"Primo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Indeed, I am as content, as comfortable here, as are their Excellencies in what is called the Salon. Surely, we are above them—at least, in the night. What matters it, then, if ours is called the Fourth Class and theirs the Primo. Wherever one is happy, Shakib, ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... gramini [Errata: graminis] modo & more e Lapidibus minerae velut e radice excrevisse digiti Longitudine, testis est Dr. Schreterus, qui ejusmodi venas aspectu jucundas & admirabiles Domi sua aliis saepe monstravit & Donavit. Item Aqua caerulea Inventa est Annebergae, ubi argentum erat adhuc in primo ente, quae coagulata redacta est in calcem fixi ...
— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle
... in 1833, Miss Rosina Andrien. The young husband felt a high esteem for his father-in-law (primo basso cantante at the Opera); but we must not suppose that this consideration influenced his choice. He made a love marriage such as one makes at the age of twenty-two, with such a nature as his. Moreover, reason was never ...
— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various
... I. bis, et X literis a tempore Christi, Aemon, tunc ab Alexandro fundata fuisti Scotorum primo. Structorem Canonicorum Transferat ex imo Deus ...
— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson
... opening section! They sound as if they had been drawn from the people's store-house of song. The entrance of the presto surprises, and seems out of keeping with what precedes; but what we hear after the return of tempo primo—the development of those simple strains, or rather the cogitations on them—justifies the presence of the presto. The second appearance of the latter leads to an urging, restless coda in A minor, which closes in the same key and pianissimo with a ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... great poet? received with acclamation G.C.M. A great painter? oh! certainly, G.C.M. If a great painter, why not a great novelist? Well, pass, great novelist, G.C.M. But if a poetic, a pictorial, a story-telling or music-composing artist, why not a singing artist? Why not a basso-profondo? Why not a primo tenore? And if a singer, why should not a ballet-dancer come bounding on the stage with his cordon, and cut capers to the music of a row of decorated fiddlers? A chemist puts in his claim for having invented a new color; an apothecary for a new pill; the cook for a new sauce; the tailor ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Et primo incepit a digniori, scilicet a Guidone Guerra; et circa istius descriptionem lectori est aliqualiter immorandum, quia multi mirantur, immo truffantur ignoranter, quod Dantes, qui poterat describere istum praeclarum ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various
... succeeded by the veteran General Don Fernando Primo de Rivera, who had seen much active service. As soon as Rivera had taken over command of the Forces he personally led his army in the assault upon and pursuit of the revolutionary forces, and so firmly, as well as humanely, was the campaign conducted that ...
— True Version of the Philippine Revolution • Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy
... 3, and see Sent. III. xxxiii. 3 and 4. 'Practica quidem scientia est, quae recte vivendi modum ac disciplinae formam secundum virtutum institutionem disponit. Et haec dividitur in tres, scilicet: primo ethicam, id est moralem; et secundo oeconomicam, id est dispensativam; et tertio politicam, id est civilem' (Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum, VII. ...
— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien
... "Fluctus uti primo coepit cum albescere vento, Paulatim sese tollit mare, et altius undas Erigit, inde imo consurgit ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... "Christoforo Colombo—primo con una bandiera nella quale era figurato il nostro Signore Jesu Christo in croce, salto in terra, e quella pianto, e poi tutti gli alti smontarono, e inginocchiati baciarono la terra, tre volti piangendo di allegrezza. ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton
... relative hung over the dying person, endeavoring to inhale his last breath, in a fond belief that the anima, the living principle, departed at that moment, and by that passage from the body. Hence the phrases, animam in primo ore tenere, spiritum excipere, and the like. It is curious to observe how an established form of expression holds its ground. Here are we, after the lapse of eighteen hundred years, still talking of receiving a dying friend's last breath, as if we really meant ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... made his choice, he stepped forward, and without further pause or preparation, began with the first subject upon his list,—"Il primo Navigatore." ...
— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson
... Orientis, a religioso, viro fratre Haytono, ordinis beati Augustini, domino Churchi, consanguineo regis Armeniae, compilato [compilatus] ex mandato summi pontificis domini Clementis papae quinti, in civitate pictaviensi regni Franchiae: quem ego Nicolaus Falconi, primo scripsi in galico ydiomate, sicut idem frater H. michi [mihi] ore suo dictabat, absque nota sive aliquo [Footnote: L'exemplaire no. 5514 ajoute a verbo ad verbum.] exemplari. Et de gallico transtuli in latinum; anno domini M deg.CCC deg.. septimo, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... Even at the present day I could not prohibit it; but I would not recommend it" (Commentary on Genesis, 1528; see Jarcke, Studien, p. 108). "Ego sane fateor, me non posse prohibere, siquis plures velit uxores ducere, nec repugnat sacris literis: verum tamen apud Christianos id exempli nollem primo introduci, apud quos decet etiam ea intermittere, quae licita sunt, pro vitando scandalo, et pro honestate vitae" (De Wette, ii. 459, Jan. 13, 1524). "From these instances of bigamy (Lamech, Jacob) no rule can be drawn for our times; and such examples have no power with ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... scorched.—Ver. 554. Clarke quaintly renders the words 'viscera torrentur primo.' 'first people's bowels are searched;' perhaps, however, the latter word is a misprint ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... of Comon Prayer, published primo Eliz. was first resolved upon and established in the Church in the tyme of K. Ed. 6. It was re-examined with some small alterations by the Convocation consistinge of the said Bishops and the rest of the clergy in primo Eliz. which beinge done by the Convocation ...
— The Acts of Uniformity - Their Scope and Effect • T.A. Lacey
... princeps iste timorem habuerat filialem ad Dominum, patet in quammultis ejus actis et devotionibus. Primo referre solebat quidam Angliae reverendus antistes, se per decem annos confessoris sui officio functum apud ipsum regem Henricum fuisse. Sed neque per tantum tempus mortalis alicujus [A III a] criminis maculam animam ...
— Henry the Sixth - A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes • John Blacman
... Primo Hugo Willoughby eques Anglus & Richardus Chanceler has oras apperuerunt. Succedit eis Stephanus Borough, vlterius pro-grefsi funt Artunis Pet & Carol. Iackman. Sufcept funt hae nauigationes, inftigante Sebaftiano Caboto, vt, fiqu pofset fieri traiectum in regiones ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... certo il primo di che'l bel sereno Delia tua fronte agli occhi miei s'offerse E vidi armato spaziarvi Amore, Se non che riverenza allor converse, E Meraviglia in fredda selce il seno, Ivi peria con doppia morte il core; Ma parte degli strali, e dell' ardore Sentii pur anco ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... Pantheum mythicum, seu Fabulosa deorum, historia, hoc primo epitomes eruditionis volumine, breviter dilucidque comprehensa. Editio quinta. Ultrajecti, apud Guiljelmum ...
— The Library of William Congreve • John C. Hodges
... Abbot Odlando, the privilege of hunting in his forests for the purpose of procuring leather to bind their books. "Odlando Abbate hujus loci abbas nonus, in omni bonitate suo praedecessori Hardrado coaequalis anno primo sui regiminis impetravit a rege Carolo privilegium venandi in silvis nostris et aliis ubicumque constitutis, ad volumina librorum tegaenda, et manicas et zonas habendas. Salvis forestis regiis, quod sic incipit. Carolus ...
— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather
... supposed to be justified by the words of St. Thomas, 3 Sent. dist. 22, qu. 3, art. 1, ad quintum. "Corporalis praesentia Christi in duobus poterat esse nociva. Primo, quantum ad fidem, quia videntes Eum in forma in qua erat minor Patre, non ita de facili crederent Eum aequalem Patri, ut dicit glossa super Joannem. Secundo, quantum ad dilectionem, quia Eum non solum spiritualiter, sed etiam carnaliter diligeremus, conversantes ...
— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila
... accident, at a somewhat crowded part, I unluckily elbowed the man into the kennel, and though I apologized in the handsomest way, he must take offense and seek to cut off my life, to extinguish me in primo aevo, as Naso would say. But Atropos was forestalled, my thread of life still falls uncut from Clotho's shuttle; still, still, my boy, I bear on ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... di diversi autori eccellenti p. 60), we read the following words: 'In quanto alla dispensa di maritar il figliolo con la figliola del re, se con haver in questa maniera stabilita la successione S. M. si rimanesse del primo pensiero della dissolutions S. Bne inclineria assai Piu.' This looks as if a marriage between Henry VIII's natural son and Mary was spoken of.—So I wrote previously. The thing is quite true. Campeggi writes 28 Oct. to Sanga. 'Han pensato si maritar la ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke
... CLOWN. Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old saying is, the third pays for all; the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, ...
— Twelfth Night; or, What You Will • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... "Parla per primo un vecchio garabaldino il quale afforma che se continueranno le opposizione per Fiume andremo laggiu non col grigioverde ma con la camicia rossa e conclude mandando un caldo saluto al populo americano mentre impreca al tradimento di Wilson; poi ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
... one of the reliable Spanish papers, and it states that General Primo de Rivera has been discussing terms of peace with Emilio Aguinaldo, the ...
— The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, November 4, 1897, No. 52 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... potentia. Nam Divus Augustinus libro quinto Genes, ad liter, cap. 4 et 5 et libro 8, cap. 3, posteriorem partem tradit, dicens, terram in hoc die accepisse virtutem germinandi omnia vegetabilia quasi concepto omnium illorum semine, non tamen statim vegetabilia omnia produxisse. Quod primo suadet verbis illis capitis secundi. In die quo fecit Deus coelum et terram et omne virgultum agri priusquam, germinaret. Quomodo enim potuerunt virgulta fieri antequam terra germinaret nisi quia causaliter prius ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley
... perniciem secunda omnia. Dum diversorium solitum peto, obiter forte aedes praetereo quasdam equis locandis inscriptas. Ingredior, advocatur locator, homo effigie et habitu ita adamussim 20 Mercurium referens ut mihi primo quoque congressu furis suspicionem dederit. Convenit de mercede. Conductis duobus equis iter sub vesperum ingredimur, comitante iuvene quodam, quem generum esse suum aiebat, qui iumenta domum referret. Postridie 25 ad viculum quendam, cui divo Iuliano nomen est, perventum est et quidem ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... operating against the Japs in the same war. Or one of the classic examples is Abd-el-Krim destroying two different Spanish armies in the Moroccan Rif in the 1920s. His barefoot men, armed with rifles, took on Primo de Rivera's modernized Spanish ...
— Border, Breed Nor Birth • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... "Dico che il regno di Francia per universal consenso del mondo fu riputato il primo regno di cristianita," etc. Commentario del regno di Francia del clarissimo sig. Michel Suriano, Rel. des ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... Rapid;" and in order to give him a fair chance, I pointed to the first lines of the first chapter, viz.: "In principio Deus creavit coelum et terram intra sex dies; primo die fecit ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various
... hourly; daily, daily, From the sunrise to the setting; From the setting to the sunrise Scarce a break in all the circle For the rough and scanty eating, For the scant and muddy drinking, For the fitful, fearful resting, For the master haunted-sleeping. Dreams in dark of God's far heaven Tempo primo; ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... Primo Die Decembris.—Master Ponsonbye. Entered for his Copye a book intituled the fayre Queene, dyposed into xii bookes &c. Aucthorysed vnder thandes of the Archb. of Canterbery & bothe ...
— A Biography of Edmund Spenser • John W. Hales
... shake-up in his sitting-room, and on his early departure had left the poem behind him as payment for his night's lodging. In one of Clough's letters to New Zealand I find, "Say not the struggle nought availeth"—another of the half-dozen—written out by him; and the original copy—tibi primo confisum, of the pretty, though unequal verses, "A London Idyll." The little volume of miscellaneous poems, called Ambarvalia, and the "Bothie of Tober-na-Vuo-lich" were sent out to New Zealand by Clough, ...
— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... "Primo: the factitious assembly of proprietors, noble citizens of this town and its environs, is dissolved, as tending to popular sedition; its proceedings are declared null, and its letter to the King, against us, the judges, which has been intercepted, shall be publicly burned in the marketplace ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... libro, primo al lor cantare Di Marte fai gli affanni sostenuti, Nel vulgar latino ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 • Various
... "Primo," cried he, "want of exercise. You live here like a mouse in a cheese, without air, motion, or change. Consequently, the blood circulates badly, the fluids thicken, the muscles, being inactive, do not claim their share ...
— An "Attic" Philosopher, Complete • Emile Souvestre |
