Excerpt from Life and Letters of H. Taine: 1853-1870 Hippolyte taine, having successfully defended his Thesis, spent a short holiday in the Ardennes on the occasion of his elder sister's marriage,1 and returned to Paris to resume his laborious career. He supported himself by means of a few private lessons and Spent much of his time in public libraries, collecting material for the Essay on Titus Livius, to which he gave up his summer holidays. A letter written to his mother on September 4, 1853, runs thus: My work is getting on more quickly than when you were here, but still with some difficulty. I give up my whole day to it, just running out to my meals and now and then to look up Suckau 2 or Planat.a There is nothing new here - a dead calm the only events in my life are the passing from page 120 to page 121, or from Scipio to Paulus Emilius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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