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
Thrift, superiority of the French to the English, 247;
pettiness and meanness, 248;
English contempt for meanness, _ib._;
selfishness and self-denial, 249;
French anxiety to provide dowries, _ib._;
discouragements to thrift in England, 249;
contempt for small sums, 250;
prodigality of the old French nobility, _ib._;
modern examples of extreme thrift, 251;
English improvidence, 252;
results of thrift on the French nation, _ib._
Titles, the consecration of wealth, 323;
peerages of Tennyson and Victor Hugo, _ib._;
defended by Mr. Bagehot, 325
Tonquin, English jealousy of French expedition, 87;
unpopular in France, 96
Trollope, Anthony, love for fox-hunting, 3
Toussenel, misrepresentations of England in _L’Esprit des Bêtes_,
187, 188
Towns, French, pleasantness compared with English, 34;
render artistic life torpid, _ib._;
their exhibitions inferior to English, _ib._;
inferior taste in
buildings, 35;
inferior to English as art centres, 37
Training. See Moral
Training, physical. See Physical Education
Truth, repressed in French education, 181;
intellectual dishonesty encouraged, 182;
sham admiration in literature and art, 183;
less in England than in France, _ib._;
literary lying about Shakespeare and the classics, _ib._;
sham Christians rewarded, 184;
Sunday observance and family prayers, 185;
political lying, 186;
difference between French and English, _ib._;
French reliance on ignorance, 187;
misrepresentations of Toussenel as regards England, 188;
superiority of English falsehood, 190;
French Government pronounced atheistical, _ib._;
alleged expulsion of religious orders from France, 191;
of removal of crosses from the French cemeteries, 192;
expulsion of the Orleans family, 194;
story of a French catechism, 195;
Walter Scott’s denial of the authorship of _Waverley_, 196;
silence of Chambers as to his _Vestiges of Creation_, _ib._;
French and English ideas of truth, 197
Truthfulness, a social virtue, 41;
damaged by clerical education of unbelievers, _ib._
Turner, not comparable with any French artist, 398
Tyndall, Professor, a mountaineer, 3
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University in France, teachers of modern languages assuming the
status of classical masters, 21;
professors mostly Agnostics, 42;
bachelor’s degree necessary in France for professions, 56;
not absolutely necessary in England, _ib._;
confers social distinctions in England, not in France, 57
Urban and rural life in France and England, 34
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