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Weill   /waɪl/   Listen
Weill

noun
1.
German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950).  Synonym: Kurt Weill.






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"Weill" Quotes from Famous Books



... or plague, or some catastrophe were to destroy all the accumulated stores of knowledge which have been transmitted from antiquity in books (Praef., B verso). What is known of the life of this almost forgotten scholar has been collected by G. Weill (De Gulielmi Postelli vita et indole, 1892). He visited the East, brought back oriental MSS., and was more than once imprisoned on charges of heresy. He dreamed of converting the Mohammedans, and of uniting the whole world ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury



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