belle-lettres

Thereupon Sulayman Shah summoned the doctors and learned men and bade them teach his son writing and science and belle-lettres.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It was rhetoric (figures of speech, strategies of persuasion, excuses, etc.), not literature (poems, novels, belle-lettres, etc.), that was seen by the so-called deconstructors to be insinuated in peculiar ways even throughout legal texts.

Poets and empire 2006

He happened to have his pigeon-hole in Boston, he was not rich, he liked to browse upon belle-lettres; why not teach English composition and literature at Harvard?

Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem" 1996

Page 128 chronology, belle-lettres, logic, and moral philosophy, will be $60 per session; music $25; painting and drawing $20.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

The books, school classics, published by members of the Congregation range from the elementary reading and spelling books to manuals of belle-lettres, from language primers and the small catechism to literary criticism and apologetics, from arithmetic to the higher mathematics.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Being disgusted with theology, he gave in to the belle-lettres, which is very frequent in Italy, with those who have entered the career of prelacy.

The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

Thereupon Sulayman Shah summoned the doctors and learned men and bade them teach his son writing and science and belle-lettres.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

She made considerable progress in belle-lettres; and then she acquainted herself, in a good degree, with the Latin tongue, evidence of which acquirements may be frequently observed in her poems.

Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave Benjamin Bussey 1834

She made considerable progress in belle-lettres; and then she acquainted herself, in a good degree, with the Latin tongue, evidence of which acquirements may be frequently observed in her poems.

Memoir of Phillis Wheatley 1834

Being disgusted with theology, he gave in to the belle-lettres, which is very frequent in Italy, with those who have entered the career of prelacy.

The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745