All 6 Uses of
temperament
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- In life, our greatest preoccupation is death; is it not then, curious to study the different ways by which the soul and body can part; and how, according to their different characters, temperaments, and even the different customs of their countries, different persons bear the transition from life to death, from existence to annihilation?†
Chpt 35-36
- The bandit gazed on this scene with amazement; he was evidently accustomed to see his prisoners tremble before him, and yet here was one whose gay temperament was not for a moment altered; as for Franz, he was enchanted at the way in which Albert had sustained the national honor in the presence of the bandit.†
Chpt 37-38
- I inquired of you if poisons acted equally, and with the same effect, on men of the North as on men of the South; and you answered me that the cold and sluggish habits of the North did not present the same aptitude as the rich and energetic temperaments of the natives of the South.†
Chpt 51-52
- Madame de Saint-Meran, whom I once saw, was short, of slender form, and of a much more nervous than sanguine temperament; grief could hardly produce apoplexy in such a constitution as that of Madame de Saint-Meran.†
Chpt 73-74 *
- For some temperaments work is a remedy for all afflictions.†
Chpt 103-104
- A man of the count's temperament could not long indulge in that melancholy which can exist in common minds, but which destroys superior ones.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(temperament as in: it is her temperament) usual mood and tendencies