No great things of a meaning in this mission, we can guess, or Algarotti had not gone upon it,--though he is handy, at least, for keeping it unnoticed by the Gazetteer species. Nor was the Swan successful, it would seem; the more the pity for our Swan! However, he comes back safe; attends Friedrich in Silesia; and in the course of next month readers will see him, if any reader wished it.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 12》
Here, sure enough, are sad new intricacies in the Diplomatic, hypothetic sphere of things; and clouds piling themselves ahead, in a very minatory manner to King Friedrich. Let King Friedrich, all the more, get his Fighting Arrangements made perfect. Diplomacy is clouds; beating of your enemies is sea and land. Austria and the Gazetteer world consider Friedrich to be as good as finished: but that is privately far from being Friedrich's own opinion;-- though these occurrences are heavy and dismal to him, as none of us can now fancy.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 15》
It was, say all Gazetteers and idle eye-witnesses, a highly splendid spectacle. By much the most effulgent exhibition Friedrich ever made of himself in the Expensive-Mummery department: and I could give in extreme detail the phenomena of it; but, in mercy to poor readers, will not. Fancy the assiduous hammering and sawing on the Schloss-Platz, amid crowds of gay loungers, giving cheerful note of preparation, in those latter days of August, 1750. And, on WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 25th AUGUST, look and see,--for the due moments only, and vaguely enough (as in the following Excerpt):--英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》
Madame du Barry purchases the services of Marin the gazetteer --Louis XV and madame de Rumas--M. de Rumas and the comtesse du Barry--An intrigue----A present upon the occasion--The duc de Richelieu in disgrace--100,000 livres英文原著 · 《Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry》
'Sit down,' said her father. 'You are not to work for a few days, and I myself shall be none the worse for a morning's rest. Poor old Hinks! I suppose we shall help him among us, somehow. Quarmby, of course, is comparatively flourishing. Well, we have been companions for a quarter of a century, we three. When I first met Quarmby I was a Grub Street gazetteer, and I think he was even poorer than I. A life of toil!英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
A Confucian idea for the moment overcame his Buddhism. [5] Lo-e, or Rohi, is a name for Afghanistan; but only a portion of it can be here intended. [6] We are now therefore in 404. [7] No doubt the present district of Bannu, in the Lieutenant- Governorship of the Punjab, between 32d 10s and 33d 15s N. lat., and 70d 26s and 72d E. See Hunter's Gazetteer of India, i, p. [8] They had then crossed the Indus before. They had done so, indeed, twice; first, from north to south, at Skardo or east of it; and second, as described in chapter vii.英文原著 · 《Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms》