French & English : $b A comparisonHamerton, Philip Gilbert
History
French & English : $b A comparison
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, POLITICS, 101;
revolution, 103;
liberty, 112;
conservatism, 119;
stability, 129
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, RELIGION, 139;
state establishments, 141;
disestablishment in France and England, 147;
social power, 153;
faith, 159;
formalism, 167
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, SOCIETY, 319;
caste, 321;
wealth, 339;
alliances, 353;
intercourse, 363
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, SUCCESS, 373;
personal, 375;
national, at home, 390;
abroad, 406
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, VARIETY, 419;
in Britain, 421;
in France, 432
FRENCH AND ENGLISH, VIRTUES, 179;
truth, 181;
justice, 198;
purity, 207;
temperance, 233;
thrift, 247;
cleanliness, 254;
courage, 261
Funerals in France, religious formalism at, 169;
unpopularity of civil interments in provincial towns, 170
G
Gaiety, French, compared with English, 389
Game-preserving in France and England, 10;
poaching, 11;
Baron Rothschild’s preserves at Ferrières, 11 _note_
Gibraltar, English possession galling to Spain, 88
Gladstone, Mr., skill in felling trees, 2;
opposes the masses to the classes, 113;
bitterness of the contest on the question of Home Rule, 114;
causes of his downfall, 116
Glasgow, the centre of the industry of the Scottish Lowlanders, 425
Gormandism in France, 239;
variety of terms, 240;
temperance of the real _gourmet_, 241
Government, deceptive use of the terms “Monarchy” and “Republic,” xi;
essentially the same in England and France, _ib._;
confusion between Communist and Communard, xii _note_;
adoption of French institutions by England, xiii;
the author’s opportunism, _ib._;
parliamentary system alone practicable in England and France, xiv;
faulty workings, _ib._;
opposition of French Republicans to England, xvii
Grammar schools in England, their effect on family life, 45
Gravity, English, compared with French gaiety, 389
Greeks, ancient, their physical life compared with that of the
modern English, 1;
their surroundings compared with those of Manchester, 12
Greek language and literature studied more in England than in
France, 15;
antiquity and mystery of the language, 16;
neglected in French schools, 19
Greg, Mr. W. R., want of sympathy for the growth of free institutions
in France, 104;
_Enigmas of Life_ quoted, 105
Grévy, President, expelled by the French chamber, 117
Guyot, M. Yves, proposal to pay the French clergy through the
communes, 150
Gymnastics, general indifference of Englishmen, 2;
training rare except for boat races, _ib._;
accepted by the French as discipline and drill, 5;
discouraged in France by the Church, _ib. note_
Gymnastics, mental, superiority of Latin and Greek as, 19
H
Harrison, Mr. F., his view of the autocracy of the House of Commons, 116
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