On the Lycée (1792) [ Practices ]
… and attractions of society; while in England, where the art of being happy is certainly far less understood than in France, when we wish to acquire knowledge, we shut ourselves up for that purpose in sober meditation, and serious … history, no less interesting than philosophical, and frequently makes such sublime applications to the revolution of France as call from my eyes the tears of delight and admiration. Sometimes our studies are accompanied by fine music; and … and to store the famished mind with a little stock of thought and sentiment, in such a society as the Lycée!" … France … Education … Science … Text: Helen Maria Wiliams , Letters from France: containing many new anecdotes relative …
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