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In 1847 he published his "Histoire des Girondins," which was received by the public with deep interest and applause. It is not always accurate in small particulars, but it is one of the most fascinating books of history ever written, and has had the good fortune to be singularly well translated. Alexandre Dumas is said to have told its author: "You have elevated romance to the dignity of history."
The full title of the tract mentioned by Boswell is, A small Whole-Length of Dr. Priestley from his Printed Works. It was published in 1792, and is a very poor piece of writing. Johnson had refused to meet the Abbé Raynal, the author of the Histoire Philosophique et Politique du Commerce des Deux Indes, when he was over in England in 1777. Mrs. Chapone, writing to Mrs.
They are printed by Gaffarel in his Histoire de le Floride Francaise. This annalist had access to original documents of great interest. Some of them are used as material for his narrative, others are copied entire. Of these, the most remarkable is that of Solis de las Meras, Memorial de todas las Jornadas de la Conquista de la Florida.
Thereupon the English withdrew, and Louis finding the way open to France returned home. Mr. G.J. Turner has identified Cassingham with the modern Kensham, between Rolvenden and Sandhurst, in Kent. Histoire des ducs de Normandie, etc., p. 183. A crowd of waverers changed sides.
It was found necessary to set a guard at the doors of the places of worship to drive away the poor wretches who repented of a moment's weakness; the number of "places of exercise," as the phrase then was, received a gradual reduction; "a single minister had the charge of six, eight, and ten thousand persons," says Elias Benoit, author of the Histoire de l'Edit de Nantes, making it impossible for him to visit and assist the families, scattered sometimes over a distance of thirty leagues round his own residence.
It is an histoire de femme." "I 'might have guessed it," she exclaimed. "It is still that everlasting woman." "That everlasting woman ?" Peter faltered. "To be sure," said she. "The woman you are always going on about. The woman of your novel. This woman, in short." And she produced from behind her back a hand that she had kept there, and held up for his inspection a grey-and-gold bound book.
Histoire Naturelle et Civile de Siam. Par Gervaise. Paris, 1688, 4to. Description du Royaume de Siam. Par M. de la Loubere, Envoyé Extraordinaire du Roi auprès du Roi de Siam. Amsterd. 1714. 2 Vols. 12mo. Barrow's Voyage to Cochin China, 1792-93. 4to. 1806. This is perhaps the most valuable of Mr.
The only void of which any trace could be found was a narrow, vaulted gallery, about 100 feet long, 6 wide, and 12 high. It was closed at both ends, and appeared never to have had any means of access from without. See LENORMANT, Histoire Ancienne, vol. ii. pp. 228 and 233. Translations of several texts in which these restorations are spoken of are here given. STRABO, xvi. 5.
TIELE, Histoire, &c. p. 237. Hence the name Babylon, which has been handed down to us, slightly modified, by classic tradition. The true Chaldæan form is Bab-Ilou, literally "The Gate of God." History of Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. pp. 399-400 and figs. 311-313. TIELE, Manuel, &c. pp. 77, 78. HERODOTUS, i. 99. The People and Government.
The more critical want something truer and more natural, something more accordant with the stern realities of life. Renan has some excellent remarks on this in the Preface to his second volume of the Histoire du Peuple d' Israel.
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