1 As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 2 David had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no longer any genius.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 3 There was something of the sharpshooter in his genius.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 4 A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the space of fifteen years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 5 Wellington was the Bareme of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 6 A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the genius of man with the powers of nature.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 7 His god-father had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT 8 Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact.
9 If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a king.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 10 Creation where precaution is combined with audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 11 There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing Caesar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 12 Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 13 With the exception of the genius, there was in Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, there was in Danton something of Hercules.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 14 Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the sombre genius, Epidotas.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT 15 The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its vehicle; Alexander on the elephant.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...