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Excerpt from Essais de Critique: Et d'HistoireIl est tout entier compris dans cette remarque que les choses morales ont, comme les choses physiques, des dépendances et des conditions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct ...

Excerpt from On Intelligence, Vol. 2 These ideas are never anything more than sensations, and more or less elaborate extracts from sensation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original f...

Excerpt from The Modern Régime, Vol. 1 I. Great men 01? The italian renaissance and or the present Tina - Intensity of the passions in Bonaparte. - His impulsive sensi bility. - Violent outbursts - His impatience, readiness, and need of expressing himself. - His temperament, nervous system, and sinking fits. - II. Bonaparte's dominant passion. - His lucid, calculating mind. - Source and power of the Will. - Early evidences of an active, ah so...

Excerpt from Journeys Through France: Being Impressions of the ProvincesAugust 20, 1863. - Here are some Of the impressions borne in upon me during an after-dinner walk.Over all there is a distinct sense Of comfort, not unlike what one feels in Flanders and in England. Nowhere is one reminded Of the petty respectability Of the midland towns, with their fussing and over reaching activity.Before I left Paris I had witnessed the illuminations Of ...

Excerpt from The Modern Regime, Vol. 2 To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like our own encounters in this milieu, such was the programme of the last section of the Origins of Contemporary France. The preceding vol ume is a continuation of the first part of this programme after the commune and the department, after local socie ties, the author was...

Excerpt from The Life and Opinions of M. Frederic-Thomas Graindorge: Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Jena Special Partner in the House of Graindorce Co, , Oils and Salt Pork, Cincinnati, U. S. A, Collected and PublishedWrite very much as other people do. Ordinarily he stood erect, his back to the fire-place, and dropped his phrases one by one without any in ¿ection of voice. His phrases in themselves were mere statements offaa's, dul...

Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 2 In the age wherein those poets lived, there was less of gallantry than in ours. Besides the want of education and learning, they wanted the benefit of con verse. Gentlemen will now be entertained with the follies of each other, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction ...

Excerpt from Life and Letters of H. Taine: 1853-1870 Hippolyte taine, having successfully defended his Thesis, spent a short holiday in the Ardennes on the occasion of his elder sister's marriage, 1 and returned to Paris to resume his laborious career. He supported himself by means of a few private lessons and Spent much of his time in public libraries, collecting material for the Essay on Titus Livius, to which he gave up his summer holidays...

Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 2 Learning - Classical tastes - Didactic characters Good management of his plots - Freedom and precision of his style - Vigour of his will and passion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology t...

Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 1 Maintenant, supposez um des cinq on six grands individus qui ont joué le premier role sur la scene du monde, Alexandre, Napoléon, Newton, Dante, admettez que par um bonheur extraordinaire, nous ayons une quantité de peintures authentiques, intactes et fraiches, aquarelles, dessins, esquisses, grands portraits en pied, qui nous le re présentent a tous les ages de sa vie, avec ses divers costum...

Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 1: Part IHls'rorrv has been transformed, within a hundred years in Germany, within sixty years in France, and that by the study of their literatures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digital...

Excerpt from History of English Literature The fihronological Table has been made with the help, hie¿-'y, of the excellent work of Mr. Henry morley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ori...

Excerpt from Lectures on Art WE have now to consider the glorious epoch which men are agreed to look upon as the most beautiful of Italian creation, and which comprises, along with the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the first thirty or forty years of the sixteenth. Within this narrow limit the most accomplished artists fiourished, - Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Mi chael Angelo, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolomeo, Giorgione, Titian, Sebas...

Excerpt from Les Origines de la France Contemporaine The selections presented here comprise, in their order, the most interesting chapters treated by their author. For the proper understanding oi the historical and political references and other facts or names mentioned in the text, the explanatory notes and the chronological table will be helpful. Grammatical peculiarities and idioms have been referred to in the vocabulary. About the Publis...

Excerpt from History of English Literature Even at the present day, the historian of Civilisation in Europe and in France is amongst us, at the head of those historical studies which he formerly encouraged so much. I myself have experienced his kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ...

Excerpt from History of English LiteratureManners of the people - Pageants - Theatres - Village feasts - Pagan development.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing im...

Excerpt from History of English Literature, Vol. 4: Part II Of his mind and nerves 291 Barriers which hold and direct him - Perception of the real and of the sublime 300. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wo...

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