George Cuvier, that pupil of poverty, loved to relate one of his first observations of natural history, which he had made while tutor to the children of Count d'Henry.
He became a pupil at the academy under De Keyser and Van Lerius, and worked harder than ever.
Noiret heard his story, arranged the dark room and the lamp, dilated the rightpupil with atropine, and made a minute examination with the ophthalmoscope.
Then she became for three or four years a pupil at the Conservatoire, and finally went on the stage, and was soon one of the most brilliant stars of the Parisian theatre at its most brilliant period.
Both winter and summer we passionately fenced with a pupil (un prévôt) of the famous M.
Good evening, pupil Govind," broke in the accurate voice of Narayan Chand, head master of the district school.
For Punoo was a music-master, and that was his pupil who, with a yawn, was watching his proceedings from the floor while she threaded beads on a string intermittently.
Canon Fournier went to Étretât by himself, for madame was bound to escort her pupil to Caen, to prepare her for her departure to England, and with her own hands to remit her into those of her friends.
She could hear that name with composure now, and was proving an apt pupil in the manners of society.
So I sent him to poor Moxon, who is glad of a pupil when he can get one.
Partially concealed in a cavern at the base of a stupendous, almost perpendicular, cliff, stood the wizard Ujarak and his pupil Ippegoo.
Was it not yesterday," returned the pupil humbly, "that you told me to think well before speaking?
Without giving his pupil time to reply, the wizard strode off, and disappeared among the ice hummocks, as a bad actor might strut behind the side scenes.
Ask him to come inside and speak to us," whispered Ujarak, who was a good deal more surprised even than his pupilat this unexpected turn of affairs.
Without further remark the stupid one went off, and in process of time the master and pupilmet at the appointed rendezvous.
When all were seated, the wizard led his pupil into the centre space, and, making him sit down, bent him forward until his head was between his legs.
As it happened, he too was a pupil at Rawson's at Seaforth, and in the summer after the meeting at Alderley the two lads met again.
In the wild-cat the pupil is a thin upright, set in a cruel pale-green iris.
Their irides are yellow, with a small pupil, whereas in the male the eye is hazel and the pupil large.
For example, Origen, the pupilof St. Clement, a man whose influence was felt on all sides in the early days of the Church.
And his pupil Origen writes of 'the popular, irrational faith' which leads to what he calls physical Christianity, based upon the gospel history, as opposed to the spiritual Christianity conferred by the Gnosis of Wisdom.
He had been the pupil of celebrated draughtsmen and painters in Europe, and had exhibited a sincerity of purpose that was surprising, all things considered.
Another asked him if he was a pupil of Gainsborough.
In this list of casualties, too, a friend and pupilturns up.
It has been alleged that he accompanied his former pupil as far as Egypt; but the fact is not certain, although circumstances would seem to render it probable.
The master, it has been said, was worthy of his pupil, and the pupil of his master.
Having remained three years at the College of Wexio, he was prepared to become a pupil in a higher seminary of learning, and in 1727 set out for the University of Lund.
He was scarcely less ambitious than hispupil Alexander, and his works embrace nearly the whole range of human knowledge as it existed in his day.
It was to this gentleman that Linnaeus recommended his favourite pupil Solander, who came to England in 1759, and who was held in great estimation on account of his politeness and extensive knowledge in natural history.
In our opinion the master was worthy of a better pupil, and the pupil might have had a better master.
This he accordingly did, and at the age of seventeen commenced his career as a pupil of Plato.
His self-love, however, was soon gratified by the arrival of a pupil from Paris, the first who had come to him from a foreign country, and by the presence of several persons of distinction at his excursions.
For my own part," says his pupil Fabricius, "I can easily excuse him for having been a little too fond of money, when I consider those extremes of poverty which so long and so heavily overwhelmed him.
Jules Hardouin, the younger Mansard, was a nephew and pupil of François Mansard, who assumed his uncle's name.
He was, in fact, an apt pupil and a pilot of very high class.
The terms finally agreed upon specified a fee to Bixby of five hundred dollars, one hundred down, the balance when the pupil had completed the course and was earning money.
The future president, after receiving the rudiments of his education in his native town, was removed to Bourges, where he became a pupil of the celebrated Cujas.
He was a pupil of Ronsard, and a friend of Desportes.
I am all right now," said Pierre; "your pupil will end by doing you honour, I hope.
He was adjusting some piece of mechanism, and nobody would have suspected him to be a former pupil of the Lycee Condorcet, one of the three clever Froments who had there rendered the name famous.
On the first night, Simon found his new pupil disposed to be unmanageable.
This desire is so natural that almost every pupil leaving the Ecole fixes his eyes on that moral sun called Fame.
But this young pupil of Desplein and the successors of Cabanis did not believe in Catholicism.
Thus I say that as for the State, it derives no benefit from its technical schools; as for the individual pupil of those schools, his earnings are poor, his ambition crushed, and his life a cruel deception.
A Cambridge man and a pupil of Tillotson, Burnet was elected Master of the Charter House in 1685, and signalized himself by his courage in resisting James II.
The scene between Flippanta and herpupil in The Confederacy is an excellent specimen of Vanbrugh's spirited comedy.
The chancellor and secretary was John of Salisbury, the pupil of Abelard, the friend of St. Bernard and of Pope Adrian IV.
His old pupil Henry refused, however, to receive him, and Thomas returned to Canterbury.
It would much astonish me," said the pupil smiling.
As he was losing his best pupil by the marriage, having only his two brothers to teach, and as it is the custom to reward a preceptor when education of a charge is complete, he expected a recompense.
I was thepupil of one and the master of the other.
Wilton in calling up remembrances of old times, when they had lived together as pupil and preceptor.
When young, Arrian was the pupil and friend of Epictetus, who had probably withdrawn to Nicopolis, when Domitian expelled all philosophers from Rome.
A little Miss Brandes, a pupilof Madame Schumann, played too.
It was a pity that I was not born some years earlier or later, for I should have flourished a favourite pupil of Mesmer, the animal magnetizer, or I might at this day be a celebrated somnambulist.
Sir Ulick, smiling, "you are shocked at the idea of Lord Chesterfield's advising his pupil at Paris to prefer a reputable affair with a married woman, to a disreputable intrigue with an opera girl!
