Notes on England (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Taine, Hippolyte

 
9781330389140: Notes on England (Classic Reprint)

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Grudging praise and careful study. To his political attitude, rather than to the intrinsic value of his writings, he owed it that, at the early age of thirty seven, he was elected a member of the French Academy, 8. Body which usually refuses to open its ranks to young men, however promising, who have merely produced a few ephemeral works, unless their authors are Ministers of State, or Archbishops. His highest ambition was now gratified.

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