Esprits

Oserai-je offrir aux plus beaux Esprits de l'Ile des Savans mon nouveau Système des Couleurs.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Her attention was caught by one entitled Diables et Esprits Mal-fiques et Phant'mes de la Montagne.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

Meredith assumed Louis-Anatole's guardian was the father, maybe even grandfather, of the Audric S. Baillard who had written Diables et Esprits Mal-fiques et Phant'mes de la Montagne.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

On my first evening here, I read your monograph Diables et Esprits Mal-fiques et Phantomes de la Montagne.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

Whenever, therefore, you happen to be in company with those pretended Esprits forts, or with thoughtless libertines, who laugh at all religion to show their wit, or disclaim it, to complete their riot, let no word or look of yours intimate the least approbation; on the contrary, let a silent gravity express your dislike: but enter not into the subject and decline such unprofitable and indecent controversies.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Tout ce qui vient de se passer en Hollande, la Revolution qui s'y est faite dans les Esprits en favour de la

John Adams diary 34, 5 -- 26 October 1782 1961

[23] _Des Esprits et de leurs Manifestations Fluidiques_, par le Marquis de Mirville, pp. 379, 380.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

In the continuation called “L'Entretien des Beaux Esprits” (translated in 1734), however, the elaborate framework was so far reduced that fourteen short tales were crowded into two volumes as compared with eighteen in the four volumes of the previous work.

The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915

This is my fault, not London's: I know it is a lassitude and weakness of soul that no more loves the ceaseless collision of Beaux Esprits, than my obese ill-jointed carcase loves bundling about in coaches and steamers.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846

Whenever, therefore, you happen to be in company with those pretended 'Esprits forts', or with thoughtless libertines, who laugh at all religion to show their wit, or disclaim it, to complete their riot, let no word or look of yours intimate the least approbation; on the contrary, let a silent gravity express your dislike: but enter not into the subject and decline such unprofitable and indecent controversies.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733