Word: de
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...de Lesseps, in an amusing speech at the distribution of prizes at the Lycee Henri IV. of Paris, declared that when he was examined for his Bachelor's degree the examiner took down a map and asked him to show where the north, south, east and west were. Neither he nor any of his comrades knew the cardinal points, for in those days geography was not taught...
...recent sale of autographs in Paris, 1,430 f. was paid for a bundle of letters of Rouget de Lisle ; a letter of Darwin's brought 55 f. ; of Schiller, 100 f. ; Wagner, 100 f. ; George Sand, 120 f. ; Paganini, 50 f. ; Beranger, 49 f. ; and Gambetta...
...Academie de la Langue Francaise des Etats Unis" has been organized in Boston to protect the purity of the French language and the work of good teachers of French. The teachers who have formed the organization have decided to exert their best endeavors to check the abuses which have crept into the teaching of French, which has of late often been intrusted to individuals of foreign nationalities who do not scruple to represent themselves as professors of a language whose very rudiments are unknown to them...
...which the Library contains the "Codex Vaticanus," or the "Bible of the End of the Fourth or Beginning of the Fifth Century," in Greek, and containing the oldest authentic version of the Septuagint and the first Greek version of the new Testament, is perhaps the most valuable. The "Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Palimpset discov red by Cardinal Mai, under a version of St. Augustine's "Commentary on the Psalms," is considered the oldest Latin manuscript extant. The large "Hebrew Bible," in folio, from the library of the duke of Urbino, is interesting from its historical associations, the Jews...
...de T. is at a loss for once...