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Principe   /printʃˈipi/   Listen
Principe

noun
1.
An island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe.



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"Principe" Quotes from Famous Books



... predecessor in the chair of Modern Philosophy at the College de France, written in 1909, we find Bergson remarking: On mesure la portee d'une doctrine philosophique a la variete des idees ou elle s'epanouit et a la symplicite du principe ou elle se ramasse. This remark may serve us as a criterion in surveying his own work. The preceding exposition of his thought is a sufficient indication of the wealth of ideas expressed. Bergson is most suggestive. Moreover, no philosopher has been so steeped in the knowledge ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn

... a rien, me parait vraisemblable, grace aux moeurs du pays. Mais pourquoi faire des lois pires que les moeurs? C'est le contraire qui devait etre. Je vous avoue que j'ai ete de coeur et d'esprit avec ceux qui comme Lord Aberdeen et M. Gladstone, se sont opposes au nom de la liberte et du principe meme de la reforme, a ces atteintes a la fois vaines et dangereuses que le bill a portees au moins en theorie a l'independance de conscience. Ou se refugiera la liberte religieuse, si on la chasse de l'Angleterre?—Tocqueville, Corr. ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley

... cornice of the palace, were the endless servants' quarters and the roomy garrets. At a rough estimate the establishment comprised over a hundred persons, all living under the absolute and despotic authority of the head of the house, Don Lotario Montevarchi, Principe Montevarchi, and sole possessor of forty or fifty other titles. From his will and upon his pleasure depended every act of every member of his household, from his eldest son and heir, the Duca di Bellegra, to that of Pietro Paolo, the under-cook's scullion's ...
— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford

... has been the foundation of the cocoa industry in St. Thome and St. Principe and in the mines of the Rand. Gin has been one of the greatest of European imports, having increased fifty per cent. in ten years and reaching a total of at least twenty-five million dollars a year ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... an indiscretion of my Peerage, in 1870, and is, therefore, as near to thirty (the dangerous age!) as to the six-and-twenty your droll old Marietta gives her. Her Christian names are Beatrice Antonia Teresa Mary—faites en votre choix. She was married at nineteen to Baldassarre Agosto, Principe Udeschini, Duca di Santangiolo, Marchese di Castellofranco, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Knight of the Holy Ghost and of St. Gregory, (does it take your breath away?), who, according to Frontin, ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland

... "Nous auons quelque fois dout, sauoir si on pouuoit esperer la conuersion de ce pas sans qu'il y eust effusion de sang: le principe reeu ce semble dans l'Eglise de Dieu, que le sang des Martyrs est la semence des Chrestiens, me faisoit conclure pour lors, que cela n'estoit pas esperer, voire mesme qu'il n'toit pas souhaiter, consider la gloire qui reuient Dieu de la constance des Martyrs, du sang desquels tout le reste ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

... of intelligence and energy; and, whilst every one else, in his ignorance, was expatiating only on the inconvenience and cost, her Highness approved it, on the contrary, and gave it all the support in her power." See Carta al Ama del Principe D. Juan, apud Navarrete, Coleccion de ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott

... el excelentissimo Principe don Iuan Manuel, hijo del Infante don Manuel, ynieto del Santo Rey don Fernando," Madrid, 1642; cap. 29, p.96. He tells the story as follows: "There was a woman called Dona Truhana (Gertrude), rather poor than rich. One day ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller



Words linked to "Principe" :   Sao Thome e Principe, island



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