Amiot

To their authors might be applied the sentence of Plutarch, translated with the happy naïveté of Amiot: “Tu tiens sans propos beaucoup de bons propos.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The next day Genet notified Jefferson that command of the vessel, rechristened the Petite Democrate, had been assigned to Ensign Amiot.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The next day Genet notified Jefferson that command of the vessel, rechristened the Petite Democrate, had been assigned to Ensign Amiot.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The next day Genet notified Jefferson that command of the vessel, rechristened the Petite Democrate, had been assigned to Ensign Amiot.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The next day Genet notified Jefferson that command of the vessel, rechristened the Petite Democrate, had been assigned to Ensign Amiot.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

French missionary Amiot played some of Boildieu's and Rossini's melodies to a Chinese mandarin he said, with a polite shake of the head, "They are sadly devoid of meaning and expression, while the Chinese music penetrates the soul."

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Amiot and Dally speak of a perfect system of gymnastics among the Chinese three thousand years before the Christian era.

Massage and the Original Swedish Movements 1918

Another element of its value is that it confirms all the calculations of one of his predecessors, Father Amiot (q.v.) and affords a proof of the progressive increase of the Chinese population.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

In 1741 the population was estimated by Père Amiot, S.J., at over one hundred and fifty millions, as against twenty-one million households in

China and the Manchus Herbert Allen Giles 1890

The history of China, down to the eighteenth century at least, could not have been written but for the labors of the French, of Mailla, Du Halde, Amiot, and many others.

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890