| NOUN | a man of letters | men of letters |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when Jerome was 13 and of his mother when he was 15 forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself.
- Julian was a man of unusually complex character: he was "the military commander, the theosophist, the social reformer, and the man of letters".
- Jean-Jacques Ampère (12 August 1800 – 27 March 1864) was a French philologist and man of letters.
- He was widely praised as America's "last true man of letters", with an immense and far-reaching influence on many writers.
- English novelist, critic, and man of letters Anthony Burgess taught in the extramural department (1946–50).
- Towards the end of 1917 Caine was offered a baronetcy in recognition of the contribution he made to the war effort as an allied propagandist and his position as a leading man of letters.
- Among Daniel's most characteristic works, it is a dialogue between a courtier and a man of letters, and is a general defence of learning, and in particular of poetic learning as an instrument in the education of the perfect courtier or man of action.
- ... 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters.
- Guillaume Thomas Raynal (12 April 1713 – 6 March 1796) was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.
- The municipality is named after the château of Belœil, once the seat of Charles-Joseph, Prince of Ligne, a military officer and man of letters who corresponded with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire.
- ... 1 September 1615) was a French lawyer and man of letters.
- In 1605, his "Lady Pecunia" was reprinted, and this was his last appearance as a man of letters.
- Pope Benedict was not considered a man of letters.
- astonishingly versatile man of letters".
- Streets, buildings, and public places in Le Havre pay tribute to other famous Le Havre people from this period: the writer Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843) has a street named after him and a statue in front of the palace of justice alongside another man of letters, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814).
- Their contemporary and late member of the Dalkeith Methodist Church, was the former secretary of the University of the West Indies, consultant of the "Canadian Training Aid Programme" and a man of letters – Francis Woodbine Blackman (1922–2010).
- Montesquieu (1689–1755) was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher.
- During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, in particular a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction.
- Sir Adolphus William Ward [...] (2 December 1837 – 19 June 1924) was an English historian and man of letters.
- Maurice Tourneux (12 July 1849 [...] 13 January 1917) was a French man of letters and bibliographer.
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