"Premiere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seen, sir; besides, whenever I examine the beauty of a woman, 'la premiere chose que j'ecarte, ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... The amateur likes to see the book in its form as the author knew it. He takes a pious pleasure in the first edition of "Les Precieuses Ridicules," (M.DC.LX.) just as Moliere saw it, when he was fresh in the business of authorship, and wrote "Mon Dieu, qu'un Autheur est neuf, la premiere fois qu'on l'imprime." All editions published during a great man's life have this attraction, and seem to bring us closer to his spirit. Other volumes are relics, as we shall see later, of some famed collector, and there is a certain piety in the care we give to books once dear to Longepierre, ...
— The Library • Andrew Lang
... left one evening, after a premiere, where the audience had applauded her for a whole half hour, and had recalled her eleven times in succession. She had gone away with the poet, in a post-chaise, as was the fashion then; they had crossed the sea, to love each ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... premiere in the gray house—and he fulfilled its promise. Though he was conscientious and honorable, he was unquestionably a terrific bore. He seemed unable to control his tongue, sometimes continuing from paragraph to paragraph with a look akin to pain in ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... constitutions que se donnerent successivement les treize etats, furent precedees de declarations des droits, dont les principes devaient servir de regles aux representans du peuple, soit aux conventions, soit dans les autres exercises de leur pouvoirs. La Virginie fut la premiere a produire une declaration des droits proprement dite."—Ibid., ...
— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek
... was written by Henry Brooke in 1739 and immediately banned. Its American premiere was in Baltimore ...
— Alonzo and Melissa - The Unfeeling Father • Daniel Jackson, Jr.
... fol. mar. r. double de tabis, et boites IMPRIME SUR VELIN. "On peut regarder ce livre comme un des plus rares qui existe. L'exemplaire est unique et inconnu aux meilleurs bibliographes; Sauvage ne l'a jamaie vu; il est de la premiere beaute par la blancheur du velin, & par sa belle conservation. On y a joint tout le luxe de la relieure." In the Hafod Collection. 149 ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... To collect the funds necessary for the undertaking, the foundress travelled throughout Europe. Her tomb is in the church. "Julie Francoise Catherine Postel, nee a Barfleur, 1756. Soeur Marie Madelaine, Fondatrice et premiere Superieure Generale de l'Institut des Ecoles Chretiennes de la Misericorde, morte en odeur de Saintete 16 Juillet 1846, a l'Abbaye de St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte." The badge of the sisterhood is a cross inscribed with their motto "L'obeissance jusqu'a la mort." Some of the party made an attempt ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... D'APICIUS traduits du latin pour la Premiere fois et commentes par Bertrand Guegan. Paris Rene Bonnel Editeur rue ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... nags, these ponies of Manilla. The Frenchman had trained the menage, both Indians and horses, and promised the enlightened public a treat such as had never been offered before. His place was well arranged, and we had tickets stamped a la premiere lunette—to the dress circle. In it were several very tastily dressed and rather handsome ladies—brunettes of course. The performance had commenced before we entered, and at that time the act in progress was that of jumping and turning somersets over a poor and patient quadruped of the equine ...
— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay
... en armes pour disputer aux protestans l'exercise public de leur culte que leur accordoit l'edit de janvier, c'etoit un coup premedite que l'attaque du duc de Guise contre une congregation de huguenots, composee, a ce qu'il assure, en partie de ses vassaux, et qui se trouvoit la premiere sur son passage a peu de ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... intently fixed On number One alone— To look to no one's interest, But push along your own, Without the slightest reference To how, or what, or when— Eh bien! c'est la premiere Idee Napoleonienne. ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... mind that I would no longer be a cancre and a cretin, but work hard and do my little best, so that I might keep up with Barty and pass into the troisieme with him, and then into Rhetorique (seconde), and then into Philosophie (premiere)—that we might do our humanities and take our degree together—our "Bachot," which is short for Baccalaureat-es-lettres. Most Especially did I love Monsieur Durosier's class of French Literature—for which Merovee always rang the ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... Phelps without Boker's consent. Another, who examined Boker's manuscripts, in possession of the poet's daughter-in-law, Mrs. George Boker, records that Barrett made cuts in the play, preparatory to giving it, Boker, even, revising it in part. The American premiere was reserved for James E. Murdoch, at the Philadelphia Walnut Street Theater, January 20, 1851, and it was revived at the same playhouse in April, 1855, by E.L. Davenport. As Stoddard says of it, one "should know something—the more the better—about the plays that Dr. Bird and Judge Conrad ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... morning, and read Thiers' letter to him. I asked him if it had made any impression on Palmerston. He said, 'Not the slightest;' that he had said, 'Oh! Mehemet Ali cedera; il ne faut pas s'attendre qu'il cede a la premiere sommation; mais donnez-lui quinze jours, et il finira par ceder.' Guizot said that the failure of so many of his predictions and expectations had not in the slightest degree diminished Palmerston's confidence, and that there was in fact no use whatever in speaking to him on the subject. Guizot ...
— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville
... said—[Footnote: Philosophie Zoologique, premiere partie, chap. iii.] "Il n'y a que ceux qui se sont longtemps et fortement occupes de la determination des especes, et qui ont consulte de riches collections, qui peuvent savoir jusqu'a quel point les especes, parmi les corps vivants se fondent les ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley
... moqueurs que malfaisants.... L'origine de la tradition de la Mesnie Hellequin se perd dans l'obscurite des temps. On l'entendoit surtout bruire dans les environs de la ville d'Arles.... J'ignore la premiere origine de cette locution; mais ce qui me semble incontestable, c'est qu'on confondit facilement la Mesnie Hellequin avec celle 'de la Mort,' famille bariolee de rouge et de noir, et dont le manteau de ceremonie devoit etre un grand pan de toile ou linceul. Deja le lecteur a devance la consequence ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 • Various
... a corner of the greyish wall on which the addresses of several models were written in chalk, haphazard. The women particularly left their cards in that way, in awkward, childish handwriting. Zoe Piedefer, 7 Rue Campagne-Premiere, a big brunette, who was getting rather too stout, had scrawled her sign manual right across the names of little Flore Beauchamp, 32 Rue de Laval, and Judith Vaquez, 69 Rue du Rocher, a Jewess, both of ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... oppose; d'abord la methode theologique, ensuite la methode metaphysique, et enfin la methode positive. De la, trois sortes de philosophie, ou de systemes generaux de conceptions sur l'ensemble des phenomenes qui s'excluent mutuellement; la premiere est le point de depart necessaire de l'intelligence humaine; la troisieme, son etat fixe et definitif; la seconde est uniquement ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley
... je le vis, pour la premiere fois, en 1859, a la table de l'hotel d'Angleterre, a Francfort, c'etait deja un vieillard, a l'oeil d'un bleu vif et limpide, a la levre mince et legerement sarcastique, autour de laquelle errait un fin sourire, et dont le vaste front, estompe de deux touffes de cheveux blancs sur les ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... she answered, before the others could catch their breath, "premiere droite et premiere gauche. Allons, Gaspard!" she cried, tapping the young man sharply on ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... devoured. We had also alamode beef, cold fowl, a loin of veal, a dessert, and excellent wine. What a charming dinner! No cheer like a good appetite.' Their harmony, however, was disturbed. The 'premiere amoureuse,' who, in spite of her rank and title, was ugly and cross, and required to be coaxed with cups of chocolate, lost her cat. She tried to kill the whole boat-load of beasts—cats, dogs, monkeys, parrots, pigeons, even the lamb stood in danger of her wrath. A regular quarrel ensued, was ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds
... imperative:—"Cette repulsion qui se developpe chez Manet pour l'art de la tradition," he says, "se manifeste surtout par le mepris qu'il temoigne aux modeles posant dans l'atelier et a l'etude du nu telle qu'elle etait alors conduite. Le culte de l'antique comme on le comprenait dans la premiere moitie du XIXe siecle parmi les peintres avait amene la recherche de modeles speciaux. On leur demandait des formes pleines. Les hommes en particulier devaient avoir une poitrine large et bombee, un torse puissant, des membres muscles. Les individus doues ...
— Six Centuries of Painting • Randall Davies
... parties inhabitees du continent: cette mesure auroit une suite doublement utile; elle priveroit les colonies de ces etres par lesquels elles seront tot ou tard aneanties, et elle diminueroit ce gout crapuleux des Blancs pour leurs esclaves, qui est la ruine de la societe et la cause premiere du pen de population des pays qu'ils habitent.—Voyage dans Les Deux Louisianes, 1801, 1802, and 1803, pp. 408-415, par ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... night, but for the first time in the memory of the Theatre no ballet was to be given. Instead of the "Premiere Danseuse," the idol of Russian society, a new star had appeared, suddenly, miraculously almost, dropped from a Polish Province, and had played himself into the innermost heart of ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs
... Coast, our course is shaped across the Bight of Benin straight for the Congo. There is plenty of time therefore, to study the system of justice in the Congo. This, like everything else in the country, is essentially simple and practical. There is a Court of Premiere Instance at Boma and others called Territorial Courts at Matadi, Stanley Pool, East Kwango, The Equator, Bangalas, Aruwimi, Stanley Falls and Kassai[1]. In each Court is a Judge, an Officer of the Public Ministry and ...
— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman
... "L'astronomie moderne, en detruisant sans retour les hypotheses primitives, envisagees comme lois reelles du monde, a soigneusement maintenu leur valeur positive et permanente, la propriete de representer commodement les phenomenes quand il s'agit d'une premiere ebauche. Nos ressources a cet egard sont meme bien plus etendues, precisement a cause que nous ne nous faisons aucune illusion sur la realite des hypotheses; ce qui nous permet d'employer sans scrupule, en chaque cas, celle que nous jugeons ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... While this work was in the press, a book has appeared which I do not hesitate to add to this list, although I have not read it with the attention it deserves—Les Evangiles, par M. Gustave d'Eichthal. Premiere Partie: Examen Critique et Comparatif des Trois Premiers Evangiles. ...
— The Life of Jesus • Ernest Renan
... 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 allonges il est vrai, mais isoles ou qui du moins ne sont unis que par ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... theater it was evident that a premiere was to be given. All the members of the company appeared earlier, dressed and made up more carefully than usual and only Krzykiewicz, as was his custom, paraded about the dressing-room and the stage half-dressed with his ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont
... 1835, j'etais revenu en France une premiere fois, et je m'etais empresse d'ecrire a M. le duc de Broglie, alors ministre des affaires etrangeres, au nom duquel il me fut repondu ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... arches that support the roof have fallen in, and many of the columns are lying in ruins on the pavement. The Cour de Cassation and the Cour d'Assises are entirely destroyed. The conflagration was stopped, when it reached the Cour d'Appel and the Tribunal de Premiere Instance. ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... j'ai connu Fleeming Jenkin! C'etait en Mai 1878. Nous etions tous deux membres du jury de l'Exposition Universelle. On n'avait rien fait qui vaille a la premiere seance de notre classe, qui avait eu lieu le matin. Tout le monde avait parle et reparle pour ne rien dire. Cela durait depuis huit heures; il etait midi. Je demandai la parole pour une motion d'ordre, et je proposai que la seance fut levee a la condition que ...
— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson
... occurs in the Fragment d'un traite du vide, not published till 1779 (now included in the Pensees, Premiere Partie, Art. I), and therefore without influence on the origination of the theory of progress. It has been pointed out that Guillaume Colletet had in 1636 expressed a similar view (Brunetiere, ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... his way, like Lyell, towards evolution, without being able to grasp it. They both strove to explain phenomena by means of agencies which they saw actually at work. If De Candolle gave up the ultimate problem as insoluble:—"La creation ou premiere formation des etres organises echappe, par sa nature et par son anciennete, a nos moyens d'observation" (Loc. cit. page 1106.), he steadily endeavoured to minimise its scope. At least half of his great work is devoted to the researches by which he extricated himself from a belief in ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... or Cour d'Appel; Court of the First Instance or Tribunal de Premiere Instance; Court of Administrative ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... pour l'execution il se servait des diacres et des ministres inferieurs. Le reste du clerge etait distribue dans les titres de la ville et de la campagne, et ne se rassemblait qu'en certaines occasions, d'ou sont venus les synodes. De cette premiere partie de clerge sont venus les chanoines des cathedrales. Il est vrai que du commencement on nommait clercs canoniques, tous ceux qui vivaient selon les canons, sous la conduite de leur eveque; et qui etaient sur le canon ou la matricule ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 • Various |
