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And of this a Frenchman, who was here some little time ago as the correspondent, I think, of the Siècle newspaper, and whose letters were afterwards published in a volume, writes as follows. He had been attending some of the Moody and Sankey meetings, and he says: "To understand the success of Messrs.
If idealistic philosophy, as Arthur Symons asserts, is the root of which poetry is the flower, then the artificial and exotic poetry of the fin de siècle school bears close resemblance to cut flowers, already drooping. It is significant that the outstanding materialist among American poets, Poe, produced poetry of much the same artificial temper as did these men.
Au siècle suivant, la même fanfaronnade eut lieu
Darwin has given, and see nothing there but a "derniere erreur du dernier siecle" a personification of Nature leads us indeed to cry with him: "O lucidite! O solidite de l'esprit Francais, que devenez-vous?" M. Flourens has, in fact, utterly failed to comprehend the first principles of the doctrine which he assails so rudely.
One is tempted to see in his mysterious mortification an instance of that strain of disillusionment which runs like a dark thread through the brilliant texture of the literature of the Grand Siècle.
All nervous energy, never happy, restless, she is a true fin de siècle product. Among the large number of women who wielded influence in the nineteenth century, either through their salons or through their works, Mme. Guizot was one of the most important as the author of treatises on education and as a moralist.
Theism, then, as thus explained, one discerns as an implication of the indisputable fact of morality, of the sovereignty of ethic, of the indestructible supremacy of conscience. And here one may be allowed to quote a singularly luminous passage from the Cours d'Histoire de la Philosophic Morale en 18ème Siècle of Victor Cousin, p. 318.
I feel sure that in elemental forces there is purification, and I want to go back to them and live in their presence. Of course to one so modern as I am, 'Enfant de mon siecle, merely to look at the world will be always lovely.
Failure of the Reformation in Italy Causes of this Italian Martyrs Their great Numbers Consequences of rejecting the Reformation The Present the Avenger of the Past Extract from the Siècle to this Effect An "Accepted Time" for Nations Alternative offered to the several European Nations in the Sixteenth Century According to their Choice then, so is their Position now Protestant and Popish Nations contrasted.
Johnson, when asked to hear Robertson preach, said: 'I will hear him if he will get up into a tree and preach; but I will not give a sanction by my presence to a Presbyterian assembly. Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 27. See also Ib. Nov. 7. Mrs. Piozzi confidently mentions this as having passed in Scotland, Anecdotes, p. 62. See Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV, ch. xiv. See ante, p. 191.
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