Comte

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• The opinions frankly expressed as to theology, metaphysics, and many established orthodoxies; its conclusion, glowing in every page, that metaphysics, as Danton said of the Revolution, was devouring its own children, and led to self-annihilation; its proclamation of Comte as the legitimate issue of all previous philosophy and positive philosophy as its ultimate _irenicon_ -- all this, one might think, would have condemned such a book from its birth. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
• Wallace and Wolf trace the development of structural functionalism to Comte, Herbert Spencer, and Durkheim.
• Le septième comte de Cardigan, qui dirigea la Charge de la cavalerie légère à Balaklava, portait un gilet à longues manches lorsqu'il combattit pendant la guerre de Crimée. Archive 2010-05-01
• M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
• German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed it to her a piece of greasy paper. Une Vie
• Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes, they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships.
• The vicomte is the worthy son of his father, the great count. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II
• In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
• I have seen older references (nineteenth century) that designated the daughters of comtes as vicomtesses but question their accuracy.
• The strength and the weakness were thus two sides of the same coin minted by Comte's sheer energy and persistence (or obstinacy, according to taste) which derived, in turn, from the strength of his motivation: the urgency of the social problem as he saw it; the need for a complete intellectual system as the means of solving it; and his conception of his own messianic mission. Dictionary of the History of Ideas