"Quint" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Charles-Quint entroit dans les interets du Roi de Danemarck avec une chaleur que la seule alliance ne produit guere entre les potentats. On pretend que ce prince, le plus ambitieux de son siecle, n'avoit accorde la princesse sa soeur a Christierne, qu'a condition qu'il le ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker
... compounded, the eldest times have not invaded and corrupted: what great alteration should we look for in celestial and quint-essential bodies? And yet we have reason to think, that the sun, by whose help all creatures are generate, doth not in these latter ages assist nature, as heretofore. We have neither giants, such as the eldest world had; nor mighty men, such as the elder world had; but all things in general ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot |
