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Re: $$ FRANCE IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD FROM ANGLO IMPERIALISM $$
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Kevin Rodgers |
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Re: $$ FRANCE IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD FROM ANGLO IMPERIALISM $$ |
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Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:37:12 -0600 |
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John Smith wrote:
> "But of all the people I ever saw, Heaven defend me from the French!
> With their damned prate and civilities, and doing the honour of their
> nation to strangers (as they are pleased to call it), but indeed setting
> forth their own vanity; they are so troublesome, that I had infinitely
> rather pass my life with the Hottentots than set my foot in Paris again.
> They (the Hottentots) are a nasty people, but their nastiness is mostly
> without; wheras, in France, it is all within, and makes them stink much
> more to my reason than that of Hottentots does to my nose."
>
> Henry Fielding
> "Tom Jones"
Fiction.
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Kevin Rodgers