"Puissance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the usages of other men in comparison to their own usage. And so each laboureth to be above, they detract and blame all other, and envy all other: they deride all other, and blame all other men's manners; they be not ashamed to lie, and they repute no man, of what nation, blood, or puissance so-ever he be, to be hardy and valiant, but themselves. They delight in their own; they love not peace. In that land is plenteous ground, merry woods, moist rivers and wells, many flocks of beasts. There be earth-tillers for quantity ...
— Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus • Robert Steele
... tended entirely to besiege the Romans, and to enclose them on all sides. Now Sabinus was afraid of these men's number, and of their resolution, who had little regard to their lives, but were very desirous not to be overcome, while they thought it a point of puissance to overcome their enemies; so he sent immediately a letter to Varus, and, as he used to do, was very pressing with him, and entreated him to come quickly to his assistance, because the forces he had left were in imminent danger, and would probably, in no long time, be seized upon, and ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus
... puissance bloquee qui ne respectent pas un pareil blocus peuvent etre sequestres. Le blocus ayant cesse, ils doivent etre restitues avec leur cargaisons a leurs proprietaires, mais sans dedommagement a ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland
... Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various
... a suite." Then of his envy and malice that Wazir fell to plying the King with deceitful words and said, "O my liege lord and mighty sovran, it ill becometh thee to be thus heedless of Prince Ahmad's proceedings. Seest thou not how day after day his retinue increaseth in numbers and puissance? What an he should plot against thee and cast thee into prison, and take from thee the reins of the realm? Right well thou wottest that inasmuch as thou didst wed Prince Ali to the Lady Nur al-Nihar thou provokedest the wrath of Prince Husayn and ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... Pope he sitteth above them all, that they may kiss his toe, Below the keys the Flower-de-lys doth make a gallant show: For his great puissance, the King of France next to the Pope may sit, The rest more low, all in a row, as ...
— Mediaeval Tales • Various
... lesquelles || Lui meme a Voiagees & vuees la pluspart: & ou il nous enseigne brievement || les Moeurs & Coutumes de ces Peuples, avant ce tems la inconnues aux|| Europeens; || Comme aussi l'origine de la puissance des Tartares, quand a leurs Conquetes || de plusieurs Etats ou Pais dans la Chine, ici clairement proposee & expliquee. || Le tout divise en III. Livres, || Confere avec un Manuscrit de la Bibliotheque de S.A.E. de Brandebourg, || & enrichi de plusieurs Notes & Additions tirees du ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... rather thank your gentler fate, 655 That for a bruis'd or broken pate, Has freed you from those knobs that grow Much harder on the marry'd brow: But if no dread can cool your courage, From vent'ring on that dragon, marriage, 660 Yet give me quarter, and advance To nobler aims your puissance: Level at beauty and at wit; The fairest ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
... day when the poor honest herd of man kind shall give universal utterance to the universal instinct, and shall hold selfish power in politics, in art, in religion, for the devil that it is; when neither its crazy pride nor its amusing vanity shall be flattered by the puissance of the "geniuses" who have forgotten their duty to the common weakness, and have abused it to their own glory. In that day we shall shudder at many monsters of passion, of self-indulgence, of heartlessness, whom we still more or less openly adore ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... roi Dont on ne dit rien dans l'histoire, Qui ne connaissait qu'une Loi: Celle de chanter, rire, et boire. Fervent disciple de Bacchus Il glorifiait sa puissance, Puis, sacrifiait a Venus Les ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... first-lieutenants, and so on with the various grades in our service, until the aspirants, or middies, were merely honoured by his little finger as their representative, we only laughed; and asked him, if he had been so destructive to the officers, how many men had fallen by the puissance of his arm. It seemed that these latter were too numerous and too ignoble to be counted; for that question was always answered with a bah! and a rapidly passing over the extended palm of his left hand ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard |
