"Fr" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... maun hae you fiddle as weel as yer lucky-daiddy pipit.—But here's the King o' Bashan comin' efter his butes, an' them no half dune yet!' exclaimed Dooble Sanny, settling in haste to his awl and his lingel (Fr. ligneul). 'He'll be roarin' mair like a bull o' the country than ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... added a declamacion, That chyldren euen strayt fr their infancie should be well and gent- ly broughte vp in learnynge. Written fyrst in Latin by the most excel- lent and famous Clearke, ...
— A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes • Richard Sherry
... tradition of Eastern African Pigmies has never been lost by the Arabs. At every period the geographers of this nation have placed their River of Pigmies much more to the south. It is in this region, a little to the north of the Equator, and towards the 32 deg. of east longitude, that the Rev. Fr. Leon des Avanchers has found the Wa-Berrikimos or Cincalles, whose stature is about four feet four inches. The information gathered by M. D'Abbadie places towards the 6 deg. of north latitude the Mallas or Maze-Malleas, with a stature ...
— A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients • Edward Tyson
... is very well summarised by Fr. Jarrett,[1] as follows: '(1) A man is obliged to help another in his extreme need even at the risk of grave inconvenience to himself; (2) a man is obliged to help another who, though not in extreme need, is yet in considerable distress, but not at the risk of ...
— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien
... four lines are in Al-Mas'udi, chapt, cxviii. Fr. Trans. vii. 313, but that author does not tell us who ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... Assyrian series, the scribes knew that the inscription came from a stele bearing the "image" of Hammurabi. A number of fragments belonging to such copies by later scribes were already published, by Dr. B. Meissner(8) and Dr. F. E. Peiser.(9) These were further commented upon by Professor Fr. Delitzsch,(10) who actually gave them the name "Code Hammurabi." Some of these fragments enable us to restore one or two sections of the lost ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... fliegende Hollaender by Wagner would be absurd, and utterly out of harmony with the character and his surroundings, if sung in the open timbre. Perhaps I ought to explain that "open" (voix claire, Fr.), and "closed" (voix sombre, Fr.), are technical terms, of which the equivalents are accepted in all countries where the art of singing is cultivated; terms that apply to quality of tone, not to the physical process ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... he said, with a peculiar grin—"dear fr'inds who have come after me to join our ranks; and I'm going to make them take ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn
... important," Bill continued, "an' I think your father'd consider me justified in takin' you away fr'm your lessons." Having studied this matter all out beforehand, Bill was using larger words than usual. "I got a letter for t' be delivered t' Dan Brayton, up at th' T Up and Down Ranch, 'bout some business o' your father's. Really, I ought ...
— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart
... warm appreciation of E. D. Baker, by Elijah R. Kennedy, entitled "The Contest for California in 1861," published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, in Boston and New York, in 1912; the monumental work on "Missions and Missionaries of California," by Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, published by the James H. Barry Company, of San Francisco, 1908-1913, and the "Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico," by Herbert E. Bolton, Ph. D., Professor of American History in the University of California, ...
— California, Romantic and Resourceful • John F. Davis
... p. 215.).—Zero Ital.; Fr. un chiffre, un rien, a cipher in arithmetic, a nought; whence the proverb avere nel zero, mepriser souverainement, to value at nothing, to have a sovereign contempt for. I do not know what the etymology of the word may ...
— Notes and Queries 1850.02.23 • Various
... conception that there is nothing to prevent a member of the Council from refusing countersignature and resigning his office. This Resolution is accepted by the Government then in office: Lovenskiold, Krog, Sibbern, Schmidt, Pettersen, Herm. Foss and Fr. Stang and by the members then forming the Section of the Cabinet Council, Due, J. ...
— The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis - A History with Documents • Karl Nordlund
... Fr. chauffer), to heat, a term primarily used in French of a man in charge of a forge or furnace, and so of a stoker on a locomotive or in a steamship, but in its anglicized sense more particularly confined to a professional driver of a ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various
... all s'rene," he observed. "I like this yer room. It's real homesome; and the view fr'm your front windows and the veranda's real elegant. Time you gets a collection o' choice flowers in your door-yard, you'll have 'bout the most desirable residence in the hull state of Wyoming. Ain't you satisfied? What's ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton
... the morning at the office busy upon an Order of Council, wherein they are mightily at a loss what to advise about our discharging of seamen by ticket, there being no money to pay their wages before January. After dinner comes Sir Fr. Hollis to me about business; and I with him by coach to the Temple, and there I light; all the way he telling me romantic lies of himself and his family, how they have been Parliament-men for Grimsby, he and his forefathers, ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... is in simple colours—various shades of red for the skin, and black or brown for the hair. M. Hron de Villefosse maintained that they were certainly portraits. The physiognomy of one is Jewish; another recalls a bronze head from Cyrene in the British Museum, which Fr. Lenormant considered to be of Berber type; the third might be Syrian, and the fourth Roman. The date is probably about the time of Septimius Severus. M. Maspero declared that he had never seen anything of the kind ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various
... Indians have obtained the Christian faith. The children of St. Francis were, indeed, the principal factors in the very discovery of America, inasmuch as the persons most prominently connected with that event belonged to the Seraphic Family. Fr. Juan Perez de Marchena, the friend and counsellor of Christopher Columbus, was the guardian or superior of the Franciscan monastery at La Rabida; * * * and the great navigator likewise ...
— The California Birthday Book • Various
... by throwing it out of the window into the street. This operation, dangerous to those outside, was limited to certain hours, and the well-known cry, which preceded the missile and warned the passenger, was gardeloo! or, as Smollett writes it, gardy loo (Fr. garge de l'eau). ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... grammes of the Turkish. The best preparations are made at Cannes and Grasse. The flowers are not there treated for the otto, but are submitted to a process of maceration in fat or oil, ten kilos. of roses being required to impregnate one kilo. of fat. The price of the roses varies from 50c. to 1 fr. 25c. ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... Holland may have meant by a legitimate English word it is hard to say. Dr. Johnson derives it from the Fr. caisse (or casse), which Cotgrave interprets "a box, a case, {574} or chest; also, a merchant's cash or counter." Todd confirms the correctness of Johnson's etymology by a usage in Winwood's Memorials; where the Countess of Shrewsbury is said to have 20,000l. in her ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 • Various
... mon frre, because, since you always read books instead of people, you are not very well up in the subject. To put it both candidly and vulgarly, I haven't any use for Doris Hayward at all. Ethel I admire tremendously, though I don't think she likes me; and Basil is a saint straight out ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... (Mirando el reloj.) Las nueve y media, y no vuelve an. Todo el da ha estado inquieto, receloso; no bien acabamos de comer se fu a la calle, dicindome tan slo un adis tan fro como la nieve.... Si hubiese empezado ya a perderme el cario!...[1] Tan pronto! Qu infundado recelo! Sin embargo, Miguel y Juana se casaron al mismo tiempo que nosotros, y a estas fechas no se mueren ciertamente de ...
— Ms vale maa que fuerza • Manuel Tamayo y Baus
... hired man o' his, they have took more stuff over to them Rooms than you c'd shake a stick at! I never see nothing like it—never! Waxed that floor, they have, and put more mats onto it—fur and colored. An' the stuff—oh, Lord! China—all that blue china he got fr'm ol' Mis' Simms, an' them ol' stoneware platters that Mis' Rivers was goin' to fire away, an' he give her two dollars for the lot—all that's scattered round on tables and shelves. An' that ol' black secr'tary he got fr'm Lord knows where, an' brakes growin' in colored pots ...
— A Philanthropist • Josephine Daskam
... Fr. Not twice a twelvemonth you appear in print, And when it comes, the Court see nothing in't. You grow correct, that once with rapture writ, And are, besides, too moral for a wit. Decay of parts, alas! ...
— Essay on Man - Moral Essays and Satires • Alexander Pope
... them to keep the house in order, and to look out for the things stored in it. They said that they had been there nearly a year; had nothing to do most of the time, living upon beef, hard bread, and frjoles, a peculiar kind of bean, very abundant in California. The nearest house, they told us, was a Rancho, or cattle-farm, about three miles off; and one of them went there, at the request of our officer, to order a horse to be sent down, with which ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... where finding some great ladies at table at supper with him and his lady, I retreated and went home, though they called to me again and again, and afterwards sent for me. So I went, and who should it be but Sir Fr. Clerke and his lady and another proper lady at supper there, and great cheer, where I staid till 11 o'clock at night, and so ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... a fr—for a measure which is generally believed to be at least questionable? I am afraid we cannot come to an understanding, ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 5. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... wailed, in a damp voice, "lemme confess to you. I'm a mis'able man, my fr'en'; perfectly mis'able. These cloves—these insidious tropical spices—have been thebaneofmyexistence. On Chrishm's night—that Chrishm's night—I toogtoomany. Wha'scons'q'nce? I put m' nephew an' m' umbrella away somewhere, an 've neverb'n ...
— Punchinello Vol. II., No. 30, October 22, 1870 • Various
... be all right. I'm going to sit in at another game dis time. Politics, Mr. Chames. A fr'en' of a mug what I knows has got a pull. Me brother Dan is an alderman wit' a grip on de 'Levent' Ward," he went on softly. "He'll ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse
... Osorio fue obispo de Jaen desde el ano de 1483, y presidio in esta. Iglesia hasta el de 1496 in que murio en Flandes, a donde fue acompanando a la princesa Dona Juana, esposa del archiduque Don Felipe."—"Espana Sagrada," por Fr. M. Risco, tom. 41, ...
— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving
... likely that the reference is to the affection excited by some charming youth.[1] We have a specimen remaining of the nonchalant style in which he addressed a woman, in the ode commencing "O Thracian mare!"—Schneidewin, Poet. Lyr. Anac. fr. 47. ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... the 8vo.—The 4to "renowned."—The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. renomme) occurs repeatedly afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is occasionally found in writers posterior to ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part II. • Christopher Marlowe
... Monarquia Indiana, lib. iv. cap. 4. Origen de los Indios por Fr. Gregorio Garcia, lib. ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving
... men sh'd be daown tew Barrington nex' week Tewsday, they could stop the jestice fr'm openin the Common Pleas, jess same ez yew ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... asks the Official Person. "Have a Couple of Daubs done in Berlin, three guineas apiece; send them these," answers the King! ["On doit faire barbouiller de mauvaises copies a Berlin, la piece a 20 ecus.—FR." Preuss, ii. ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... children needing special care of soul and body, or for the renewal of the art of acting, or for the conquest of materialistic methods in agricultural practice. Nor did there yet exist the movement for religious renewal Which Dr. Fr. Rittelmeyer later founded, with the help and advice of ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
... is a good representative biography—the Life of Saint Giangiuseppe della Croce (born 1654), reprinted for the occasion of his solemn sanctification. [Footnote: "Vita di S. Giangiuseppe della Croce . . . Scritta dal P. Fr. Diodato dell' Assunta per la Beatificazione ed ora ristampata dal postulatore della causa P. Fr. Giuseppe Rostoll in occasione della ...
— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas
... (movement, and time, rest), at, at the place of (Fr. chez): nani etsi andota, u bulitsi g'anga, I am in the house, he has gone into the garden; naga Mambutsil' a tela, I am come here from Mambo; kouatsi ma, put it in the box; tutsi etsiati, he will come in the night; nu datsi sona? who has ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson
... must mention in addition to those into English by Dasent and Blackwell, R. Nyerup's translation into Danish (Copenhagen, 1808); Karl Simrock's into German (Stuttgart and Tbingen, 1851); and Fr. Bergmann's into French (Paris, 1871). Among the chief authorities to be consulted in the study of the Younger Edda may be named, in addition to those already mentioned, Fr. Dietrich, Th. Mobius, Fr. Pfeiffer, Ludw. Ettmuller, ...
— The Younger Edda - Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda • Snorre
... "In Paris Fr. Bernard Montfaucon has some Coptic, Syriac, and other MSS. worth the buying. Among them is an old leaf of the Greek Septuagint, written in uncial or capital letters. Buy these and the leaden book he gave to Cardinal Bouillon if he can procure it for you or direct you to it. ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone
... in a fine tilbury drawn by a new horse, having Rene at his side in livery. The first act of his administration had been to place his wife's savings on the Grand-Livre, which was then quoted at 67 fr. 50 cent. In the space of one year, during which he played constantly for a rise, he made himself a personal fortune almost as considerable as ...
— An Old Maid • Honore de Balzac
... the word "pison" is oddly suggestive of a covering for the breast (pys, Nor. Fr.). See ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 24. Saturday, April 13. 1850 • Various
... punishment for being suspected of having fired on German sentries during the night of August 22d and 23d I have received from the Commune of Erbeviller one thousand francs, (1,000 fr.) ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... of the Cartesians: the one was a way of influence of the body upon the soul and of the soul upon the body; the other was a way of assistance or occasional causality. But here is a new acquisition, a new hypothesis, which may be called, as Fr. Lami styles it, a way of pre-established harmony. We are beholden for it to M. Leibniz, and it is impossible to conceive anything that gives us a nobler idea of the power and wisdom of the Author of all things. This, together with the advantage of ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... deaconesses are at work under the protection, and with the sympathetic co-operation, of the pastor and the church. I saw something of the deaconesses and their duties in this place. The inspector, Rev. Fr. Eilers, came with the first deaconesses and introduced them to their new field when I was a resident of the city. On Sunday morning he occupied the pulpit, preaching from Rom. xvi, 1, commending the deaconesses to the kindness and helpful aid of the members of ...
— Deaconesses in Europe - and their Lessons for America • Jane M. Bancroft
... moch talk; but sayynge yt I saw naught remarkabyll in it, ye hed manne of ye villayge where it grewe made answer as followeth: "Ye tree is not nowe in fruite, but in his seasonne you shall see dependynge fr. his braunches all soch as have affroynted ye King his Majesty." And I was furder tolde yt ye worde "Ghogo" sygnifyeth in yr tong ye same as ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce
... it like?" said Mr. Hennessy. "I see be th' pa-aper that Hobart What-d'ye-call-him is wan iv th' best at it. Th' other day he made a scoor iv wan hundherd an' sixty-eight, but whether 'twas miles or stitches I cudden't make out fr'm ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... FR. Pack'd and precise, no Doubt. Yet surely those Are but the Qualities we ask of Prose, Was ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
... Frown, v. [frun] Mirar con ceo, poner mala cara. Tumingin ng nakasibangot ng masungit na tingn, tumingin ...
— Dictionary English-Spanish-Tagalog • Sofronio G. Calderon
... forms: amyt, amys, O. Fr. amit, Lat. amictus, from amicire, to throw or wrap round, the change of t to s being probably due to an early confusion with the aumuce: see ALMUCE), a liturgical vestment of the Western Church. It is a rectangular piece of cloth which is wrapped round the neck, shoulders and breast. Sometimes, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... with queen Ethelburga flie out of Northumberland into Kent, honorable personages accompanie him thither, Romanus bishop of Rochester drowned, Pauline vndertaketh the charge of that see; Osrilie is king of Deira, and Eaufride king of Bernicia, both kings become apostatas, and fall fr[o] christianitie to paganisme, then are both slaine within lesse than a yeeres space; Oswald is created king of Northumberland, his chiefs practise in feats of armes, Cadwallo king of Britaine hath him in contempt, Oswalds superstitious deuotion and intercession to God against his enimies; ...
— Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) - The Fift Booke of the Historie of England. • Raphael Holinshed
... is mistaken in saying that in the Arabian tale the "rock Sesam" falls open at the words Semsi and Semeli: even in his own version, as the brother finds to his cost, the word Simeli does not open the rock. In Ali Baba the word is "Simsim" (Fr. Sesame), a species of grain, which the brother having forgot, he cries out "Barley." The "Open, Simson" in Meier's version and the "Semsi" in Grimm's story are evidently corruptions of "Simsim," or "Samsam," and seem to show that the story did not become current ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... Propaganda Fide Congregationi dicata Fr. Didaco Collado Ordinis Prdicatorum per aliquot annos in prdicto Regno ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado
... the bearded grain an' th' Hessian fly, with nawthin' but his own thoughts an' a couple iv horses to commune with. An' so he goes an' he's happy th' livelong day if ye don't get in ear-shot iv him. In winter he is employed keeping th' cattle fr'm sufferin' his own fate an' writin' testymonyals iv dyspepsia cures." ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall
... original book. To indicate the questions prepared by the Council I have added in braces their corresponding numbers from Baltimore Catechism No. 2. For example, question 130 below is question 1 in Baltimore Catechism No. 2. Fr. Kinkead's supplemental questions lack this ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) • Anonymous
... fr. slang belly up] Yet another synonym for 'broken' or 'down'. Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is 'down' may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is 'casters up' is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... see, I wuz allus a rock-ribbed Jacksonian fr'm a boy; seed the ole gen'ral onc't, an' I voted for Douglas an' Seymore. I skipped Greeley, fur he warn't no Dem'crat; an' I voted fur Tilden an' Hancock an' Cleveland; but when it come to votin' fur a cyclone fr'm N'braska,—jest ...
— Two Thousand Miles On An Automobile • Arthur Jerome Eddy
... the name still given to the limestone slabs cut in the Torah quarries South of Cairo. The word is classical, we find in Ibn Khaldun (vol. i. p. 21, Fr. Trans.) a chief surnomme el-Balt (le pave), a cause de sa fermete et de ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... ii, 25. As is well known, Burke's "Reflections on the Fr. Rev.," was in part an answer to Dr. Price's sermon of 4th November 1789 in the Old Jewry chapel, to the Society for celebrating the ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... disputed question, in what degree is the colour-sense developed among savages, Dr. Almquist during the course of the winter instituted comprehensive researches according to the method worked out by Professor FR. HOLMGREN. A detailed account of these is to be found in The Scientific Work of the Vega Expedition, and in various scientific journals. Here I shall only state that Dr. Almquist gives the following as the final ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold
... PAVILION (Fr. pavillon), ordinarily a light open structure of ornate design. As applied to architectural composition, aprojecting section of a faade, usually rectangular in plan, and having its own ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin
... [115] fr. 95: 'Star of evening, bringing all things that bright dawn has scattered, you bring the sheep, you bring the goat, you bring the child ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... interesting references to the Oriental flood-myth may be found in Cory's Ancient Fragments. See also, Dr. Fr. Windischmann, Die Ursagen der Arischen Voelker, pp. 4-10. It is probable that in very ancient Semitic tradition Adam was represented as the survivor of a flood anterior to that of Noah. Maimonides relates that the Sabians believed the world to ...
— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton
... [Sidenote: Gemeticensis.] though not without some bloudshed (as Gemeticen. writeth) but as by others it should appere, he was receiued into the citie without anie resistance at all; and so being in possession thereof, he spake manie frendlie words to the citizens, and promised that he would vse them in most liberall & courteous maner. [Sidenote: William Conquerour crowned 1067, according to their account which begin the yeare on the daie of Christ his natiuitie.] Not long after, when things ...
— Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (1 of 12) - William the Conqueror • Raphael Holinshed
... K 4 blank. Wanting A 2, containing the verses of Field, Jonson, and Chapman. Commendatory verses signed: Fr. Beaumont, Nath. Field, Ben Ionson, G. Chapman, Shack. Marmyon. Dialogue 'by way of prologue' (by Sir W. Davenant). The first edition appeared undated in 1609 ...
— Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge • W. W. Greg
... warmer Puna valleys are inhabited by the Cuguar (Felis concolor, L.), or, as the Indians call it, the Poma. When driven by hunger, this animal ventures into the loftiest Puna regions, even to the boundary of the eternal snow. The wild Hucumari (Ursus ornatus, Fr. Cuv.) but seldom wanders into the cold Puna. The hucumari is a large black bear, with a white muzzle and light-colored ...
— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi
... Fouter (Fr. foutre; Lat. futuere), verbum obscaenum. cf. the noun in phrase 'to care not a fouter' (footra, footre, foutre), 2 Henry IV, V, iii. To 'fouter' is also used (a vulgarism and a provincialism) in a much mitigated sense to meddle about aimlessly, to waste time ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... them seemed arrayed Against them, save the bride of Toobonai: She, as she caught the first glimpse o'er the bay Of the armed boats, which hurried to complete The remnant's ruin with their flying feet,[fr] 220 Beckoned the natives round her to their prows, Embarked their guests and launched their light canoes; In one placed Christian and his comrades twain— But she and Torquil must not part again. She fixed him in her own.—Away! away! They ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... market for all these products, based upon such of their properties or effects as are indispensable and not otherwise obtainable. As an illustration, we may cite the extraordinary selling prices of 40-50 fr. per kilo, for the 'artificial silks' (collodion process) which ruled some three years ago; and we may note that for a special application of viscose the dissolved cellulose is paid for at the rate of 10 per lb. These facts are certainly worthy of mention, ...
— Researches on Cellulose - 1895-1900 • C. F. Cross
... Fr. A bailiff: a ministerial officer with duties similar to those of a sheriff. * * The judge of a court. A municipal magistrate, &c;. ...
— An Essay on the Trial By Jury • Lysander Spooner
... A.D. 1210-92. Of Bacon's Opus Majus the best and only complete edition is that of J. H. Bridges, 2 vols. 1897 (with an excellent Introduction). The associated works, Opus Minus and Opus Tertium, have been edited by Brewer, Fr. Rogeri Bacon Opera Inedita, 1859.]who stands on an isolated pinnacle of his own in the Middle Ages, deserves particular consideration. It has been claimed for him that he announced the idea of Progress; he has even been compared to Condorcet ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... her voice unnecessarily high-pitched. "I'm Glory. Is this you, James? Well, tell auntie I got carried by—carried by! What? Yes, I'm all safe. I'm with my fr— Why, auntie, that's you! I hear your voice! You ought not to have walked out into the hall! Yes, I'm just as 'all right' as I can be. I'm going home with Diantha. What? Oh, yes, I knew you'd feel safe about me, then. I sha'n't tell ...
— Glory and the Other Girl • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... England.—Fr. Schlegel, in his Philosophy of History, says, p. 403., "in England and Sweden church property remained inviolate:" what the case may be in Sweden I do not know, but it appears strange that a man of such general knowledge ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 44, Saturday, August 31, 1850 • Various
... Cavalleiro da Ordem de San Tiago, e o muyto honrado Gonzalo Gil Barbosa seu genro, Cavalleiro da Ordem de X^to, e assim o muito honrado seu filho Francisco Barbosa: os quaes forao trasladados a esta sepultura no anno de 1532.'—Fr. Historia de Santarem edificada. By Ignacio da Piedade e ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson
... I wish my dearest, pretty Dingley and Stella a happy New Year, and health, and mirth, and good stomachs, and Fr's company. Faith, I did not know how to write Fr. I wondered what was the matter; but now I remember I always write Pdfr. Patrick wishes me a happy New Year, and desires I would rise, for it is a good fire, and faith 'tis cold. I was so politic last night with MD, never saw the like. ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... fr.) presence (3 fr.) pourvous est peut etre un outrage (9 fr.) Mathilde (3 fr.) mes pas indiscret (100 sous). On osee jusqu'a vous se frayer une passage! ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... in language are, upon examination, found to be in reality compounds, disguised by contraction. A few instances are, non, Lat. ne-un-(us); dont, Fr. de-unde; such, Eng. so-like; which, who-like. In like manner I believe till, to-while, and until, unto-while. Now while is properly a substantive, and signifies time, corresponding to dum, Lat., ...
— Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 • Various
... supposed to be the 'Ad Mariam', printed in the 'Stonyhurst Magazine', Feb. '94. This is in five stanzas of eight lines, in direct and competent imitation of Swinburne: no autograph has been found; and, unless Fr. Hopkins's views of poetic form had been provisionally deranged or suspended, the verses can hardly be attributed to him without some impeachment of his sincerity; and that being altogether above suspicion, I would not yield to the rather strong presumption which ...
— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins
... fr[o] holie iland to Chester in the street.] When Guthrid was established king, he caused the bishops see to be remoued from holie Iland vnto Chester in the street, and for an augmentation of the reuenues and iurisdiction belonging thereto, he assigned and gaue vnto saint Cuthbert ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) - The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England • Raphael Holinshed
... a detail that is unnecessary. He says you can sleep or eat there for a "franc and a half." That exactitude is out of place. It is labored. I ask you what a traveler would make of the "11/2 fr. pour diner," when he came on that rubbish heap which is the Hotel of Hope—"Hotel de l'Esperance." That is like Baedeker, all through his volume. He will give a detail, like the precise cost of this dinner, when there isn't any food in the ...
— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
... Bel-acueil. Fr. the name of a personage in the Roman de la Rose, which Chaucer has rendered Fair welcoming. [Speght followed by K. has Bialacoyl [Fr. Bel-acueil], faire welcoming. C. did not observe that the word was a proper name, but uses it to ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... don't," the huge man agreed, eagerly and instantly. "That's what I saw as I watched you from the window, arguing with your fr—your acquaintance. The whole world is full of box-fighters who box. You'll look years and years, however, before you'll find one who ...
— Winner Take All • Larry Evans
... rid iv his fam'ly onless he has a good raison. There's no regularity at all about it. In Kentucky baldness is grounds f'r divoorce; in Ohio th' inclemency iv th' weather. In Illinye a woman can be freed fr'm th' gallin' bonds iv mathrimony because her husband wears Congress gaiters; in Wisconsin th' old man can get his maiden name back because his wife tells fortunes in ...
— Mr. Dooley Says • Finley Dunne
... derived from the Fr. conter, to narrate, through low Lat. and Provencal forms contare and comtar. This word, although not recognized by the New English Dictionary as an English term, is yet so frequently used in English literary criticisms that some definition of it seems to ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 - "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" • Various
... passage from one of Cicero's letters to his brother (ad Q. fr. 2, 3, 2) may illustrate the familiar conversational style of a gentleman in the first century B.C. It describes an harangue made by the ...
— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott
... make the most astringent mortar, was WINE: "l'on se servit de vin, qui fut alors en abondance, pour faire le platre de cette batise." Denkmahle der Baukunst und Bildneren des Mittelalters in dem Oesterreichischen Kaiserthume. Germ. Fr. Part iii. ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... inquires what was the difference between a crozier and a pastoral staff. The crozier (Crocia, Mediaeval Latin), Fr. Crosse, Ital. Rocco Pastorale, German. Bischofstab, is the ornamental staff used by archbishops and legates, and derives its name from the cross which surmounts it. A crozier behind a pall is borne on the primatial arms of Canterbury. The use ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 50. Saturday, October 12, 1850 • Various
... et les oscillations hertziennes, la Telegraphie sans flt by H. Poincare, Paris, 1904 (price 2 fr.). Interesting studies of light, etc. An interesting brochure.—Revue Scientifique, ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams
... fr. 23018: J. Quicherat, Supplement aux temoignages contemporains sur Jeanne d'Arc, in Revue Historique, vol. ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... with a pointed cynicism. "An' me own father dyin' twinty-three years ago fr'm ixposure contracted ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... of Jessie's to take letters into the drawing-room; she would have deposited any other letter on the hall table; but she brought this one in, and, standing at the door, exclaimed, "Here a letter fr' Huntercombe!" ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... province, from parish to parish, and even from individual to individual. Nevertheless we may estimate that the taille, on the average, especially when bearing on a small peasant proprietor, without protector or influence, abstracts one-sixth of his net income, say 16 fr. 66 c. on 100 francs. For example, according to the declarations of the provincial assemblies, in Champagne, it deducts 3 sous and 2/3 of a denier per livre, or 15 fr. 28 c. on 100 francs; in the Ile-de-France, 35 livres ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine
... "historians" and "critical scholars" [Fr. "erudite"]—Expediency, within limits, of the division of labour in this respect—The exceptional skill acquired by specialists—Difference of work the corollary of difference of ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois
... devorar to devour. dia m. day. diablo devil. diabolico diabolical. diafanidad f. transparency. dialogo dialogue. diario daily. dibujo drawing, sketch. dictado title. dictar to dictate. dicterio sarcasm, insult. dicha happiness. dicho (fr. decir) the said, aforesaid, the same. dichoso happy. diente m. tooth. diez ten. diferenciar to differentiate. dificultad f. difficulty. difunto dead. digerir to digest. dignarse to ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... [1] Plain Song (Fr. Plain Chant) was the earliest form of Christian church music. As its name indicates, it was a plain, artless chant without rhythm, accent, modulation or accompaniment, and was first sung in unison. Oriental or Grecian in origin, it had four keys called Authentic Modes, to ...
— On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music • Camille Saint-Saens
... Norman compound word. “The Mesne” was “the Lord of the Manor” (conf. Fr. “mener” and “menager”—to command), and “de-mesne” was the land “of the lord.” In this case, the “mesne” was originally the Baron Eudo, to whom the Conqueror gave the manors of Tattershall and Kirkstead, with certain appendages, of which Woodhall, or a large portion of ...
— Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter • J. Conway Walter
... Copenhagen, who after a thorough musical education received in his native city, attracted wider attention in 1841 by taking the prize for his concert overture, "Night Sounds from Ossian," the judges being Fr. Schneider and Spohr, the violinist. This gave Gade a royal stipendium, with which he immediately betook himself to study at Leipsic, where he came under the personal influence of Mendelssohn, an influence which he never outgrew. ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews
... Crayon Landscape in America, lack of picturesqueness in Larcom, Lucy, contributes to The Crayon Lark, The, and her Young, fable of Lasithe Laufenburg Lausanne Leighton, Sir Frederick, visits Stillman Lematre, Frdric, actor Lenox, James his attempts to obtain Turner's Tmraire possession of another work by Turner Leslie, Sir Charles R., artist Levant Herald, Stillman's work upon Leys, Baron Lincoln, Abraham, ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman
... Charles and Carloman (maine, a corruption of mann, as leine of lana). In the Chronicle of Theophanes a still more conclusive text is found: he calls Carloman [Greek: Karoullomagnos]; Scr. fr. v. 187. The two brothers must have borne the same name. In the 10th century, Charles the Bald was dignified, though most undeservedly, with the same title of Great, through the ignorance of the Latin monks.—Epitaph. ap Scrip. ...
— Notes & Queries,No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 • Various
... Lat. (Paletot, O. Fr. ), sometimes signifying a particular stuff, and sometimes a particular ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... In Dr. Fr. Keesbacher's pamphlet, "The Philharmonic Society in Laibach, from 1702 to 1862," he says:—"The Philharmonic Society, always anxious to add to its lustre by attracting honorary members, resolved to ...
— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Vol. 2 • Lady Wallace
... the States—lawyers, doctors, speculators, adventurers, pilgrims, and dead-beats; men from the western side of the Missouri; grisly miners from Colorado; hunters and trappers from Idaho and Wyoming; card sharps from Denver and Fr'isco; pickpockets from St. Joe and bummers from Omaha—all are here, each one a part of a strange and on the ...
— Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road - or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills • Edward L. Wheeler
... the work a translation of which is here offered to the public, was during his long life a distinguished teacher of music. He died in the autumn of 1873. He was the father and teacher of the celebrated pianist, Clara Wieck, now Fr. Dr. Clara Schumann, widow of the renowned composer Robert Schumann, who was also a pupil of Wieck. His second daughter, Fraeulein Marie Wieck, is well known in Germany as an artistic performer on ...
— Piano and Song - How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of - Musical Performances • Friedrich Wieck
... doctrine, by the support they give to the doctrine of original sin, making a sort of meanness and badness a law of society.—MOZLEY, Letters, 333. Les critiques, meme malveillants, sont plus pres de la verite derniere que les admirateurs.—NISARE, Lit. fr., Conclusion. Les hommes superieurs doivent necessairement passer pour mechants. Ou les autres ne voient ni un defaut, ni un ridicule, ni un vice, leur implacable oeil l'apercoit.-BARBEY ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... de Barbarie et de ses Corsaires, par le R. P. Fr. Pierre Dan, Ministre et Superieur du Convent de la Sainte Trinite et Redemption des Captifs, fonde au Chasteau de Fontaine-bleau, et Bachelier en Theologie, de la ...
— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole
... skeered like I used to be," responded Estralla. "Yo' see, Missy, I feels jes' as if you was my true fr'en'." ...
— Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter • Alice Turner Curtis
... some strange reason we often find ourselves busy on parade at these hours, and when not on parade we generally find ourselves without money. I have been here for four months; looking at my pay book I find that I've been paid 25 fr. (or in plain English, one pound) since I have come to France, a country where the weather grows hotter daily, where the water is seldom drinkable, and where (p. 139) wine and beer is so cheap. Once we were paid five francs at five o'clock in the afternoon after five penniless days ...
— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill
... but the shoutin'—or the fun'ral. There's on'y the one sure thing about it, pally: I'll not be goin' back to 'stir'—not alive; d'ye see? So long . . . don't let them ducks get loose on yous and come at yous fr'm behind, whilst maybe you'd be ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
... great cruelty, after some alternations of good and bad treatment. See "Descripcion, Armas, Origen, y Descendencia de la muy noble y antigua Casa de Calderon de la Barca", etc., que Escrivio El Rmo. P. M. Fr. Phelipe de la Gandara, etc., Obra Postuma, que saca a luz Juan de Zuniga. ...
— The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria - A Drama of Early Christian Rome • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... pages of your letter might have been written with a turkey-cock's quill, they actually gobble in the pugnacity of their style, and as it lies by me, the very paper goes fr-fr-fr. But you shall keep that identical picture, my dearest, since you have grown to like it; so shake your feathers smooth again, funny woman that you are! and let your soul ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble
... sive Testamentum Vetus, ab Im. Tremellio & Fr. Junio ex Hebraeo Latine redditum. Et Testamentum Novum a Theod. Beza e Graeco in Latinum versum. Argumentis Capitum additis versibusque singulis distinctis, & ...
— The Life and Death of Mr. Badman • John Bunyan
... in dense clusters among leaves and in well rotted wood. I have found it quite often about Chillicothe. It is called Mycena cohaerens, Fr., Collybia lachnophylla, Berk., Collybia spinulifera, Pk. The plants in Figure 106 were found near Ashville, Ohio. ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard
... Meerstrassen masset, mit den Hnden schlugt Durch die Brandung gleitend; aufbrauste die Tiefe Wider des Winters Wuth. Im Wasser mhtet ihr Euch sieben Nchte: da besiegt' er dich im Schwimmen. Seiner Macht war mehr: in des Morgens Frhe Hob ihn die Hochflut zu den Headormen. Von dannen sucht' er die ssse Heimat, Das Leutenliebe, das Land der Brondinge, Die feste Friedensburg, wo er Volk besass, Burg und Bauge. Sein Erbieten hatte dir Da Beanstans ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... Fragment 4—Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catast. fr. xxxii: Orion.]—Hesiod says that he was the son of Euryale, the daughter of Minos, and of Poseidon, and that there was given him as a gift the power of walking upon the waves as though upon land. When he was come to Chios, he outraged Merope, ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... direction opposed to that of both the men who were to adjudicate upon it. Hegel was mentioned in it as "The supreme exponent of Aesthetics, a man whose imposing greatness it is good to bow before." I likewise held with his emancipated pupil, Fr. Th. Vischer, and vindicated him. Of Danish thinkers, J.L. Heiberg and S. Kierkegaard were almost ...
— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes
... from 12 to 22 frs., and the pensions from 9 to 15 frs., including wine (often sour) in both. The general charge in the hotels of the other towns throughout France is from 8 to 9frs. per day. Meat breakfast, 2 to 3frs.; dinner, 3 to 4frs.; service, fr.; "caf au lait," with bread and butter, 1 fr. The omnibus between the hotel and the station costs each from 6 to 10 sous. The driver in most cases loads and unloads the luggage himself at the station, when he expects a small gratuity from 2 to 10 sous, according to the ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... N." The Lancashire Levite Rebuked. The Rev. Alexander Gordon, in his article on Zachary Taylor, Dict. Nat. Biog., says that Carrington probably wrote this book. This seems impossible. The author of the book, in speaking of Mr. Jollie, Mr. R. Fr. [Frankland], and Mr. O. H. [Oliver Heywood], refers to Mr. C. as having "exposed himself in so many insignificant Fopperies foisted into his Narrative"—proof enough that Carrington did not ...
— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein
... On the 24th of March 1603, set 'that bright occidental Star,' and ' that mock Sun' fr the north took by succession its place. To Raleigh the change was the setting of a great hope, for to Queen Elizabeth he owed his fortunes, and was proud of the debt. To Raleigh more than to any other ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... Estrada de Ferro Santa Catharina, Itajahy; Nikolaus Dechent, Direktor of the "Deutsche Schule," Joinville; Petrus Sinzig, O.F.M., of the "Convento dos Franciscanos," Petropolis; Edmondo Hees, Editor of the "Nachrichten," Petropolis; Pastor Fr. L. Hoepffner of the "Deutsch-Evangelische Gemeinde," Rio de Janeiro; W. Muenzenthaler, Kaiserlicher General-Konsul, Rio de Janeiro; and Heinrich Lotz, Kgl. ...
— The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect • Benjamin Franklin Schappelle
... be attached to a being who dragged them, with such violence to every feeling, from their homes would be astonishing, but for the well-known force of the "selfish principle" which amalgamates their glory with his. A friend of our landlord's paid at various times 18,000 fr., about L900; he thought himself safe, but Bonaparte wanted a Volunteer guard of honour; he was told it would be prudent to enroll himself, which in consideration of the great sums he had paid would be merely a nominal ...
— Before and after Waterloo - Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802;1814;1814) • Edward Stanley
... also issued as one. In the 'Corpus Reformatorum,' xi. 251-257, is printed the "Oratio de Gratitudine M. Alexandri Alesii Scoti, Decani, in promotione Magistrorum anno M.D.XXXIV." The full title of the other is: "De Restitvendis Scholis Oratio habita ab Alexdro (sic) Alesio, in celebri Academia Fr[a]cofordiana ad Oderam. An. M.D.XL. Mense Iunio. Francofordiae apud Ioannem Hanaw." The dedication ends: "Francofordiae ad Oderam cal[e]dis Iunij. An. M.D.XL." There are only 19 leaves in ...
— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell
... Fr. Michel, 1837. Since that time it has been frequently reprinted, translated, and commented. Those who wish for an exact reproduction of the oldest MS. will find it given by ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury
... siding, is ut?" he shouted, glaring down on the messenger. "I have me ordhers fr'm betther men than thim that sint you. Go back an' ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... were brethren—Fratres (Frres). We in England have got to call them Friars. Francis was never known in his lifetime as anything higher than Brother Francis, and his community he insisted should be called the community of ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp
... 'Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimd Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentieth senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames"—a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter ...
— Seven Men • Max Beerbohm
... et item cumquidam ff locat. The reference is to Justinian's Digest, book 19, tit. 2 (locati conducti), fr. 15, which begins "ex conducto" and especially to the passage in the middle of fr. 15 (Sec. 3 of modern editions) which begins "cum quidam." It reads: "When a certain person alleged a conflagration on the (leased) land and desired a remission (of the rent), the following rescript is sent ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624 • Various
... AVANTAILLE (O. Fr. esventail, presumably from a Latin word exventaculum, air-hole), the mouthpiece of an old-fashioned helmet, movable ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... Fr. droit d'angarie; Ger. Angarie; from the Gr. [Greek: aggareia], the office of an [Greek: aggaros], courier or messenger), the name given to the right of a belligerent to seize and apply for the purposes of war (or to prevent the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... slaughter?'' This word is nothing but a misprint of nurse; but in Notes and Queries two independent correspondents accounted for the word morse etymologically. One explained it as "to prime,'' as when one primes a musket, from O. Fr. amorce, powder for the touchhole (Cotgrave), and the other by "to bite'' (Lat. mordere), hence "to indulge in biting, stinging or gnawing thoughts of slaughter.'' The latter writes: "That the word as a misprint should have been printed and read ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley
... and be hang'd, good stammering ninny, I think I have set your Redcap's heels a-running, would your pianot-chattering humour could as sa-safely se-set me fr-from the searchers' walks. Yonder comes some one. 'Hem! Skink, to your tricks this titty titty. Ah, the tongue, I ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... head, inside big cavities separated by cartilage, you'll find 300 to 400 kilograms of that valuable oil called "spermaceti." The sperm whale is an awkward animal, more tadpole than fish, as Professor Frdol has noted. It's poorly constructed, being "defective," so to speak, over the whole left side of its frame, with good eyesight ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne |
