Frenchmen are still Gascons and Provençals, Bretons and Normans, Burgundians and Picards, and no country in the world is richer than France in local histories and chronicles.
The corvée, for example, of which we hear so much in many so-called histories of the French Revolution, was abolished under Louis XVI.
I have sought to make more prominent than popularhistories have usually done, at the same time the political evolution of our country on the one hand, and the social culture, habits, and life of the people on the other.
It is the first time that no histories of your ways have come to our ears--were you ill?
It had no towns or histories that mattered, it had jungles and forests.
All the dreams of his youth centre in himself; Nature becomes the reflection of himself; all histories of great men he represents as in himself; finally, he becomes to himself Apollo, the incarnation of poetry.
I am not concerned to make a literary appraisal of Theodore Roosevelt's manifold works, but I am struck by the fact that our professional critics ignore him entirely in their summaries or histories of recent American literature.
This work at once won recognition for him, and it differed from the traditional accounts, embedded in the school histories of the United States, in doing full justice to the British naval operations.
But they who ought to look the world around, Spy out a single spot in fairy ground, Where all in turns ideal forms behold, And plots are laid, and histories are told.
So we went on, every few hundred yards bringing new histories of my jolly friend's wool-buying, and of matters which seemed nearly as important in his eyes.
Add to these scenes and histories that Hamilton Palace, in its beautiful park, lies within a mile of the Bothwell brig, and it must be admitted that no poetess could desire to be born in a more beautiful or classical region.
The only use of knowing men's histories is to know their characters, and I have learned more of yours to-day than I did even last night.
A brave old book is that of Snorro, containing the histories and adventures of old northern kings and champions, who seemed to have been quite different men, if we may judge from the feats which they performed, from those of these days.
The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as well as for its fitness as a companion to all Histories of the United States, with confidence that it will prove a valuable specialty to all.
The various State Historiessay but little about them.
These histories are attractive as romance and possess a peculiar power of impressing the memory, being written from a Christian standpoint they are very desirable books for Sunday-school libraries.
The records are replete with histories of from twenty, to even a hundred grains of morphine without fatal result.
However, while my own knowledge of the facts was received from other sources, when you have the time you will find the whole subject ably expounded in a work in my library, entitled The Lost Histories of America, by Blacket.
Included in the various volumes are histories of many of the towns and counties in the State, biographies of pioneers, and interesting Indian legends.
There are modern histories of Bohemian literature written in the national language by Dr Karel Tieftrunk, Dr Vaclav Flajshans and Mr Jaroslav Vlaek.
Numerous devices are also reproduced in histories of printing and in volumes of facsimiles of early types.
Van Mander, wrong as to the date by eleven years which have fathered a host of spurious Holbeins on the Histories of Art, is apparently right as to the cause of death--"the Plague.
Several members observed that a storm-bound club could not presume to be selective, and they were all very much obliged to him for such a curious chapter from the domestic histories of the county.
Buchanan went to Portugal with his brother Patrick; two more Scotsmen, Dempster and Ramsay: and a goodly company of French scholars, whose names and histories may be read in the erudite pages of Dr.
For his treatment of heretics see the church histories of the period.
The historical basis for the distribution of the Greek dialects is discussed at length in the histories of E.
Down to the middle of the 19th century the only histories of Greece deserving of mention were the products of English scholarship.
Germany there has been a succession of histories of Greece since the middle of the 19th century.
The only recent general historiesof Greek art are: H.
Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies of the Northern United States and Canada Being an Introduction to the Knowledge of their Life-Histories New edition.
Shall we express ourselves only in histories and criticisms?
The histories of these two grapes are typical of those of five hundred or more other Labruscas.
In other words, thehistories lack realism; they are unreal, and, therefore, deceptive.
Yet, such is the lack of perspective which the historians have shown, it is given a far less important place in the histories than the risings in question.
Copies of the more recent historians not being yet sufficiently dispersed, those histories hare perished.
It is no proof that the kings of Scotland possessed no lands or baronies in England, because we cannot find them in the imperfect histories and records of that age.
Now let us see if we cannot find a reason for this atavistic desire (matriarchy) in the physical and psychical histories of its foremost advocates.
Periods of moral decadence in the life of a nation are always coincident with periods of luxury and great wealth, with consequent enervation and effemination; examples of this may be found in the histories of Rome, Greece, and France.
Now these remote reworded histories Entangled with his own renewed their power, Breathing an antique virtue through his mind, As through dense yew boughs breathes the undying wind.
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