrived. VOL. IllCHAPTER XVI. " On peut £tre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." ROCHEFPUCAULT. THE following paragraph*, extracted from the newspapers of the day, will, doubtless,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1822 - 252 pages
...knew the world at least as well as either Piedro, or his father. — * The duke de Rochefoucault — " On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." Piedro's father, amongst others, hati reason to complain ; he saw his old tomers fall off from him,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 330 pages
...The day, the long-expected day, that was to crown all her hopes, at length arrived. CHAPTER XVI. " On peut, etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." ROCHEFOUCAULT. THE following paragraph *, extracted from the newspapers of the day, will, doubtless,... | |
 | Georgina Alicia L - 1832 - 324 pages
...in his belt, and disappeared amidst the depths of the forest. CHAPTER II. " On peat quelquefois Stre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. ON arriving at the chateau, Estelle was not slow in perceiving that some extraordinary... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1838 - 340 pages
...Douce had gulled him like a child ! Well said the shrewd small philosopher of France,—" On peut-6tre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." To Legard, whom Maltravers had again encountered at Dovor, the latter related the downfall of Evelyn's... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 648 pages
...The day, the long-expected day, that was to crown all her hopes, nt length arrived. CHAPTER XVI. " On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." — RGCHEFG UCAULT. The following paragraph l extracted from the newspapers of the day, will, doubtless,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 396 pages
...been said even by the Devil, it ' would nevertheless be false. I have often indeed ' heard the saying, On peut etre plus FIN qu'un autre,, ' mais pas plus FIN que tous les autres. But observe ' that "fin" means cunning, not wise. The difference ' between this assertion and the one... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 362 pages
...said even by the Devil, it would nevertheless be false. I have often indeed heard the saying, On peat etre plus FIN qu'un autre, mais pas plus FIN que tous les autres. But observe that " fin " means cunning, not wise. The difference between this assertion and the one... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1857 - 462 pages
...day, the long-expected day, that was to crown all her hopes, at length arrived. CHAPTER XVI. " On pent etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres." — ROCHEFO UCAULT. The following paragraph a extracted from the newspapers of the day, will, doubtless,... | |
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On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres. 
