Identifier: tourthroughpyren00tain (find matches)
Title: A tour through the Pyrenees
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 Fiske, John Safford, 1838-1907, (from old catalog) tr Dore, Gustave, 1832-1883, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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^ the rains of winter. They burn, for light, bits of resinous pine, andscarcely ever taste meat. What misery is contained in those few words!Yet how deep must be the wretchedness that canbreak the tie that binds man to his native soil ! Athreadbare text from history, a phrase of passionlessstatistics, contain within their limits years of suffer-ing, myriads of deaths, flight, separations, degrada-tion. Of a truth, there is too much ill in the world.With every century man removes a bramble anda stone that had helped to obstruct the way overwhich he advances ; but what signifies a brambleor a stone? There remain, and always will remain,more than enough to lacerate and kill him. Besides,new flints are falling into the way, new thorns arespringing up. Prosperity increases his sensibility:an equal pain is inflicted by a less evil; the bodymay be better shielded, but the soul is more disor-dered. The benefits of the Revolution, the progress
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Chap. II. LUZ. 261 of industry, the discoveries of science, have givenus equaHty, the comforts of hfe, Hberty of thought,but at the same time a malevolent envy, the ragefor success, impatience of the present, necessity ofluxury, instability of government, and all the suffer-ings of doubt and over-refinement. Is a citizen ofthe year 1872 any happier than one of the year

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