On the Lycée (1792) [ Practices ]
… and where the gay and social Parisians cultivate science and the belles letters, amidst the pleasures 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 … Perhaps, indeed, the knowledge gained by solitary study may be the most profound; but the knowledge acquired in society leaves on the mind, the most agreeable impression. The Lycée was formed in 1785, under the auspices of Monsieur … repetitions of card assemblies, and to store the famished mind with a little stock of thought and sentiment, in such a society as the Lycée! I am surprised to meet there with so few of my countrymen. Such of them as come to Paris to acquire …
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