French and English —— A Comparison

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ISBN: 9781331403623 出版年：2016 页码：491 Philip Gilbert Hamerton Forgotten Books

I should like to write with complete impartiality, if it were possible. I have at least written with the most sincere desire to be impartial, and that perhaps at the cost of some popularity in England, for certain English critics have told me that impartiality is not patriotic, and others have informed me of what I did not know before, namely, that I prefer the French to my own countrymen.