"Termes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nor delighted in the busie life and vayne ridiculous actions of the popular, they call him in scorne a Philosopher, or Poet, as much to say as a phantasticall man, very iniuriously (God wot) and to the manifestation of their own ignoraunce, not making difference betwixt termes. For as the cuill and vicious disposition of the braine hinders the sounde iudgement and discourse of man with busie & disordered phantasies, for which cause the Greekes call him [Greek: phantasikos] so is that part being well affected, ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham
... modifie the soume of two thousand pounds Scots, to be payed yearly at the terms of Whitsunday be the said Walter Scott of Raeburn, furth of his estate to the petitioner, for the entertainment and education of the said children, beginning the first termes payment therof at Whitsunday last for the half year preceding, and so furth yearly, at the said terme of Whitsunday in tym comeing till furder orders; and ordaines the said Walter Scott of Raeburn to be transported from the tolbooth of Edinburgh to the prison ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... Termes inhabit tropical countries, and the first establishment of new colonies takes place in this way: In the evening, at the end of the dry season, the males and females, having arrived at their perfect state, ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir
... Quatrain 234 admits that, however clear the mystical meaning of such Images must be to Europeans, they are not quoted without "rougissant" even by laymen in Persia—"Quant aux termes de tendresse qui commencent ce quatrain, comme tant d'autres dans ce recueil, nos lecteurs, habitues maintenant a 1'etrangete des expressions si souvent employees par Kheyam pour rendre ses pensees sur l'amour divin, et a la singularite des images trop orientales, ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam
... together, vnto the possession of all the Indians countrey. (M13) The author of this storie Ruffinus receiued the trueth hereof from the very mouth of Edesius companion to Frumentius. Moreouer Eusebius in his Historie Ecclesiasticall(1) in precise termes, and in diuers places maketh mention how Constantine the great not onely enlarged his Empire by the subduing of his next neighbours, but also endeauoured by all meanes to subiect all such remote Barbarous and ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt
... l'esprit du prsent Protocole, les Etats signataires conviennent que la totalit des frais de toute opration d'ordre militaire, naval ou arien, entreprise pour la rprssion d'une agression, conformment aux termes de ce Protocole, ainsi que la rparation de tous dommages subis par les personnes civiles ou militaires, et de tous dommages matriels occasionns par les oprations de part et d'autre, seront supports par l'Etat agresseur jusqu' ...
— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller
... used among this helish crew, what words and termes they give themselves and their copesmates, are at large set downe in the former two Bookes: let it suffise yee then in this, to read the simple true discourses of such as have by extraordinary cunning and treachery beene ...
— The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592) - With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking • R. G.
... refused to pay, a general interdict should be proclaimed. The rector of the Jesuits retired indignantly, and 'Pe e Lozano, retroussant sa robe le poursuivit en criant a pleine te^te, et s'exprimant en des termes peu seans a sa profession.'* By this time Asuncion must have been like a madhouse, for no one seems to have been astonished, or even to have thought his conduct singular. The Bishop, always ready to take the worst advice, got ready for his task, and on Easter Eve embarked ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... thee spend a deale of precious time To get that heart which at the first was thine. More I could say. But he content with this, Closd vp the sentence with a sugred kisse. She seemd displeasd, till kissing her againe, Achilles like, he tooke away her paine: And then in close coucht termes would faine desire Loues highest blisse, than which there is no higher: But yet the bashfull boy knew not what art, What termes to vse, or how for to impart His secret meaning; for he blusht for shame To thinke what he should aske; & then would faine Haue made his bolder hand supply the ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale
... chaux ou d'ardoise revetir cette apparence. Les signes qui peuvent donner quelque indice de la nature des montagnes, a de grandes distances et au travers des plantes qui le couvrent, sont en petit nombre, et meritent d'etre etudies et consacres par des termes propres." ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... lorsque M. Viot y entrait? 2. Que se bornait-il faire? 3. Qu'tait-ce que le jeune Boucoyran? 4. Pourquoi le principal tenait-il lui? 5. Pourquoi vcmes-nous, le marquis et moi, en assez bons termes pendant quelque temps? 6. Que lui dis-je un jour qu'il se montra par trop insolent? 7. Comment reut-il cet acte d'autorit? 8. Que rpondit-il ma seconde injonction, et que fis-je alors? 9. Quelle tait mon intention? 10. Que fit-il lorsque j'eus le geste de le prendre au ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... an old valet-de-chambre, called Termes, a bold thief, and a still more impudent liar: he used to send this man from London every week, on the commissions we have before mentioned; but after the disgrace of Mrs. Middleton, and the adventure of Miss Warmestre, Mr. Termes was only employed in bringing his master's clothes from ...
— The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete • Anthony Hamilton
... this group. There is no progression from a lower to a higher type, but merely a more or less complete evolution of one type." Huxley seems to use the term anamorphism in a sense differing from that of some writers. Thus in Jourdan's "Dictionnaire des Termes Usites dans les Sciences Naturelles," 1834, it is defined as the production of an atypical form either by arrest or excess of development.), I should have thought that the archetype in imagination was always in some degree embryonic, ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin
... double, common in Ashanti and Congo-land. Like most of their congeners, the animals die when exposed to the sun. The "Bashikouay" and Nchounou (Nchu'u) of M. du Chaillu are the common "driver-ant" of West Africa (Termes bellicosa). It is little feared in the Gaboon; when its armies attack the mission-houses, they are easily stopped by lighting spirits of turpentine, or by a strew of quicklime, which combines with the formic acid. The different species are described in "Palm Land" and "Western Africa" (pp. ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... eke, how that the harde stone Under our feet, on which we trede and gon, It wasteth as it lieth by the way; The brode river some time waxeth dry; The grete tounes see we wane and wende; Then may ye see that all things hath an end. Of man and woman see we wel also, That nedes in on of the termes two, That is to sayn, in youth or elles age, He mote be ded, the king as shall a page; Som on his bed, some on the depe see, Som in the large field, as ye may see; Ther helpeth nought, all goth ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... auec erudition & auec elegance. Et prenez a tache d'obseruer en vos discours les regles de l'honnestete & de la modestie; & vous gardez bien de ces contes vn peu trop libres; ne les faites ny en l'oreille d'vn autre, ny ne les poussez par jeu auec profusion. N'employez point de termes bas & raualez ou populaires en des matieres ...
— George Washington's Rules of Civility - Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway • Moncure D. Conway
... were gradually squeezing the Germans out of their salient between the Oise and the Aisne back upon the Serre. Chalandry and Grandlup, near that river, were occupied on the 22nd, and east of the Aisne some progress was made in the Argonne by the capture of Olizy and Termes on the 15th; but till nearly the end of October the Americans west of the Meuse were held up by their commissariat difficulties, though east of it they had captured Brabant and Consenvoye and pushed forward their line to a level with that ...
— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard
... en termes qui prennent leur source dans le coeur, le devoir qui a t enseign et pratiqu parmi vous, par des prdicateurs ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
... appertaining to my argument, either stranger or naturall, I haue recorded the same word for word, with his particular name and page of booke where it is extant. If the same were not reduced into our common language, I haue first expressed it in the same termes wherein it is originally written whether it were a Latine, Italian, Spanish or Portugall discourse, or whatsoeuer els, and thereunto in the next roome haue annexed the signification and translation of the wordes in English. And to the ende that those men which were the paynefull and personall ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... termes shalbe occasyon that in tyme to come ye shalbe icy mis en termes sera occasion que ou temps aduenir ...
— An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly • Anonymous
... user de paroles facheuses ni de reprimandes. Enseignez-moi principalement les choses qui sont les plus necessaires pour les dis cours que je dois faire en public, dans les mosquees et ailleurs; et ne parlez point en termes obscurs, ou mysterieux, ni ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... qu'estoit la bien venue: lors aussytost le Diable la fist mettre sur ses genoux: luy se tenant debout sur ses pieds de derriere; luy ayant fait detester l'Esternelle en ses mots: Je renie Dieu le Pere, Dieu le Fils et Dieu le St. Esprit; se fist adorer et invocquer en ses termes: Nostre Grand Maistre aide nous! avec paction expresse d'adherer a luy; que cela fait, ill ont copulation avec elle en la susdite forme de chien, ung peu plus grand: puis elle et les aultres danserent avec luy dos a dos: qu'apres avoir danse, le Diable versoit ...
— Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands • John Linwood Pitts
... said the damoysels, welcome said knightes, welcome said Arthur, for one of the best knyghts and the gentylst of the world, and the man of moost worship, for all manner of hunting thou berest the pryce, and of all mesures of blowynge thou art the begynninge, and of alle the termes of huntynge and haukinge ye are the begynner, of all Instrumentes of musyke ye are the best, therefor gentyl knyght, said Arthur, ye are welcome to ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman
... taken up before Lent so as to avoid the appearance of selling the sacrament (Ibid., ii. 167, 168, 174). When, on the 27th of May 1560, the reforming vicar of Lintrathin raised a summons against his parishioners for payment of his teinds, "the cors present and umest clayth of all yeris and termes bigane restand unpayit" were specially excepted from his claim (Spalding ...
— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell
... their development, and is explicable by extinction in mass. A Beetle or a Butterfly is to be recognised as such at the first glance, but only a thorough investigation can demonstrate the mutual relationships of Termes, Blatta, Mantis, Forficula, Ephemera, Libellula, etc. I may refer to a corresponding remarkable example from the vegetable world: amongst Ferns the genera Aneimia, Schizaea and Lygodium, belonging to the group Schizaeaceae which ...
— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller
... May Day, "Lord, how you roll in your rope-ripe terms." Minshew explains the word as "one ripe for a rope, or for whom the gallows groans." I find the expression "to rowle in their ropripe termes" in William Bullein's rare and curious "Dialogue both pleasaunt and ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... that when you shall have cause to descourse or sometimes to come neerer them; if your breath be ill, your teeth ill, or any thing about you ill, why they will presently breake with ye, in kinde sort, good termes, pretty experiments, and tell you plaine this; thus it is with your breath, Sir, thus it is with your teeth, Sir, this is your disease, and this is ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various
... a Priest or Iesuit had a hand in one end of it, there would appeare to bee knauerie, and practise in the other end of it. And that it might the better appeare to the whole World, examined Thomas Sowerbuts, what Master taught his daughter: in generall termes, he ...
— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts
... displayed, and thei holdin as rebelles unto France, (such pollicye is no falsett in Princes,) for good peax stoode betuix France and England, and the King of France approved nothing that thei did. The cheaf men, to whome the conducting of that army was committed, war Monsieur Dandelot, Monsieur de Termes, and Peir de Strois. In thare jorney thei maid some hereschepe upoun the coast of England; but it was nott great. [SN: 1549.] They arryved in Scotland in Maij, anno 1549.[544] The galayis did visitt the forte of Browghty, but did no more at that tyme. Preparationis ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox |
