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Weil   /waɪl/  /wil/   Listen
Weil

noun
1.
French philosopher (1909-1943).  Synonym: Simone Weil.
2.
United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998).  Synonym: Andre Weil.



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"Weil" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Bach's chief concern in adapting it for its place as the aria, "Du bist geboren mir zu Gute," in Also hat Gott, was to remedy this defect. On the other hand, the use of the delightful ritornello for violoncello from the little aria, "Weil die wollenreichen Heerden," in the birthday cantata, and the restoration of the rejected long instrumental fugato that was to follow, were obviously brought about by the conception of the entirely new material for the voice in the famous ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

... be made by him for new and comfortable quarters in the garrison he was going to, Frau Kahle was to stay on here, and First Lieutenant Weil and wife had asked her, to make things pleasanter for her, to remain as a guest at their dwelling for the ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg

... He is weil kend, John of the Syde; A greater theif did never ryde. He never tyris For to brek byris: Ouir muir and myris ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

... group were sitting "Harry" Weil, who time and again has tied tin cans to Wall Street's tail; big, bluff, honest "Billy" Oliver, whose "I'll take ten thousand more" is as familiar to Stock Exchange members as the sound of the gong; and little "Jakey" Field, most audacious ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... nichts lehren vor dem Glauben, sondern die Busse aus und nach dem Glauben folgend lehren, auf dass die Widersacher [Papisten] nicht sagen moegen, man widerrufe unsere vorige Lehre, so ist aber doch anzusehen, weil [dass] die Busse und Gesetz auch zu dem gemeinen Glauben gehoeren. Denn man muss ja zuvor glauben, dass Gott sei, der da drohe, gebiete, schrecke usw. So sei es fuer den gemeinen, groben Mann, dass man solche Stuecke des Glaubens lasse bleiben unter dem Namen ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... kennen sie den Werth der Dinge, Ihr Auge schliesst, nicht ihr Verstand; Sie loben ewig das Geringe Weil ...
— The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life • Arthur Schopenhauer

... time, was full of trout, but even then they were not easy to catch. One difficulty lay in the nature of the wading. There is a pool near Ashiesteil and Gleddis Weil which illustrated this. Here Scott and Hogg were once upset from a boat while "burning the water"—spearing salmon by torchlight. Herein, too, as Scott mentions in his Diary, he once caught two trout at one cast. The pool is long, is paved with small gravel, and allures you to wade on and on. ...
— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang

... was she e'en; but sair, sair angry and affronted wad she hae been, puir thing, if she had thought ye had been ever to ken a word about the matter; for she gar'd me speak aye Gaelic when ye was in hearing, to mak ye trow we were in the Hielands. I can speak it weil eneugh, for my ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... Zeugnisse, | Scholten, Die aelt. Zeugnisse, p. 40, mentions 115 as the year of | p. 40, states A.D. 115 as the date Ignatius' death: p. 50 f. The | of Ignatius' death. At p. 50 he Ignatian letters are rejected | repeats this statement, and gives partly 'weil sie eine Maertyrerreise | his support to the view that his des Ignatius nach Rom melden, deren | martyrdom took place in Antioch on schon frueher erkanntes | the 20th December, A.D. 115. ungeschichtliches Wesen durch | Volkmar's nicht ungegruendete | Vermuthung um so wahrscheinlicher | wird. ...
— A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays • Walter R. Cassels

... work of Kepler. Kepler was born in December, 1571, at Weil in Wuertemberg. Father an officer in the duke's army, mother something of a virago, both very poor. Kepler was utilized as a tavern pot-boy, but ultimately sent to a charity school, and thence to the University ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge

... at Escanaba, Michigan, and happened to meet Mr. Weil, of Henry Weil & Co., wholesale jewelers of Chicago; and after half an hour's conversation with him he showed me a line of gold rings, and sold and delivered to me right on the spot, nearly five hundred dollars' worth ...
— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston



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