"Eleve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... coeur a ce reveil du jour que Dieu renvoie, Vers un ciel qui sourit s'eleve sar sa joie, Et de ces dons nouveaux rendant grace au Seigneur, Murmure en s'eveillant son hymne interieur, Demande un jour de paix, de bonheur, d'innocence, Un jour qui pese entier dans la sainte balance, Quand la main qui les pese a ses poids infinis Retranchera du temps ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... Ce que tu dis la n'a pas le sens commun; mais c'est egal, cela me fait plaisir.... Eh bien! voyons, mon eleve, car j'ai promis a ta mere de te faire travailler ...
— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve
... languages; and the doctrine it contain'd was by degrees universally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of the abbe; so that he lived to see himself the last of his sect, except Monsieur B——, of Paris, his eleve and immediate disciple. ...
— The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin
... rude and unformed speech, as of spiritual babes and sucklings, which principally makes them to differ from the anthropoid apes of their tropical forests: "un peuple est compte pour quelque chose le jour ou il s'eleve a la pensee de Dieu."[27] But the spirit of the age is unquestionably hostile to all these creeds from the highest to the lowest. In Europe there is a movement—of its breadth and strength I shall say more presently—the ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various
... doctrine positiviste, par M. de Lombrail, ancien eleve de l'ecole polytechnique. The author says in his preface: "Auguste Comte examined this work with the conscientious attention which he was accustomed to give to the simplest task. He desired by his useful counsels to render ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville
... to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine; Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins, If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers, Of what use is it that you seek to become ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman
... apprehensions of Eveline were not false; for scarce had she reached the door of the apartment, when she was met by the page Amelot, in a state of such disordered apprehension as an eleve of chivalry was scarce on any occasion permitted to display. "Lady, noble lady," he said, hastily bending his knee to Eveline, "save my dearest master!—You, and you alone, can save him ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott
... quelques endroits du Jura, on voit des especes de demi-cirques formes par des rochers dont le couches sont de portions de la surface d'un meme cone et tendent a un centre commun eleve au dessus ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... this kind: he says "J'observai que la, ou la mer etale, independamment des rescifs du large, il y a terre UNE ESPECE D'EFFONCEMENT ou chemin couvert naturel. On y pourrait mettre du canon," etc. In another place he adds, "Avant de passer le Cap, on remarque un gros banc de corail eleve de plus de quinze pieds: c'est une espece de rescif, que la mer abandonne, il regne au pied une longue flaque d'eau, dont on pourrait faire un bassin pour de petits vaisseaux." But the margin of the reef, although the highest and ...
— Coral Reefs • Charles Darwin
... dans le fond la ville de Kemper, Asise au confluent de l'Oded et du Ster. Comme sa cathedrale, aux deux tours dentelees, S'eleve noblement du milieu des vallees, O perle de l'Oded, fille du roi Grallon, Qui de saint Corentin portes aussi le nom, Rejouis-toi, Kemper, dans tes vielles murailles! Vois avec quelle ardeur, o reine de Cornouailles, Tes fils de tous les points de l'antique eveche, Pecheurs et montagnards, viennent ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... with a belief that the powers of the invisible world were about to be let loose upon them, the danger had now presented itself in a shape too palpable to admit of further doubt. The cry of 'the heathen' had been raised from every lip; even the daughter and eleve of Ruth repeated it, as they fled wailing through the buildings; and, for a moment, terror and surprise appeared to involve the assailed in inextricable confusion. But the promptitude of the young men in rushing to the rescue, with ...
— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper |
