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Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : France
ISBN : UVA:X001463769
Author : Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1040952805
Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
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Release : 1931
Category : France
ISBN : MSU:31293027492796
Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : New York : H. Holt, 1890- [v. 1
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : France
ISBN : UVA:X001133536
Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : France
ISBN : 0226789349
Author : Hippolyte A. Taine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981670653
The Origins of ,Contemporary France, Volume V, The Modern Regime, Volume I (Napoleon) By Hippolyte A. Taine
Author : Hippolyte A. Taine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732625703
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : France
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082179718
Author : Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Publisher : Origins of Contemporary France
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1910893064
Second volume of Hippolyte Taine's description of the Modern Régime in The Origins of Contemporary France.
Author : Hippolyte A. Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0226789357
Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0353565741
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Publisher : Origins of Contemporary France
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1910893056
New, annotated edition of the fifth volume of Hippolyte Taine's monumental work, The Origins of Contemporary France. Here he deals with Napoleon and the institution of the modern régime.
Author : Hippolyte A. Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1419276387
The taxation authorities, however, in thus bearing down on taxable property has not released the taxable person without property. In the absence of land it seizes on men. In default of an income it taxes a man's wages. With the exception of the vingtihmes, the preceding taxes not only bore on those who possessed something but, again, on those who possessed nothing.
Author : Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : France
ISBN : 9781465531957
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 or a republican, a democrat or a conservative, a socialist or a bonapartist; as I was neither one nor the other, nor even anything, I often envied those around me who were so fortunate as to have arrived at definite conclusions. After listening to various doctrines, I acknowledged that there undoubtedly was something wrong with my head. The motives that influenced others did not influence me; I could not comprehend how, in political matters, a man could be governed by preferences. My assertive countrymen planned a constitution just like a house, according to the latest, simplest, and most attractive plan; and there were several under consideration—the mansion of a marquis, the house of a common citizen, the tenement of a laborer, the barracks of a soldier, the kibbutz of a socialist, and even the camp of savages. Each claimed that his was "the true habitation for Man, the only one in which a sensible person could live." In my opinion, the argument was weak; personal taste could not be valid for everyone. It seemed to me that a house should not be built for the architect alone, or for itself, but for the owner who was to live in it. Referring to the owner for his advice, that is submitting to the French people the plans of its future habitation, would evidently be either for show or just to deceive them; since the question, obviously, was put in such a manner that it provided the answer in advance. Besides, had the people been allowed to reply in all liberty, their response was in any case not of much value since France was scarcely more competent than I was; the combined ignorance of ten millions is not the equivalent of one man's wisdom. A people may be consulted and, in an extreme case, may declare what form of government it would like best, but not that which it most needs. Nothing but experience can determine this; it must have time to ascertain whether the political structure is convenient, substantial, able to withstand inclemency, and adapted to customs, habits, occupations, characters, peculiarities and caprices. For example, the one we have tried has never satisfied us; we have during eighty years demolished it thirteen times, each time setting it up anew, and always in vain, for never have we found one that suited us. If other nations have been more fortunate, or if various political structures abroad have proved stable and enduring, it is because these have been erected in a special way. Founded on some primitive, massive pile, supported by an old central edifice, often restored but always preserved, gradually enlarged, and, after numerous trials and additions, they have been adapted to the wants of its occupants. It is well to admit, perhaps, that there is no other way of erecting a permanent building. Never has one been put up instantaneously, after an entirely new design, and according to the measurements of pure Reason. A sudden contrivance of a new, suitable, and enduring constitution is an enterprise beyond the forces of the human mind.
Author : Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465597779
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 this new milieu: here, the past and the present meet, and the work already done is continued by the work which is going on under our eyes.—The undertaking is hazardous and more difficult than with the two preceding parts. For the Ancient Régime and the Revolution are henceforth complete and finished periods; we have seen the end of both and are thus able to comprehend their entire course. On the contrary, the end of the ulterior period is still wanting; the great institutions which date from the Consulate and the Empire, either consolidation or dissolution, have not yet reached their historic term: since 1800, the social order of things, notwithstanding eight changes of political form, has remained almost intact. Our children or grandchildren will know whether it will finally succeed or miscarry; witnesses of the denouement, they will have fuller light by which to judge of the entire drama. Thus far four acts only have been played; of the fifth act, we have simply a presentiment.—On the other hand, by dint of living under this social system, we have become accustomed to it; it no longer excites our wonder; however artificial it may be it seems to us natural. We can scarcely conceive of another that is healthier; and what is much worse, it is repugnant to us to do so. For, such a conception would soon lead to comparisons and hence to a judgment and, on many points, to an unfavorable judgment, one which would be a censure, not only of our institutions but of ourselves. The machine of the year VIII, applied to us for three generations, has permanently shaped and fixed us as we are, for better or for worse. If, for a century, it sustains us, it represses us for a century. We have contracted the infirmities it imports—stoppage of development, instability of internal balance, disorders of the intellect and of the will, fixed ideas and ideas that are false. These ideas are ours; therefore we hold on to them, or, rather, they have taken hold of us. To get rid of them, to impose the necessary recoil on our mind, to transport us to a distance and place us at a critical point of view, where we can study ourselves, our ideas and our institutions as scientific objects, requires a great effort on our part, many precautions, and long reflection.—Hence, the delays of this study; the reader will pardon them on considering that an ordinary opinion, caught on the wing, on such a subject, does not suffice. In any event, when one presents an opinion on such a subject one is bound to believe it. I can believe in my own only when it has become precise and seems to me proven.