A lecture of his in the École Normale impressed Cousin so strongly that he at once devoted himself to the study of philosophy.

Cousin continued to lecture for two and a half years after his return to the chair.

Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.

Her Cousin Emma Carraway had written it, in her loose high old lady's script -- t's carefully crossed, but l's inclined to wobble like an old car on the downward slope.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

He collaborated on such cartoons as Donald's Nephews ( 1938 ), Donald's Cousin Gus ( 1939 ), Mr. Duck Steps Out ( 1940 ), Timber ( 1941 ), The Vanishing Private ( 1942 ) and The Plastics Inventor ( 1944 ).

* The Culhanes: The adventures of the Culhane family, depicted as all they did was sit on an old-fashioned sofa in the parlor, which focused on Cousin Clem Culhane ( Gordie Tapp ); Cousin Junior Culhane ( Junior Samples ); Cousin Grandpa Culhane ( Grandpa Jones ); and Cousin Lulu Culhane ( Lulu Roman ) who would sit in deadpan character and comment, à la soap opera.

Using this way of framing the issue, Cousin stridently argued that different competing philosophical ideologies all had some claim on truth, as they all had arisen in defense of some truth.

In 1952, Burton successfully made the transition to a Hollywood star ; on the recommendation of Daphne du Maurier, he was given the leading role in My Cousin Rachel opposite Olivia de Havilland.

" For I hold that on the sea " ( Sir Joseph, Cousin Hebe and Chorus )

California mountain bluegrass, a variation on traditional, has enjoyed regional popularity with such bands as Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack.

Neal also hired Dan Ingram to host the afternoon time period and hired Bruce " Cousin Brucie " Morrow to host early evenings on WABC.

In the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation starring Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold, the Griswolds visits Cousin Eddie and his family, who live on a farm outside Coolidge.

In fact, Cousin used his personal gun to shoot the vest at a different location, and then fired his service pistol three times to claim he returned fire on the suspects.

* " Alsatian Cousin ", the first track on Morrissey's 1988 debut album, Viva Hate

One may think the song is about love on first inspection ; however, upon deeper analysis the listener realizes that the real story is about prostitution ( Pearl of the Quarter ), incest (" Cousin Dupree "), pedophilia ( Everyone's Gone to the Movies ), or some other socially unacceptable subject.

* The Cousin from Nowhere London production opened at Prince's Theatre on February 24 and ran for 105 performances

" The transcendentalists were largely unacquainted with German philosophy in the original, and relied primarily on the writings of Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Victor Cousin, Germaine de Staël, and other English and French commentators for their knowledge of it.

* May 19 – The Walt Disney cartoon Donald's Cousin Gus airs on NBC's experimental station W2XBS ( later WNBC-TV ) in New York.

There he came under the influence of Victor Cousin, and in 1817 he was appointed assistant professor of philosophy at the normal and Bourbon schools.

" In 1815 – 1816 Cousin attained the position of suppliant ( assistant ) to Royer-Collard in the history of modern philosophy chair of the faculty of letters.

Judged on his teaching influence, Cousin occupies a foremost place in the rank of professors of philosophy, who like Jacobi, Schelling and Dugald Stewart have united the gifts of speculative, expository and imaginative power.

Cousin strongly insisted on the importance of method in philosophy.

By his method of observation and induction as thus explained, his philosophy will be found to be marked off very clearly, on the one hand from the deductive construction of notions of an absolute system, as represented either by Schelling or Hegel, which Cousin regards as based simply on hypothesis and abstraction, illegitimately obtained ; and on the other, from that of Kant, and in a sense, of Sir W. Hamilton, both of which in the view of Cousin are limited to psychology, and merely relative or phenomenal knowledge, and issue in scepticism so far as the great realities of ontology are concerned.

But it is in his doctrine of the Reason that the distinctive principle of the philosophy of Cousin lies.

This was the point which Kant missed in his analysis, and this is the fundamental truth which Cousin thinks he has restored to the integrity of philosophy by the method of the observation of consciousness.

It was the tendency of the philosophy of Cousin to outline things and to fill up the details in an artistic and imaginative interest.

In philosophy he was a follower of Victor Cousin, and through him of G. W. F. Hegel.

In philosophy, he was one of the school of Victor Cousin, with whom he was at issue in many important points.

There he came in contact with Victor Cousin, who sent him to Caen and then to Versailles to teach philosophy.

He helped Cousin, without receiving any recognition, in his translations from Plato, and in 1839 became his deputy in the chair of philosophy at the University of Paris, with the meagre salary of 83 francs per month.

He was an active journalist, showing in philosophy and literature the influence of Victor Cousin, and is said to have furnished to no small extent the original of Honoré de Balzac's character, Henri de Marsay.

He wrote well, was a forcible speaker and an acute critic ; but his adoption of the indeterminate eclecticism of Victor Cousin in philosophy and of the somewhat similarly indeterminate liberalism of in politics probably limited his powers, though both no doubt accorded with his critical and unenthusiastic turn of mind.

The philosophy of Victor Cousin influenced him strongly, but his strength lay in exposition and criticism rather than in original thought.

In 1839 he succeeded his master Cousin as professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne.

His chief philosophical importance consists in the fact that he was a leader in the attempt to revivify French philosophy by the new thought of Germany, to which he had been introduced by Victor Cousin, but of which he never had more than a second-hand knowledge.

It shows a harmony with the Roman Catholic faith which caused Cousin to declare that Italian philosophy was still in the bonds of theology, and that Gioberti was no philosopher.

He read in English Romanticism and English and French reports on German Idealist philosophy, and was passionate about the work of Victor Cousin and Pierre Leroux.

In philosophy and metaphysics, Bowen upheld the views of George Berkeley and John Locke and opposed those of Emmanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Victor Cousin, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill.

Born in Orléans, Louis Gustave Vapereau studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure from 1838 to 1843, writing his thesis on Pascal's Pensées under the supervision of Victor Cousin.

" In the episode " Cousin Liz " ( in which the Bunkers learn that her recently deceased cousin Liz was a lesbian with a life-partner, Veronica ), Edith is at first shocked at the revelation, but quickly throws her arms around Veronica and warmly accepts her as Liz's " true next-of-kin ", giving her the tea-set Liz's spouse would have legally inherited.

" Cousin Brucie " quickly became a success on WABC's teen-oriented evening shift in the 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. slot.