Renan's mother was half Breton.

It was not mathematics but philology which was to settle Renan's gathering doubts.

Renan's Life of Jesus was lavished with ironic praise and criticism by Albert Schweitzer in his book Quest of the Historical Jesus.

The Franco-Prussian War was a turning-point in Renan's history.

Meanwhile he had gained a high reputation as a preacher, and especially as the advocate of religious freedom ; but his teaching became more and more offensive to the orthodox party, and on the appearance ( 1864 ) of his article on Renan's Vie de Jésus in the Nouvelle Revue de théologie he was forbidden by the Paris consistory to continue his ministerial functions.

At sixty years of age, having finished the Origins of Christianity, he began his History of Israel, based on a lifelong study of the Old Testament and on the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, published by the Académie des Inscriptions under Renan's direction from the year 1881 till the end of his life.

* Renan's letters from the Holy Land ; the correspondence of Ernest Renan with M. Berthelot while gathering material in Italy and the Orient for " The life of Jesus "; tr.

In 1882, he married Ernest Renan's daughter, Noémi, from whom he had four children, among which, and, raised in the Scheffer-Renan Hôtel, the current Musée de la Vie romantique in the heart of the Nouvelle Athènes neighbourhood, in Paris.

Renan's 1862 biography of Jesus had denied his divinity, and he had written the " Prayer on the Acropolis " addressed to the goddess Athena.

Lemaitre now insists the Doctor help him find Jules Renan's house and expose the spy ring.

Opposed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's theory of social contract, Barrès considered the ' Nation ' ( which he used to replace the ' People ') as already historically founded: it did not need a " general will " to establish itself, thus also contrasting with Ernest Renan's definition of the Nation.

However, most European countries chose the German concept of an " objective nationality ", based on word, race or language ( as in Fichte's classical definition of a nation ), opposing themselves to republican Ernest Renan's " subjective nationality ", based on a daily plebiscite of one's belonging to one's Fatherland.

Renan's republican conception explains France's early adoption of jus soli.

); Histoire de Jésus ( 1872 ), a counterblast to Renan's Vie de Jésus.

To the day of Renan's death, their friendship continued.

Renan's definition of a nation has been extremely influential.

" Renan's work has especially influenced famed 20th century historian of nationalism, Benedict Anderson.

Nietzsche criticized Ernest Renan's attribution of the concepts genius and hero to Jesus.

Renan's 1873 L ' antéchrist saw an " authorized German-language edition " published the same year under the title, Der Antichrist.

To the lay reader may be recommended Ernest Renan's article, Les congregations de auxiliis in his Nouvelles etudes d ' histoire religieuse.

The feathered lance was still above his head.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

Kodyke was to head the dread company police.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

It was the marine: head lifted, he strained and called.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

It was unexpected, unexpected because Lilly walked with her head bent down, down, and her mark of friendship was to look into your face.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.