The Army of the North did not enter upon a campaign to obtain the crania of Crocodiles, but it had on its staff a savant who was devoted to such pacific conquests.
Unfortunately for the glory of Faujas, a Dutch savant had devoted himself to the same study.
It is obviously impossible to see in this skeleton what the enthusiastic savant wished to perceive.
The luxuriance and diversity of the Miocene flora has been employed by a German savant in identifying and classifying the Middle Tertiary or Miocene strata of Switzerland.
He had there the savant who set you on your legs again.
As often happens in the rural districts the first appearance of our illustrious savantwas a sort of disappointment.
Much of our earlier knowledge of Northern South America and Mexico was due to Humboldt, the famous German savant and traveller.
He was equally in his element as the lion of the salons and as the savant of the institute and the observatory.
Every one knows that this savant has already taken the trouble to translate many European treatises and thus has powerfully contributed to make the new continent understand the thought of the old.
Thus they have reached what is called nominalism, and have asked themselves if the savant is not the dupe of his own definitions and if the world he thinks he discovers is not simply created by his own caprice.
Yet this result seems contradicted by Riemann, for this savant constructs an infinity of different geometries, and that to which his name is ordinarily given is only a particular case.
But experience is not all, and the savant is not passive; he does not wait for the truth to come and find him, or for a chance meeting to bring him face to face with it.
It seemed of slight significance to the others; but the savant continued his examination of the ground with redoubled interest.
He knows--something," replied the savant with significant emphasis.
As leader of the expedition, and obeying also the skeptical bent of his nature, the savant felt that his own dignity was involved.
The sword of our justice performed a noble work on that day, for it struck down a savant and a poet, a count and a distinguished prelate.
A German savant never was an independent man, for he generally lacks the most indispensable requisite for an independent position: he generally lacks wealth.
The flaxen-haired savant therefore was soon happily engaged in pouring out upon his impatient companion the whole of the latest Boletino of the Accademia.
There is much in the great field of astronomy that is discouraging to the savant who hasn't the time nor means to rummage around through the heavens.
He was the most preoccupied watch savant I ever saw.
The savant himself was now in his glory, holding the tiller between arm and side, the better to manipulate his hand-camera, with which he was taking repeated snap-shots for future development and reference.
Little by little, the worthy savantcalmed down, and then, almost forcing the exile to indulge in another delicious smoke, he led up to the subject in which his interest was fairly intense.
Again the savant sprang to his feet, wildly gesticulating as he strode to and fro, striving to thus work off some of the intense excitement which had taken full possession.
Froeber, at your service, and I am delighted to make the acquaintance of a savant known to all readers of the Scientific and Literary Gazette of Koenigsberg.
The Heart, whistling a gay tune, cocked its hat upon one ear, gave a twist to its cravat, and kicked the old savant down stairs.
In the eyes of the modern savant everything is right.
This savant lectured, a few months ago, before a numerous auditory, on the relations of religion and natural science.
The savanttherefore can in his study meet with the intelligence which directs the universe.
All that is, has the right to be; in the eyes of the modern savant whatever is, is right.
For the modern savant all is true, for exactly the same reason that all is right.
The Archives of the Kingdom of Naples attract many a scholar and savant to this city.
To the savant and scholar the Ambrosian library in Milan is one of the special treasures of Europe.
A tolerably long time," said the king--"long enough to make a savant of a child of Nature.
To speak honestly, the savant is a complex of very various impulses and attractive forces--he is a base metal throughout.
A savant can never become a philosopher: Kant himself could not, but remained in a chrysalis stage to the end, in spite of the innate force of his genius.
Any one with observation can see that he is in his essence and by his origin unproductive, and has a natural hatred of the productive; and thus there is an endless feud between the genius and the savant in idea and practice.
Eleventhly, the "savant for vanity," now rather rare.
The following characteristics of the savantare less common, but still found.
It is one of the penalties of being a great savant that people wish to see and know him,' said the Count.
The savantgreeted his young friend with an affectionate embrace.
As a consequence the savant must be such out of self-knowledge, that is to say, out of contempt for himself--in other words he must recognise himself to be merely the servant of some higher being who comes after him.
The consistency which is prized in a savant is pedantry if applied to the Greeks.
It appeals to the savage and the savant alike and always will to the end of time.
That news had been sent to Mamma months before we left Denver, but as she and the Savant had written to each other only about once every five or six years, it hadn't affected her much.
The Savant went on living, but he couldn't love his daughter properly, as she'd been the cause of her mother's death.
Dujardin Beaumetz was a famous medical savant of Paris, France, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century.
Promising "to revert to this subject later on," thesavant passes over (p.
Had circumstances doomed thesavant to ignorance, his children would not have suffered in their ability to learn.
So far as we can make out, the savant has deceived himself by conjuring with the words "people" and "race.
The savant has been unscientific in his procedure; he has gone too far; he has thrown out the baby with the bath.
It was just the case for a lover more experienced than the young savant to reappear the very next day, for young hearts are never so near to understanding each other as when they have just declared the necessity of eternal separation.
For myself, monsieur l'abbe, I must say that if I had had any idea of marriage, a savant wouldn't have suited me at all.
Well, my young savant does talk of it to his venerable brother in science; he submits his doubts to him; in fact, that was the beginning of their scientific intimacy.
Jimmy clinched this argument by saying that if Professor Brierly refused to do it for the paper, Hite would perhaps engage one of the charlatans or pseudo-scientists, against whom the old savant was in the habit of raving.
