"Religieux" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Sur quelques Faits religieux ou magiques, observes pendant une epidemie de cholera en Annam," Anthropos, ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... there, where the oldest inhabitants were circling round and round a barrel-organ on hobby- horses, with the greatest gravity, and where the principal show in the Fair was a Religious Richardson's—literally, on its own announcement in great letters, THEATRE RELIGIEUX. In which improving Temple, the dramatic representation was of 'all the interesting events in the life of our Lord, from the Manger to the Tomb;' the principal female character, without any reservation or ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
... quondam Jacobin, Pons (de l'Herault), Commissioner of Mines at Elba, has left "Souvenirs de l'Ile d'Elbe," which are of colossal credulity. In chap. xi. he gives tales of plots to murder Napoleon—some of them very silly. In part ii., chap, i., he styles him "essentiellement religieux," and a most tender-hearted man, who was compelled by prudence to hide his sensibility! Yet Campbell's official reports show that Pons, at that time, was far ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... Cuthbert built an oratory on one of them, and died there. At one time there were two chapels on these rocks; one dedicated to St. Cuthbert, the other to the Virgin Mary: they are now ruins; and a square building, erected for the religieux stationed on these isles, has been put to better use, and converted into a lighthouse. Off these islands occurred that dreadful calamity, the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, of which I will give ...
— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne
... interment.]—"Les Religieux de Saint Ouen touchez de compassion envers ce malheureux artisan, obtinrent son corps de la justice, et pour reconnoissance des bons services qu'il leur avoit rendus dans la construction de leur eglise, nonobstant ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... you after sunset?" "The devas receive them," etc.—In the cuneiform tablet of the deluge (see 160 ff.), the gods "smell the good odor and gather above the officiating priest like flies." (Dhorme, Textes religieux assyro-babyloniens, 1907, p. 115; cf. Maspero, Hist. anc. des peuples ...
— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont
... profondment pntrs. Nous la traitons avec tout le srieux et tous les soins que sa gravit exige. Oui, ce que vos chefs respectifs disent est vrai; cette question a son ct politique aussi bien que son ct religieux. Il faut en effet que nous nous sparions de la nation, ou bien des Puissances Chrtiennes; ce sont l deux grands maux galement viter. Le Sultan a ordonn que cette question soit discute dans un Conseil d'Oulmas qui s'ouvrira ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various |
