He views his English acquaintances as more money-obsessed, and is struck by how penny-pinching they are – perhaps a reflection that they are more sensitive to the economic decline.
Balthasar swiftly loses even these meager vestiges of his past when one of Jonson's English acquaintances, the writer-spy-adventuress Aphra Behn, casually ransacks Balthasar's house, slipping one of her own "bawdy" translations into the box that held his father's books and making off with the marriage certificate.
An English acquaintance found him to be, at least intermittently, "a storming, raging, vituperative madman".
As one English Traveller acquaintance once put it to me, "Whenever anyone says to me, 'Oh it must be so romantic being a Gypsy,' I say, 'What's romantic about being spat at?'" What is undeniable in this picture is that the current moves by both the government of Italy and British local councils such as Brentwood will only exacerbate the tensions between Romany or Traveller and settled populations.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, England, July 2 — Mohammed Asha, the Jordanian-trained doctor who has been arrested, though not charged, in the terrorism plots in the Britain last week, was proud of his career accomplishments but fretful about his welcome in English society, friends and acquaintances in Jordan and Britain said Monday.
The glaziers, however, were probably English with a close acquaintance with French models.
Figaro quotes his long-time friend and fellow London dealer David Juda: "Apart from his intimate acquaintance with English and Irish literature, Leslie was a true francophone.
Claims for the king's authorship are supported both by the appearance of his name on the manuscript and by the poet's acquaintance with English literature at a time when it was generally unknown in Scotland.
Through the Strand we made the acquaintance of all English writers: Conan Doyle, Wodehouse, WW Jacobs, Arnold Bennett, and every English fiction writer worth the name.
It was during this period that he made the acquaintance of the English politician Viscount Bolingbroke, whose political views were later to be reflected in Montesquieu's analysis of the English constitution.
This used to refer to actual educated people; now, however, it seems to include anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with the English language, or any other academic subject, like the Bill of Rights.
