Franck Sentence Examples

Franck, in his preface, says the original was in English; elsewhere he says it was in Latin; the theory that his German was really the original is unwarrantable.

Franck combined the humanist's passion for freedom with the mystic's devotion to the religion of the spirit.

An anathema was accordingly issued from Schmalkald against Schwenkfeld (together with Sebastian Franck); his books were placed on the Protestant "index"; and he himself was made a religious outlaw.

Valentin Weigel (1533-1588), who stands under manifold obligations to Franck, represents also the influence of the semi-mystical physical speculation that marked the transition from scholasticism to modern times.

Louis Franck, the Belgian Colonial Minister, paid a visit to the Congo in 1920.

He was not a man of learning, nor had he many books; for his knowledge of early Christian writers he was partly indebted to the Chronica or compilations of Sebastian Franck.

Franck, Moralistes et philosophes (1872).

Franck, Esquisse d'une histoire de la logique (1838) is the chief French contribution to the subject as a whole.

Under him were his four lieutenants, his "mystic sister," Margherita di Franck, and 4000 disciples.

Leo Szilard and James Franck circulated a petition among the scientists opposing the use of the bomb on moral grounds.

He was also called upon to do battle for his principle against men like Caspar Schwenkfeld (1490-1561) and Sebastian Franck (1500-1545), the latter of whom developed a system of pantheistic mysticism, and went so far in his opposition to the letter as to declare the whole of the historical element in Scripture to be but a mythical representation of eternal truth.

The influence of Nicolas of Cusa and Paracelsus mingled in Valentin Weigel with that of the Deutsche Theologie, Andreas Osiander, Schwenkfeld and Franck.

Ashley Wass made his debut recording in 1999 with a solo recital disk of works by Cesar Franck for Naxos.