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Clarisse Bader La Femme Française Dans Les Temps Modernes (Fiscle Part-11)

Foreign Language Study
English
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Ages 18 and up
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J'ai Cherché Dans Mes Précédentes Études La Place Que La Femme A Occupée Dans Les Sociétés Qui Ont Laissé Leur Influence Sur Notre Civilisation. Je Termine Aujourd'hui Mon Travail Par Un Ouvrage Qui A Pour Objet La Condition De La Femme Française Dans Les Temps Modernes. Les Quatre Premiers Chapitres De Ce Livre Disent Ce Qu'a Été La Femme Dans La Vie Domestique, Intellectuelle, Sociale Et Politique De Notre Pays, Depuis Le Xvie Siècle Jusqu'au Xviiie Inclusivement. En Pénétrant Dans Les Vieux Foyers Français Je M'applique Surtout À Retrouver Les Principes Sur Lesquels Repose La Famille. Dans Cette Partie De Mon Oeuvre, J'interroge Les Personnes Qui Ont Vécu Dans Ces Trois Siècles, Je Recueille Leurs Témoignages, Ces Témoignages Que Nous Livrent Particulièrement Les Mémoires Domestiques, Les Correspondances Privées, Tous Les Documents Intimes Auxquels Notre Époque Attache Justement Un Si Grand Prix. [more]

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot Mémoires Pour Servir À L'Histoire De Mon Temps (Tome 6) (fiscle Part-11)

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French
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Ma Situation Et Ma Disposition Personnelles Dans Le Cabinet Du 29 Octobre 1840.--Des Amis Politiques.--Des Divers Principes Et Mobiles De La Politique Extérieure.--Quelle Politique Extérieure Est En Harmonie Avec L'État Actuel Et Les Tendances Réelles De La Civilisation.--Caractère De L'Isolement De La France Après Le Traité Du 15 Juillet 1840.--Débats De L'Adresse Dans Les Deux Chambres À L'Ouverture De La Session De 1840-1841.--Arrivée À Cherbourg Du Prince De Joinville Ramenant De Sainte-Hélène, Sur La Frégate _La Belle-Poule_, Les Restes De L'Empereur Napoléon.--Voyage Du Cercueil Du Havre À Paris.--État Des Esprits Sur La Route.--Cérémonie Des Obsèques Aux Invalides.--Conduite Du Gouvernement De Juillet Envers La Mémoire De L'Empereur Napoléon.--Fortifications De Paris.--Vauban Et Napoléon.--Études Préparatoires.--Divers Systèmes De Fortifications.--Comment Fut Prise La Résolution Définitive.--Présentation, Discussion Et Adoption Du Projet De Loi.--Opinion De L'Europe Sur Cette Mesure. [more]

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Victor Hugo Actes Et Paroles, Vol. 1

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English
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Toute L'éloquence Humaine Dans Toutes Les Assemblées De Tous Les Peuples Et De Tous Les Temps Peut Se Résumer En Ceci: La Querelle Du Droit Contre La Loi. Cette Querelle, Et C'est Là Tout Le Phénomène Du Progrès, Tend De Plus En Plus À Décroître. Le Jour Où Elle Cessera, La Civilisation Touchera À Son Apogée, La Jonction Sera Faite Entre Ce Qui Doit Être Et Ce Qui Est, La Tribune Politique Se Transformera En Tribune Scientifique; Fin Des Surprises, Fin Des Calamités Et Des Catastrophes; On Aura Doublé Le Cap Des Tempêtes; Il N'y Aura Pour Ainsi Dire Plus D'événements; La Société Se Développera Majestueusement Selon La Nature; La Quantité D'éternité Possible À La Terre Se Mêlera Aux Faits Humains Et Les Apaisera. [more]

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Caius Julius Caesar De Bello Gallico And Other Commentaries

Sports & Recreation
English
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All Gaul Is Divided Into Three Parts, One Of Which The Belgae Inhabit, The Aquitani Another, Those Who In Their Own Language Are Called Celts, In Ours Gauls, The Third. All These Differ From Each Other In Language, Customs And Laws. The River Garonne Separates The Gauls From The Aquitani; The Marne And The Seine Separate Them From The Belgae. Of All These, The Belgae Are The Bravest, Because They Are Farthest From The Civilisation And Refinement Of [Our] Province, And Merchants Least Frequently Resort To Them And Import Those Things Which Tend To Effeminate The Mind; And They Are The Nearest To The Germans, Who Dwell Beyond The Rhine, With Whom They Are Continually Waging War; For Which Reason The Helvetii Also Surpass The Rest Of The Gauls In Valour, As They Contend With The Germans In Almost Daily Battles, When They Either Repel Them From Their Own Territories, Or Themselves Wage War On Their Frontiers. [more]

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AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS WHEAT GROWING IN AUSTRALIA

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With the growing scarcity of foodstuffs that has become a world-wide feature of the last few years, the wheatgrower is one of the most important necessities in civilisation. He has prospered in the past, but the future holds still greater and richer prospects. And in no country in the world are those prospects brighter than in the Commonwealth of Australia. The world's surface is gradually filling up, and most of the older countries have reached sight of the limit of cultivation, so the world's millions have to look to newer lands to provide them with food. The great island continent in the southern seas possesses a vast area of proven wheat land, as yet untouched by the plough. It lies dormant, fertile, and responsive, awaiting the union of labour and land to yield abundance of food. [more]

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Arnold Bennett Over There

Short Story
English
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From the balcony you look down upon massed and variegated tree- tops as though you were looking down upon a valley forest from a mountain height. Those trees, whose hidden trunks make alleys and squares, are rooted in the history of France. On the dusty gravel of the promenade which runs between the garden and the street a very young man and a girl, tiny figures, are playing with rackets at one of those second-rate ball games beloved by the French petite bourgeoisie. Their jackets and hats are hung on the corner of the fancy wooden case in which an orange-tree is planted. They are certainly perspiring in the heavy heat of the early morning. They are also certainly in love. This lively dalliance is the preliminary to a day's desk-work. It seems ill-chosen, silly, futile. The couple have forgotten, if they ever knew, that they are playing at a terrific and long-drawn moment of crisis in a spot sacred to the finest civilisation. [more]

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Dolores Bacon Bacon Pictures Every Child Should Know (Fiscle Part-X)

Esotericism
English
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Man'S Inclination To Decorate His Belongings Has Always Been One Of The Earliest Signs Of Civilisation. Art Had Its Beginning in the Lines Indented in clay, Perhaps, Or Hollowed in the Wood Of Family Utensils; After That Came Crude Colouring and Drawing. Among The First Serious Efforts To Draw Were The Egyptian Square And Pointed things, Animals And Men. The Most That Artists Of That Day Succeeded in doing was To Preserve The Fashions Of The Time. Their Drawings Tell Us That Men Wore Their Beards In bags. They Show Us, Also, Many Peculiar Head-Dresses And Strange Agricultural Implements. Artists Of That Day Put Down What They Saw, And They Saw With An Untrained eye And Made The Record With An Untrained hand; But They Did Not Put In false Details For The Sake Of Glorifying the Subject. One Can Distinguish A Man From A Mountain In their Work, But The Arms And Legs Embroidered upon Mathilde'S Tapestry, Or The Figures Representing family History On An Oriental Rug, Are Quite As Correct In Drawing and As Little Of A Puzzle. As Men Became More Intelligent, Hence Spiritualised, They Began To Express Themselves In ideal Ways; To Glorify The Commonplace; And Thus They Passed [more]

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W.A.P. Martin The Awakening Of China

Letters
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China Is The Theatre Of The Greatest Movement Now Taking Place On The Face Of The Globe. In Comparison With It, The Agitation In Russia Shrinks To Insignificance; For It Is Not Political, But Social. Its Object Is Not A Changed Dynasty, Nor A Revolution In The Form Of Government; But, With Higher Aim And Deeper Motive, It Promises Nothing Short Of The Complete Renovation Of The Oldest, Most Populous, And Most Conservative Of Empires. Is There A People In Either Hemisphere That Can Afford To Look On With Indifference? When, Some Thirty Years Ago, Japan Adopted The Outward Forms Of Western Civilisation, Her Action Was Regarded By Many As A Stage Trick--A Sort Of Travesty Employed For A Temporary Purpose. But What Do They Think Now, When They See Cabinets And Chambers Of Commerce Compelled To Reckon With The British Of The North Pacific? The Awakening Of Japan'S Huge Neighbour Promises To Yield Results Equally Startling And On A Vastly Extended Scale. [more]

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Henry M. Stanley Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal

Fiction
English
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This little volume consists of the letters I wrote from Bulawayo, Johannesburg and Pretoria for the journal South Africa, which is exclusively devoted to matters relating to the region whence it derives its title. Each letter contains the researches of a week. As the public had already a sufficiency of books dealing with the history, geography, politics, raids and revolts, I confined myself to such impressions as one, who since 1867 had been closely connected with equatorial, northern and western Africa, might derive from a first view of the interior of South Africa. Being in no way associated with any political or pecuniary concern relating to the country, it struck me that my open-minded, disinterested and fresh impressions might be of some interest to others, who like myself had only a general sympathy with its civilisation and commercial development. And as I had necessarily to qualify myself for appearing in a journal which had for years treated of South African subjects, it involved much personal inquiry and careful consideration of facts communicated to roe, and an impartial weighing of their merits. To this motive, whatever may be the value of what I have written, I am greatly indebted personally; for henceforth I must carry with me for a long time a valuable kind of knowledge concerning the colonies and states I traversed, which no number of books could have given to me. [more]

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Alastair Macleod Blue Rush

love and power in the waves

Romance
English
12305 Words
Ages 10 and up
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"For the professional young women of Orkney, this influx of engineers and scientists was a godsend. It opened up the choice and here were men on good salaries, men with prospects. The selection of farmers, shopkeepers, and local government officers could seem dull to a girl. These new men, some of whom were international, were connected to energy, to taming the unruly sea, it was exciting. For Phillippe, Orkney was on the edge of something; the edge of Europe, the edge of civilisation, the edge in weather terms and the edge in engineering terms. He wanted, needed, to overcome the edgeness, to conquer the challenges, to tame the nature of the sea, to make the tidal power machine work. Then what? He hadn’t thought that far; this project was probably going to take some time, maybe 10 years at least. For Kara this was no edge, no remote spot, this was home and here she planned to stay. She wanted a family, a husband and children, the next generation stretching before her." [more]

Keywords: love, relationships, Orkney, Wave Power, new men

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