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  • Don Pablo Romero was a naturalist, and I may here tell you a pleasant and interesting fact -- which is, that many of the earliest patriots and revolutionists of Spanish America were men who had distinguished themselves in natural science -- in fact, were the "savans" of these countries.

    The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

  • Don Pablo Romero was a naturalist, and I may here tell you a pleasant and interesting fact -- which is, that many of the earliest patriots and revolutionists of Spanish America were men who had distinguished themselves in natural science -- in fact, were the "savans" of these countries.

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

  • The French 'savans' who went to Egypt in the train of Buonaparte, Denon,

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • "Since the 'savans' have made their appearance among us, the good people have become eclipsed."

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • "Since the 'savans' have made their appearance among us, the good people have become eclipsed."

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 04 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • "savans" which delighted in the history of Jack the Giant-killer being fast on the wane, they would not be gratified by a lengthy recital; but I must still take the liberty of repeating as well as I could follow the vile jargon of my narrator, a tale which he told me of the

    A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

  • Ouvrage physique, chymique politique et moral, dédié aux savans ...

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Ouvrage physique, chymique politique et moral, dédié aux savans ...

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • All distinguished engineers, savans, statists, report to him: so likewise do all good heads in every kind: he adopts the best measures, sets his stamp on them, and not these alone, but on every happy and memorable expression.

    Representative Men 2006

  • It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar, who loved the world out of gratitude; who knew where libraries, galleries, architecture, laboratories, savans and leisure were to be had, and who did not quite trust the compensations of poverty and nakedness.

    Representative Men 2006

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