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French & English : $b A comparison
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
Dicey, Professor, his explanation of the sovereignty of parliament
and people in England, 107
Dickens, a great reputation in France as an inventor, 408
Dissenters, dislike to being treated as inferiors, 132.
See Nonconformist.
Dissimulation encouraged in France by clerical teachers, 41
Dowries, in France, 359;
in England, 360
Drouet, Juliette, her relations with Victor Hugo, 211
Du Lac, Father, his views respecting Her Majesty the Queen, 200
Duelling in France and England, 277;
an appeal to divine justice, _ib._;
its survival in France, 278;
English sentiment expressed in Thackeray’s _Newcomes_, 279;
French sentiment, _ib._;
extinguished in England by ridicule, 279;
a modern French duel, 280;
its causes, _ib._;
difficulty in abolishing the custom, 281
Duruy’s Ministry, established the _Enseignement Spécial_ in the
French Schools, 29
Duty. See Patriotic Duty.
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Edinburgh, its superiority as an art-centre to Lyons or
Marseilles, 36;
the centre of the literature and art of the Scottish
Lowlanders, 425
Education, artistic, French and English, 31;
seriousness of the French in teaching, _ib._;
generosity of French artists towards all art students, _ib._;
extension of art teaching in England, 32;
spread of sound elementary drawing amongst the French people, _ib._;
promoted by the desire for commercial success, _ib._;
art schools in Lancashire, a reaction against the ugliness of the
industrial age, 33;
comparative torpor of artistic life in French country towns, 34;
leadership of art in France maintained by Paris, 35;
academical teaching in England, 35;
superiority of Edinburgh as an art-centre to Lyons or Marseilles, 36;
difficult for the English to understand art, 37;
success of Ruskin’s moral criticism, _ib._;
English love of nature an impediment, 38;
feebler moral sense of Parisians favourable to their acceptance of
art, _ib._;
contrast of English and Parisian ideals, _ib._
Education of feelings of French and English, 47;
cultivated in France, repressed in England, _ib._;
love of mothers by Frenchmen and Englishmen compared, _ib._;
sentiment of friendship, 48;
coolness of the family affections in England, 49;
their culture in France, 50;
causes of the difference, _ib._;
healthy influence of the Queen in the expression of the feelings, 51;
English sympathy with the lower animals ridiculed in France, 52;
hardness of the scientific spirit, _ib._;
cruelties for the sake of sport or cookery, 53;
sentiment of reverence dying out in France, 54;
decaying in England except towards the Bible and the Throne, 55;
loss of veneration and faith, _ib._
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