"Destine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de l'hotel de ville, escorte par des gens-d'armes, portant, attache a son dos, et a sa poitrine un ecriteau en gros caracteres, dans ces mots, "Traitre a la patrie," qu'on lisait a la lueur des flambeaux. Le dechirant et lugubre cortege se dirigeait vers la place du marche destine aux executions criminelles. La on veut bander les yeux au condamne. Il s'y refuse, et dit d'une voix ferme qu'il saura mourir pour son Roi. Lui meme donne le signal de tirer et c'est en criant, "Vive le Roi! Vive Louis XVIII!" qu'il rend le ...
— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison
... attempt. This, therefore, must rather be the effect of time and chance than premeditation. You undoubtedly have determined judiciously in waiting the further orders of congress. Whether they allow me the pleasure of seeing you shortly, or destine you to a longer absence, you may assure yourself of the ...
— Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette • Lafayette
... irreguliere, comme une regle principale: cependant ceux qui sentent combien la noble simplicite de la nature est superieure a tous les rafinemens symetriques de l'art, donneront peuetetre la preference aux jardins Anglois. C'est l'effet que doit produire la lecture de cet ouvrage, qui quoique destine aux amateurs et aux compositeurs des jardins, offre aux gens de gout, aux artistes et sur-tout aux peintres, des observations fines et singulieres sur plusieurs effets de perspective et sur les arts en general; aux philosophes, des reflections justes sur les affections de ...
— On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, • Samuel Felton
... to me pretty well arranged," said Cerizet; "and as Heaven, it appears, didn't destine ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... wickedness and hypocrisy have we not in our own Protestant clergy, and without even the tremendous excuse for it which the conditions of European society give for the occasional levity of its priesthood! In France the Church is a recognized profession, to which parents destine and for which they educate their sons without waiting for them to exhibit any special bias toward a religious life. In spite of themselves, many young men are even forced into the priesthood, not only by strong family influence, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various
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