ABBE, ROBERT

ăbˈē, 1851–1928, American surgeon, b. New York City, M.D. Columbia, 1874; brother of Cleveland Abbe. He was especially noted as a plastic surgeon and was a pioneer in the use of catgut sutures. A friend of the Curies, Abbe was also one of the first in the United States to use radium in treating cancer.

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books on: Abbe Robert  - 1586 results

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Philosophical Writings of Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac - Vol. 2
Book by Franklin Philip, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, Harlan Lane; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1982
Subjects: Senses And Sensation, Thought And Thinking
...513-20 bodies, see objects Boileau, Nicolas Despreaux , 478-79, 585 boredom, 183 Boursier, P., 71-78 Boyle, Robert, 128 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 157, 169n, 263n C cause, occasional, 435 certainty, 37-39, 415-17...
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Twenty-Two Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Addressed to Henrietta and Arabella Moulton-Barrett
Book by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning; United Feature Syndicate, 1935
Subjects: Barrett, Arabella--D. 1868--Correspondence, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--1806-1861--Correspondence, Browning, Robert--1812-1889--Correspondence, Cook, Henrietta Barrett--D. 1860--Correspondence
...free I seize upon it to make him read German. Of course he gets on at full gallop--and made Robert and me laugh last night by saying that his abbe was going to "put him into Virgil" very soon. Which will be rather gobbling down the Latin language...
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Robert Dodsley, Poet, Publisher & Playwright
Book by Robert Dodsley; John Lane, 1910
Subjects: Dodsley, Robert--1703-1764, Dodsley, Robert--1703-1764--Bibliography
...Notes. Is. B.M. TURNBULL GEORGE , trans. Three Dissertations ... by the Abbe de Vertot . . . the Abbe Fraguier ... Mr Boindin. 3s. B.M. June 14. DUGUET ABBE . The Institution of a Prince ; or, A Treatise of the Virtues and Duties of...
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Robert Bacon: Life and Letters
Book by James Brown Scott, Robert Bacon; Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923
Subjects: Bacon, Robert--1860-1919, Capitalists And Financiers--United States--Biography
...Remember my Irish motto, "Keep on smiling, and keep your rifle clean." I have bought some red and white wine from an old Abbe and my old goose is getting fatter, so that it is almost time to have him killed for dinner, and we really live on the fat...
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The Autobiography and Memoirs of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) - Vol. 1
Book by Tom Taylor, Benjamin Robert Haydon; Harcourt Brace & Company, 1926
Subjects: Haydon, Benjamin Robert--1786-1846
...admiration at Jairuss daughter, and repeatedly said: " Charmante, charmante. " After looking some time in silence his brother the Abbe was with him he turned round and said: "Venez a Rome, M. Haydon, vous y verrez la v ritable democratie de lart. " The unexpressed...
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journal articles on: Abbe Robert  - 292 results

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Edith Wharton and the Faubourg Saint-Germain: The Diary of the Abbe Mugnier
Journal article by Anne Foata; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 43, 1997
Subjects: Paris, France--History, Priests--Records and correspondence, Wharton, Edith--Biography
...1). The Vicomte Robert dHumieres, a friend...1939)." The Abbe, as he was known...human heart. The Abbes diary with its almost...disappointment. The Abbes candid impressions...was a friend of the Abbe Mugnier but also...left unfinished by Robert dHumieress death...my own, not the Abbes. They concern passages...Whartons(6) with the Abbe Bremond(7) and...
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"Always Sincere, Not Always Serious": Robert Liddell and Barbara Pym
Journal article by Robert Smith; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 41, 1995
Subjects: Authors--Social aspects, Liddell, Robert--Biography, Pym, Barbara--Biography, Women authors--Relationship with men
...20 The following books by Robert Liddell have been published...1987); Ferdinand Fabre, The Abbe Tigranee, translation (1988...not the first critical work on Robert Liddell, that being J.P. Talsethagens unpublished thesis, Robert Liddells Theory and Practice...
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Impurifying Poe: Robert Penn Warren's Brother to Dragons(*)
Journal article by Lucas Tromly; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Brother to Dragons (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poe, Edgar Allan--Influence, Warren, Robert Penn--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Impurifying Poe: Robert Penn Warrens Brother to Dragons...AND IMPURE POETRY" (1943), Robert Penn Warren allegorizes the...also mentions Shelley, the Abbe Bremond, Pater, and Moore...version of Brother to Dragons, Robert Lowell notes that "Aunt Cat...
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"And the Truth Shall Make You Free": Richard Robert Wright, Sr., Black Intellectual and Iconoclast, 1877-1897
Journal article by June O. Patton; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 81, 1996
Subjects: Blacks--Cultural assimilation, Equality--Personalities, Intellectuals--Social policy, Wright, Richard Robert--Social policy
...Charles Gayarre, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and Robert L. Dabney, added fuel to the racially...M. Flourens, Edward H. Everett, and Abbe Gregoire of France. He pointed out that...of enforced ignorance."(32) Richard Robert Wright, who in 1891 became president of...
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Robert Penn Warren and the Poetics of (Im)purity
Journal article by Charlotte Beck; Style, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Essays, Literary criticism, Poetry, Warren, Robert Penn
...poetry from Poe, Shelley, the Symbolists, Abbe Bremond, Pater, George Moore and the...in her book Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition...Tension of the World in the Late Poetry of Robert Penn Warren, emphasize the centrality...
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magazine articles on: Abbe Robert  - 50 results

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Ten Questions for Abbe Lowell: Defense Attorneys 101
Magazine article; Campaigns & Elections, Vol. 27, August 2006
Subjects: Chadbourne and Parke L.L.P.--Officials and employees, Law firms--Officials and employees, Lowell, Abbe--Interviews
Ten Questions for Abbe Lowell: Defense Attorneys 101. Abbe Lowell is a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based...former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, former U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli and lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He grew up in Bronx...
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France's Fiasco in Brazil: In the Event Spain and Portugal Divided Almost All of South America between, Them but in the Sixteenth Century the French Also Had Commercial and Colonial Ambitions in Brazil. Robert Knecht Tells the Stories of Two French Expeditions That Ended in Disaster
Magazine article by Robert Knecht; History Today, Vol. 58, December 2008
Subjects: Brazilian foreign relations--Political aspects, French exploration--History, French foreign relations--Political aspects
...Commercial and Colonial Ambitions in Brazil. Robert Knecht Tells the Stories of Two French Expeditions That Ended in Disaster. by Robert Knecht ILLUSTRATION OMITTED France is not...and a half later, his descendant, the abbe Paulmier, asked for missionaries to be...
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From Silence to Vindication: Teilhard De Chardin & the Holy Office
Magazine article by Robert Nugent; Commonweal, Vol. 129, October 25, 2002
...Teilhard de Chardin the Holy Office. by Robert Nugent In 1924, a relatively unknown Jesuit...as possible, he never did so publicly. Abbe Paul Grent, a close friend, described...a smile, if possible." The Reverend Robert Nugent, a Salvatorian priest, lives in...
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Could Liszt Have Made a Recording?
Magazine article by Robert Matthew-Walker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 134, March 2011
Could Liszt Have Made a Recording? by Robert Matthew-Walker Liszt Bicentenary Musical Opinion 2011 - 11...sealed paper was opened. As it happened, a friend of Cros, the Abbe Lenoir, and Edison, had both hit upon the same name - "phonograph...
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Georg Joseph Vogler
Magazine article by Robert Matthew-Walker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 132, May/Jun 2009
Georg Joseph Vogler by Robert Matthew-Walker Georg Joseph Vogler Symphony in D minor; Symphony...apace with this important collection of music by Georg Joseph (the Abbe) Vogler (1749-1814) - important because it goes a long way to...
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newspaper articles on: Abbe Robert  - 61 results

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Release Your Testimony, Mr. Torricelli
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 8, 2002
Subjects: Torricelli, Robert G.
...seen their standing in Washington plummet as rapidly as Sen. Robert Torricellis has since New Years Day. On Jan. 3, outgoing...campaign contributor. Asserting that the case was resolved, Abbe Lowell, one of Mr. Torricellis attorneys, dismissed the U...
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Inside Politics
Newspaper article by Robert Stacy Mccain; The Washington Times, November 24, 1998
INSIDE POLITICS by Robert Stacy McCain AS FEW AS FOUR While some...calls yesterday to House Speaker-elect Robert L. Livingston, pledging a good working...Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas, along with Abbe Lowell, the Democratic counsel for the...
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Blodyn Fedr Wella Anhwylderau Di-Rif; Mwy O Ryfeddodau Byd Natur Gyda Bethan Wyn Jones
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 30, 2008
Subjects: Battery industry, Toiletries industry
...robertianum ydi ei enw Lladin, a herb Robert yn Saesneg. Mae yna gred ei fod...enw Saesneg ar ol Ffrancwr or enw Abbe Robert, wnaeth sylfaenur Urdd Sistersaidd...dail Robin, llygad Robin, llysiau Robert, llysiaur llwynog a troedrudd...
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Who Is Chandra Levy?
Newspaper article by Frank J. Murray; The Washington Times, July 29, 2001
Subjects: Levy, Chandra Ann
...and speaks with her parents, Robert and Susan Levy. To date it...Condit hires Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell, Democratic counsel...one in Washington.; C) Dr. Robert Levy and his wife, Susan...Condit; D) Robert Levy; E) Abbe Lowell; F) Images showing...
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Staying in School
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 26, 2002
...Discussing the arrest of actor Robert Blake for the murder of his...hes great, and I love you, Robert." Wow, Cheri, tell us how...Lawyers" in town, including Robert Bennett, Plato Cacheris, Thomas Green, David Kendall, Abbe Lowell, Earl Silbert, Kenneth...
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encyclopedia articles on: Abbe Robert  - 5 results

 
 
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Abbe, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABBE, ROBERT ab e, 1851 1928, American surgeon, b...Columbia, 1874; brother of Cleveland Abbe . He was especially noted as a plastic surgeon...catgut sutures. A friend of the Curies, Abbe was also one of the first in the United...
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Abbe, Cleveland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABBE, CLEVELAND ab e, 1838 1916, American meteorologist, b. New York City; brother of Robert Abbe . He was the first official daily weather forecaster in the United States. Abbe studied astronomy at the Univ. of Michigan...
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Canadian Literature, French
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Frechette , Pamphile LeMay, Abbe H. R. Casgrain , Antoine Gerin...by such native Canadians as Robert Choquette, F. A. Savard...cities and the notable author Robert Charbonneau explored the psychological...of the life of the soil; and Robert Choquette and Roger Brien...
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French Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and the dramas of Estienne Jodelle and Robert Garnier . The poet Ronsard and the six...with the works of Alain Rene Le Sage , Abbe Prevost, and Jacques Henri Bernardin de...include Francis Carco , Leon Paul Fargue, Robert Desnos , and Pierre-Jean Jouve. The...
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Vogler, Georg Joseph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fo gl r, 1749 1814, German composer and organist, known as Abbe Vogler. He traveled widely, giving organ concerts and demonstrating...instrumental music. He was the teacher of Meyerbeer and Weber. Robert Browning idealized him in his poem "Abt Vogler...


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