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Excerpt from French and English Idioms and Proverbs, Vol. 1 of 3: With Critical and Historical Notes Now I cannot help feeling that both languages have been the gainers by this change, being thereby more lifelike and more true to their time. But this very progress has created new difficulties in the comparative study Of the two languages, especially owing to the multiplicity Of technical expressions that have sprung from the various new channels Of human activity which continue to distinguish our age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.