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Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
Hartington, Lord, quotes Professor Dicey’s explanations of the
sovereignty of the House of Commons, 107
Haydon, prejudiced against French art, 413
Highlands, French, 433
Highlanders, Scotch, their inertia, 423;
lack of enterprise, _ib._;
naturally gentlemen, 424;
absence of the Fine Arts and poverty of literature, _ib._;
outside European civilisation, 427
Horse-riding, associated in France with military exercises, in
England with hunting, 6;
denied to French ecclesiastics, but permitted English clergy, 7;
hunting in France, 11
Home Rule in Ireland, bitterness of the contest between the masses
and the classes, 113, 114
Hospitality, decline of, in France, 369
House of Commons, its sovereignty as explained by Professor Dicey, 107;
quoted by Lord Hartington, _ib._
Houses of Parliament, English, depreciated by foreigners, 415
Hugo, Victor, French veneration for, 54;
his relations with Juliette Drouet, 210;
his peerage, 323;
his resistance to Napoleon III, 402
Hunting in France and England, 11
Hypocrisy, distinct from formalism, 167;
example of a church-going atheist, 168
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Ideals, English moral contrasted with the artistic of the Parisians, 38
Idleness condemned in America, 46
Ignorance of the English as regards Scotland and Ireland, 81
Ingres, Father, venerated in France, 54
Intellectual education. See Education, French and English
Invasion, no cruel experiences of, felt in England, 75
Ireland, English ignorance of, 81
Irish, their patriotic tenderness, 70;
exemplification in Mr. Robert Joyce the Irish poet, 71
Intercourse. See Sociability
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Jameson’s, Mrs., first impressions of Canadian society, 81
Jealousies, National, reasonable and unreasonable, 89
Jesuits, liberal interpretation of Catholic doctrines, 174
Joyce, Mr. Robert, the Irish poet, his patriotic tenderness, 71
Justice, Intellectual, less appreciated in France than in England, 198;
obscured by party dissensions, 199;
sympathies of classes, _ib._;
English gentlemen with American slaveholders, _ib._;
with French Catholics, 200;
class ideas in England, 201;
in France, _ib._;
vulgar patriotism, 202;
French criticisms of France, 203;
exaggerations in literature, _ib._;
French pleasantry as regards Her Majesty the Queen, 204;
injustice of Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Michelet, and Ruskin, 205;
just and unjust accounts of railways, _ib._
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Keats, unknown in France, 24
Knighthood, orders of, retained in England but not in France, 133
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Labouchere, his resolution against the hereditary principle of the
House of Lords, 131
Lamartine, signs of revival, 403
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