FR] Murray Suid (Palo Alto, Californie) #Ecrivain, travaille pour EDVantage Software, une société internet de logiciels éducatifs
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Henri Slettenhaar * (Genève) / Professeur en technologies de communication à la Webster University Murray Suid * (Palo Alto, Californie) / Ecrivain, travaille pour EDVantage Software, société internet de logiciels éducatifs
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Garcaeus and Leovitius will have the chief judgment to be taken from the lord of the geniture, or where there is an aspect between the moon and Mercury, and neither behold the horoscope, or Saturn and Mars shall be lord of the present conjunction or opposition in Sagittarius or Pisces, of the sun or moon, such persons are commonly epileptic, dote, demoniacal, melancholy: but see more of these aphorisms in the above-named Pontanus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This woman might have dealt in mathematics,—might have inked her fingers with writing treatises on the Newtonian philosophy; she might have sat up till five in the morning, solving problems and calculating eclipses;—and yet have possessed amiable, elevated, generous, and attractive qualities, which would have thrown a poetical interest round her character; moreover, considering the horribly corrupt state of French society at that time, she might have been pardoned "une vertu de moins," if her power over a great genius had been exercised to some good purpose;—to restrain his licentiousness, to soften his pungent and merciless satire, and prevent the frequent prostitution [Pg 321] of his admirable and versatile talents.
— from The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

It has not so many show places as Cetinje even, and its charm is quite undefinable.
— from Through the Land of the Serb by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham