Crossword-Solution: RENAN 5 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

They told me he would be amusing, but I’ve been bored to death.’ Which reminded me of my one visit to England, when I heard a young nobleman declare that he had been to ‘such a dull dinner to meet a duffer called “Renan!” ’ “Sainte-Beuve’s _Larmes de Racine_ was given at the Théâtre Français during its author’s last illness.

Ernest Renan in his _Souvenirs d'Enfance_, tells of a Brittany legend, firmly believed in that wild land, of the vanished city of "Is," which ages ago disappeared beneath the waves.

For my part, though immeasurably preferring the pantheism of Goethe, or of Renan (without his pessimism), to the anthropomorphic God of the Israelites, or of their theosophic legatees, the Christians, however inconsistent, I still believe in prayer.

For the tradition of the Jews regarding the darkness of three days, see citation in Renan, Histoire du Peuple Israel, vol.

Take the following passage, for example,—we must hold to duty, even against the evidence, Renan says,—but he then goes on:— “There are many chances that the world may be nothing but a fairy pantomime of which no God has care.