1 Science loves eccentricities, leaps and bounds, trials of strength, fancies, if I may be allowed so to term them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 2 I would have saved Madame de Saint-Meran, if science could have done it; but she is dead and my duty regards the living.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 3 A few words he let fall showed them that he was no stranger to the sciences, and he seemed much occupied with chemistry.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 4 d'Avrigny carried the science of divination almost to a miraculous extent, for he was one of the physicians who always work upon the body through the mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. 5 I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. 6 Science becomes, in their hands, not only a defensive weapon, but still more frequently an offensive one; the one serves against all their physical sufferings, the other against all their enemies.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 7 Each word that fell from his companion's lips seemed fraught with the mysteries of science, as worthy of digging out as the gold and diamonds in the mines of Guzerat and Golconda, which he could just recollect having visited during a voyage made in his earliest youth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.