"Ligne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enthusiastic about the Memoirs themselves. Out of France it would be difficult to find a more egotistical piece of self-portraiture. Chateaubriand is not quite so ostentatious in his egotism as the Prince de Ligne, who headed the chapters in his "Memoires et Melanges," "De moi pendant le jour," "De moi pendant la nuit," "De moi encore," "Memoirs pour mon coeur"; still he parades himself on every possible occasion, and not always to his own advantage. His conduct in passing ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... de Ligne[10] will be received with every possible attention, I can promise; it would have been so without his being recommended; his rank, and, above all, his being one of your subjects, would of course entitle him to ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
... fait aux Etats signataires l'injonction prvue au dernier alina de l'article 10 ci-dessus, ces Etats peuvent en outre faire entrer en ligne, suivant les accords antrieurement faits, leurs forces militaires, navales et ariennes au secours d'un Etat ...
— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller
... sides men flocked to serve under me. There were enough to form a squadron of princes and volunteers. Among the former a Prince of Hesse, two of Bavaria, a Bevern, a Culenbach, one of Wuertemberg, two of Ligne, one of Lichtenstein, of Anhalt-Dessau, the Count of Charolai, the Princes of Dombes, of Marsillac, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various
... dont il est compose, a mesure qu'ils s'eloignent de la haute ligne orientale perdent graduellement de leur hauteur et de leur continuite; le plus occidentales ne forment pas, comme la premiere, des chaines de montagnes elevee et non interrompues; ce sont des monticules ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... named on the principle of locus a non lucendo. Rahel, "the little woman with a great soul," as Goethe called her, was even a more striking personality. She numbered, among her friends, men of such different types as Schelling and Schleiermacher, the Prince de Ligne, and Fichte, Schlegel and Gutzkow, Prince Louis Ferdinand, Frederick the Great's nephew, and Fouque, Gentz, and the Humboldts, and she finally married Varnhagen van Ense. She was the first to appreciate, in its full extent, the multiform genius of Goethe, and helped the rise to fame of Boerne, ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various
... the last of those intimate and charmingly unceremonious reunions which so especially characterized the manners of the high society of France when all question of etiquette was set aside. The witty Prince de Ligne, the handsome Comte de Vaudreuil, the clever M. de Boufflers, and his step-son, M. de Sabran, with such men as Diderot, d'Alembert, Marmontel, and Laharpe, were the original habitues of Mme. Lebrun's drawing-room. At the same time used ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various |
