French & English : $b A comparisonHamerton, Philip Gilbert
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French & English : $b A comparison
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
France and England, second-class powers, 262;
varying degrees of dissimilarity at different periods, 269;
courtesy in France and England, 297;
caste in France and England, 321;
aristocratic spirit, 322;
comparative wealth of France and England, 339;
creations of the nineteenth century, 340;
developments of industries, 341;
necessity for wealth in England, 342;
French feeling about riches, 343;
sanctity of wealth in England, 344;
sentiments of the poor, 345;
national defence, 351;
marriage alliances, 353;
sociability greater in England, 363;
separation of the sexes in France, _ib._;
difference in England, 365;
want of amusements in France, 367;
divisions in France and England, 371;
personal success, 375;
known in France to the middle classes, _ib._;
money-making in France, 376;
lotteries and private gambling, 377;
overcrowded professions in France, 378;
incomes of French and English clergy, 379;
of the army, public offices, etc., 381;
wealthy traders, 382;
English manufacturers, _ib._;
cost of living in France and England, 383;
strong contrasts in France, 385;
little pleasures, 386;
Paris and London, 387;
provincial life in France and England, _ib._;
industrial civilisation a failure, 388;
French gaiety and English gravity, 389;
national success at home, 390;
comparison of France and England in religion and politics, 391;
in finance, 392;
party feeling, 393;
science, _ib._;
manufactures, 394;
printing, 395;
painting, 396;
literature, 399;
poetry, 401;
young philosophers, 403;
journalists, _ib._;
dread of war in both countries, 404;
English and French prejudices in art, 413;
difference in the military reputation of France and England, 417;
former French confidence and present English anxiety, _ib._;
difference between England and France. See _Variety in Britain_
and _Variety in France_;
modern changes in the national character of France and England, 445
Frary, M. Raoul, proposed abandonment of the classics, 18
Freethinkers, not eager for disestablishment, 152;
support state religions, 157;
dislike dissenters in England and Protestants in France, 158
French and English, euphony of title, vii;
question of mutual consideration, ix;
tendencies to resemblance, xiii;
Catholics and Protestants, xv;
opposition of French Republicans to England, xvii
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, CUSTOM, 267;
chronology, 269;
comfort, 285;
luxury, 291;
manners, 297;
decorum, 307
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, EDUCATION, 1;
physical, _ib._;
intellectual, 15;
artistic, 31;
moral training, 39;
feelings, 47;
rank, 56
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, PATRIOTISM, 63;
patriotic tenderness, 65;
pride, 77;
jealousy, 85;
duty, 91
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