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  • They also note that references to this four generational pattern can be found in Exodus and The Illiad as well as in the works of Huntington (1981), Marias (1967, 1968), Littre (1860) and Ferrari (1872).

    Astrology or Psychohistory? « Isegoria 2008

  • Its better-known stockholders included Senator fimile Littre, author of the great French dictionary, and Octave Feuillet, the novelist.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Its better-known stockholders included Senator fimile Littre, author of the great French dictionary, and Octave Feuillet, the novelist.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Littre declared that the five thousand francs he put in represented the first financial investment of his life.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Littre declared that the five thousand francs he put in represented the first financial investment of his life.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Meanwhile I repeat to myself what Littre said to me one day:

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • It is of little matter whether many peasants know how to read and listen no longer to their cure, but it is of great matter that many men like Renan or Littre should be able to live and be listened to!

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • Littre has even unearthed the fact that during the 14th century a street in Paris near the medical schools, bore the name of the Rue Gilbert l'Anglois.

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • Marechal, who had listened silently until then, interrupted the conversation, to defend the monkeys in the name of Littre.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Prestige is the name continually given to every kind of spell, the effect of which reminds us of "prestige" ( "cet homme exerce une influence que rassemble à une prestige" -- Littre), and to all magic charms and attractive power which is capable of dulling the intellect while it enhances sensation.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

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