Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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HOTEL SORRENTO, SORRENTO, ME. - First class in every respect - has a beautiful location, on Frenchman's Bay seven miles from Bar Harbor...
PROSPECT UNION. - Lecture by Professor de Sumichrast, on "A Frenchman's View of Life," Tuesday, March 8, at 8 p. m. Members of the University invited...
...Monthly for June is entertaining if not conspicuously original. Prof. Cohn writes admiringly of one Frenchman, and R. W. Herrick unadmiringly of all Frenchmen. M. Cohn's paper is a brief resume of Emile Augier's literary character, and demonstration of his rights to higher recognition as a playwright than is generally accorded him. "The Philosophy of a Modern Frenchman" starts out with the assertion that a Frenchman has no philosophy. The writer evidently counts all Frenchmen as of the school of Richepin and de Maupassant, earth-bound and with only a mud roof...
...investigators in this field are mostly foreigners. Berthollot and Thomsen have been the two chemists who have given this science its importance. The former is a Frenchman, a very brilliant but rather inaccurate worker; the latter is Dane, and, though more slow, is far surer in his work...
...Neil Dodge compares Montaigne and Bacon as essayists, to the advantage of the Frenchman. He argues that in spite of superficial resemblances there is a decided antithesis between the two men, that of personality. We read Bacon for his thoughts alone, whereas in Montaigne we find the pure thought everywhere tinctured by the author's nature...