 Such a man as I ! A man of my rank and figure !" and may look down upon a trader with sovereign contempt; whilst the trader on the other side, by thus often hearing his profession treated so disdainfully, is fool enough to blush at it. However, I need...  Voltairiana. Selected and tr. by M.J. Young - Page 242by François Marie Arouet de [prose] Voltaire - 1805Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 860 lehte
...draws a sarcastic parallel between a "seigneur, powdered in the life of the mode, who knows exactly what o'clock the king rises and goes to bed, and who...at the same time that he is acting the slave in the antechamber of a prime minister," and a merchant who enriches his country, despatches orders from his... | |
 | Voltaire - 1894 - 206 lehte
...the midst of the most remote provinces with money in his purse, and a name terminating in ac or ille, may strut about, and cry, "Such a man as I ! A man...airs of grandeur and state, at the same time that lie is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a prime minister ; or a merchant, who enriches his country.... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1908 - 326 lehte
...draws a sarcastic parallel between a " seigneur, powdered, in the tip of the mode, who knows exactly what o'clock the King rises and goes to bed, and who...at the same time that he is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a Prime Minister," and a merchant who enriches his country, despatches orders from... | |
 | 1910 - 470 lehte
...the midst of the most remote provinces with money in his purse, and a name terminating in ac or ille, may strut about, and cry, " Such a man as I ! A man...at the same time that he is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a prime minister; or a merchant, who enriches his country, despatches orders from his... | |
 | 1910 - 470 lehte
...the midst of the most remote provinces with money in his purse, and a name terminating in ac or ille, may strut about, and cry, " Such a man as I! A man...at the same time that he is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a prime minister; or a merchant, who enriches his country, despatches orders from his... | |
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - 1910 - 436 lehte
...the midst of the most remote provinces with money in his purse, and a name terminating in ac or tile, may strut about, and cry, "Such a man as I! A man...at the same time that he is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a prime minister; or a merchant, who enriches his country, despatches orders from his... | |
 | René Descartes - 1910 - 446 lehte
...money in his purse, and a name terminating in ac or ille, may strut about, and cry, " Such a man as 1 ! A man of my rank and figure !" and may look down upon...at the same time that he is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a prime minister; or a merchant, who enriches his country, despatches orders from his... | |
 | Albert Boardman Kerr - 1927 - 394 lehte
...that, in still another century, a great French author writes: "However, I need not say which is more useful to a nation: a lord, powdered in the tip of...at the same time that he is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a prime minister; or a merchant, who enriches his country, despatches orders from his... | |
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