"Etude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Etude sur les Antiquites anterieures aux Romains." Desjardins: "Les Camps Retranches des Environs de Nice." Riviere: ASS. ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac
... de Boismont, De l'hallucination historique, ou etude medico-psychique sur les voix et les revelations de Jeanne d'Arc, 1861, in 8vo. Le Vicomte de Mouchy, Jeanne d'Arc, etude historique et psychologique, Montpellier, ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... would be black with people hours before the doors were opened. If the church really believed that God would let them into an experience where sonatas and minuets and bridal marches and "Mondnacht" and the "Etude in C sharp minor" would be heard all the time, and free of charge, all the bishops and the big preachers and little evangelists and exhorters and ministers would be besieged by a grand eager throng of people, ...
— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees
... 16. See Tuetey, "Etude sur Le droit municipal... en Franche-Comte," in Memoires de la Societe d'emulation de Montbeliard, 2e serie, ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin
... les premieres difficultes de l'etude des plantes et vous me faites l'honneur de me consulter sur les moyens d'aller en avant; connaissant votre gout et votre talent pour les sciences les plus relevees je ne craindrai point de vous engager a sortir de la Botanique elementaire et a vous elever aux ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville
... belle Anna, votre gout pour l'etude; On ne saurait ici mieux employer son temps; Otsego n'est pas gai—mais, tout est habitude; Paris vous deplairait fort au premier moment; Et qui jouit de soi dans une solitude, Rentrant au monde, est sur ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
... English lexicographer as "Doing something, the power for which is acquired by experience, study or observation;" and an artist, as "One skilled in the practice of any art." The French writer d'Alembert says, "L'art s'acquiert par l'etude et l'exercice" (Art is acquired by study and practice). If these definitions of art be accepted, its external expression or manifestation is essential through some vehicle or medium, otherwise there is neither art nor artist. Concepts or ideals have their genesis ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... de tous, et ne s'epargnoit lui-meme en rien. Il inventoit tous les jours quelque chose de nouveau pour l'utilite publique, et jamais on ne comprit mieux de quelle ressource peut etre dans un nouvel etablissement, un esprit cultive par l'etude.... C'est a cet avocat, que nous sommes redevable des meilleurs memoires que nous ayons de ce qui s'est passe sous ses yeux. On y voit un auteur exact, judicieux, et un homme, qui eut ete aussi capable d'etablir une colonie que d'en ecrire une histoire." (Charlevoix, ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton
... Lanessan, J. L. de.—Etude sur la Doctrine de Darwin. La lutte pour l'existence et l'association pour la lutte. ...
— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
... to him the lady's worth and understanding.[148] "I hope Mr. Gibbon will not come," replied the sage; "his coldness makes me think ill of him. I have been looking over his book again [the Essai sur l'etude de la litterature, 1761]; he runs after brilliance too much, and is strained and stilted. Mr. Gibbon is not the man for me, and I do not think he is the man for Mademoiselle Curchod either."[149] ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... phenomena," and in calling this the idea common to both religion and "ideal science," fell far behind Comte, who expressed the immovable position, not only of positive science but of all intelligence, in these words: "Le veritable esprit positif consiste surtout a substituer toujours l'etude des lois invariables des phenomenes a celles de leurs causes proprement dites, premieres ou finales, en un mot la determination du comment a celle du pourquoi."—Systemede[TN-4] Politique Positive, i. p. 47. Compare Spencer's Essay entitled, "Reasons for dissenting ...
— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton
... peremptorily opposed by his f. it was broken off. With the lady, who eventually became the wife of Necker, and the mother of Madame de Stael, he remained on terms of friendship. In 1758 G. returned to England, and in 1761 pub. Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature, translated into English in 1764. About this time he made a tour on the Continent, visiting Paris, where he stayed for three months, and thence proceeding to Switzerland and Italy. There it was that, musing amid the ruins ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin |
