This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...passport at any public institution and the doors are thrown wide to him." He went to the Sorbonne, and heard Jouffroy, Thenard, Gay Lussac; to the Louvre and to the Jardin des Plantes: --" How much finer things are in composition than alone! The universe is a more amazing puzzle than ever, as you glance along ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...passport at any public institution and the doors are thrown wide to him." He went to the Sorbonne, and heard Jouffroy, Thenard, Gay Lussac; to the Louvre and to the Jardin des Plantes: --" How much finer things are in composition than alone! The universe is a more amazing puzzle than ever, as you glance along this bewildering series of animated forms; the upheaving principle of life everywhere incipient in the very rock, aping organized forms. Not a form so grotesque, so savage, or so beautiful but it is an expression of some property inherent in man the observer, --an occult relation between the very scorpions and man." He saw Mme. Mars in " Delavigne's new piece, ' Les Enfans d'Edouard;' excellently performed. She scarcely excels the acting of the less famous persons who support her. Each was perfect in his part." '.'.July 4. Dined at Lourlier's with General Lafayette and nearly one hundred Americans. I sought an opportunity of paying my respects to the hero, inquiring after his health. His speech was happy as usual. A certain Lieutenant did what he could to mar the day." " It shall be writ in my memoirs (as aunt Mary would say) as it was writ of St. Pachomius: Pes ejus ad saltandum non est commotus omni vita sua. The worse for me in the gay city. Pray what brought you here, grave sir? the moving Boulevard seems to say." Pahis, June 29, 1833. Dear William: ... For libraries and lectures, my own library has hitherto always been too large, and a lecture at the Sorbonne is far less useful to me than a lecture that I write myself. Then, for literary society and all that, --true, it would be inestimable if I could get at it. Probably in years it would avail me nothing. My own study is the best place for me, and there was always more fine society in my...
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