"Barth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to both, and when the Duke announced that he and the knight proposed visiting Barth [Footnote: Barth, a little town; and Eldena was at that time a richly endowed convent near Greifswald.] and Eldena, from whence they would return in a few days, to take their leave of her, she said that if her dearest son Ernest grew any better, she would have a grand battue in honour of ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold
... auspicious than the first. He undertook to cure a Mademoiselle Paradis, who was quite blind, and subject to convulsions. He magnetised her several times, and then declared that she was cured; at least, if she was not, it was her fault and not his. An eminent oculist of that day, named Barth, went to visit her, and declared that she was as blind as ever; while her family said she was as much subject to convulsions as before. Mesmer persisted that she was cured. Like the French philosopher, he would ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
... M. Barth classifies the Vedic gods according to the degree in which they have become detached from their natural basis. There are two which are not so detached at all. Agni, who is one of the chief deities of the Rigveda, ...
— History of Religion - A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems • Allan Menzies
... Amyot, born in 1514, "Un des Grandes Reformateurs de la langue franaise au 16me sicle." Behind are the public gardens containing some capitals of ancient columns. Near it is the Place St. Jean, with a handsome fountain. North-west from St. Aspais are the Prefecture and the belfry St. Barthlemy, restored in 1858. The Palais de Justice, the theatre, the Gendarmerie, and another of the prisons, are all together at the north end of the town. The gardens of Melun produce excellent pears—some are very large. Hardly 4 m. N.E. from Melun ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... Barth, who obtained some fragments of an Arabic copy when he was on his way to Timbuctoo, goes so far as to say that the book forms "one of the most important additions that the present age has made to the history of mankind."[5] Like the unknown culture which the Benin bronzes revealed, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various
... 4450. Author Coelestinae Barth. interprete. "That, overcome by the solicitations of friends, who requested me to enlarge and improve my volumes, I have devoted my otherwise reluctant mind to the labour; and now for the sixth time have I taken up my pen, and applied myself ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... (on p. 141) in the year 643 B.C.. Is this date given by the Adepts as undoubtedly correct? Have they any view as to the new inscriptions of Asoka (as given by General A. Cunningham, "Corpus Inscriptionum Indicanum," vol. I. pp. 20-23), on the strength of which Buddha's Nirvana is placed by Barth ("Religions of India," p. 106), &c., about 476 B.C., and his birth therefore at about 556 B.C.? It would be exceedingly interesting if the Adepts would give a sketch however brief of the history of India in those centuries ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... bore the words, "Unexplored Regions ." It embraced the largest portion of the whole continent. But this has been encroached upon year after year, on the South by Livingstone and Cumming, on the North by Barth, on the East by Barton, and on the West by Wilson and Du Chaillu, until the discoveries have almost touched each other. Wide stretches of thousands of miles, given up hitherto in the thoughts of men to perpetual desolation and drought, have been shown to hold vast inland seas, deep navigable ...
— The Future of the Colored Race in America • William Aikman
... India, the wellnigh impenetrable wildernesses of Africa, the table-lands of South America, or the islands of the Pacific. Already the organized energy of England has pushed its explorations, under Livingstone, Barth, and Clegg, into regions hitherto unknown. Already, under the increased consumption, one-third of the cotton consumed at Liverpool is the product of climes other than our own. Hundreds of miles of railroad ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861 • Various
... Bampton Lectures (Dr. White's) "Baptist," the, see Henry St. John Barbot's Lottery Barker, Mr. Barrington, Lord Barry, Mme. Du "Anecdotes of" Barry, Richard, sixth Earl of Barrymore, Barry, Richard, seventh Earl of Barrymore Barry, Mr. Barrymore, Lady Barrymore, Lord, see Barry Barth, Mrs. Basilico Bath Beauchamp, Lord Beauclerk, Topham; married to Lady Bolingbroke Beaufort, Duke of Beckford, Alderman Beckford, William, son of Alderman Beckford, author and collector Bedford, fourth Duke of Bedford, fifth Duke of Bedford, Duchess of Bedford faction Bedford House; ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... surprised to find, however, that while in some cases these equations were readily solved, in others they were impossible of solution. My friend, Mr. Carl G. Barth, when the matter was referred to him, soon developed the fact that the number of elements of a cycle which may be observed together is subject to a mathematical law, which is expressed ...
— Shop Management • Frederick Winslow Taylor
... this African Mecca had only been visited by the travelers of the ancient world Batouta, Khazan, Imbert, Mungo Park, Adams, Laing, Caille, Barth, Lenz, on that day by a most singular chance the two Americans could boast of having seen, heard, and smelt it, on their return to America—if they ever got ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne |
