ellauri109.html on line 455: Ainsi, dans une lettre datée du mardi 6 juillet 1852, il revient sur le récit qu’elle lui a fait de sa promenade au clair de lune avec Musset (on sait que Musset est un spécialiste des bal(l)ades au clair de lune). Flaubert écrit donc longuement sur Musset en réaction à l’épisode que lui rapporte Louise Colet, assez naïve ou ennuyée pour lui faire ce genre de compte rendu détaillé, à moins qu’elle n’ait trouvé là un moyen commode de le provoquer : elle lui raconte la rencontre de nuit, la scène où Musset, ivre de dépit, la jette d’un fiacre en marche.
ellauri145.html on line 169: En juillet, il écrit Le Voyageur qui raccommode ses souliers, un long poème contre les socialistes.
ellauri171.html on line 739: Ehud murders Eglon at a 19th century commode - but ancient lavatory arrangements were probably similar. Ehud, an Israelite, reluctantly carried tribute to the hated Moabite king Eglon. He did not want to do it, but he knew he had to – Eglon was like a Mafia chieftain, too powerful and too violent to disobey.
ellauri171.html on line 740: But Ehud had a plan. As he handed the booty over, he whispered to the king that he has secret information that he could only divulge in private. The king, intrigued, invited Ehud into a private room upstairs. It was a tiny room with a commode toilet for the use of the king and his family.
ellauri223.html on line 84: Capt. Their food consists of flesh, butter, honey, cheese, garden herbs, and vegetables of various kinds. They were unwilling at first to slay animals, because it seemed cruel; but thinking afterward that is was also cruel to destroy herbs which have a share of sensitive feeling, they saw that they would perish from hunger unless they did an unjustifiable action for the sake of justifiable ones, and so now they all eat meat. Nevertheless, they do not kill willingly useful animals, such as oxen and horses. They observe the difference between useful and harmful foods, and for this they employ the science of medicine. They always change their food. First they eat flesh, then fish, then afterward they go back to flesh, and nature is never incommoded or weakened. The old people use the more digestible kind of food, and take three meals a day, eating only a little. But the general community eat twice, and the boys four times, that they may satisfy nature. The length of their lives is generally 100 years, but often they reach 200.
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