| Arthur Young - 1892 - 452 стор.
...Prussians foiled his manoeuvres at Grandpre; but a few days later the victory of Valmy saved the Republic. have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was...so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour, — but she said she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman who has not travelled, cannot imagine... | |
| Mrs. Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner - 1893 - 312 стор.
...did not know who nor how, but God send us better, " car les tallies et les droits nous e'crasent." This woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was 50 bent and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour, but she said she was only twenty-eight.' s... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 300 стор.
...something was to be done for the poor, hoping it true, car leg failles et les droits nous ^crasent. "This woman, at no great distance, might have been...or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so harrowed and hardened by labour, but she said she was only twenty-eight." From a writer so possessed,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 618 стор.
...she did not know who nor how, but God send us better, car les tailles & les droits nous Scrasent. — This woman, at no great distance, might have been...she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman who has not traveled, cannot imagine the figure made by infinitely the greater part of the countrywomen in France:... | |
| 1897 - 592 стор.
...shilling to pay another, besides very heavy tailles [poll tax] and other taxes. She had seven children. . This woman at no great distance might have been taken...by labor, but she said she was only twenty-eight." People in such a state were not far from insurrection. If the crops of one season failed, they were... | |
| Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1897 - 692 стор.
...shilling to pay another, besides very heavy tailles [poll tax] and other taxes. She had seven children. . This woman at no great distance might have been taken...furrowed and hardened by labor, but she said she was only twenty -eight. ' ' People in such a state were not far from insurrection. If the crops'of one season... | |
| 1903 - 852 стор.
...of her sort, to complain of hard times, and said that France was indeed a most distressful country. This woman at no great distance might have been taken for sixty or seventy, so bent was her figure, her face so furrowed and roughened by labor in the fields. "Demanding her reasons,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 668 стор.
...she did not know who nor how, but God send us better, car Ies tailles & Ies droits nous /crasent.— This woman, at no great distance, might have been...so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labor,—-but she said she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman who has not traveled, cannot imagine... | |
| William George Langworthy Taylor - 1904 - 432 стор.
...the hardships of their life, of oppressive feudal dues and heavy taxes crushing them down, he says: "This woman at no great distance might have been taken...furrowed and hardened by labor, but she said she was only twenty-eight."3 There was a marked contrast between country and city. "What a miracle," exclaims Young,... | |
| Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - 1904 - 336 стор.
...of her sort, to complain of hard times, and said that France was indeed a most distressful country. This woman at no great distance might have been taken for sixty or seventy, so bent was her figure, her face so furrowed and roughened by labour in the fields. " Demanding her... | |
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