"Devoir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has done his devoir as bravely as he could; would fain go up to the fire, but cannot; is forced to shield his face, though he has not turned back. Giotto gives him full sweeping breadth of fold; what dignity he can;—a man faithful to his ...
— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton
... thy curse, my son, let it light on me: Only fetch thou the kids hither, as I bid thee, Do thou thy true devoir, and let ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley
... de Belgique a ne pas entreindre cet avis, et ceux qui croiraient ne pas devoir se soumettre a cet avis, seront traduits devant les Officiers de la Justice Imperiale, et nous les prevenons que la peine ...
— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson
... dit un contemporain, 'termina de vie par mort, mais avant fist le devoir de bon, Chrestien; car il se confessa et recut son Createur."'—De l'Italie, par Emile Gebhart, 1876, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... the day; but who can brood On memories of unkingly John, Or of the leek His Highness chewed, Or of the stone he wrote upon? To Freedom born so long ago, We do devoir in very deed, If heedless as the clouds we row With fruit and wine ...
— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)
... Serpent and his crew— Naught has reached us of the Fight—but if I have dreamed aright, 'Twas a loud one and a long, as ever thundered through! Right stiffly, past a doubt, the Dragon fought it out, And his Angels, each and all, did for Tophet their devoir— There was creak of iron wings, and whirl of scorpion stings, Hiss of bifid tongues, and the Pit in full uproar! But, naught thereof enscrolled, in one brief line 'tis told (Calm as dew the Apocalyptic Pen), That on the Infinite Shore their place was found no more. God send ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... maitre barbare et libi-dineux, qui avoit tout employe pour la desuire.—Une mulatresse, sortie de cette union, a epouse un chirurgien de Nantes, etabli a Pittsburg.—Cette famille est une des plus respectables de cette ville; le negre fait un tres bon commerce, et la maitresse se fait un devoir d'accueillir et de bien traiter les etrangers, et sur tout les Francois que le hasard ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... quellars of Christes kirk, Sueir swongeouris[178] that will not wirk, But ydlelie our living wynnes, Devouring woulves into sheip skynnes, Hurkland with huides into our neck, Wyth Judas mynd to jouck and beck, Seikand Christes peple to devoir, The down thringars of God his[179] glore, Professouris of hipocrisie, And doctouris in idolatrie, Stout fyschares with the Feindis nett, The upclosars of Heavins yett, Cankcarit corruptars of the Creid, Homlok sawares ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... reticence et range toutes les evolutions dans leur ordre naturel. Notre recit restera completement en dehors des preoccupations de la dogmatique et des declamations de la polemique. Plus les questions auxquelles nous aurons a toucher agitent et passionnent de nos jours les esprits, plus il est du devoir de l'historien de s'effacer devant les faits qu'il veut faire connaitre.—REUSS, Nouvelle Revue de Theologie, vi. 193, 1860. To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... relations were plainer; indeed, before the small Splurge set they appeared as avowed lovers. Toward "Addy" Withers was all elegant devotion and gracious gallantry, knight-like in his chivalric and debonair devoir. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various
... Confession d'Ausbourg, j'ai toujours mis, au premier rang, M. l'Abbe de Lokkum, comme un homme, dont le scavoir, la candeur, et la moderation le rendolent un des plus capables, que je connusse, pour avancer CE BEAU DESSEIN. Cela est si veritable, que j'ai cru devoir assurer ce docte Abbe, dans la reponse que je luis fis, il y a deja, plusieurs annees, par M. le Comte Balati, que s'il pouvoit faire passer ce qu'il appelle ses Pensees Particulieres Cogitationes Privatae, a un consentement suffisent, je me promettois qu'en y joignant les remarques, que je ...
— The Life of Hugo Grotius • Charles Butler |
