"Pons" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... notary) The Muse of the Department A Man of Business Jealousies of a Country Town Pierre Grassou The Middle Classes Cousin Pons ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... brace of books Balzac shows us the front and back-side of some certain section of life: as in "Cousin Pons" and "Cousine Bette."—The corner of Paris where artists, courtesans and poor students most do congregate, where Art capitalized is a sacred word, and the odd estrays of humanity, picturesque, humorous, and tragic, display all the chances of mankind,—this he paints so that we do not so much look ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton
... Jean-Jacques The Purse A Bachelor's Establishment The Government Clerks Modeste Mignon The Firm of Nucingen The Muse of the Department Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... Establishment Cousin Pons The Muse of the Department Cesar Birotteau At the Sign of the ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac
... had won him his way into the Conservatoire, performed. An application to the great Chateaubriand, who was noted for benevolence, had failed, for the author of "La Genie de Christianisme" was then almost as poor as Berlioz. At last a young friend, De Pons, advanced him twelve hundred francs. Part of this Berlioz had repaid, but the creditor, put to it for money, wrote to Berlioz pere, demanding a full settlement of the debt. The father was thus brought again into communication with his son, whom he found nearly sick unto death with a fever. His heart ...
— Great Italian and French Composers • George T. Ferris
... mind ever found out anything with its logic?—I should say that its most frequent work was to build a pons asinorum over chasms which shrewd people can bestride without such a structure. You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. You can buy treatises to show that Napoleon never lived, and that no battle of Bunker-hill was ever fought. ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... year 1818 a comet was discovered by the painstaking astronomer Pons at Marseilles. We are not to imagine that this body produced a splendid spectacle. It was a small telescopic object, not unlike one of those dim nebulae which are scattered in thousands over the heavens. The comet is, however, readily distinguished ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball
... time. Among the last acts of the house were, the passage of the Senate bill paying $40,000 to the American Colonization Society for expenses incurred in supporting the Africans recaptured from the bark Pons; the defeat of the resolution creating the rank of Lieutenant-General; and the act founding a Military Asylum for the relief of disabled soldiers. The French Spoliation Bill, the bill making Land Warrants Assignable, the bill granting ten ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... bank of the Tiber (gained by the Ponte St. Angelo, formerly the Pons Elius), two streets pierced through an irregular and populous neighbourhood, conduct to the modern Church of St. Peter. At the period of our story this part of the city was of much greater consequence, ...
— Antonina • Wilkie Collins
... An idea of how little one man's brain differs from his neighbor's may be gathered from the fact, that while a common coolie in Japan spends his spare time in playing a chess twice as complicated as ours, the most advanced philosopher is still on the blissfully ignorant side of the pons asinorum. ...
— The Soul of the Far East • Percival Lowell |
