Benjamin Constant
had been present at a Speculative Society debate on the question ‘Are the poems of Ossian authentick?’, it had been decided that ...
and whatever we thought of the argument, we could not help being astonished & captivated with the fluency & beauty of th ...
dead, is chained up in a cell and sleeping on straw. Oh wretched human race, is this what we and our hopes are destined to come ...
Adam Ferguson, Mathematics with Dugald Stewart and Greek with Dalzel. The last entry in the University Matriculation records sta ...
pages of the Life of Savage by Dr Johnson, from memory. But that elegant piece of writing, created in Wylde an admiration of the ...
works of the imagination must have appeared invincibly attractive. This was, of course, the career Constant must already have ch ...
the sea in a storm, when the surface is agitated by the most dreadfull tempest, and the billows run mountains high, the bottom i ...
the sake of argument, a position somewhere between the two and examine the Constant– Wilde friendship, what does the evidence su ...
There was in Edinburgh another forum for male intellectual emulation where Wilde and Constant could compete with one another. Th ...
Baron Constant—whom I remember well. His appearances in the Society did him great credit, altho’ perhaps we could hardly have an ...
By dint of stubborn dedication to hard work, in the midst of a very dissolute way of life, I had obtained a measure of success w ...
into madness in 1783–5. If Wilde had moments of black despair or dementia, they are unrecorded: he went on to crown a brilliant ...
.... Origin of the religion of the Greeks.—They received a new system of Theology from their Eastern invaders, which they blende ...
where he had first formed the idea of being more than an étourdi, an aimless young scatterbrain, and had glimpsed what it would ...
3 ISABELLE DE CHARRIERE (1785–1787) I said something to Hochet yesterday which I think is very true. He was talking to me about ...
It has often been said that gamblers are the most immoral of men. This is because they risk each day everything they possess. Fo ...
his brother. I gambled, lost, accumulated debts left and right, and my whole stay in Edinburgh was ruined. The date my father ha ...
By August 1785, when Juste took his son from Paris to Brussels, it must have seemed to Benjamin that he was once again adrift, a ...
completely. All I ask of you is that you never tell me when you’re leaving.^11 The second letter, in which Madame Johannot refus ...
their own ways and their relationship must end. According to Ma Vie, Madame Johannot took the initiative of nipping in the bud t ...
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