"Weil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at Escanaba, Michigan, and happened to meet Mr. Weil, of Henry Weil & Co., wholesale jewelers of Chicago; and after half an hour's conversation with him he showed me a line of gold rings, and sold and delivered to me right on the spot, nearly five hundred dollars' ...
— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston
... Otto Gildemeister./ "Difficile est proprie communia dicere."/ Horatius./ "Vermeinst du, weil du tugendhaft," etc. [Motto, six lines]./ Shakspeare./ Bremen./ Druck und Verlag von ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron
... this case the mask was supplied by Italians, on whom the bank bestowed all the highest honorary posts, while reserving the influential ones for Germans and Austrians. Thus the moving spirits of this vast organization were Herrn Joel, Weil and Toeplitz, men of uncommon business capacity, who devoted all their time and energies to the attainment of the end in view. And their zeal, industry and ingenuity were rewarded by substantial results, which have left an abiding mark on Italian politics ...
— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon
... Vlkern, dass ihm das Leben gefristet Werden mchte; aber es hat der waltende Gott, Der allmchtige Vater, es anders geordnet, Dass wir mit Milde ertragen alles, was uns diese Mnnerschar Bitteres bringet. Nimmer sollen erbost 4895 Wir uns wehren wider den Angriff, weil jeder, der Waffenhass, Grimmen Gerkampf, gerne ben will, Oft hinschwindet durch des Schwertes Schrfe, Blutigen Todes stirbt; durch unsere Taten Soll nichts verwstet werden." Hinschritt er da zu dem wunden Manne, 4900 Fgte ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... at Weil in the Duchy of Wurtemberg, was born a weak and sickly seven-months' child, to whom his parents Henry and Catherine Kepler gave the name of John. Henry Kepler was a petty officer in the service of the reigning Duke, and in 1576 joined the army serving in the Netherlands. His wife followed ...
— Kepler • Walter W. Bryant
... born at Weil der Stadt, Wuertemberg, born in poverty; studied at Tuebingen chiefly mathematics and astronomy, became lecturer on these subjects at Graetz; joined Tycho Brahe at Prague as assistant, who obtained a pension of L18 for him from the Austrian government, which was never paid; removed ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... you were cheated. You would never know the only thing worth knowing. Reality. For all you knew there was no Reality, no God, no freedom, no immortality. Only doing your duty. "You can because you ought." Kant, when you got to the bottom of him, was no more exciting than Mamma. "Du kannst, weil du sollst." ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair
... were hardly uttered before he answered them correctly, and at length they became silent and shame-faced. Then Solomon rose and said (I take the paragraph which follows from the English translation of Dr. Weil's interesting work, The Bible, the Koran, and the ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston
... ueberreich an doppelsinnigen Ausdruecken die sie absichtlich anwenden um ihre Gedanken zu verbergen. Geistliche haben mir versichert, dass sie obgleich der Aztekischen Sprache vollstaendig maechtig, oft den wahren Sinn einer Beichte nicht zu verstehen vermochten, weil die Beichtende sich in raethselhafter und metaphorreicher Weise auszudruecken pflegten." Carlos von Gagern, Charakteristik der Indianischen Bevoelkerung Mexico's, p. 17 (in the Mit. der Geog. ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton
... Ecglf Sohn, 500 Welcher zu Fssen sass des Herren der Scyldinge; Er lste der Streiter Geheimniss—ihm war Beowulfs Fahrt, Des mutigen Meerfahrers, zu grossem Neid, Weil er nicht gnnte, dass irgend ein anderer Jemals nun mehr Ruhmesthaten Unter dem Himmel der Erde erwarb als er selbst: 'Bist du Bowulf, der du mit Breca kmpftest Auf weiter See in einem Wettschwimmen, Dort durchforschtet ihr beide aus Stolz ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker |
