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The French and the English (Classic Reprint)

Laurence Jerrold

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Description:Excerpt from The French and the English Men know themselves little, peoples know themselves less. Probably of all peoples the French is the least ignorant of itself, the English the most. The actor is only human when he fancies himself most in the part in which he had to be least himself. A man often plumes himself precisely on being what he is not; a sensitive child will often hate himself for what he is. Peoples are like the man and the child; perhaps the English is the most manlike in its mistaken vanities and the most childlike in its shy shrinkings, and the French at the opposite pole the least selfquestioning and the most reasonably conceited, though even the French is not infallible about itself. National consciousness is fitful and broken like the flashes of consciousness in instinctive animal life. Peoples seem seldom to use the flashes to good purpose; they may feel, they rarely reason, rightly about themselves. A man or a faction having wrested a hearing becomes by right or might a people's mouthpiece; this is a flash of national consciousness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The French and the English (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The French and the English (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The French and the English Men know themselves little, peoples know themselves less. Probably of all peoples the French is the least ignorant of itself, the English the most. The actor is only human when he fancies himself most in the part in which he had to be least himself. A man often plumes himself precisely on being what he is not; a sensitive child will often hate himself for what he is. Peoples are like the man and the child; perhaps the English is the most manlike in its mistaken vanities and the most childlike in its shy shrinkings, and the French at the opposite pole the least selfquestioning and the most reasonably conceited, though even the French is not infallible about itself. National consciousness is fitful and broken like the flashes of consciousness in instinctive animal life. Peoples seem seldom to use the flashes to good purpose; they may feel, they rarely reason, rightly about themselves. A man or a faction having wrested a hearing becomes by right or might a people's mouthpiece; this is a flash of national consciousness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The French and the English (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The French and the English (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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