Memoirs of Madame De Staël, And of Madame Roland. ..
Memoirs of Madame De Staël, And of Madame Roland. ..
Child Lydia Maria Francis
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Her work upon Germany, ■ which owed its rise to social conversations, is to be regarded as a mighty engine, which at once made a wide breach in that Chinese wall of antiquated prejudice which divides us from France ; so that the people across the Rhine, and afterward across the channel, at length came to a nearer knowledge of us ; whence we may look to obtain a living influence over the distant west.' ' In this, which is perhaps her greatest work, Madame MADAME DE S T A £ L . 89 de Stael has en...deavored to give a bold, general, and philosophical view of the whole intellectual condition of the German people, among whom she had made what was in some sort a voyage of discovery ; for the highly original literature of that country was then little known to the rest of Europe.' It was received with great ap- plause in England, and afterward in France, where a change of government admitted of its being published the ensuing year. Sir James Mackintosh immediately wrote a review of it, in which he says, ' The voice of Europe had already applauded the genius of a national painter in the author of Corinna.
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