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Weil

noun
1.
French philosopher (1909-1943).  Synonym: Simone Weil.
2.
United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998).  Synonym: Andre Weil.



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"Weil" Quotes from Famous Books



... sie absichtlich anwenden um ihre Gedanken zu verbergen. Geistliche haben mir versichert, dass sie obgleich der Aztekischen Sprache vollstaendig maechtig, oft den wahren Sinn einer Beichte nicht zu verstehen vermochten, weil die Beichtende sich in raethselhafter und metaphorreicher Weise auszudruecken pflegten." Carlos von Gagern, Charakteristik der Indianischen Bevoelkerung Mexico's, p. 17 (in the Mit. der ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton

... he walked into the offices of Weil & Street—the first that headed the list in the little green book—asked to see Mr. Weil, and, strangely enough, got him, too. Even in those raw days Robert had a cheerful assurance tempered with rather a nice deference ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, completed a series of experiments which showed that apparently healthy wild rats in the European war zone became infected with Weil's disease, or "infectious jaundice," common in Asia. Weil's disease is characterized by sudden onsets of malaise, often intense muscular pain, high fever for several days, followed by jaundice, frequently accompanied ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... inspectorship of buildings (so in Tabari). A late story is that the judgeship was only a pretext with al-Mansur, who considered him a partisan of the 'Alids and a helper with his wealth of Ibrahim ibn'Abd Allah in his insurrection at Kufa in 145 (Weil, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... poetry on account of its style and its subject, which make the interpretation considerably easier, and I concur with Koerting, in his Grundriss der Geschichte der Englischen Litteratur (p. 47, 1887): "Die ELENE eignet sich sowohl wegen ihres anmutigen Inhaltes, als auch, weil sie in der trefflichen Ausgabe von Zupitza leicht zugaenglich ist, als erste poetische Lectuere fuer Anfaenger im Angelsaechsischen." This statement is now the stronger for English readers because Zupitza's text is in course of publication, edited ...
— Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood • Anonymous

... new materials for this study have been made accessible by the labors of Weil, Caussin de Perceval, Muir, Sprenger, Doellinger, and Arnold. Dr. Gustav Weil published his work[383] in 1843. It was drawn from Arabic manuscripts and the Koran. When Weil began his studies on Mohammed in ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

... Weil der gute Amfortas So lang in bittern Schmerzen lag, Und ihn die Frage lange mied, Ist ihnen alles Fragen leid; All des Grales Dienstgesellen Wollen ...
— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... again in his interviews with me, 'if you (ER) knew, for instance, what I underwent on the death of my Mother, you would see that I have been as unhappy as any other, and unhappier than others, because of the greater sensibility I had (WEIL ICH MEHR EMPFINDLICHKEIT GEHABT HABE).'" [Fragmente zur Schilderung des Geistes, des Charakters und der Regierung Friedrichs des Zweiten, von Christian Garve (Breslau, 1798), i. 314-316. An unexpectedly dull Book (Garve having talent and reputation); kind ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.—1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle

... Rearden, a well-known attorney and litterateur of San Francisco; Virgil Williams, director of the San Francisco School of Design, and his wife; Yelland, Bush, and other distinguished artists; the musician Oscar Weil, and many more whose names do not ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... fnfzehn bis siebzehn Jahren. Wer[6-5] sich einigermaen auf Menschen zu verstehen glaubte, dem schien es ganz klar: Institutsvorsteherin nebst drei Pflegebefohlenen. Die letzteren muten wohl von denen[6-6] sein, die zur geringen Freude der ersteren auch die groen Ferien dableiben, weil ihre Eltern selbst verreist sind. Anna, Lina und Elsa hieen die drei Mdchen, die immer lachten, wenn[6-7] sie der Blick ihrer Hterin nicht traf. Denn alles kam ihnen lcherlich vor. Jugendlust und Freude, Unschuld und Kindlichkeit schauten aus den[6-8] ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel

... Christus der Herr, bleibt, der er ist in alle Zukunft, dagegen liegt es ausdruchlich im Begriffe seines Werks, den Christenthums, dass es nicht so bleibt, wie es anhebt.—ROTHE, Allgemeine kirchliche Zeitschrift, 1864, 299. Diess Werk, weil es dem Wesen der Geschichte zufolge eine Entwickelung ist, muss uber Stufen hinweggehen, die einander ablosen, und von denen jede folgende neue immer nur unter der Zertrummerung der ihr vorangehenden Platz greifen kann.—ROTHE, Ib. 19th April 1865. Je grosser ein geschichtliches Princip ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton



Words linked to "Weil" :   Simone Weil, philosopher, mathematician



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