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Blaise Pascal
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  • Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait — Estienne; C'est de quoij'ai le plus de peur que la peur— Montaigne; Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point Pascal; L'histoire, cette vieille dame exaltee et menteuse — de Maupassant.†   (source)
  • Pascal.†   (source)
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  • Pascal was unconcerned.†   (source)
  • So a whole Babel of computer languages has been created for programmers: FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, LISP, Pascal, C, PROLOG, FORTH.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, history's list of famous Rosicrucians was a who's who of European Renaissance luminaries: Paracelsus, Bacon, Fludd, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz.†   (source)
  • The hospital's doctor, Pascal Pipi, realized that she needed an emergency cesarean.†   (source)
  • When caretaker President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot set up a transitional government to oversee fair elections in 1990, Aristide was on the ballot.†   (source)
  • On the table beside his reading chair were the latest novels of Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper, the sermons of Bishop Joseph Butler, along with Pascal's Provincial Letters.†   (source)
  • So that to read the quotations from top to bottom, column by column, was rather like walking through an emergency station set up in a flood area, where, for example, Pascal had been unribaldly bedded down with Emily Dickinson, and where, so to speak, Baudelaire's and Thomas a Kempis's toothbrushes were hanging side by side.†   (source)
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  • PASCAL COVICI Dear Pat, You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, "Why don't you make something for me?"†   (source)
  • Elévée ran off to play with Pascal, rather than be trapped into this drear exercise.†   (source)
  • Pascal was almost three, picking up English like the smart little parrot he is.†   (source)
  • "Once we'd made friends, Pascal borrowed a machete and cut sugarcane for me to chew on.†   (source)
  • Pascal our childhood friend, who my son is named after.†   (source)
  • He walked to a tall boy near me, Pascal's half brother.†   (source)
  • He died eighteen years ago, right before my Pascal was born, when we were in Bikoki.†   (source)
  • Pascal doesn't come anymore to play because his older brother died and Pascal is needed at home.†   (source)
  • I try to fill up the space with memories, try to recall his face when he first held Pascal.†   (source)
  • Often I hear ghosts: the upward slant of Pascal's voice in the question Beto nki tutasala?†   (source)
  • His name was Pascal, or something near it, and he captivated us with frantic sign language.†   (source)
  • Pascal and Patrice will be very excited.†   (source)
  • I invited Pascal into our kitchen house when Mother wasn't there.†   (source)
  • Pascal had a kilo of sugar cane and a defunct World War II handgun in his backpack.†   (source)
  • But Leah's friend Pascal hates it, and Nelson hates it worse.†   (source)
  • I don't have a single solitary friend here but Nelson and Pascal, two little boys!†   (source)
  • (Which, I heard Pascal boast to his friends, are manufactured on Mars.)†   (source)
  • Pascal was my nkundi: my first real friend in the Congo.†   (source)
  • Pascal prowled over her furniture and napped on her lap like a cat.†   (source)
  • On another afternoon Pascal showed me how to build a six-inch-tall house.†   (source)
  • Leah with Anatole and their little son Pascal and another child well in progress.†   (source)
  • Pascal could say these words back to me all right, but he evidently didn't care to remember them.†   (source)
  • It did cross my mind to wonder why Pascal had a freedom to play and roam that his sisters didn't.†   (source)
  • But Pascal had a fine set of strong white teeth, so I decided to take my chances.†   (source)
  • "You have heard of Pascal's Wager?"†   (source)
  • There was so much she wanted to talk to him about: Pascal's Wager, Dr. Meescham, the other Dr. Meescham, giant squids, giant donuts (and who was dunking them), if he had ever heard of a place called Blundermeecen, if he had ever sat on a horsehair sofa.†   (source)
  • "Pascal," said Dr. Meescham, "had it that since it could not be proven whether God existed, one might as well believe that he did, because there was everything to gain by believing and nothing to lose.†   (source)
  • Our companionship consisted mainly of Pascal telling me the names for everything we saw and some things I hadn't thought to look for.†   (source)
  • "Pascal's best friend, a hearty girl named Elévée, had wandered in and sat down at the table opposite Elisabet, but was uncharacteristically quiet.†   (source)
  • Leah Price Ngemba KIMVULA DISTRICT, ZAIRE 1986 I HAVE FOUR SONS, all named for men we lost to war: Pascal, Patrice, Martin-Lothaire, and Nataniel.†   (source)
  • This small house of Pascal's, I realized, was identical in material and design to the house in which he lived.†   (source)
  • The boys are sad, of course, but Pascal and Patrice at fifteen and thirteen are nearly men, with men's ways of coping.†   (source)
  • Then added, "Pascal is dead, of course.†   (source)
  • Pascal has gone farthest—for two years he's been in Luanda, where he studies petroleum engineering and, I sincerely believe, chases girls.†   (source)
  • But Pascal is always more interested in poking through the flour sacks, and he sometimes takes small handfuls of Carnation milk powder.†   (source)
  • Their mother had died during the disease time, and their father's other wife—Pascal's mother—had taken them both into her house.†   (source)
  • My old friend Pascal and two other former students of Anatole's were murdered by the army on the road south of here.†   (source)
  • How could he regret the marriage that brought Pascal, Patrice, and Martin-Lothaire onto the face of Africa?†   (source)
  • Leah's friend Pascal was the only one who still came around occasionally, wanting Leah to come out and scout the bush for adventures with him.†   (source)
  • In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest.†   (source)
  • I bit my lip and labored on my own small house under the guava tree, but beside the perfect talents of Pascal, my own hands lumbered like pale flippers on a walrus out of its element.†   (source)
  • While we labored over changing beds or washing up dishes, Pascal would wait outside, teasing for our attention by shouting the handful of American phrases Leah had taught him: "Man-oh-man!†   (source)
  • Under our roof, we're six: Anatole and me, our boys Pascal, Patrice, and the baby, Martin-Lothaire, and Aunt Elisabet, plus her daughter Christiane occasionally.†   (source)
  • I'd nearly forgotten Pascal, his wide-set eyes and insolent smile, and now he comes creeping around my dreams, throwing open windows faster than I can shut them.†   (source)
  • Pascal and Patrice helped me scratch up a little plot that eventually produced a few bleak, dusty bouquets of spinach and beans, which were gobbled up one night by our neighbor's goat.†   (source)
  • While Pascal and Patrice punched each other out of exhausted boredom and Martin leaned on me crying that his ears hurt, my husband was brought down without my notice.†   (source)
  • But Pascal made a fine companion.†   (source)
  • But Pascal quickly forgave me, and it's a good thing, since friends of my own age and gender were not available, the girls of Kilanga all being too busy hauling around firewood, water, or babies.†   (source)
  • These discussions came several weeks into our friendship, after Pascal had learned I was not, actually, a boy, but something previously unheard of: a girl in pants.†   (source)
  • And that?" their Pascal asks in his wide-eyed way, pointing through the aisles: a pink jar of cream for removing hair, a can of fragrance to spray on the carpet, stacks of lidded containers the same size as the jars we throw away each day.†   (source)
  • "Pascal our friend?"†   (source)
  • "Oh, Pascal, your son?"†   (source)
  • Pascal was all for it.†   (source)
  • Pascal says people get in trouble because they can't stay in their rooms.†   (source)
  • Whisk, the cathedrals; whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal.†   (source)
  • Once it came to me while reading a poet, while pondering a thought of Descartes, of Pascal; again it shone out and drove its gold track far into the sky while I was in the presence of my beloved.†   (source)
  • He often quoted to his students that passage from their fellow Auvergnat, Pascal: that Man was lost and saved in a garden.†   (source)
  • Bernard read aloud to him the rest of the morning; St. Augustine, or the letters of Madame de Sevigné, or his favourite Pascal.†   (source)
  • I don't know; shall we say Pascal's Pensees?"†   (source)
  • ——Pascal was a pig, said Cranly.†   (source)
  • ——Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.†   (source)
  • "To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true," says Pascal, "is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!"†   (source)
  • "No, I have for the end of the month these bills which have been assigned to us by the house of Pascal, and the house of Wild & Turner of Marseilles, amounting to nearly 55,000.†   (source)
  • He would have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity.†   (source)
  • This complete equality eludes the grasp of the people at the very moment at which it thinks to hold it fast, and "flies," as Pascal says, "with eternal flight"; the people is excited in the pursuit of an advantage, which is more precious because it is not sufficiently remote to be unknown, or sufficiently near to be enjoyed.†   (source)
  • It would be like marrying Pascal.†   (source)
  • Dorothea knew many passages of Pascal's Pensees and of Jeremy Taylor by heart; and to her the destinies of mankind, seen by the light of Christianity, made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam.†   (source)
  • earth; it was while proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Regnier, Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Moliere for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul o†   (source)
  • "It is a great advantage," says Pascal, "to be a man of quality, since it brings one man as forward at eighteen or twenty as another man would be at fifty, which is a clear gain of thirty years."†   (source)
  • I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret's warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal's; that is all I was obliged to know, and I beg I may not be asked for any further particulars."†   (source)
  • If Pascal had had nothing in view but some large gain, or even if he had been stimulated by the love of fame alone, I cannot conceive that he would ever have been able to rally all the powers of his mind, as he did, for the better discovery of the most hidden things of the Creator.†   (source)
  • There was a little heap of them on the table in the bow-window——of various sorts, from Herodotus, which she was learning to read with Mr. Casaubon, to her old companion Pascal, and Keble's "Christian Year."†   (source)
  • He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Caesar, his conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he replied to Laplace, in the Council of State be held his ow†   (source)
  • The moccoli, or moccoletti, are candles which vary in size from the pascal taper to the rushlight, and which give to each actor in the great final scene of the Carnival two very serious problems to grapple with,——first, how to keep his own moccoletto alight; and secondly, how to extinguish the moccoletti of others.†   (source)
  • ——PASCAL.†   (source)
  • ——PASCAL.†   (source)
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