How To Use Comte In A Sentence
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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
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Wallace and Wolf trace the development of structural functionalism to Comte, Herbert Spencer, and Durkheim.
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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.
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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
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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
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Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes, they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships.
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The vicomte is the worthy son of his father, the great count.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II
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In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
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I have seen older references (nineteenth century) that designated the daughters of comtes as vicomtesses but question their accuracy.
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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
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There were, in truth, many such theories, and to some of them the term metaphysical, in M. Comte's sense, cannot justly be applied.
Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Ours is an artisanal cheese, made in Comte, an area famous for its cheesemaking.
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The vicomte was about to begin his narrative, and he smiled subtly.
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_celibataire_ of the same name, from whom he had some expectations, but who died shortly after this esclandre, and did not name the Vicomte in his will.
The Parisians — Volume 03
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Koop atarax ach Braine-le-Comte medicatie atarax Oosterhout atarax verkopen Roeselare bestellen atarax Beringen atarax verkopen Hattem goedkope atarax Naarden
Top Information about Home Management
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This approach stood in opposition to the more empiricist view dominant since Hume, Comte and Mill, that the moral or social sciences had relied on conceptual and methodological analogies with the natural sciences, from Newtonian and statistical mechanics, such as Condorcet's ˜social mathematics™ and also from biology, such as Saint-Simon's ˜social physiology™.
The Unity of Science
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He felt that "the enemy," as in his childish days he had called the vicomte, was gradually making his approaches.
Jack 1877
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The Vicomte called the contumely heaped on his father's name and his own, "a disagreeable scene.
The Son of Monte-Cristo
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Formerly imagines in the Kantism of is suppressed, imagines in the Kantism after arriving of put to fly, Comte to imaginary of the mainstay that develop to is among them.
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His adjoint was the Colonel Comte de Mazancourt, his aide-de-camp
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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In 1953, as Arthur lay on his deathbed, Comtessa Dialta claims he promised his illegitimate daughter, Liana, a portion of his estate.
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The Comte de Maucombe’s servants donned their old laced liveries and hats, the coachman his great top-boots; we sat five in the antiquated carriage, and arrived in state about two o’clock — the dinner was for three — at the grange, which is the dwelling of the Baron de l’Estorade.
Letters of Two Brides
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Comte may be described as a syncretic, who, like the Gnostics of early Church history, attempted to combine the substance of imperfectly comprehended contemporary science with the form of Roman Christianity.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
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“Comtesse, a tout peche misericorde,” * said a fair-haired young man with a long face and nose, as he entered the room.
War and Peace
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He's just finished rehearsing the Act One finale of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Rossini's "Le Comte Ory," a lesser-known bel canto work that he calls "a really great French pastry made by an incredible Italian chef.
Bringing Fresh Eyes to the Opera
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Cette préparation consiste, ou à broyer la couleur avec la cire sur la pierre chaude, & de faire fondre ces cires colorées dans le vernis propre à la couleur que l'on prépare, ou à fondre la cire dans les vernis, & y ajouter la couleur. comte de Caylus, Mémoire sur la peinture à l'encaustique (Geneve, 1755), 113 – 114.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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“Madame la vicomtesse,” said the abbe, who entered first into the little salon, “Monsieur le docteur Minoret was not willing that you should have the trouble of coming to him —”
Ursula
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You may rest assured," Sebastian drawled, "that mademoiselle la comtesse will be safe with me.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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Comte had also no small sympathy with the Oriental theocracies, as he calls the sacerdotal castes, who indeed often deserved it by their early services to intellect and civilization; by the aid they gave to the establishment of regular government, the valuable though empirical knowledge they accumulated, and the height to which they helped to carry some of the useful arts.
Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Instead, Comte sought to moralize one and all, a cure for humanity not for one class at the expense of another.
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If you'll excuse us, there's a matter of some import I wish to convey to mademoiselle la comtesse.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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If you'll excuse us, there's a matter of some import I wish to convey to mademoiselle la comtesse.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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Et il n'y a ni eu ni menaces, ni allêchement qui ayent sceu esbranler les nobles et libres coeurs besançonnais, pour quicter aucune chose de leurs libertez, quelques couleurs de grandeur et de richesses qu'on leur ayt mis audevant pour se laisser annexer au comté de Bourgogne, et avoir un parlément, et se mettre auxpieds ce qu'il ont aux mains.
Holidays in Eastern France
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As a subject, the object of research and methods of research of sociology are not clear by Auguste Comte, the starter of the methods.
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For the pastry170g plain flour, plus extra to dust60g quick-cook polenta20g finely grated parmesan140g unsalted butter, fridge-cold and cut into cubes50ml waterA pinch of saltFor the filling200g comté, grated150ml crème fraîche150ml single cream3 eggs2 tsp nigella seeds¾ tsp each salt and ground whitepepper200g chopped Swiss chard, cooked for a few minutes in olive oil (or spinach, washed, wilted and drained)
Yotam Ottolenghi's comté and polenta tart recipe
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Using the same metaphor, Comte represents fetishism as if the material world were alive in every tree and rock.
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Why withdraw her former confidence from the Comte d'Artois, when she lives in the society which promulgates antimonarchical principles?
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 5
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Comte, he launched his well-known definition of Comtism as Catholicism MINUS Christianity, which involved him in a short controversy with Mr. Congreve (see "The Scientific Aspects of Positivism," "Lay Sermons" page 162), and with another leading Positivist, who sent him a letter through Mr. Darwin.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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Of course, some of them, though indecisive as regards loss and damage, were strategetical victories: thus, Admiral Arbuthnot beat back Admiral Barras off the Chesapeake, in March of 1781; and near the same place in September of the same year the French had their revenge in the victory (one at least in its results) of the Comte de Grasse over Sir Thomas Graves.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
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Françoise de Foix, comtesse de Châteaubriant, held this position from about 1516 until 1530, when she was ousted by this woman, who remained the king's mistress until his death in 1547.
Quiz #2
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Has the relentless Necessity of Comte erected its huge mill on this continent, to grimly grind out the annual quantity of patriotism, tyranny, noble self-abnegation, or Machiavelism, in the prescribed, invariable ratio of "Sociology?
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
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Knowing that his singular connection with the vicomte would very soon surface, René was composed at this question, and replied, ‘Sir, I believe that is not your concern.’
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Take heed, Vicomte, "holding out a splendid arm, as if calling the vicomte's attention to it.
The Grey Cloak
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While you are in a comtemplative mood, what does the word "prejudgment" mean to you?
Firedoglake » Ooops…I Think This Is a Jesus Don’t…
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Taking the theory of evolution as a basis, Comte affirmed that the fundamental law of history was that of historic filiation, that is, the Law of the Three States.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The system of Auguste Comte designed to supersede theology and metaphysics and depending on a hierarchy of the sciences, beginning with mathematics and culminating in sociology.
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Among the besieged was a monk named Schmidt, probably one of the Low-country men to whom the Franche Comté was then a sort of home, as forming part of the dominions of Spain; and this monk was the most active supporter of the defence, against the large party within the walls which was anxious to render the town.
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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If Carlyle's criticism curdled into diatribes of denunciation, Comte's calcified into the dogmatism of a cult.
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I remain, m. le vicomte, your most humble servant.
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Filled with paradoxes, each of the pieces is absurd in its own right, from Robert Therrien's vertiginous, spiralling bed to Serge Comte's Post-It note nudies to Peter Land's endlessly looping fat-man-falling-down-the-stairs video.
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Comte suggested that a society's political institutions provide an indication of the stage which has been attained by civilization.
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In the Frick Collection's Vicomtesse Othenin d' Haussonville, née Louise-Albertine de Broglie, the curving shape of the flirtatious vicomtesse forms a kind of delightful question mark.
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If all went well, she would for a brief time even have had the title of comtesse.
A Covert Affair
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Comte, as the founder of sociology, he initiated the tradition of Positivistic Sociology. His ideas of Positivistic Sociology have influenced the development of sociology.
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The book is arranged geographically, and in all cases the English word "shire" is omitted, with the result that we come upon such an extremely curious monster as "le Comté de Shrop.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
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How they live in their families, I do not choose to enquire; but, in public, Madame appears in her robe of gold, or silver stuff, with her powder and frisure, her perfumes, her paint and her patches; while Monsieur Le Comte struts about in his lace and embroidery.
Travels through France and Italy
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The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in which he found himself.
War and Peace
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“The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she to another.
War and Peace
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-- Il seroit inutile de recommander ici la lecture des mémoires qui composent ce volume: le titre seul de _Mémoires du comte de Grammont_ réveillera sans doute la curiosité du public pour un homme qui lui est déjà si connu d'ailleurs, tant par la réputation qu'il a sçu se faire, que par les différens portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de
Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Do you not think it might be wise to warn monsieur le comte?
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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Un Dimanche qu'il falust rester a une petite Ville nomée Harford ou pres de la il y a la maison de Campagne du Comte d'Essex fort antique que ie fus curieux de voir et jy fus venu civilement. dans ce Palais magnifique i'observay dans un grand dome des peintures grandes et extraordinaires dans le Cabinet du Comte quantitéz de pieces rares et antiquitéz tres Curieuses; et dans une grande Sale ie crus voir sur une table de marbre un lutt des fluttes et autres instruments, avec des livres deployéz de musique, item un jeu de carts deployé, une bourse de jettons plusieurs pieces d'argent et plusieurs autres gentillesses tres bien faittes et quand ie viens plus pres de la table ie fus bien surpris de voir la ouvrage d'un Second Appelles, que ces pieces que ie croyois effective n'estoient que contrefaittes en peinture ce qui fust ou me Sembloit le plus curieux est que la Superficie de Cette table de marbre estoit si bien polie qu'on auroit cru que c'estoit des peintures dessous un verre ou une glace, et on y pouvoit verser de leau Sans gaster la table ny la peinture, assurement il faloit que cela fust peint d'un vernis merveilleux.
Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
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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 and Philosophy
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The Comte rushed to help her, and as she seemed to be stifling, cut her bodice open with his dagger, baring her shoulder.
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Perion's trial, condemnation, and so on, had consumed the better part of an hour, on account of the drunkenness of one of the Inquisitors, who had vexatiously impeded these formalities by singing love-songs; but in the end it had been salutarily arranged that the Comte de la Forêt be torn apart by four horses upon the St. Richard's day ensuing.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass***, private secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val**, who published, under the pseudonyme of Charles – Antoine, monorhymed odes, the Prince de
Les Miserables
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Within a century of Comte's death, thanks to the invention of the spectroscope, much of astronomy had become astrochemistry - a science he had roundly declared impossible.
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The nearest was an old celibataire of the same name, from whom he had some expectations, but who died shortly after this esclandre, and did not name the Vicomte in his will.
The Parisians — Complete
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Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève — Comtesse de Montrève; anguissette
Kushiel's Avatar
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In 1828, Rossini was still able to revel in the bisexual troilism of Le Comte Ory, in which the count, dressed as a nun, makes love to his pageboy, believing him to be a woman, while the pageboy makes love to the Countess Adèle, whom Ory fancies.
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As he himself grew older, Comte's efforts to create a culture based on science became intense and eccentric, his worship of humanity increasingly mystical and arcane, his positivism more and more like a religion without God.
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When the vicomtesse drifted across a drawing room she still swayed in the island way that was all grace and sensuality.
THE DIAMOND
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“Madame la comtesse intends to ride out this morning?” said the footman, leaving the room without further answer.
The Imaginary Mistress
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Francois-Rene, vicomte de Chateaubriand, French ambassador in London from 1822, criticised Wellington's choice of setting for the statue.
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She has no other money or dower but what Aunt Diodora will give her, which will not be much, for in money matters she is not very liberal, and Cenni is called 'comtesse' because it suits Aunt Diodora's whims.
Dr. Dumany's Wife
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We went- M. le Dauphin, the comte, and comtesse de Provence and I- last Thursday to the Opera Ball in Paris; we kept the utmost secret.
Marie-Antoinette and Carnival
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There is not in the whole annals of aerostation a more moving catastrophe than that of the unfortunate Comte Zambeccari, who, during an aerial journey on October the 7th, 1804, was cast away on the waves of the Adriatic.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
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I would scarce send to the Vicomte a reader who was in quest of what we may call puritan morality.
Memories and Portraits
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Meanwhile Saint-Simon's secretary, Auguste Comte (17981857), developed his scientific thought and founded the philosophy known as positivism (Cours de philosophie positive, six volumes, 183042; Système de politique positive, four volumes, 185154).
2. Intellectual and Religious Trends
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Some see Galileo as a precursor of the philosophical empiricism of John Locke; others, of the positivism of Auguste Comte.
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A wrinkle of the nostril was the only answer and a further delay ensued while a message was sent to the Scylla which demanded that His Excellency the Comte de Maquerre be allowed quarters on board the frigate or, preferably, the Vengeance.
Sharpe's Siege
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The numerous advocates of Comte's positivistic philosophy understood mathematics and physics as the source of rigorous laws and consequently the foundation on which other disciplines might be based.
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Positivism, a philosophy system established by Comte, is regarded not to embrace theology or metaphysics.
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The comte, on arriving at the Rue des Lombards, found the shop of the grocer in great confusion; but it was not the encumberment of a lucky sale, or that of an arrival of goods.
The Man in the Iron Mask
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Her keen, malicious eyes never left the so-called vicomte's face.
The Chouans
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The _mot_ is pretty well known: "_Annoncez le sapajou de Madame la Comtesse Dubarry_," said a great lord of the court of Louis
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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The proud son of the Franche-Comte was on his way to success in Paris when he met Bruyas, an art collector and a provincial from another region of France.
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Positivism, a philosophy system established by Comte, is regarded not to embrace theology or metaphysics.
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The pistole is a Spanish gold coin worth about four dollars; formerly the French pistole was worth in France ten _livres_ -- about ten francs -- they were struck in Franche-Comté.] we should have no need now to think of and try to find out what means we must employ in compassing our wishes; we might, by purchasing this slave quickly, prevent your rival from forestalling and thwarting you.
The Blunderer
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The comte de Rochambeau had already begun planning for a siege at Yorktown when he requested assistance from the commander of the French fleet in the Caribbean.
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“Monsieur le capitaine Paz begs Madame la comtesse to excuse him,” said the footman, returning.
The Imaginary Mistress
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In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
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In Martinique, Baroness Tascher had adopted me, and at her house I first met her niece the vicomtesse Rose de Beauharnais.
THE DIAMOND
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The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur," said she to another.
War and Peace
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This sort of thing has been going on at least since Comte and Isaiah Berlin dealt with it (IMO, definitively) 60 years ago in his On Liberty essays.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Welfare Evaluation, Behavioral Agents and Rational Agents
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“Hey! by what good luck do I see you here, dear Madame la comtesse?” he said.
A Daughter of Eve
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Within a century of Comte's death, thanks to the invention of the spectroscope, much of astronomy had become astrochemistry - a science he had roundly declared impossible.
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New répétiteurs included Liouville (until his promotion in 1838) and Auguste Comte, who also served as an admission examiner from 1837 to 1844.
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AUBRION (Comte d '), the title acquired by Charles Grandet after his marriage to the daughter of the Marquis d'Aubrion.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
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It implies that the whole intellectual basis of mankind is established, that the rules of logic, the systems of counting and measurement, the general categories and schemes of resemblance and difference, are established for the human mind for ever — blank Comte-ism, in fact, of the blankest description.
A Modern Utopia
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Among Comte's crimes is having coined the term ‘sociology,’ though I suspect he wrote sociologie and someone else anglicized it.
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Very good," the vicomte admitted, lunging in flanconade.
The Grey Cloak
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The message of artistic tolerance as republican state policy was also sounded by the vicomte Henri Delaborde, the perpetual secretary of the Academie des Beaux-Arts.
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A technocrat and intellectual hermit who read nothing after he began to write his own large works, Comte was the adulator of “science” as he understood it.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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My dear Rance, there is no need to whip the dear vicomte.
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Previous to our arrival at Soissons, the Marquise (who, though she does not consider me as an aristocrate, knows I am by no means a republican,) begged me to be cautious in expressing my sentiments, as the Comte de
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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When we go and see him, that Irish Jew courier, whom I have before had the honor to describe, looks up from the novel which he is reading in the ante-room, and says, “Mon maitre est au divan,” or, “Monsieur trouvera Monsieur dans son serail,” and relapses into the Comte de Montecristo again.
Our Street
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Seven generations after Sigebert IV, in the late ninth century, Sigebert VI nicknamed Prince Ursus is said to have lost the title of Comte du Razès after an attempt to oust Louis II.
The Sion Revelation
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The Comte de Maucombe's servants donned their old laced liveries and hats, the coachman his great top-boots; we sat five in the antiquated carriage, and arrived in state about two o'clock -- the dinner was for three -- at the grange, which is the dwelling of the
Letters of Two Brides
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Comte conceived the mission of positivism as the establishment of a Religion of Humanity that would anneal the social divisions tearing the world of the Industrial Revolution apart.
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But he was repelled by the second-hand religiosity of Comte's strange invention.
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DEAR BOY: I have received yours from Laubach, of the 17th of August, N. S., with the inclosed for Comte Lascaris; which I have given him, and with which he is extremely pleased, as I am with your account of Carniola.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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We shall have to accept Comte's plea for a unified social science.
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The comte is the epitome of the beau sabreur.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you not think it might be wise to warn monsieur le comte?
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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The vicomte is a charming man, of high polish and noble descent.
Rosin the Beau
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I had balanced a little hitherto between the _epicier_ and the Vicomte.
Night and Morning, Volume 3
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Will you, dear, without putting yourself to too much inconvenience by overhaste, direct the 'Nazione' people to send the journal, to which we must subscribe for three months, to S.E. le General Comte de Noue, Comandante della piazza di Roma.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Comte de Serizy, before his death, obtained for him the collectorship at Pontoise.
A Start in Life
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Comte suggested that a society's political institutions provide an indication of the stage which has been attained by civilization.
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I left again, to sail to Martinique, and there had long suppers with the baroness Tascher and her niece the enticing vicomtesse de Beauharnais, who had been abandoned by her husband and as “Josephine” would marry Napoleon and become empress of France.
THE DIAMOND
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The vicomte gambles, the vicomte is always in a scrape, the vicomte is the hero of the worst adventures -- and kind friends never fail to tell me all about it!
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II
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This approach stood in opposition to the more empiricist view dominant since Hume, Comte and Mill, that the moral or social sciences had relied on conceptual and methodological analogies with the natural sciences, from Newtonian and statistical mechanics, such as Condorcet's ˜social mathematics™ and also from biology, such as Saint-Simon's ˜social physiology™.
The Unity of Science
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In the Maywald photo, the vicomtesse wears a billowing Schiaparelli ball gown.
The Things Yves Loved
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Simeon Stylites kitteh comtenplayts de wurld etsettra updaeted vershun.
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A term formed by Auguste Comte in 1851, on the Italian adjective altrui, and employed by him to denote the benevolent, as contrasted with the selfish propensities.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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“Adieu, comtesse; I have obeyed your wishes so far; and now I will take the carriage and go home to bed and send it back for you.”
The Imaginary Mistress
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I found him, the Russian Consul, and the Vicomte de Perrochel all sitting on the divan with their legs well tucked under them, clutching their sticks, and looking absurdly uncomfortable at the affreuse bête, as the Vicomte called it.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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Samuel Johnson and his wife had their first quarrel on the way from the church, and Auguste Comte and his wife tiffed going down the steps from the notary's.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
