Excerpt from Modernities For Stendhal was an intellectual in the fullest sense of the term. Neither a recluse scholar nor a rabid doctrinaire, but a man of the world and of action, of brain, heart, and sensibility, he sought and to a large extent found in the intellect an energetic servant, by whose faithful escort he could sally forth on that hunt of happiness, which led him in his variegated career from the field of battle to the bowers of love, and from the high plateaux of reverie to the meti culons terre d terre ...
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Excerpt from Modernities For Stendhal was an intellectual in the fullest sense of the term. Neither a recluse scholar nor a rabid doctrinaire, but a man of the world and of action, of brain, heart, and sensibility, he sought and to a large extent found in the intellect an energetic servant, by whose faithful escort he could sally forth on that hunt of happiness, which led him in his variegated career from the field of battle to the bowers of love, and from the high plateaux of reverie to the meti culons terre d terre observations of psychological science. Henri Beyle was born in 1783, in Grenoble in Dauphine, a town whose hidebound provincialism he hated consistently from his childhood to his death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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