Taine meant to consider its effects, those of surrounding institutions, and to describe the French family as it now exists.
Such phenomena are already observable everywhere, the ruin of feeble corporations by the state, its constant tendency to interference, to the absorption of every special service and the descent of power into the hands of a numerical majority.
During seven or eight years, he is shut up in school, remote from the direct and personal experience which might have given him an exact and vivifying notion of men and things, and of the various ways of handling them.
In the first seven or eight years of high cultivation, the Swan River daisy (Brachycome iberidifolia) kept to its original colour; it then varied into lilac and purple and other minor shades.
Essex pigs, two young ones appeared which were the image of the Berkshire boar that had been used twenty-eight years before in giving size and constitution to the breed.
The result was, that after an interval of eight years, the hybrids were one-third taller than the pure trees!
Greece, celebrated near Delphi, in honor of Apollo, the conqueror of the dragon Python, at first once in eight years, afterward once in four.
In the United States a copyright runs for the term of twenty-eight years, with right of renewal for fourteen years on certain conditions.
Juillerat and Olivier Desmonts, the first a young man, twenty-eight years of age, the second an old man of seventy.
He had rented a house close to his own, the shop of which had been tenanted for seven or eight years by a wine merchant.
Taken away from home at the age of eight years, and made his way to Texas.
Her little son, a boy of eight years, nestles beside her.
When, therefore, the parchment which annulled his sentence was laid on the table of that assembly in which, eight years before, his face and his voice had been so well known, the excitement was great.
The two parties were now in a position closely resembling that in which they had been twenty-eight years before.
The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the Court, and shall hold his office for eight years.
The Judges of the Superior Courts, elected at the first election under this amendment, shall be elected in like manner as is provided for Justices of the Supreme Court, and shall hold their offices for eight years.
The Republic of America was wisely ruled during the eight years of Mr. Jefferson's administration as President.
His father, then fifty-eight years old, had not given him up without a struggle.
Since 1795 the port of Rangoon had been opened to the British, although Colonel Symes had been insulted eight years after, during his second embassy to Ava.
Twenty-eight years old, virtuous, and living here in the rue Duphot!
Eight years of fruitless expectation made Madame Rabourdin at last understand that the paternal protector of her husband must have died, and that his will, if it ever existed, was lost or destroyed.
About this time died the Marechale de la Meilleraye, aged eighty-eight years.
Le Notre died about this time, after having been eighty-eight years in perfect health, and with all his faculties and good taste to the very last.
Fitly enough, we hear nothing of the second Mrs. Knox until she appears at her husband's deathbed, eight years after.
We were threatened at that very time, eight years ago, that we should be ejected if we did not sign the agreement.
Was it on the occasion you have mentioned, eight years ago, that you were told so?
He apparently did not receive such sympathy from Madame Hanska in their early correspondence: "Why be displeased about a woman fifty-eight years old, who is a mother to me, who folds me in her heart and protects me from stings?
She has (without exaggeration) hands the size of a child of eight years old.
He filled that throne during a prosperous period of forty-eight years; [42] and the Justice of Nushirvan is celebrated as the theme of immortal praise by the nations of the East.
If the emperor could rejoice in the death of Belisarius, he enjoyed the base satisfaction only eight months, the last period of a reign of thirty-eight years, and a life of eighty-three years.
From his elevation to his death, Justinian governed the Roman empire thirty-eight years, seven months, and thirteen days.
Although she was really only twenty-eight years of age, she appeared older.
The two grandchildren, a boy and girl about seven and eight years, respectively, were still seated at the table.
They had been married just over eight years, and although during all that time they had never been really free from anxiety for the future, yet on no previous Christmas had they been quite so poor as now.
Crass was about thirty-eight years of age, rather above middle height and rather stout.
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