Crossword-Solution: FATUI
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Ignes _____ (marsh lights) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FATUI (5)
All stars, and heavenly lights, have become veiled to such men; they must now follow terrestrial IGNES FATUI, and think them stars.
Poor souls, it is evident they have all lost their beaten road, and got among the IGNES FATUI and peat-pools: none knows the necessities and sorrows of this poor idle Duke himself! In his young years, before accession, he once tried soldiering; served one campaign with Charles XII., but was glad to "return to Hamburg" again, to the peaceable scenes of fashionable life there.
Yet sometimes even I am at a loss to know whether I have been led away from an abstract truth by the ignes fatui of a clever superstition, or whether heretofore accepted facts are, after all, founded upon falsity.
How I know not yet; my thoughts and resolutions are so confused that they flicker like the ignes fatui.
But I found at last that it was safer to trust myself than them, and to proceed by the light of my own understanding than to wander after these _ignes fatui_ of philosophy.
Quotes with FATUI (1)
The moon fled eastward like a frightened dove, while the stars changed their places in the heavens, like a disbanding army.'Where are we?' asked Gil Gil.'In France,' responded the Angel of Death. 'We have now traversed a large portion of the two bellicose nations which waged so sanguinary a war with each other at the beginning of the present century. We have seen the theater of the War of Succession. Conquered and conquerors both lie sleeping at this instant. My apprentice, S…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1994).