At first stupid and meditative, he awakened afterwards, was crowned at Sorbonnne, having obtained first prize for a translation of Latin, and in 1845 made a brilliant showing in his thesis for the degree of doctor of laws.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr
IMG Figure 17 is a complicated sign of the yoni, delta, or door of life.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman
This scale of values does not refer to light and shade only, but light and shade, colour, and the whole visual impression are considered as one mosaic of masses of different degrees of darkness or lightness.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Having entered as an usher at twenty into the first institution that presented itself so that he could proceed to take first his degree of Master of Arts and afterward the degree of Doctor of Laws, he found himself so enmeshed in this routine that he remained an usher all his life.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
These are great Reliefs to Nature, as they qualifie her for struggling with Hunger and Thirst, whenever any Distemper or Duty of Life may put her upon such Difficulties; and at the same time give her an Opportunity of extricating her self from her Oppressions, and recovering the several Tones and Springs of her distended Vessels.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
No one can doubt that such a decay or decline of literature and of art seriously affects the manners and character of a nation.
— from Phaedrus by Plato
In 1881 he had the unusual honor of receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws from Cambridge University of England, and in special recognition of his eminence as a geologist he was created a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1859.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton
In this respect we have daily reason, at the footstool of mercy, to deplore our deficiency, our lanquor, our lukewarmness of spirit, our unprofitableness and vileness.
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume II Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox
That slight degrees of deafness, often lasting only for a time, are very common among children, especially during or after colds.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
In short, one thinks of little but lots, these days; one dreams of lots; one writes always, speaks always, of lots.
— from The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
Disease of diaphragm or large intestines.
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson
And her eyes are dark and humid, like the depth on depth of luster Hid i' the harebell, while her tresses, sunnier than the wild-grape cluster, Gush in golden-tinted plenty down her neck's rose-misted marble: Then her voice's music... call it the well's bubbling, the bird's warble!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
The university of St. Andrew's, in Scotland, conferred on him the degree of doctor of laws.
— from The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
While at Windsor the Emperor received a deputation of sixteen members of Oxford University, headed by Lord Curzon, who came to present him with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws voted him by the University while he was still on his way to England.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
In 1846, Yale College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.).
— from American Inventions and Inventors by William A. (William Augustus) Mowry
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