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    Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French...
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  • Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French critic and historian John Taine, pen name of Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960), Scottish novelist Charles Foster Taine...
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    administrative centralisation from the Old Regime to the Revolutionary years. Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) in his Origines de la France contemporaine (1875–94) used...
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  • (which was adopted by Reynolds) has been worked out more recently by Hippolyte Taine. In his work, The Ideal in Art (trans. by I. Durand), he proceeds in...
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  • the history of ordinary French people and the landscape of France. Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), although unable to secure an academic position, was the...
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  • much taken up by the Positivists (Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Littré) Empiricism Positivism Solipsism José Ortega y Gasset;...
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    Thiers, Mignet and Tocqueville were prominent in the liberal strand. Hippolyte Taine's Origins of Contemporary France (1875–1894) was modern in its use of...
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    Dumas, fils had a paternal affection for him; at Aix-les-Bains he met Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) and became devoted to the philosopher-historian. Flaubert...
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  • (1818–1898) Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) Lord Acton (1834–1902) Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882) William...
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  • quoted in The Origins of Contemporary France: The ancient régime, by Hippolyte Taine, Bk2, ch.1, p. 110 in this edition Quote in Ian Kelly, Cooking for...
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