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Chimere   Listen
noun
Chimere  n.  The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.






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"Chimere" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the physical universe is invoked in his sweeping sentences to crush the presumption of man. Man's intellectual greatness itself he seizes upon to point the moral of an innate contradiction, an essential imbecility. 'Quelle chimere,' he exclaims, 'est-ce donc que l'homme! quelle nouveaute, quel monstre, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction, quel prodige! Juge de toutes choses, imbecile ver de terre, depositaire du vrai, cloaque d'incertitude et d'erreur, gloire et rebut de ...
— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey



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