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    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century
    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century
    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century
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    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

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      Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8 - John Morley

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      Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)

      Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

      Author: John Morley

      Release Date: September 30, 2006 [EBook #19410]

      Language: English

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      CRITICAL

      MISCELLANIES

      BY

      JOHN MORLEY

      VOL. III.

      Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

      London

      MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

      NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

      1904

      FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

      FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH

      CENTURY.

      [1]

      The announcement that one of the most ingenious and accomplished men of letters in Europe was engaged upon a history of the French Revolution, raised some doubts among those who have thought most about the qualifications proper to the historian. M. Taine has the quality of the best type of a man of letters; he has the fine critical aptitude for seizing the secret of an author's or an artist's manner, for penetrating to dominant and central ideas, for marking the abstract and general under accidental forms in which they are concealed, for connecting the achievements of literature and art with facts of society and impulses of human character and life. He is the master of a style which, if it seems to lack the breadth, the firmness, the sustained and level strength of great writing, is yet always energetic, and fresh, and alive with that spontaneous reality and independence of interest which distinguishes the genuine writer from the mere weaver of sentences and the servile mechanic of the pen. The matter and form alike of M. Taine's best work—and we say best, for his work is by no means without degrees and inequalities of worth—prove that he has not shrunk from the toil and austerity of the student, from that scorn of delight and living of laborious days, by which only can men either get command of the art of just and finished expression, or gather to themselves much knowledge.

      [1] Les Origines de la France Contemporaine. Tom. i. L'Ancien Régime. Par H. Taine. Paris: Hachette. 1876.

      But with all its attractiveness and high uses of its own, the genius for literature in its proper

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