Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 334
s—but it is to reach for-tune at the speed of the steam-engine. He tries to analyze science,—to decomposeglory, convinced that every kind of smoke may create a mechanical power, and beturned to account. He amalgamates good and evil, truth and falsehood, the sacredand the profane, the just and the… … 242 THE SPECULATOR. his profits by a tax on popular credulity : he only regards a ministerial change inconnexion with its influence on the money-naarket, and he can tell at once whatdifference every crisis will make in his yearly income. He it is who has reducedtrade to a mere contest of…
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