:: What oft was thought, but ne ' er so well express'd.

An influential formulation of the hierarchy of genres, confirming the history painting at the top, was made in 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism became the classic statement of the theory for the 18th century: Celui qui fait parfaitement des païsages est au-dessus d ' un autre qui ne fait que des fruits, des fleurs ou des coquilles.

Returning to Paris, the penniless Rousseau befriended and became the lover of Thérèse Levasseur, a seamstress who was the sole support of her mother and numerous ne ' er-do-well siblings.

It was on this occasion that Pasteur uttered his oft-quoted remark: "... dans les champs de l ' observation, le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés " ( In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

The sultan had a famous quote about the fall of Baghdad: " Bağdat ' ı almaya çalışmak, Bağdat ' ın kendinden daha mı güzeldi ne " (" Trying to conquer Baghdad, was almost more beautiful than Baghad itself.

It was also used by Robert Hooke and Voltaire, the latter of whom remarked: " L ' univers m ' embarrasse, et je ne puis songer Que cette horloge existe, et n ' ait point d ' horloger "; " I'm puzzled by the world ; I cannot dream The timepiece real, its maker but a dream ".

Her nickname was " la tragédienne de la chanson ", and amongst her big hits were " Les goélands ", " Johnny Palmer ", " C ' est mon gigolo " and " Tu ne sais pas aimer "-- the latter song became a theme for French sufferers of AIDS.

According to an interview with Gaiman in The Sandman Companion, the Corinthian takes his name from the mode of behavior ; specifically, " a Corinthian " was another term for a rake: a devil-may-care, ne ' er-do-well.

The result was the album Ne me quitte pas ( Don't leave me ), which contained the title track, " Marieke ", " Les Flamandes " ( Flemish women ), " Quand on a que l ’ amour " ( When you only have love ), " Les biches " ( The does ), " Le moribond " ( The dying one ), " La valse à mille temps " ( The waltz a thousand times as fast ), and " Je ne sais pas " ( I don't know ).

The abbot of Bisham, John Cordery, is said to have cursed the building thus: " As God is my witness, this property shall ne ’ er be inherited by two direct successors, for its sons will be hounded by misfortune ", as he was dragged from it.

He returned home, although his family relationships were also strained ; his father was still convinced his son was a ne ' er-do-well.

There ne ' er was paid such Attention

The motto of Vichy France was " travail, famille, patrie "(" work, family, homeland "), and its leader, Marshal Philippe Pétain, declared that " la terre, elle ne ment pas " (" the earth, it does not lie ") in an indication of his belief that the truest life is rural and agrarian.

In 1761, Voltaire wrote of Thomas Corneille: ‘ si vous exceptez Racine, auquel il ne faut comparer personne, il était le seul de son temps qui fût digne d ’ être le premier au-dessous de son frère ' ( if you except Racine, to whom nobody can be compared, he was the first of his time who was worthy to be behind his brother ).

Thad Greenwood's father, a storekeeper, was harassed to death by a trio of loathsome ne ' er-do-well thieves.

The story of the murder was adapted into the 1971 French film Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal ( Don't Deliver Us From Evil ) and into Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures ( 1994 ).

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was " Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée " ( another wordplay in French ; could mean both " he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey ", or " he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown ": the verb " pomper " in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man ); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l ' Aurore, wrote that " upon entering the void, he must have felt home ".< ref >

Why then Queen Margaret was ne ' er thy joy.

In Latin, passus was the word for " step ", so that originally French Je ne marche pas and Catalan No camino pas meant " I will not go a single step ".

In many cases the original sense of the new negative particle is not negative per se ( thus in French pas " step ", originally " not a step " = " not a bit "), but in Germanic languages such as English and German the intermediate stage was a case of double negation, as the current negatives not and nicht in these languages originally meant " nothing ": e. g. Old English ic ne seah " I didn't see " >> Middle English I ne saugh nawiht, lit.

He was in the habit of claiming that he never read books, saying to the Académie française on the day of his introduction ( 7 April 1892 ), " Loti ne sait pas lire " (" Loti doesn't know how to read "), but testimony from friends proves otherwise, as does his library, much of which is preserved in his house in Rochefort.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

That goddamn redheader was the worst.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

The worst was yet to come.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

She might peel him, once the worst of the agony was over.

Even rock-steady Anne -- Hell, Anne was the worst!!

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Alexei's relations with his father suffered from the hatred between his father and his mother, as it was very difficult for him to feel affection for his mother's worst persecutor.

The worst that could be brought against him was that he had wished his father's death.

Peter was openly in love with Inês, recognized all the children she bore, and, worst of all, favoured the Castilians that surrounded her.

The early years of the colony had been years of struggle and hardship, but the worst was over, and there were no further famines in New South Wales.

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