"Douceur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... emendations and additions, were sent to Dr. Parr as the exclusive composition of the Professor. Several of the lectures are wholly Badcock's, by the express admission of Dr. White; and the undeniable evidence of a douceur of 500l. from the Professor to Mr. Badcock, is a sufficiently solid proof of the value in which the former held the labours of the latter. There could be no violation of any great moral feeling in the transaction thus simply considered; for the labourer was worthy of his hire; but the evasive ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, - Issue 495, June 25, 1831 • Various
... Julian accepted the douceur with eagerness—not without profound astonishment at being so generously recompensed for reporting the re-appearance of Arroyo and his band! Nevertheless, his satisfaction at the perquisite far ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid
... fondee sur les principes d'humanite et de justice, ne detruit aucune des dispositions reellement injustes et barbares, contenues dans cette loi. Cependant, les esclaves sont generalement traites avec plus de douceur par leurs maitres dans l'Etat de New Yorck, et moins surcharges de travail que dans les Etats du Midi. Les moeurs prevalent a cet egard sur la rigidite des loix; mais les moeurs y sont aussi, comme dans beaucoup d'autres Etats de l'Amerique, impregnees ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... them; for, by a stroke of the pen, they can ruin reputations and defeat justice. No one has recourse to their dreaded agency who can avoid doing so or has the means of gratifying their greed. By giving a handsome douceur to the Sub-Inspector, Kumodini Babu obtained a promise of support, which he was simple enough to ...
— Tales of Bengal • S. B. Banerjea
... (binder to the queen of Louis XV.). From the commencing years of the eighteenth century, in addition to the binders just enumerated, there is a fairly consecutive series, who worked for the court and the public: Padeloup, the two Deromes, Douceur (who was much employed by Madame de Pompadour), the two Bozerians, Le Monnier, Tessier, Dubuisson (famous for his gilding), Simier, Thompson of Paris, Cape, Duru, Chambolle, Lesne (who printed in 1827 a didactic poem ...
— The Book-Collector • William Carew Hazlitt
... given, we notice the following: the necessity of keeping secret the matters in course of deliberation; the prohibition to councillors from receiving, either directly or indirectly, anything in the shape of a douceur from the parties in any suit; and the forbidding all attorneys from receiving any bribe or claiming more than the actual expenses of a journey and other ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix
... "les femmes sont plus femmes et les hommes plus hommes ici qu'ailleurs. Les deux natures vont chacune a son extreme; chez les uns vers l'audace, l'esprit d'entreprise et de resistance, le caractere guerrier, imperieux et rude; chez les autres vers la douceur, l'abnegation, la patience, l'affection inepuisable; chose inconnue dans les pays lointains, surtout en France, la femme ici se donne sans se reprendre et met sa gloire et son devoir a obeir, a pardonner, a adorer, sans souhaiter ni pretendre autre chose que ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
... comme est le notre par les yeux; Jour pur, expliquant tout, quoiqu'il soit le probleme; Jour qui terrifierait s'il n'etait l'espoir meme; De toute l'etendue eclairant l'epaisseur, Foudre par l'epouvante, aube par la douceur. La, toutes les beautes tonnent epanouies; La, frissonnent en paix les lueurs inouies; La, les ressuscites ouvrent leur oeil beni Au resplendissement de l'eclair infini; La, les vastes ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo |
