Word: raison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cher Monsieur: Jen'ai pas eu une seconde a moi pour vous repondre, j'ai ete litteralement deborde depuis mon arrivee a New York. Je tiendrai done la parole donnee a Dieppe il y a deux ans. Vous me demandez une soiree. M. Abbey avec juste raison, ne peut accorder cela. Je prendrai l'heure de quatres heures. Quant au sujet, il a pu etre lu en partie dans le Harper's Magasine, mais une traduction n'est qu'une traduction, et je ne serais pas fache si on le comprend de faire entendre mon etude en francais. Pour...
...mind some ingenuous mistakes which I noted while correcting the French paper set for the Harvard admission examinations last June. The 500 or more papers which were written contained every variety of mistake, but there were two sentences which were the special stumbling-ground. "La pauvre femme, sentent la raison de son mari, no bougea et se contenta d'ecarter un peu son rideau pour voir sortir, etc., gave rise to "fearing for the reason of her husband," and "appreciating the reason of his marriage," and the words "ecarter un peu son rideau" gave large opportunities to the guessers. Among...
...many of the larger towns and smaller cities of Great Britain during the last few years, there have been formed clubs whose raison d'etre is organization as mock parliaments...
...fact, poverty and very plain living are things which, as has been wittily observed about mariages de raison everybody thinks good for other people, but which hardly anybody thinks good for himself. It does not follow from all this that a life of luxury or of devotion to money-getting is good for professors any more than for other people. There is a measure in salaries and in money-getting, as in every thing else. Man was intended to be a moderate animal. But it does not follow from it that it is in our time and in our country...
...that the reasons which he gives for his action are convincing. Aside from the lack of pecuniary support, the proposed publication of the University Bulletin, for free distribution, edited by Mr. Winsor and a staff composed of representatives of the various faculties, will deprive the Register of its only raison d'etre; nor can it be denied that the Bulletin, under the management of our able Librarian, will be on the whole a more efficient and satisfactory publication. While, therefore, on some grounds the discontinuance of the Register calls for regret, we must acquiesce in the wisdom of the publisher...