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Taine

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Taine  (tn, tn), Hippolyte Adolphe 1828-1893.
French philosopher and historian who was a leading exponent of positivism and wrote the six-volume Origins of Contemporary France (1875-1893).
Taine (French) [tɛn]
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(Biographies / Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe (1828-1893) M, French, WRITING: literary critic, HISTORY: historian) Hippolyte Adolphe (ipɔlit adɔlf). 1828-93, French literary critic and historian. He applied determinist criteria to the study of literature, art, history, and psychology, regarding them as products of environment and race. His works include Histoire de la littérature anglaise (1863-64) and Les Origines de la France contemporaine (1875-93)


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She was sitting in the drawing room near a lamp, with a new volume of Taine, and as she read, listening to the sound of the wind outside, and every minute expecting the carriage to arrive.
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Taine is contemptuous: 'Pope did not write because he thought, but thought in order to write.
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It reminded me of Taine, yet I knew the man had never heard of that brilliant though dangerous thinker.
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