Ferdinand : probably Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452-1516) who united Spanish states into a Catholic nation, & led its expansion into Europe. (S/a Netherlands)
... tenaciously Ferdinand de Lesseps had held on to his project through many ups and downs. Had he, perhaps, inherited Napoleon Bonaparte's dream? In 1798 Napoleon had discovered Page 22 the ancient canal of the Pharaohs, lost in the mists of time. Now it was 1869. How long dreams take to mature! So Mira Ismalun must have lent a very sympathetic ear to the sixty-four-year-old Ferdinand de Lesseps... Europe had sailed to the inauguration of the Suez Canal. But the pride of place went to the magnificent l'Aigle which had brought from France Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, along with Ferdinand de Lesseps. For it was indeed thanks to the royal backing that de Lesseps could complete his project. But as they rode, M. de Lesseps' thoughts must have turned to his friend, prince Said, who ...
... Shakespeare was not a philosophic or mystic thinker.... What, however, surprises me is your saying that there is not the vaguest hint of something abiding. In the magic performance which Prospero gave to Ferdinand and Miranda ... Prospero reminded them of what he had said before—namely, that "these our actors ... were all spirits". They melt into thin air but do not disappear from existence, from conscious... confused noise, they heavily vanish", occurs this aside on the part of Prospero: "(To the Spirits) Well done; avoid; no more." The quoted passage follows a little later. Then again Prospero says after Ferdinand and Miranda are gone: "Come with a thought:—I thank you:—Ariel, come." Thereupon Ariel enters: ARIEL: Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure? PROSPERO: Spirit ...
... is the koyel or Indian cuckoo. Goethe . Circa 1890–98. The Lost Deliverer . Circa 1890–98. In the manuscript and the Baroda edition, this epigram is entitled "Ferdinand Lassalle". Lassalle (1825 64), a German socialist leader, was killed in a duel over a woman. Charles Stewart Parnell. Dated 1891, the year of the Irish nationalist leader's death. ...
... those in India] in a giant pincer movement.’ 35 More and more people who knew Hitler from close by became convinced that the man had become insane; Toland quotes among others the opinion of Dr. Ferdinand Sauerbruch, who ‘told friends that during a recent visit to the Führer [in the last phase of the war] he had heard an old and broken Hitler muttering such disjointed phrases as, “I must go to India ...
... Wolf”. Some of his headquarters in the field were called Wolfsschlucht (Wolf’s Gorge) , Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair) and Werwolf. The town where the Volkswagen, designed by Hitler together with Ferdinand Porsche, was to be build was called Wolfsburg, and has retained the name to this day. And so on. It was on Hitler’s birthday, 20 April, in 1922 that one of his bodyguards, Christian Weber, presented ...
... were the activities on the surface. But, by a strange quirk of fate, all this was to synchronise with momentous happenings on the European and world stage. On 28 June 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir-apparent of the Hapsburg Empire, and his consort were assassinated by a twenty-year old Serbian youth. July 1914 was a hectic month for the chancellories of Europe, and the issue of peace ...
... 418, 683, 816-8, 820 Edith Schnapper 782 Eliot, T.S. 120, 643 The Eternal Wisdom 108, 110, 119 Fanon, Franz 773 Rower Arrangement 195 (cf320ff, 419-20) Francis, Archduke Ferdinand 109 Francis, Saint 485 French Institute, The 571, 603 Gaebelé, Mme see Suvrata Ganapati Muni, Vasishta (Nayana) 257-8, 339, 600 Ganapatram Gupta 278 Gandhi, Mahatma 118, ...
... his uncle, he too proclaimed himself emperor in 1852. This is the same Emperor whose Empress Eugenie joined the festivities at Alexandria, when the Suez Canal was opened in 1869, and its builder Ferdinand de Lesseps invited Mother's grandmother, Mira Ismalun. Remember? Recently I read a charming story about Napoleon III and how he came to build in Pondicherry a monument to Aayi, a lady of the ...
... liberty and free variation. In England the period of the New Monarchy from Edward IV to Elizabeth, in France the great Bourbon period from Henry IV to Louis XIV, in Spain the epoch which extends from Ferdinand to Philip II, in Russia the rule of Peter the Great and Catherine were the time in which these nations reached their maturity, formed fully and confirmed their spirit and attained to a robust organisation ...
... sheer acme of that thrill. Passion has used, for revealing its own absolute pitch, for achieving its own apotheosis, the mystic light. Prospero's speech at the end of his magic performance before Ferdinand and Miranda is a complex phenomenon denoting in another way a magnificent might-have-been from a plane above that of mystic ideas: Our revels now are ended; these our actors, As I foretold ...
... and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. He suggested to Sri Aurobindo that since the actors con-jured up by Prospero for the masque he presented for the betrothal of Miranda and Ferdinand vanish at the end of it, but not altogether and only into the spirit-realm where they came from, Shakespeare's lines may be construed as indi-rectly conveying the idea that our annihilation from the ...
... surroundings thanks to Mathilde’s mother, Mira Ismaloun, for her time a remarkably cosmopolitan woman as much at home in Paris, Geneva and Nice as she was in Cairo, and who had many famous friends like Ferdinand de Lesseps, the engineer who dug the Suez Canal, and the composer Gioacchino Rossini. And so it happened that Mathilde’s third child — her first, a son, had died from a vaccination when he was ...
... slogan at the time: Den Deutschen gehört die Welt – the world belongs to the Germans. On 28 June 1914, a week after the decision to publish the Arya, the Austrian crown prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. The following day Austria declared war on Serbia; on 1 August Germany stood by its Austrian ally and declared war on Russia, and two days later on France; on 4 August ...
... Equatorial Africa. But then the Panama Scandal erupted, ‘the greatest financial disaster in France for 200 years,’ rocking the country’s financial institutions and galvanizing public opinion. Ferdinand, Count de Lesseps, having successfully completed the Suez Canal in 1869, wanted to create a passage through the land mass of the Americas by digging a canal through the Panama isthmus. This would ...
... the danger of 'attracting him,' at least under this form, seems remote. × On June 28, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated at Sarajevo. × Satprem no longer remembers the source of this false ...
... Introduction In England the period of the New Monarchy from Edward IV to Elizabeth, in France the great Bourbon period from Henry IV to Louis XIV in Spain the epoch which extends from Ferdinand to Philip II, in Russia the rule of Peter the Great and Catherine were the time in which these nations reached their maturity, formed fully and confirmed their spirit and attained to a robust organisation ...
... stores such as the Bon Marc he sprang up in Paris. The rise of Paris as a capital of luxury and fashion was seen to denote the Empire achievements. But the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869 by Ferdinand de Lesseps was actually the crowning glory of the Second Empire. However, it may not have been its luxury and fashion that had attracted Mira Ismalun to Paris. In all likelihood its attraction ...
... thought he had reached Asia, and died ignorant of his real find. It was left to later navigators to realize that it was not Asia but a newly found land. It was the voyage of the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the first European to go round the Tierra del Fuego, and sail the Pacific—a name he gave to the vast ocean west of the new continent—which confirmed the newness of these lands ...
... first number would come out on 15 August, the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, and I think the war broke out on 3 August." As for the War, it came about with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne, at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Austria declared war on Serbia on 28 July. Germany declared war on Russia on 1 st August. France entered the conflict on 3 rd August ...
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