"Temps" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with, great diligence as well as an enlightened mind, observed the operations of nature upon the surface of the earth, here says, "ce n'est pas sans etonnement que je remarque depuis long-temps que jamais aucune eau qui coule a la surface de la terre n'attaque le quartz, aucune n'en tient en dissolution, pendant que celles qui circulent interieurement le corrodent aussi souvent qu'elles le deposent."—How dangerous it is in science for ingenious men to allow ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... is not made against it by its foes alone; the truth of it is admitted by some of its best friends. If Voltaire exclaims 'O metaphysique, metaphysique, nous sommes aussi avances qu'aux temps des Druides', Kant sadly admits the fact, sets himself to diagnose its cause, and if possible to discover or devise a remedy. Yet we must remember that it was philosophers who first descried those currents in the world of events which the non-philosophic, borrowing the name from them, call Progress, ...
— Progress and History • Various
... to him. There's a snowstorm and he is your brother. Monsieur sait-il le temps qu'il fait? C'est a ne ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... thinking of himself, but of Planchet, when he put into the mouth of d'Artagnan's old servant this excellent profession: "Monsieur, j'etais une de ces bonnes pates d'hommes que Dieu a faits pour s'animer pendant un certain temps et pour trouver bonnes toutes choses qui accompagnent leur sejour sur la terre." He was thinking, as I say, of Planchet, to whom the words are aptly fitted; but they were fitted also to Planchet's creator; and perhaps this struck him as he wrote, for observe ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... "J'ai cru pendant long-temps que toutes les couches devoient avoir ete formees dans une situation horizontale, ou peu inclinee a l'horizon, et que celles que l'on rencontre dans une situation perpendiculaire, ou tres-inclinees, avoient ete mises dans cet etat par quelque revolution; ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... his leave, but from that time forward Jasmin and he continued the best of friends. A few years later, when the first volume of the Papillotos appeared, Nodier published his account of the above interview in Le Temps. He afterwards announced in the Quotidienne the outburst of a new poet on the banks of the Garonne—a poet full of piquant charm, of inspired harmony—a Lamartine, a Victor Hugo, a ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles
... "altitonant" ("loud-thundering"), while plasmateur itself, though perfectly intelligible and legitimate, a favourite with the rhetoriqueurs, and borrowed from them even in Middle Scots, is not exactly everybody's word. But from her very exordium she may be fairly judged. "Au temps que la Deesse Cibele despouilla son glacial et gelide habit, et vestit sa verdoyante robe, tapissee de diverses couleurs, je fus procree, de noblesse." And, after all, there is a certain nobility in this fashion of ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... firm. In a letter dated London, 48, Dover Street, May 6, 1848, he writes to Gutmann: "Erard a ete charmant, il m'a fait poser un piano. J'ai un de Broadwood et un de Pleyel, ce qui fait 3, et je ne trouve pas encore le temps pour les jouer." And in a letter dated Edinburgh, August 6, and Calder House, August 11, he writes to Franchomme: "I have a Broadwood piano in my room, and the Pleyel of Miss ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... personnes dont la participation a l'attentat sera demontree seront severement punis par nous. Certaines parmi ces demandes ne pourraient etre executees sans des changements de notre legislation, ce qui exige du temps. On nous a donne un delai trop court. Nous pouvons etre attaques apres l'expiration du delai par l'armee austro-hongroise qui se concentre sur notre frontiere. Il nous est impossible de nous defendre et nous supplions Votre Majeste de nous donner Son aide le plus tot possible. La bienveillance ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... Romains et les Gaulois, rendues dans leurs divers details avec une finesse admirable d'execution. Mais ce qui, par-dessus tout, donne un prix infini a ce manuscrit, ce sont sept portraits, en medaillons, qui reproduisent les traits de quelques hommes de guerre du temps de Francois I^{er}. Ils sont peints avec une verite et une delicatesse vraiment merveilleuses; des noms Romains, qui figurent dans les Commentaries de Cesar, sont ecrits a cote des portraits; les noms veritables ont ete tracees au-dessous, mais un peu ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 • Various
... matter, Casanova attended the Carnival at Oberleutensdorf, and left at Dux a manuscript headed 'Passe temps de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt pour le carnaval de l'an 1792 dans le bourg d'Oberleutensdorf'. While in that city, meditating on the Faulkircher incident, he wrote also 'Les quinze pardons, monologue nocturne du bibliothecaire', ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... L. Say: je vous prie de ne pas trop vous hater de la porter a la connaissance du public. Je crois qu'il y a la quelque malentendu que je serai bien aise de faire disparaitre, si vous voulez m'y donner le temps. ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... peut, defier l'ennemi, connaitre l'aventure, jouer ce qui a peu dure, ce qui est encore illusion, reve, ambition, ce qui est encore une beaute, o jeunesse, voila ce que vous aimez! Vous n'etes pas liee, vous n'etes pas fanee, vous pouvez courir le monde.—RENE BAZIN, Recits du temps ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan
... change 'em round an' round, Like women does— till Mother says—, "Vittels is ready; Abner, call Down S'repty— she's up-stairs, I guess—." And Marg'et she says, "Ef you bawl Like that, she'll not come down at all! Besides, we needn't wait till she Gits down! Here Temps, set down by me, An' Pap: say grace...!" Well, there I was—! What could I do! I drapped my head Behind my fists an' groaned; an' said—: "Indulgent Parent! In Thy cause We bow the head an' bend the knee An' break the bread, an' pour the wine, Feelin'—" (The stair-door suddently ...
— Afterwhiles • James Whitcomb Riley
... up a few French sentences, undertook to pass off one upon a servant who took his cloak as he entered the hotel of a French celebrity in a violent rainstorm. He flung the phrase off with an air, saying, "Mauvais temps," whereupon the word was passed up from mouth to mouth, and, to his unutterable horror, he was introduced to the company as M. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... fait-elle la justice. La justice et la verite sont deux pointes si subtiles, que nos instruments sont trop mousses pour y toucher exactement. Bien suivant la seule raison n'est juste de soi: tout branle avec le temps. Sometimes he strikes the express accent of Montaigne: Ceux qui sont dans un vaisseau croient que ceux qui sont [85] au bord fuient. Le langage est pareil de tous cotes. Il faut avoir un point fixe pour en juger. Le port juge ceux qui sont ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater
... dit, Scaliger lui eut oppose ce qu'on trouve dans les anciens Poetes touchant la beaute de cet oiseau. Vossius a fait une Critique tres judicieuse de cette humeur contrariante de Scaliger, et a marque en meme temps en quoi ces deux Antagonistes etoient superieurs et inferieures, l'un a l'autre."—(Scaliger, in Exercitat., 246.) "Quia Cardanus psittacum commendarat a colorum varietate ac praeterea fulgore, quod et Appuleius facit in secundo ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... qu'il a une fievre pituitaire sans dire depuis combien de temps. Qu'il lui reste toujours son temperament enclin aux catharres. Que le corps maigrit, et que les forces se perdent. On ne dit point s'il y a des exacerbations dans cette fievre ou non, si le malade a appetit ou non, s'il tousse ou non, s'il crache ou non, en un mot ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett
... appointed Vladan Georgevitch Prime Minister, and bade him form a Government. The merits or demerits of this Government we need not trouble about. What is of interest is that it was at once attacked by the French Press. The Temps accused Vladan of secret understandings with Goluchowsky and Kallay, before forming it. The Courier de Soir thought that "such a policy is the result of the Triple Alliance and is an offence to the balance of Europe." Serbia apparently was to be used as the determining weight ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith
... fiert'e dans le regard, les autres portaient la honte au front. Les deux trafiquants achetaient des 'ames pour le d'emon. L''ame d'un vieillard valait vingt pi'eces d'or, pas un penny de plus; car Satan avait eu le temps d'y former hypoth'eque. L''ame d'une 'pouse en valait cinquante quand elle 'etait jolie, ou cent quand elle 'etait laide. L''Ame d'une jeune fille se payait des prix fous: les fleurs les plus belles et les plus pures sont les ...
— The Countess Cathleen • William Butler Yeats
... que c'est dans un temps ou presque toutes les nations tremblaient devant la puissance pontificale, que les Venitiens surent tenir leur clerge dans la dependance, et braver souvent les censures ecclesiastiques et les interdits, sans encourir ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin
... of the same dynasty. It may indeed refer to this later monarch; but as no cartouche is given and the titles after the palatial or so-called Horus ones are doubtful, it is uncertain whom the monarch is to whom it refers. It has been translated by M. Chabas ("L'Egypt aux temps de l'exode," ...
— Egyptian Literature
... during those delightful and earnest hours; to taste the charm of his smiling philosophy, his picturesque conversation, full of exact ideas, all the more profound in that they were founded on experience and pointed or adorned by proverbs, adages, and anecdotes. Thanks to the daily reading of the "Temps," which one of his friends regularly sends him, Fabre is in touch with all the ideas of the day, and expresses his judgment of them; for example, he does not conceal his scepticism with regard to certain modern inventions, such as ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros
... aged 93, after receiving Extreme Unction, asked for her knitting, for the poor. "Mais Madame la Marquise a ete administree, elle va mourir!" said the maid, who thought the occupation of dying sufficient for a lady of her age. "Ma chere, ce n'est pas une raison pour perdre son temps," answered the indomitable Marquise. It is told of her also that when one of her children asked for some water in summer, between meals, she replied: "Mon enfant, vous ne serez jamais qu'un etre manque, une pygmee, si vous prenez ces habitudes-la, pensez, mon petit coeur, au fiel de Notre ...
— The Education of Catholic Girls • Janet Erskine Stuart
... are from you, keeping your Hand as high as your Head, and so put by the Thrust on your Right-side; and when you are Parading, let your Head be close as if it were under your Arm; and this preserves your Face from your Adversaries scattering or Counter-Temps Thrusts. ...
— The School of Recreation (1696 edition) • Robert Howlett
... ait jamais invente, c'est surtout au milieu des champs que tous ses inconvenients et toutes ses laideurs revoltent.... Au milieu de ce cadre austere et grandiose, qui transporte l'imagination au temps de la poesie primitive, apparaisse cette mouche parasite, le monsieur aux habits noirs, au menton rase, aux mains gantees, aux jambes maladroites, et ce roi de la societe n'est plus qu'un accident ridicule, une tache ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various
... Sainte-Beuve and the Princess Mathilde, and I know thoroughly the story of their break, which seems to me irrevocable. Sainte- Beuve was outraged against Dalloz and has gone to le Temps. The princess begged him not to do anything about it. He did not listen to her. That is all. My opinion on it, if you wish to know it, is this. The first wrong was done by the princess, who was hasty; but the second and ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... Schumacher, ayant egalement recommande Mlle. Mitchell a la faveur qu'elle sollicite maintenant, je me suis empresse de referer cette question au roi, mon auguste maitre, en mettant en meme temps sous les yeux de sa Majeste la lettre que vous lui avez adressee a ce sujet; et c'est avec bien du plaisir que je me vois aujourd'hui a meme de vous faire part, Monsieur, que sa Majeste n'a point hesite ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... qui unyz nous faict uiure, En foy noz cueurs preparera, Qui long temps ne nous pourra suyure, Car la Mort ...
— The Dance of Death • Hans Holbein
... nous fut dit que chose estrange ne leur sembloit estre deux contradictoires Vrayes en mode, en figure, et en temps.' ...
— 'That Very Mab' • May Kendall and Andrew Lang
... composition! But if we are to understand Villon rightly, we must not reject even la grosse Margot from her place in his life. He was no dabbler in infamy, but one who loved infamous things for their own sake. He loved everything for its own sake: la grosse Margot in the flesh, les dames du temps ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... outstanding importance in the history of the world, Christ and Dante not excepted. It would be strange if this demagogic example found so [many] imitators.... Recently Paul Souday has attempted to show that all the notable men of Germany belong to the Keltic race ('Le Temps,' August 7, 1915)." ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland
... Au prester couzin germaine, au rendre fils de putaine Qui n'ha point du miel en sa cruche, qu'il en aye en sa bouche. Langage de Hauts bonnetts. Les paroles du soir ne sembles a celles du matin. Qui a bon voisin a bon matin. Estre en la paille jusque an ventre. Il faut prendre le temps comme il est, et les gens comme ils sont. Il n'est Tresor que de vivre a son aise. La langue n'a point d'os, et casse poitrine et dos. Quand la fille pese vn auque, ou luy peut mettre la coque. Il en tuera dix de la ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... first responsible mission to Vienna, and found there the traditions of the Metternich diplomacy still ruling. What Napoleon had said of Metternich he no doubt remembered: "Il ment trop. Il faut mentir quelquefois, mais mentir tout le temps c'est trop!" for he adopted quite the opposite policy in his ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier
... I could observe, no woman present showed any sign of repulsion. It seemed to me significant of the times. I whispered to my neighbour, "O tempora! O mores!" but she replied coldly, "Not at all!" I checked my impulse to add "Autres temps, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 • Various
... Depuis quelque temps j'avais perdu l'appetit et m'endormais de suite quand j'etais assis. Mercredi il me vint un secours de nature par un vomissement extraordinaire. Ces vomissements m'ont dure pendant un jour et une nuit; je ne rendais que de la bile. La nuit passee, je n'en ai pas rendu; dans ce moment, ...
— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure
... For sorrow of which almost we waxed wood,* *mad But that good hope creeped in our heart, Supposing ever, though we sore smart, To be relieved by him afterward. Such supposing and hope is sharp and hard. I warn you well it is to seeken ever. That future temps* hath made men dissever,** *time **part from In trust thereof, from all that ever they had, Yet of that art they cannot waxe sad,* *repentant For unto them it is a bitter sweet; So seemeth it; for had they but a sheet ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... some charming lines in which he has placed the heroine's name as it were on a string of pearls; they occur in his exquisite ballad 'Dames du temps jadis,' and, as it would be profanation to try and translate, I give ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower
... The Abbe's words are,—"Si ceux qui promettent une si grande precision dans ces sortes de methodes, avoient navigue quelques temps, ils auroient vu souvent, que dans l'observation la plus simple de toutes, qui est celle de la hauteur du soleil a midi, deux observations, munis de bons quartiers de reflexion, bien rectifies, different entr'eux, lorsqu'ils ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr
... assume. There was a certain languid rhythm in the air they were playing which rather offended my ears, but I suspected nothing until, observing the few couples who had already descended into the arena, I became aware that they were twirling about with all the antiquated grace of "la valse a trois temps." Of course my partner would be no exception to the general rule! nobody had ever danced anything else at Throndhjem from the days of Odin downwards; and I had never so much as attempted it. What was to be done? I could not explain ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)
... everlasting psalm. Over the table, to conclude the inventory of the room, hung a set of regulations for MM. les retraitants: what services they should attend, when they were to tell their beads or meditate, and when they were to rise and go to rest. At the foot was a notable N. B.: "Le temps libre est employe a l'examen de conscience, a la confession, a faire de bonnes resolutions," etc. To make good resolutions, indeed! You might talk as fruitfully of making the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... "To tell me go! I who was fille-de-chambre to une Grande Duchesse! Mon dieu! la chaleur est tres-incommode! Ingrat—parvenu! Un—deux—trois! Il est temps de se coucher." Helen had just touched her repeater, and with its soft, silvery chime, it struck three. Elise hurried away from the door, where she had lingered, in hopes of being recalled, to comfort herself with ...
— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey
... m'envoyant ce noble gentilhomme qui m'a apporte les lettres de votre Excellence. Je ne manquerai pas, quand il plaira a Dieu me ramener en Angleterre, de contribuer tout ce qui sera en mon pouvoir pour votre service, et j'espere que l'issue en sera a votre contentement, et que dans peu de temps je saurai vous rendre bon compte de ce dont vous me faites mention en vos lettres. Ce petit temoignage du respect que je porte a votre Excellence, que je rendis a votre depart de mon vaisseau, et qu'il vous plait honorer de votre estime, ne merite pas que vous en teniez ...
— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke
... sympathies et mille rapports ingenieux que je n'avais pas soupconnes jusque la. L'insecte, rassasie de nectar, s'elanca en ligne hardie. Je me relevai du mieux que je pus, et me rajustai sur mes jambes— Adieu, dis-je a la fleur et a l'abeille. Adieu. Puisse-je vivre encore le temps de deviner le secret de vos harmonies. . . . Combien le vieux mythe d'Antee est plein de sens! J'ai touche la terre et je suis un nouvel homme, et voici qu'a soixante-dix ans de nouvelles curiosites naissent dans mon ame comme on voit des rejetons s'elancer ...
— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer
... did not attack me, he did not persuade me, he only took for granted it was all over,—my Art! I must know best, of course; but he was sorry, for I had a gift. Had I seen the notice of my portrait in the "Temps," or the little mention in the "Figaro"? Oh, yes, Breal had been very successful, and deserved to be. It was a brave soul, devoted to art, ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... The master of the house never came near me, nor indeed, once inquired about me. Beneath the care of Antonio, however, I speedily waxed stronger. "Mon maitre," said he to me one evening, "I see you are better; let us quit this bad town and worse posada to-morrow morning. Allons, mon maitre! Il est temps de nous mettre en chemin ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... on for some half hour longer in this strain, very much to the credit both of his head and of his heart; but your warm-hearted people are seldom apposite in their observations—they run into all sorts of blunders, contre-temps and mal apropos-isms, in the hot-headedness of their zeal to serve a friend—thus, often with the kindest intentions in the world, doing infinitely more to prejudice his cause than to ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... martyr of his passionate studies, suffered the calamity of blindness. With the aid of his distinguished brother, of friends, and secretaries—above all, with the aid of the devoted woman who became his wife, he pursued his work. The Recits des Temps Merovingiens and the Essai sur l'Histoire de la Formation du Tiers Etat were the labours of a sightless scholar. His passion for perfection was greater than ever; twenty, fifteen lines a day contented him, if his idea was rendered clear and enduring in faultless form. ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... temps s'enfuit, Menageons bien ce court espace. Peut-etre une eternelle nuit Eteindra le jour ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus
... and the actors felt at liberty to interpret the roles according to their ideas and traditions. She had a perfect diction; it was a delight to hear her. She recited one night one of Alphonse Daudet's little contes, "Lettres de Mon Moulin," I think, beginning—"Qui n'a pas vu Avignon du temps des Papes n'a rien vu." One couldn't hear anything more charming, in a perfectly trained voice, and ...
— My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 • Mary King Waddington
... insigne nous dict qu'elle auoit tousiours creu, que la sorcelerie estoit la meilleure religion.—Ieanne Dibasson aagee de vingt neuf ans nous dict que le sabbat estoit le vray Paradis, ou il y a beaucoup plus de plaisir qu'on ne peut exprimer. Que ceux qui y vont trouuent le temps si court a force de plaisir & de contentem[e]t, qu'ils n'en peuuent sortir sans vn merveilleux regret, de maniere qu'il leur tarde infiniment qu'ils n'y reuiennent.—Marie de la Ralde, aagee de vingt huict ans, tres belle femme, depose qu'elle auoit vn singulier ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... valuable, and opposite which he has made double pencil marks and written the word "good," is worth quoting: "La theorie de M. Darwin s'accorde mal avec l'histoire des types a formes bien tranchees et definies qui paraissent n'avoir vecu que pendant un temps limite. On en pourrait citer des centaines d'exemples, tel que les reptiles volants, les ichthyosaures, les belemnites, les ammonites, etc." Pictet was born in 1809, died 1872; he was Professor of Anatomy and Zoology at Geneva.), the palaeontologist, in the Bib. Universelle ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin
... certainly understood him to say that he had deplored to the minister the want of vigour and the absence of success accompanying the operations of the Italian allies of Prussia, when His Excellency replied: 'C'est bien vrai. Ils nous ont tromps; mais que voulez-vous y faire maintenant? Nous aurons le temps de les ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... feroit qu s'y montrer s'il etoit oblige d'y cultiver son champ de ses propres mains. Pour tirer parti de cette colonie, l'on doit donc proteger l'importation des Negres qui y sont en trop petit nombre; mais il est en meme temps de l'interet du Gouvernement, de veiller a ce que les habitans n'y abusent pas du pouvoir que la loi et droit ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... que, de son temps, ni beaucoup avant, il ne s'est point trouve de plus triomphante princesse, car elle etait belle, bonne, douce et courtoise, a toutes gens. Le Loyal Serviteur Histoire du bon Chevalier, le seigneur de ...
— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius
... au printemps de son age, Ni les temps, ni les lieus n'alterent son esprit; Ne cedent qu' a ses gouts simples et sans etalage, Au milieu des ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
... Burgundy, she collected a band of her mendicant friends in a stable, and burned them all, saying that 'par pitie elle hauoit faict cela, considerant les peines que ces pauvres debuoient endurer en temps de si grande ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne
... managed it very easily. Ero connosciuto per una testa singolare, I was known to be a singular man. I talked and joked, and was merry; but I never sat down to play; I went and came as I pleased. The mirth I like is what is easy and unaffected. Je ne puis souffrir long temps les diseurs de bons mots. I cannot endure long the sayers of ...
— Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica • James Boswell
... is the apartment of Monsieur Willy. In your salon, the probable palm and rubber-plant give the impression of luxuriant Edenic flora, relatively speaking, and illustrate the transmogrification which is to allow M. Gaston Deschamps—critic of a "Temps" plus-que-passe—to announce to the wilderness (where he speaks familiarly of Chateaubriand), and to the College de France, how well he can admire and ...
— Barks and Purrs • Colette Willy, aka Colette
... its cannon pointed (full of grapeshot); thrice applies the lit flambeau; which thrice refuses to catch,—the touchholes are so wetted; and voices cry: "Arretez, il n'est pas temps encore, Stop, it is not yet time!" (Deux Amis, iii. 192-201.) Messieurs of the Garde-du-Corps, ye had orders not to fire; nevertheless two of you limp dismounted, and one war-horse lies slain. Were ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... bien heureux qui voir pourra Fleurir le temps, que l'on orra Le laboureur a sa charrue Le charretier parmy la rue, Et l'artisan en sa boutique Avecques un PSEAUME ou cantique, En son labeur se soulager; Heureux qui orra le berger Et la bergere en bois estans Faire que rochers et estangs Apres eux ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli
... The temper of the two realists was no doubt widely different. 'C'est en haine du realisme', wrote Flaubert, 'que j'ai entrepris ce roman. Mais je n'en deteste pas moins la fausse idealite, dont nous sommes berces par le temps ...
— Recent Developments in European Thought • Various
... pres du feu file, ma cherie; La nuit vient de refroidir le temps" —"Adrien, m'a-t-on dit, ma mere, Gemit dans des cachots flottants. On repousse la main fletrie Qu'il etend vers an pain grossier." File, file, pauvre Marie, Pour secourir le prisonnier; File, file, pauvre Marie, File, file pour le prisonnier.' [Footnote: 'Le ...
— Castle Nowhere • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... fashion, and teaches him to refer himself to a higher tribunal, is an infinite aid to moral strength and elevation.—CHANNING, Works, iv. 83. Je tiens que le passe ne suffit jamais au present. Personne n'est plus dispose que moi a profiter de ses lecons; mais en meme temps, je le demande, le present ne fournit-il pas toujours les indications qui lui sont propres?—MOLE, in FALLOUX, Etudes et Souvenirs, 130. Admirons la sagesse de nos peres, et tachons de l'imiter, en faisant ce qui convient a notre ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... writer, and produced, besides essays, reviews and other papers in the journals, twenty-three important works and forty-nine pamphlets. In 1850 he originated the Journal de l'armee Belge. His most important publications were La Fortification du temps present (Brussels, 1885); Influence du tir plongeant et des obus-torpilles sur la fortification (Brussels, 1888); Les Regions fortifiees (Brussels, 1890); La Defense des etats et la fortification a la fin du XIX^e siecle (Brussels, 1895); Progres de la defense ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... secretaire a fait part d'une lettre de Monsieur Humphreys, ancien colonel au service des Etats-Unis, par laquelle il demande trois medailles pour Messieurs Washington, le general Gates et le general Green. Il envoie en meme temps des renseignements sur les actions de ces ...
— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat
... Michael's Cove on which the St. Michael's Hotel [175]—long kept by Mr. W. Scott—was subsequently built, to judge from the heavy foundation walls there. Such was the magnificence of the structure that it was reckoned "the gem of Canada'—"Une maison regardee dans le temps comme le bijou du Canada," says the old chronicler. Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve having arrived, in 1641, with colonists for Montreal, the laird of Ste. Foye [176] generously tendered him the use of his manor. Under the hospitable roof of this venerable old gentleman, M. de Maisonneuve, ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... public funds or other companies, he sagely perceives that it is time to turn to some other profession, and, providing himself with a black gown, proposes blandly to Bertrand to set up—a new religion. "Mon ami," says the repentant sinner, "le temps de la commandite va passer, MAIS LES BADAUDS NE PASSERONT PAS." (O rare sentence! it should be written in letters of gold!) "OCCUPONS NOUS DE CE QUI EST ETERNEL. Si nous fassions une religion?" On which M. Bertrand remarks, "A religion! what the devil—a religion is not an easy thing to make." ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray
... l'Amerique Meridionale quelque Peuples decharnent les corps de leurs Guerriers et les mangent leurs chairs, ainsi que je viens de le dire, et apres les avoir consumees, ils conservent pendant quelque temps leurs cadavres avec respect dans leurs Cabanes, et il portent ces squeletes dans les combats en guise d'Etendard, pour ranimer leur courage par cette vue et inspirer de la terreur a ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow
... de temps suffit pour changer toutes choses! Nature au front serein, comme vous oubliez! Et comme vous brisez dans vos metamorphoses Les fils mysterieux ou nos coeurs ...
— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion
... be spared; and to those artists who wish to excuse their ignorance and inaccuracy by a species of execution which is a perpetual proclamation, "qu'ils n'ont demeure qu'un quart d'heure a le faire," we may reply with the truthful Alceste, "Monsieur, le temps ne fait ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin
... temps n'estoit mie mieulx. De bleu estoient vestuz les cieux, Et le beau Soleil cler luisoit. Violettes croissoient par lieux Et tout faisoit ses deuoirs ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... of chance as affecting history has been expounded in a masterly manner by M. Cournot, Considerations sur la marche des idees et des evenements dans les temps modernes (Paris, ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois
... de Grignan wrote an account of a visit to a galley, her friend Madame de Sevigne replied that she would "much like to see this sort of Hell," and the men "groaning day and night under the weight of their chains." Autres temps, autres moeurs! ...
— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole
... (Hellequines) a des especes de feux follets ou genies plutot malfaisants que favorables, et plutot moqueurs que malfaisants.... L'origine de la tradition de la Mesnie Hellequin se perd dans l'obscurite des temps. On l'entendoit surtout bruire dans les environs de la ville d'Arles.... J'ignore la premiere origine de cette locution; mais ce qui me semble incontestable, c'est qu'on confondit facilement la Mesnie Hellequin avec celle 'de la Mort,' famille ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 • Various
... into modern literature, and the influence, on the other hand, which the libertarian ideas of the best comtemporary writers have exercised upon the development of Anarchism. One ought to consult the ten big volumes of the Supplement litteraire to the paper La revolte and later the Temps nouveaux, which contain reproductions from the works of hundreds of modern authors expressing Anarchist ideas, in order to realize how closely Anarchism is connected with all the intellectual movement of our own times. J. S. Mill's Liberty, Spencer's ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... nights, and begin a course of bark. I take nothing after my coffee, besides, except Orgeat. I have quite relinquished nasty Brooks's, as Lady C(arlisle) calls it. I am with the sexagenary of White's, et de cette maniere je passe le temps ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... too advanced, but which Liszt would not fail to understand;" also thy settings of sonnets where the melody was continued uninterruptedly from the first line to the last; and that still more marvellous feat, thy setting, likewise with unbroken melody, of Villon's ballade "Les Dames du Temps Jadis;" and that Out-Cabanering of Cabaner, the putting to ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore
... chiffons, sa force revolutionnaire et ses mollesses flasques. Mes vieux pretres de Bretagne savaient bien mieux les mathematiques et le latin que mes nouveaux maitres; mais ils vivaient dans des catacombes sans lumiere et sans air. Ici, l'atmosphere du siecle circulait librement.... Au bout de quelque temps une chose tout a fait inconnue m'etait revelee. Les mots, talent, eclat, reputation eurent un sens pour moi. J'etais perdu pour l'ideal modeste que mes ...
— Occasional Papers - Selected from The Guardian, The Times, and The Saturday Review, - 1846-1890 • R.W. Church
... spirit or of variety in the dancing at Morrison's. From Mr. Snodder, the exciseman, who danced the original old-fashioned trois-temps, to young Bucklebury, of the Bank, who stationed himself immediately underneath the central chandelier, and spun rapidly round with his partner upon his own axis, like a couple of beetles impaled upon a single pin, every possible variation ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... toujours le meme; son mouvement, toujours regulier, roule sur deux points inebranlables: l'un, la fecondite sans bornes donnee a toutes les especes; l'autre, les obstacles sans nombre qui reduisent cette fecondite a une mesure determinee et ne laissent en tout temps qu'a peu pres la meme quantite d'individus de chaque espece" ... "Les especes les moins parfaites, les plus delicates, les plus pesantes, les moins agissantes, les moins armees, etc., ont deja ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel
... the report as being nothing more than an apology for magnetism, which is tarred with the same stick as that of 1784, and only modified a little, by the esprit de notre temps, &c. &c. He said he had made magnetism a special subject of study, and never saw a phenomenon produced by it.——He thinks the commission could only do injury to science, and compromit the Academy, &c. &c. He would vote against the appointment, and advised ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various
... is, however, to be kept in mind that some such mode of introduction was customary in all works of this order and period. The Byzantine MS., already alluded to, is prefaced still more singularly: "Que celui qui veut apprendre la science de la peinture commence a s'y preparer d'avance quelque temps en dessinant sans relache ... puis qu'il adresse a Jesus Christ la priere et oraison suivante," etc.:—the prayer being followed by a homily respecting envy, much resembling that of Theophilus. And we may rest assured that until we have again begun to teach and to learn in this ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin
... don't know what puts it into my head to-night to recall myself to your affectionate memory. I suppose it is that when we are happy the mind reverts instinctively to those with whom formerly we shared our exaltations and depressions, and je t'eu ai trop dit, dans le bon temps, mon gros Prosper, and you always listened to me too imperturbably, with your pipe in your mouth, your waistcoat unbuttoned, for me not to feel that I can count upon your sympathy to-day. Nous en sommes nous flanquees ...
— A Bundle of Letters • Henry James
... peaceful prosperity of his people." The balance of power and foreign relations troubled him no longer; he wished for no conquests, and thought not of war. In the morning he was occupied with scientific works, wrote in his "Histoire de mon Temps," or to his friends, and took part in the daily-recurring duties of the government. The remainder of the day was passed in the garden of Sans-Souci, in pleasant walks and animated conversation, closing always with music. Concerts took place every evening in the apartments of the ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... of Ravaisson, brought out—as has been already remarked [Footnote: Page 3.]—the significance of the operations of vital forces and of liberty. Guyau, whose brief life ended in 1888 and whose posthumous work La Genese de I'Idee de Temps was reviewed by Bergson two years after the publication of his own Time and Free Will, laid great stress on the intensification and expansion of life. Boutroux, in his work, has insisted upon the fact ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn
... morning till night in the open air lobby of the Assembly—the Rue des Reservoirs. Deputies who "ought to know better" circulate very absurd canards; but, as remarks a local print, "Que voulez-vous? On s'ennuie, il faut bien passer le temps!" In my last letter of Thursday night I stated that the affair at Moulin Saquet was a repetition of that at the Clamart Station. I find to-day a contradiction of the statement that insurgents were butchered at Moulin Saquet. It is true, nevertheless. The Commune, wishing, ...
— The Insurrection in Paris • An Englishman: Davy
... bien de passer sous silence la derniere partie de votre Lettre; un bruit assez etrange est venu jusqu'a vous; et Charles Lewis doit vous quitter pour quelque temps pour etablir en France une ecole de reliure d'apres les principes du gout anglais; mais vous croyez, dites-vous, que ce projet est surement chimerique, ou que, si on le tentait, il serait de ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... certainly in the very front rank of orators of his country or any country of his age or any age. I remember when Louis Blanc was in England, in the days of the Second Empire, he used to write to the press of Paris, and in one of his letters to "Le Temps" he stated that Mr. Gladstone would undoubtedly have been the foremost orator of England, if it were not for the existence of Mr. Bright. It may be admitted, and I think it is admitted generally, that on some occasions Mr. Bright ...
— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty
... que le Comte de Neuilly qui, se rappelant vos anciennes bontes, vient chercher sous ses auspices, un asyle et une retraite paisible et aussi eloignee de tout rapport politique que celle dont il y a joui dans d'autres temps, et dont il a ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria
... assented. "But a man is never so tenacious of his rights as when he hasn't any. However, autres temps, autres moeurs. I don't suppose you'll have any trouble of that kind. Certainly, I hope not, ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various
... a cooling draught to him. As for the little Marquise—when she danced, she danced away with all those luckless hearts that were not hers already. The orchestra launched the jubilant measures of the deux-temps with a torrent of vivacity, and the girl's rhythmic flight answered like a sail taking ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... cour, adieu les dames! Adieu les filles et les femmes! Adieu vous dy pour quelque temps; Adieu vos plaisans parse-temps! Adieu le bal, adieu la dance; Adieu mesure, adieu cadance, Tabourins, Hautbois, Violons, ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... in the Temps. England will not apply the brakes. Mr. Winston Churchill, to be sure, lauds the care-free fortune of his fatherland, which even after Trafalgar, he says, did not command the seas as freely as today; but in his inmost heart even this "savior of Calais" does not cheat himself concerning ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... Stephen Pichon, former Foreign Minister, M. Rene Bazin, of the Academie Francaise, M. Joseph Reinach, of the Figaro, M. Pierre Mille, of Le Temps, and M. Henri Ponsot—who had never been in Scotland before, were on the look out for a civilian Scots in kilts and were grievously disappointed not ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... his views are even more inflated than usual. He will absorb the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Revue de Paris, is in treaty to obtain one newspaper, and will start two others himself, so that his power will be irresistible. "Le temps presse, les evenements se compliquent,"[*] he cries impatiently. He is still strangled by want of money—a hundred thousand francs is the modest sum he requires; but he will write a play in the name of his secretary, and the spectre of debt will be ...
— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars
... them; and of all men in the world LES ANGLAIS are the most impatient of obeying anybody.] Mais si ce sont-la les Anglais de l'Europe, c'est encore plus les Anglais d'Amerique. Une grande partie de ces Colons sont les enfans de ces hommes qui s'expatrierent dans ces temps de trouble ou l'ancienne Angleterre, en proie aux divisions, etait attaquee dans ses privileges et droits; et allerent chercher en Amerique une terre ou ils pussent vivre et mourir libres et presque ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... was of a most special kind. The curtain was so far lowered as to conceal completely the head and shoulders of the dancer. "Il fut impossible aux spectateurs," writes a biographer of the lady, "de voir autre que le travail de ses jambes dont le temps avait respecte l'agilite et les ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... beauty. The lament over the defeat of his dream of fair lords and ladies by the reality of a withered and dissatisfying world runs like a torment through his verse. No one has ever celebrated the inevitable passing of loveliness in lovelier verse than Villon has done in the Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis. I have heard it maintained that Rossetti has translated the radiant beauty of this ballade into his Ballad of Dead Ladies. I cannot agree. Even his ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... police could find in the lovely country of France (a) who was not guilty—of treason (b) who could not prove that he was not guilty of treason. By treason I refer to any little annoying habits of independent thought or action which en temps de guerre are put in a hole and covered over, with the somewhat naive idea that from their cadavers violets will grow, whereof the perfume will delight all good men and true and make such worthy citizens forget their sorrows. Fort Leavenworth, for instance, emanates even now a perfume ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... King, a wealthy branch; tant soit peu philosophe, a ce qu'on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together what Nature has unpieced, bones of fishes and animals. Il faut passer le temps. He adores the Deluge. Anything antediluvian excites him. He can tell us the "modes" of those days; and, if I am not very much misinformed, he still expects us to show him the very latest of these. Happily my milliner ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... que j'ai fait dans l'Afrique Je le fais bien dans l'Amerique; On l'appelle monde nouveau Mais ce sont des brides a veau; Nulle terre a moy n'est nouvelle Je vay partout sans qu'on m'appelle; Mon bras de tout temps commanda Dans le pays du Canada; J'ai tenu de tout temps en bride La Virginie et la Floride, Et j'ai bien donne sur le bec Aux Francais du fort de Kebec. Lorsque je veux je fais la nique Aux Incas, aux rois de Mexique; Et montre aux Nouveaux Grenadins Qu'ils sont des foux ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... peuplade par ou vous voyagez, vous laisse rarement parler seul aux Indiens. Lorsque vous parlez en sa presence a quelque Indien qui entend un peu le Castillan, si ce Religieux trouve mauvais que vous conversiez trop long-temps avec ce Naturel, il lui fait entendre dans la langue du pays, de ne vous point repondre en Castillan, mais dans sa langue: l'Indien obeit." Le Gentil, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 • Emma Helen Blair
... never visitors,' she replied with a startled sort of tartness, and a momentary energy. 'Besides, I cannot converse; je sens de temps en temps des douleurs de tete—of head, and of the ear, the right ear, it is parfois agony absolutely, and now it ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... plates which Pausanias saw at Ascra. Then, in modern times, what "great allies" has the collector, what brethren in book-hunting? The names are like the catalogue with which Villon fills his "Ballade des Seigneurs du Temps Jadis." A collector was "le preux Charlemaigne" and our English Alfred. The Kings of Hungary, as Mathias Corvinus; the Kings of France, and their queens, and their mistresses, and their lords, were all amateurs. So was our Henry VIII., and James I., who ...
— The Library • Andrew Lang
... published his "Apologie des Femmes." He wrote two comedies—"L'Oublieux" in 1691, and "Les Fontanges." These were not printed till 1868. They added nothing to his reputation. Between 1691 and 1697 were composed the immortal "Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe" and the "Contes en Vers." Toward the end of his life he busied himself with the "Eloges des Hommes Illustres du Siecle de Louis XIV." The first of these two stately volumes came out in 1696 and the second in 1700. They were illustrated ...
— The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault • Charles Perrault
... had had the will. It was often said that his paramount duty was to publish a history of modern Paris, for the man was an encyclopaedia of unsuspected facts. Since he can never publish it now, however, I am free to tell the story of the Cafe du Bon Vieux Temps as he told it to an English editor and me one night on the terrace of the cafe ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... accueillis par la vanite, le prejuge, et la mode; la Perdrix rouge, belle de sa propre beaute, dont les qualites sont independantes de la fantaisie, qui reunit en sa personne tout ce qui peut charmer les yeux, delecter Ie palais, stimuler l'appetit, et ranimer les forces, plaira dans-tous les temps, et concourra a l'honneur de tous les festins, sous quelque forme qu'elle y ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... of: three parts, distinct from each other. 1st, The Pursuit. 2nd, The waltz called Redowa. 3rd, The waltz a Deux Temps, executed to a peculiar measure, and which, by a change of the rhythm, assumes a new character. The middle of the floor must he reserved for the dancers who execute the promenade, called the pursuit, while those who dance the waltz turn in a circle about the ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... robe d'or, ceins ton riche bandeau, Jeune et divine poesie, Quoique ces temps d'orage eclipsent ton flambeau. * * * * * * La liberte du genie et de l'art T'ouvre tous les tresors. Ta grace auguste et fiere De nature et d'eternite Fleurit. Tes pas sont grands. Ton front ceint ...
— The French Revolution - A Short History • R. M. Johnston
... temps n'est pas eloigne ou l'on saura apprecier au Chili le patriotisme et l'energie, dont le Colonel Tupper ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper
... degree the influence of Andre Chenier and Alfred de Vigny. France was, and is, also a diligent contributor to many journals and reviews, among others, 'Le Globe, Les Debats, Le Journal Officiel, L'Echo de Paris, La Revue de Famille, and Le Temps'. On the last mentioned journal he succeeded Jules Claretie. He is likewise Librarian to the Senate, and has been a member of the French Academy ...
— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France
... que j'ai cru necessaire pour l'intelligence de la Poetique d'Horace! si Jule Scaliger l'avoit bien entendue, il lui auroit rendu plus de justice, & en auroit parle plus modestment. Mais il ne s'eflort pat donne la temps de le bien comprendre. Ce Livre estoit trop petit pour estre goute d'un homme comme lui, qui faisoit grand cas des gros volumes, & qui d'ailleurs aimoit bien mieux donner des regles que d'en recevoir. Sa Poetique est assurement un ouvrage d'une erudition infinie; on y trouve par tout des choses ...
— The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. • Horace
... only comfort is that I have never forgiven the brothers who interfered so cruelly, in such an uncalled-for manner, between my dear husband and myself. To quote my friend Monsieur Sganarelle—'Ce sont petites choses qui sont de temps en temps necessaires dans l'amitie; et cinq ou six coups d'epee entre gens qui s'aiment ne font que ragaillardir l'affection.' You observe the colouring is not quite ...
— The Grey Woman and other Tales • Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell
... Joannis, Opera quae supersunt/ in the /Corp. Reformatorum/, vols. xxix.-lxxxvii. Doumergue, /Jean Calvin, les hommes et les choses de son temps/, 1900-5. Kampschulte, /Johann Calvin, seine Kirche und sein staat in Genf/, 1899. Fleury, /Histoire de l'Eglise de Geneve/, 3 vols., 1880. Mignet, /Etablissement de la reforme religieuse et constition du calvinisme ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey
... m'expliquer sur le sens que j'attache a ces expressions: Les circonstances influent sur la forme et l'organisation des animaux, c'est-a-dire qu'en devenant tres differentes elles changent avec le temps et cette forme et l'organisation elle-meme par des ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... sixpence. The prices obtained for the books, especially at the French sale, were very high. A dedication copy to Mademoiselle de Montpensier, with the signature of Charles de Lorraine on the title-page, of Recueil des Portraits et Eloges en vers et en prose (de personnages du temps par Mademoiselle de Montpensier et autres), Paris, 1659, with a morocco binding of the seventeenth century, ornamented with fleurs-de-lis, fetched fourteen thousand francs; La Fontaine's Fables Choisies, five volumes, Paris, 1678, ...
— English Book Collectors • William Younger Fletcher
... policy to date. Jean Grave, once a shoemaker and now a celebrated anarchist, was condemned to six months in La Sante prison for an offensive article in his paper, Les Temps Nouveaux. Such is the liberty allowed a political that while serving this sentence he was given paper and materials with which to write another objectionable article, called "La Societe Mourante et 1'Anarchie," for the publication of which he ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens
... years. ** Note: * Sou-houng-kian-lou. Abel Remusat.—M. Note: ** La poudre a canon et d'autres compositions inflammantes, dont ils se servent pour construire des pieces d'artifice d'un effet suprenant, leur etaient connues depuis tres long-temps, et l'on croit que des bombardes et des pierriers, dont ils avaient enseigne l'usage aux Tartares, ont pu donner en Europe l'idee d'artillerie, quoique la forme des fusils et des canons dont ils se servent ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon
... de Colbert et de Louis XIV, et je n'ai pas besoin aupres de vous d'apologie. Ce que j'aurais l'honneur de vous dire, vous le savez deja; vous l'avez vu dans les textes des Manuscrits francais et de l'Essai historique. Je veux etre menager d'un temps que vous employez si utilement pour l'education de la jeunesse et pour ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... remarkable words were: "Or, messieurs, parceque nous reprenons l'ancienne coustume de tenir les estats ja delaisses par le temps de quatre-vingts ans ou environ, ou n'y a memoire d'homme qui y puisse atteindre, je diray en peu de paroles que c'est que tenir les estats, pour quelle cause Fon assembloit les estats, la facon et maniere, et qui y presidoit, quel bien en vient au roy, quel au peuple, et mesmes s'il est utile ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... See Blanc: Napoleon Ier. Taine: Le regime moderne. Pasquier: Memoires, Histoire de mon temps. Meneval: Napoleon et Marie-Louise. V^te de Broc: La vie en France sous le premier empire. Metternich: Memoires. Mme. de ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... which had been satisfactory. These he had by no means communicated to his friend, to whom, indeed, he had expressed an opinion that Mrs Greenow was after all only a flash in the pan. "She does very well pour passer le temps," the captain had answered. Mr Cheesacre had not quite understood the exact gist of the captain's meaning, but had felt certain that his friend ...
— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope
... into my eighties, although under Government every appointment has to be compulsorily vacated at the age of sixty-five. No one starting now could anticipate any such result in old age, and so without affectation I can say autres temps autres moeurs, which may be freely translated as 'present times ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey
... been long with them, but you've caught the infection of their tone and language. Dieu vous pardonne, mon ami, et Dieu vous garde. But I've always seen in you the germs of delicate feeling, and you will get over it perhaps—apres le temps, of course, like all of us Russians. As for what you say about my impracticability, I'll remind you of a recent idea of mine: a whole mass of people in Russia do nothing whatever but attack other people's ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... cause for which such lives were sacrificed. When a man like Henri Regnault—the most substantial hope and promise of art in our century—is seen at the siege of Paris lingering behind his retreating comrades, "le temps de bruler une derniere cartouche" the last words he uttered; when a genius like Theodore Winthrop is extinguished in its ardent dawn on an obscure skirmish field; when a patriot and poet like Koerner dies in battle with his work hardly begun—we feel how inadequate are all the millions of ...
— McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. • Various
... philosophe anglais, dans une lettre qu'il ecrivit en 1715 a la feue reine d'Angleterre, epouse de George II. Cette princesse, digne d'etre en commerce avec Leibnitz et Newton, engagea une dispute reglee par lettres entre les deux parties. Mais Newton, ennemi de toute dispute et avare de son temps, laissa le docteur Clarke, son disciple en physique, et pour le moins son egal en metaphysique, entrer pour lui dans la lice. La dispute roula sur presque toutes les idees metaphysiques de Newton, et c'est peut-etre le plus beau monument que nous ayons des ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... of all," she eagerly asked, "remind you a little of the bon temps? Ah," she sighed, "I don't say anything good now. But of course I see Jane—though not so often either. It's from Jane I've heard of what she calls her 'young things.' It seems so odd to think of Mitchy as ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... afterwards the tales appeared published at Paris in a volume entitled, Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe, avec des Moralites—Contes de ma Mere l'Oye. The earliest translation into English was in a book containing French and English, Tales of Passed Times, by Mother Goose, with Morals. Written in French by M. Charles Perrault and ...
— A Study of Fairy Tales • Laura F. Kready
... avant le temps.' Le crepuscule eteint, laissez encore passer la nuit. Vous aurez pour vous ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... leurs peres at de leurs pretres: l'autorite, la confiance, la soumission, et l'habitude leur tiennent lieu de conviction et de preuves; ils se prosternent et prient, parce que leurs peres leur out appris a se prosterner at prier: mais pourquoi ceux-ci se sont-ils mis a genoux? C'est que dans les temps eloignes leurs legislateurs et leurs guides leur en ont fait un devoir. 'Adorez at croyez,' ont-ils dit, 'des dieux que vous ne pouvez comprendre; rapportez-vous-en a notre sagesse profonde; nous en savons plus que vous sur la divinite.' Mais pourquoi m'en rapporterais-je a vous? ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... horse—then there is no further limit to be set to the power of nature, and we should not be wrong in supposing that with sufficient time she could have evolved all other organised forms from one primordial type (et l'on n'auroit pas tort de supposer, que d'un seul etre elle a su tirer avec le temps tous ...
— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler
... be contrasted with the statement of M. Bergson who tells us (Evolution creatrice, p. 11): "Plus nous approfondirons la nature du temps plus nous comprendrons que duree signifie invention, creation de formes, elaboration ...
— Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge • Alexander Philip
... judging her benefactress; and Lady Anne smiled as she noticed that the girl had not heard her question, and watched the innocent, tender, worshipping look with which she was gazing at Sir Gerald's portrait. The smile faded off into a sigh. "Ah, le beau temps passe!" The expression on Mary's face recalled to Lady Anne the one romantic passion of her life, which had come to her after widowhood had put an end to a marriage in which esteem and liking for an elderly husband had ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... generalment jusqu'a ces derniers temps, que les negres avoient moins de capacite morale que les blancs; des auteurs meme estimables l'ont imprime.[4] Ce prejuge commence a disparoitre; les etats du nord pourroient fournir des exemples du contraire. Je n'en citerai que deux ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... la litterature provencale depuis les temps les plus recules jusqu'a nos jours. Montpellier, 1895. (Translated ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... and therefore well fitted to accomplish a harmonizing task of this kind—occupied both sides of the English Channel, it seemed probable that they would dominate the speech of England as well as of France. "At that time," says Meray (La Vie aux Temps des Cours d'Amour, p. 367), who puts forward this view, "the people of the two coasts of the Channel were closer in customs and in speech than were for a long time the French on the opposite banks of the Loire.... The influential part of the English ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
... German. The writer would refer those who seek a more minute acquaintance with this empire, now rising so rapidly in importance, first of all to Karamsin. The "Histoire Philosophique et Politique de Russie Depuis les Temps les Plus Recules Jusqu'au Nos Jours, par J. Esneaux," Paris, five volumes, is a valuable work. The "Histoire de Russie par Pierre Charles Levesque," eight volumes, is discriminating and reliable. The various volumes of William Tooke upon Russian ...
— The Empire of Russia • John S. C. Abbott
... the tiny settlement. Scurvy and the rigours of the first winter carried off thirty-five colonists out of a total of seventy-nine. The winter of 1606-1607 was happily much less severe; moreover, Champlain's "Ordre de Bon-Temps," and Lescarbot's wit and gaiety contributed to cheer the shivering exiles. In the spring, however, the first ship from St. Malo brought bad news from France. The enemies of De Monts at home had triumphed, and had persuaded the King ...
— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan
... gibet par ceulx de la part du Roy et de M. Wyatt; et sans quelques hommes qui tout a propoz y accoururent, ils l'eussent estrangle; ce que se peult clairement juger par les marques qu'il en a et aura encores d'icy a long temps au col."—Noailles to ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude |
