Hippolyte Adolphe Taine: 17 books

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Contents: 1. Prefaces and Epilogues, by William Caxton 2. Dedication Of The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, by John Calvin 3. Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, by Nicolaus Copernicus 4. Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland, by John Knox 5. Prefatory Letter...

A Tour Through The Pyrenees by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine.

In 1849, being twenty-one years of age, and an elector, I was very much puzzled, for I had to nominate fifteen or twenty deputies, and, moreover, according to French custom, I had not only to determine what candidate I would vote for, but what theory I should adopt. I had to choose between a royalist...

The following third and last part of the Origins of Contemporary France is to consist of two volumes. After the present volume, the second is 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...

7 décembre. Hier, aux Italiens, Cosi fan tutte avec Frezzolini. J’étais au balcon ; sur sept femmes autour de moi, il y avait six lorettes. Deux de vingt-huit ans à peu près. L’une, un vrai type de Boucher, un peu usée ; l’autre, un type du Titien, molle, blanche, petite...

Le premier souvenir précis d’Étienne Mayran était celui du jour où il avait eu quatorze ans ; mais ce souvenir lui revenait dans une lumière vive, si intense, que, quinze ans après, il voyait les moindres détails de cette journée comme présents, un à un, avec la couleur des objets, avec...

During the night of July 14-15, 1789, the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt caused Louis XVI to be aroused to inform him of the taking of the Bastille. "It is a revolt, then?" exclaimed the King. "Sire!" replied the Duke; "it is a revolution!" The event was even more...

This is the first whole to which we must refer a work of art. And here is the second. The artist himself, considered in connection with his productions, is not isolated; he also belongs to a whole, one greater than himself, comprising the school or family of artists of the time and country to which he...

Travel narrative first published in 1875, with engravings by Gustave Dore. The book begins: "The river is so fine, that before going to Bayonne I have come down as far as Royan. Ships heavy with white sails ascend slowly on both sides of the boat. At each gust of wind they incline like idle birds,...

Extrait : "Départ de Rome à cinq heures du soir ; je n'avais pas encore vu cette portion de la campagne romaine, et je ne la reverrai jamais pour mon plaisir..."

The river is so fine, that before going to Bayonne I have come down as far as Royan. Ships heavy with white sails ascend slowly on both sides of the boat. At each gust of wind they incline like idle birds, lifting their long wing and showing their black belly. They run slantwise, then come back; one...

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Le critique choisit. — Il amasse. — Il doute. — Il prouve. — Il prouve ses preuves. Une science contient des faits particuliers qu’elle constate, et des faits généraux qu’elle enchaîne : l’histoire épure et rassemble, par la critique, les vérités de détail ; par l’esprit...