1
Babylon was to them what Pekin was to the French academicians of the last century.
2
M. Morin, a French academician, has amused himself with collecting several historical notices of this custom.
3
The French academicians set to work, and calculated that, from the resistance of the air, it was impossible.
4
In this there were as many errors of statement as in the famous French Academician's description of a lobster.
5
Even a French Academician, Nicolas Fleurion, held that Adam was one hundred and twenty three feet and nine inches in height.