"Saint bernard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enorme quantite de pierre roulees qui remplissent presque tout le haut de ce vallons. Cet amas de pierres provient des glaciers et des hauteurs qui descendent du Mont-Velan, qui est la partie la plus elevee du groupe de montagnes, qui forment le grand Saint Bernard. La sont des neiges et des glaciers de cette partie, fournit aussi la Drance qui va se jetter dans le Rhone au dessous de Martigny. On ne voit de ces pierres roulees qu'en cet endroit, elles viennent directement des ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... in the rock," Saint Bernard said, "Grave it on brass with adamantine pen! 'Tis God himself becomes apparent, when God's wisdom ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... he felt himself competent to cope, and his timidity and hesitation in matters of war, is astounding. But it is a common phenomenon with the worker of miracles and indicates the limit of faith at which the saint or prophet has always betrayed the impostor. For example: Saint Bernard, when he preached in 1146 the Second Crusade, made miraculous cures by the thousand, so much so that there was danger of being killed in the crowds which pressed upon him. And yet this same saint, when chosen by the crusaders four years later, in 1150, to lead them ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams
... Filippino Lippi is the Vision of Saint Bernard, in the Badia at Florence, and here again angel-youths are introduced with charming effect. Two are in the rear, with hands clasped in adoration; two are beside the Virgin, bearing the weight of her mantle, and raising their earnest ...
— Child-life in Art • Estelle M. Hurll
... Bernardines of Granselve[5305] turning their building into a worldly rendezvous for jovial hospitality and themselves taking part, foremost in rank, in prolonged and frequent parties, balls, plays and hunting-parties; in diversions and gallantries which the annual fete of Saint Bernard, through a singular dissonance, excited and consecrated. No more over-wealthy superiors, usufructuaries of a vast abbatial revenue, suzerain and landlord seigniors, with the train, luxury and customs of their condition, with four-horse carriages, liveries, officials, antechamber, court, chancellorship ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 2 (of 2) • Hippolyte A. Taine |
