One eminent savant, in this department of philosophical wisdom, absolutely published a bulky volume on the principles of hair-dressing, and followed itso highly was it prizedby a no less ponderous supplement.

Long, rather than tall, narrow, rather than thin, his figure bony, his skull enormous and very hairy, one recognized in his whole interminable person one of those worthy savants, with gold spectacles, good and inoffensive beings, destined to remain great children all their lives, and to finish very old, like centenaries who would die at nurse.

This apostle, this martyr, was born to affluence; son of an illustrious savant, he may be almost said to have been born to hereditary distinction.

My invention there not only attracted the regards of the distinguished savants of Paris, but, in a marked degree, the admiration of many of the English nobility and gentry at that time in the French capital.

si lugubre souvent, Le grand ignorant, l'âne, à Dieu, le grand savant.

The simple-hearted savant had been very much touched by that condescension.

An acute French savant, M. de la Mazelière, thus sums up his impressions of the sixteenth century:"Toward the middle of the sixteenth century, all is confusion in Japan, in the government, in society, in the church.

A monarchy, a foolish Louis, sent a marine savant and soldier named Dumont D'Urville to the South Seas with the casual orders: "'D'apprivoiser les hommes, et de rendre les femmes un peu plus sauvages;' to tame the men and make the women a little more savage.

I do not care if these statements are denied by Catholics, or rationalists, or progressive savants.

SAGE, savant; prudent; obéissant; chaste.

She was not a little surprised when the reputed savant modestly deprecated his qualifications for such a responsible undertaking, and declared his wish was to join in the crusade against the infidels in Andalusia.

Of these four divisions, had the artless but studious savant observed the different classes, and sought the orders, the families, the tribes, the genera, the species, and the varieties which distinguish them?

Unfortunately for the unhappy savant, this part of Alvez's establishment, which was situated at the northern extremity of the town, bordered on a vast forest, which covered the territory of Kazounde for a space of several square miles.

Joseph Henry, the most venerable savant of them all, took his place at the receiver.

A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot.

An eccentric savant?

" The enthusiastic savant was so happyhe forgot so many miseries past and to come in riding his favorite hobbythat neither Mrs. Weldon nor Dick Sand grudged him his felicitations.

The opinion of Dr. Janet, as that of a savant familiar, at the Salpêtrière, with 'neurotic' visionaries, cannot but be interesting.