"Raison d'etre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whether, as is generally believed, Seraphita was an androgynous being, or whether she symbolized the perfection of soul-union, our contention is that this union is not a creation of the imagination, but the accomplishment of the plan of creation—the final goal of earthly pilgrimage; the raison d'etre of ...
— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad
... fille," says Madame de Sevigne in one of her letters to Mad. de Grignan, "que vous avez raison d'etre fatiguee de cette Montagne de Rochepot! je la hais comme la mort; que de cahots, et quelle cruaute qu'au mois de Janvier les chemins de Bourgogne soient impracticables!" Allowing this to have been the case in her days, I can hardly wonder that even Mad. de Sevigne was ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes
... raison d'etre for this facsimile, which to name with approbation will no doubt seem impiety to many, but which, as a personal predilection, I venture to risk—there is no Cotton! The relation between Walton and Cotton ...
— The Compleat Angler - Facsimile of the First Edition • Izaak Walton
... "bargained for a courtesy and counted visits." "I have seen quarrels in the imperial court," she adds, "over a visit more or less long, more or less deferred." Perhaps it is to be considered that in a new order which has many aggressive elements, this balancing of courtesies is not without a certain raison d'etre as a protection against serious inroads upon time and hospitality; but the fault lies behind all this, in the lack of that subtle social sense which makes the discussion of these things superfluous, ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason
... my direct theme, not the Praeraphaelite Brotherhood; but it seems requisite to say in the first instance something about the Brotherhood—its members, allies, and ideas—so as to exhibit a raison d'etre for the magazine. In doing this I must necessarily repeat some things which I have set forth before, and which, from the writings of others as well as myself, are well enough known to many. I can vary my form of expression, but cannot introduce much novelty ...
— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various
... enlightened children Landlady, of Mentone; the London variety; she of Viareggio; of Florence Lante, Villa La Croce, mountain La Rocca, village Lawrence, D. H. Laws, raison d'etre of Italian Leuthold, H. Levanto, arrival at; situation; company at hotel; the local magistrate; stroll to Monterosso Licenza Ligurians, their bad character Lizard, making a friend of; a disconsolate one Love affairs, Italian, how to conduct Lucian Lucretilis, mountain ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas |
