Cela paraitrait evident pour une intelligence qui sera en etat de saisir et d'apprecier toutes las actions at reactions des esprits at des corps de ceux qui contribuent a cette revolution.
Deffand speaks with prophetic vision of the reasoners and beaux esprits "who direct the age and lead it to its ruin.
It was not led by philosophers and beaux esprits who evolved theories and turned them over as an intellectual diversion, but by men of action, ready to test these theories and force them to their logical conclusions.
His hesitation to publish was due to his fear that les pretendus esprits forts might make a bad use of his work; and he was quite satisfied that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch as it stands.
Nietzsche therefore finds morality guilty as a usurper and a tyrant, and he exhorts all esprits forts to shake off the yoke.
Let the esprits forts of Nietzsche's type try to realize their master's ideal, and their attempts will soon lead to their own perdition.
They were mischievous spirits (esprits follets), who lived under dolmens.
Les grands esprits se rencontrent = Great wits always jump together; We both said the same thing at the same moment.
I am inclined to laugh both at esprits faibles, who believe in everything, and at esprits forts, who pretend that they believe in nothing.
I saw that, although her judgment had been spoiled by a course of unwholesome reading, and by conversation with the vaunted esprits forts of our "unprejudiced" age, her heart remained in the right place and uncontaminated.
But this is not what we understand here under the name of esprits follets.
Footnote: For the prevalence of "libertine" thought in France at the beginning of the seventeenth century see the work of the Pere Garasse, La Doctrine curieuse des beaux esprits de ce temps ou pretendus tels, etc.
Menage, who was his friend, says he was "un des plus beauxesprits de son temps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "esprits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
