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A History of the French Academy, 16354-1910: With an Outline Sketch of the ... Duncan MacLaren Robertson Недоступно для просмотра - 2016 |
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Стр. 187 - Tongue," in a Letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of language, and without any accurate inquiry into the history of other tongues. The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks attainable, he proposes to secure by instituting an academy ; the decrees of which every man would have been willing, and many would have been proud, to disobey, and which, being renewed by successive elections, would in a short time have differed from...
Стр. 9 - Qu'on parle mal ou bien du fameux cardinal, Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien : II m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal; II m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien.
Стр. 124 - I'll black-ball him. — Surely, one ought to sit in a society like ours, " Unelbow'd by a gamester, pimp, or player.
Стр. xix - Assembly, whose proposals had satisfied him: so that for their execution, and to render the French language not only elegant but capable of treating all the Arts and all the Sciences...
Стр. xix - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting.
Стр. xii - The principal function of the academy shall be to labour with all care and diligence to give certain rules to our language, and to render it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the arts and sciences
Стр. 7 - Desnouement, qu'il soit chargé d'Episodes inutiles, que la bien-seance y manque en beaucoup de lieux, aussi bien que la bonne disposition du theatre, et qu'il y ait beaucoup de vers bas, et de façons de parler impures...
Стр. 91 - Academy is subdivided into 11 sections, the members of which severally devote themselves to geometry, mechanics, astronomy, geography and navigation, general physics, chemistry, mineralogy, botany, rural economy, anatomy and zoology, medicine and surgery. It is the heir of the old Academy of Sciences, many members of which where included amongst its founders. Nor is it an unworthy successor, for if the older body could boast of D'Alembert...
Стр. 167 - Voilà comment nous nous divertissons, En beaux discours, en sonnets, en chansons; Et la nuit vient qu'à peine on a su faire Le tiers d'un mot pour le Vocabulaire. J'en ai vu tel aux Avents commencé Qui vers les Rois n'était guère avancé.