"Breve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... alma Se amaron en vida, Y al fin se separan En vida las dos; Sabeis que es tan grande Le pena sentida Que con esa palabra Se dicen adios. Y en esa palabra Que breve murmura, Ni verse prometen Niamarse se juran; Que en esa palabra Se dicen adios. No hay queja mas honda, Suspiro mas largo; Que aquellas palabras Que dicen adios. Al fin ha llegado, La muerte en la vida; Al fin para entrambos Muramos los dos: Al fin ha llegado La hora cumplida, Del ultimo ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton
... principal de ellos [los que habian procurado el Breve] y pretensor de mitra, le costo la vida el sentimiento que tuvo de ver tan indignado al Rey Catolico'. I have not been able to consult Jesus y Maria's work. My quotation, like Alonso Getino's (op. cit., p. 354), is taken at second-hand ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
... that he be buried under the threshold of the chapel of San Jorge. His sole epitaph was to be "Here repose the bones and ashes of the worst man who ever existed in the world." Don Miguel's biography was written by his friend the Jesuit Juan de Cardeas and was added to by Diego Lpez de Haro, "Breve relacin de la muerte, de la vida y virtudes de Don ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... was not Christ's Vicar; the other, That he was not to be esteemed Pope, if he was a man of wicked life. For maintaining these two points, he suffered in the year 1407."—(History of the Church, p. 56.) This date is also given in the Breve Cronicon, (apud Registrum Glasguense, p. 316.) "Combustio Jacobi Henrici [Resby] apud Perth, ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... must be mentioned here as central to the proper assessment of Collado's Grammar. They are both by the great Jesuit scholar, Father Joo Rodnguez (1561-1634);[4] the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam (Nagasaki, 1604-8, hereafter the Arte), and the Arte Breve da Lingoa Iapoa (Macao, 1620, hereafter Arte Breve). The first {2} is by any standards the greatest grammatical study of Japanese made during the Christian Century. It is further, as we shall see, the primary source for Collado's Grammar. The Arte Breve, ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado
... are the principal Etymological points? Apostrophe, Caret, Dieresis, Macron, Breve, Tilde, Grave Accent, Acute Accent, ...
— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway |
