The Polity of Reason, Or, Thé Rationale of Government: Memoir of Alphonse de Lamartine

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69 ページ - Thought will be spread abroad in the world with the rapidity of light ; instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth — it will spread from pole to pole.
22 ページ - Quand la feuille des bois tombe dans la prairie, Le vent du soir s'élève et l'arrache aux vallons ; Et moi, je suis semblable à la feuille flétrie : Emportez-moi comme elle, orageux aquilons ! 31.
68 ページ - Do not perceive in these words a superb disdain of what is termed journalism. Far from it ; I have too intimate a knowledge of my epoch to repeat this absurd nonsense, this impertinent inanity against the Periodical Press. I know too well the work Providence has committed to it. Before this century shall run out journalism will be the whole Press — the whole human thought.
69 ページ - ... instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth — it will spread from pole to pole. Sudden, instant, burning with the fervor of soul which made it burst forth, it will be the reign of the human soul in all its plenitude. It will not have time to ripen — to accumulate in a book; the book will arrive too late. The only book possible from today is a newspaper.
19 ページ - Samuel ; and above all, those beautiful patriarchal scenes in which the solemn and primitive nature of the east was blended with all the acts of the simple and wonderful lives of the fathers of mankind.
68 ページ - Thought will spread abroad in the -world with the rapidity of light ; instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood, at the extremities of the earth, it will speed from pole to pole. Sudden...
28 ページ - His first step in this new career was marked by a check. The electors of Toulon and Dunkirk refused him their suffrages. They had not forgotten the discourteous verses which were addressed by him to their vassal, the poet Barthélémy. The public gained by it an epistle sparkling with beauties, in .which from the height of his glory M. de Lamartine crushed the author of
19 ページ - ... her knees make me contemplate it for my reward. • * * The silvery, tender, solemn and impassioned tone of her voice, added to all she said an accent of force, of charm and of love which remains still at this moment in my ear — alas — after six years silence.
18 ページ - His father was an officer of cavalry under the Bourbons, and his mother a daughter of Madame de Rois, under-governess to the Orleans family. The most distant recollections of the gifted historian...
18 ページ - Oct. 21st, 1790. The original name of his family is Prat, Lamartine being a cognomen adopted by Alphonse in compliance with the will of one of his uncles. His father was major of a cavalry regiment under Louis XVI., and his mother, who fell a victim to a deplorable accident, was the daughter of Madame Des Rois, under-governess of the Princess of Orleans — consequently of the ex-king Louis-Philippe.

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