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The decline of the West, Volume 2

Note 189 — Chapter V · CITIES AND PEOPLES (B) PEOPLES, RACES, TONGUES

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

Possibly connected with this is the emphatic antithesis characterizing many of our proverbs and everyday idioms—e.g., “up hill and down dale” (“par monts et vaux,” “bergauf bergab”), meaning hardly more than “everywhere.”—Tr.

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