Questions Set at the Examinations ..., المجلد 1927

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الصفحة 30 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
الصفحة 171 - The angle of two arcs of great circles is equal to the angle of their planes, and is measured by the arc of a great circle described from its vertex as a pole and included between its sides (produced if necessary). Let AB and AB...
الصفحة 36 - The circumstance of life should not be that which gives us place, but our behaviour in that circumstance is what should be our solid distinction. Thus a wise man should think no man above him or below him, any further than it regards the outward order or discipline of the world : for, if we...
الصفحة 33 - The slow, sad murmur of far distant seas, Whipped by an icy breeze Upon a shore Wind-swept and desolate. It was a sunless strand that never bore The footprint of a man, Nor felt the weight Since time began Of any human quality or stir Save what the dreary winds and waves incur.
الصفحة 29 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
الصفحة 52 - Comme il y avait longtemps qu'elle n'avait mangé, elle acheta trois fois plus de viande qu'il n'en fallait pour le souper de deux personnes. Lorsqu'ils furent rassasiés, la bûcheronne dit : « Hélas, où sont maintenant nos pauvres enfants ? Ils feraient bonne chère de ce qui nous reste là. Mais aussi Guillaume, c'est toi qui...
الصفحة 55 - Versailles, mais qu'on lui avait ordonné de ne pas mettre son uniforme dans la crainte de m'effrayer : il me montra une lettre signée de Bonaparte , qui portait l'ordre de m'éloigner à quarante lieues de Paris , et enjoignait de me faire partir dans les vingt-quatre heures , en me traitant cependant avec tous les égards dus à une femme d'un nom connu.
الصفحة 32 - When we have deducted all that is absorbed in sleep, all that is inevitably . . appropriated to the demands of nature, or irresistibly engrossed by the tyranny of custom ; all that passes in regulating the superficial decorations of life, or is given up...
الصفحة 62 - IL eSt un air pour qui je donnerais Tout Rossini, tout Mozart et tout Weber*, Un air très vieux, languissant et funèbre, Qui pour moi seul a des charmes secrets ! Or, chaque fois que je viens à l'entendre, De deux cents ans mon âme rajeunit... C'eSt sous Louis treize; et je crois voir s'étendre Un coteau vert, que le couchant jaunit. Puis un château de brique...
الصفحة 32 - ... that its greater part is covered by the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the rest some is encumbered with naked mountains and some lost under barren sands ; some scorched with unintermitted heat, and some petrified with perpetual frost ; so that only a few regions remain for the production of fruits, the pasture of cattle, and the accommodation of man.

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