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 Charles Victor de Bonstetten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745-1832), Swiss writer, an excellent type of a liberal patrician and a good representative of the Gallicized Bern of the 18th century.
By birth a member of one of the great patrician families of Bern, he was educated in his native town, at Yverdon, and (1763-1766) at Geneva, where he came under the influence of Rousseau and of Charles Bonnet, and imbibed liberal sentiments.
Among his other works are the Recherches sur la nature et les lois de l'imagination (1807), and the Etudes de l'homme, ou Recherches sur les facultés de penser et de sentir (1821), but he was better as an observer than.
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 CHARLES VICTOR DE BONSTETTEN - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES VICTOR DE BONSTETTEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BONSTETTEN, CHARLES VICTOR DE (1745-1832), Swiss writer, an excellent type of a liberal patrician, more French than Swiss, and a good representative of the Gallicized Bern of the 18th century.
It was during this period that he published his most celebrated work, LHomme du midi et lhomme du nord (1824), a study of the influence of climate on different nations, the north being exalted at the expense of the south.
Among his other works are the Recherches sur la nature et les lois de limagination (1807), and the Etudes de lhomme, ou Recherches sur les facult~s de penser el de sentir (1821), but he was better as an observer than.
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 henry reeve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1837 be was made clerk of appeal and then registrar to the judicial committee of the Privy Council.
A purist in point of form and style, of the school of Thomas Macaulay and Henry Hart Milman, Reeve outlived his literary generation, and became one of the most reactionary of old Whigs.
He had been elected a member of "The Club" in 1861, and was made a D.C.L. by the University of Oxford in 1869 a C.B. in 1871, and a corresponding member of the French Institute in 1865.
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 §17. Gray and Bonstetten. VI. Gray. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American ...
Young Charles-Victor de Bonstetten came to him to fascinate, but, also, to perplex, him.
Bonstetten spent most of his time in Gray’s room, having, however, a young sizar to wake him in the morning and read Milton to him.
In the end, Bonstetten became an excellent magistrate, and served Switzerland well, until the revolution drove him into exile.
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 Henry Reeve -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A purist in point of form and style, of the school of (additional info and facts about Thomas Macaulay) Thomas Macaulay and (additional info and facts about Henry Hart Milman) Henry Hart Milman, Reeve outlived his literary generation, and became one of the most reactionary of old Whigs.
He had been elected a member of "The Club" in 1861, and was made a D.C.L. by the (additional info and facts about University of Oxford) University of Oxford in 1869 a C.B. in 1871, and a corresponding member of the French Institute in 1865.
A striking (A formal expression of praise) panegyric was pronounced upon him by his lifelong friend, the duc d'Aumale, before the Académie des Sciences in November 1895.
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 BONSTETTEN, CHARLES VICTOR DE (1745-1832) - Online Information article about BONSTETTEN, CHARLES VICTOR DE (1745-1832)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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imagination (1807), and the Etudes de l'homme, ou Recherches sur les facultes de penser et de sentir (1821), but he was better as an observer than as a philosopher.
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 Thomas Gray
In 1753 all Gray's completed poems, except the sonnet on the death of West, were published by Dodsley in a handsome volume illustrated by Richard Bentley, the son of the celebrated master of Trinity, Richard Bentley.
He was contemplating a journey to Switzerland to visit his youthful friend Charles Victor de Bonstetten when, in the summer of 1771, he was conscious of a great decline in his physical powers.
The brilliant young foreigner, de Bonstetten, looked back after a long and chequered career with remembrance still vivid to the days in which the poet so soon to die taught him to read Shakespeare and Milton in the monastic gloom of Cambridge.
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 Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Thomas Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nicholls introduced to Gray a charming young Swiss, Charles Victor de Bonstetten, who provided the poet with the brief emotional experience of his life, a last, belated flare-up in the flame of which he expired.
Bonstetten was a young aristocrat of liberal sentiments, more French than Swiss, open to whatever influences came his way.
This was flattering - Bonstetten liked Gray and wished to linger with him; they shared interests, youth called out the latent fun in the middle-aged bachelor.
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 Dictionary char   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Clubbe, "The Tempest-Toss'd Summer of 1816"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Madame de Staël herself believed that climate shaped human dispositions and behaviour; it induced melancholy in northern peoples; and climate, though for her a factor of lesser significance than religion or political institutions, affected the literature a people wrote.
Victor eagerly inquires of his father ('a man of great research in natural philosophy' in the 1831 edition) regarding 'the nature and origin of thunder and lightning' (
Only in the revised edition does Mary Shelley close this chapter by allowing Victor Frankenstein a glimmer of self-awareness: he tries 'to avert the {34} storm that was even then hanging in the stars, and ready to envelop me' (F 239).
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 Charles Victor de Bonstetten -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Charles Victor de Bonstetten -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
He spent the years 1798 to 1801 in (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) Denmark, with his friend Fredirika Brun, and then settled down in 1803 in Geneva for the rest of his life.
There he enjoyed the society of many distinguished persons, among whom was (1809-1817) (French romantic writer (1766-1817)) Madame de Staël.
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 REEVE, HENRY (1813—1895) - Online Information article about REEVE, HENRY (1813—1895)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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De Grazia, Alfred, Public and Republic: Political Representation in America, rev., 76.
De Grey, Sir William, 1st Baron Walsingham, 79.
De Lancey, Rev. William H. De Lancey faction (New York City), in the American Revolution, 122.
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 Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Bonstetten was a young Apollo, charming, volatile and romantic, and created for the frail and aging poet-historian an Indian summer.
God bless him!’ Bonstetten invited Gray to come to Switzerland the summer of the following year (1771), and plans were made for the holiday, but Gray was too unwell to travel, and he died in July.
Never did I feel, my dear Bonstetten, to what a tedious length the few short moments of our life may be extended by impatience and expectation, till you had left me: nor ever knew before with so strong a conviction how much this frail body sympathizes with the inquietude of the mind.
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 Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Charles de Bonstetten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
By birth a member of one of the great patrician families of Bern, he was educated in his native town, at Yverdon, and (1763 - 1766) at Geneva, where he came under the influence of Rousseau and of Charles Bonnet, and imbibed liberal sentiments.
There he enjoyed the society of many distinguished persons, among whom was Madame de Stael.
Among his other works are the Recherches sur la nature et les lois de l'imagination (1807), and the Études de l'homme, ou Recherches sur les facultés de penser et de sentir (1821), but he was better as an observer than as a philosopher.
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 The Thomas Gray Archive : Materials : Biography
In November 1761 Miss Speed married the Baron de la Perriere, son of the Sardinian minister, and went to live with her husband on the family estate of Viry in Savoy, on the lake of Geneva.
acquaintance of Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745-1832), an enthusiastic young Swiss nobleman, who had met Norton Nicholls at Bath in December 1769, and was by him introduced to Gray.
Gray was fascinated by de Bonstetten, directed his studies for several weeks and saw him daily.
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 The Nuttall Encyclopaedia by Edited by Rev. James Wood - Full Text Free Book (Part 8/53)
Charles II., who leased it to the East India Company for L10 a year.
BONNET, CHARLES DE, Swiss naturalist and philosopher, born at
BONSTETTEN, CHARLES VICTOR DE, a Swiss publicist and judge, born at
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 JOHANNES VON MULLER - LoveToKnow Article on JOHANNES VON MULLER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In July 1771 he undertook a sketch of Swiss history (no detailed history of Switzerland having so far been written) for a publisher of Halle, but his theological studies and the preparation of a Latin dissertation on the Bellum cimbricum (publ.
In April 1772 he passed his theological examination, and soon after became professor of Greek at the Collegium Humanitatis~ Early in 1774, on the advice of his friend Charles Victor de Bonstetten, he gave up this post and became tutor in the Tronchin family at Geneva.
But in 1775 he resigned this position also, and passed his time with various friends in Geneva and Vaud, engaged in carrying his historical scheme Into effect.
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 Bonstettiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Born in Berne, Switzerland, in I745, Charles Victor de Bonstetten was an outstanding and charismatic figure during the period of transition in Europe, as the Enlightenment gave way to Romanticism.
This historical edition of the BONSTETTIANA offers the first comprehensive collection of known letters written and received by Bonstetten as well as those exchanged among his foremost correspondents.
The authoritative, easy-to-read transcription and the inclusion of a number of facsimiles enable the reader to form a clear and vivid impression of the original manuscripts.
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 The Diary of Polidori
Told me that armies on their march induce a fever (by their accumulation of animal dirt, irregular regimen) of the most malignant typhoid kind; it is epidemic.
Charles Victor de Bonstetten was a {106} Bernese nobleman who had gone through various vicissitudes of opinion and adventure, travelling in England and elsewhere.
B[onstetten] told me a story of the religious feuds in Appenzel; a civil war between Catholics and Protestants.
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 NCAW Autumn 03 | Lionel Gossman on The Nazarene Painters of the Nineteenth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Art for them was not a de luxe product of consummate artistic technique, it was not an investment or an object of exchange to be bought and sold and transferred at will from one owner and one location to another, nor was it simply a source of pleasure.
The two founders of the Vienna student group were Johann Friedrich Overbeck, son of a senator from the old Hanseatic free city of Lübeck and later its Bürgermeister, and Franz Pforr, a member of a family of painters, from the imperial free city of Frankfurt am Main.
Rosenblum presents the gist of his thesis in his opening remarks on the English artist, sculptor, and illustrator John Flaxman, whose reputation and influence in France and in Germany reached a high point—and it was very high, especially in Germany—at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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 LRB | John Mullan : Unpranked Lyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
'De Principiis Cogitandi', a 'metaphysic' didactic poem, was supposed to be rooted in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding.
In his fifties Gray fell for a Swiss aristocrat in his early twenties, Charles Victor de Bonstetten.
Bonstetten stayed in rooms in Pembroke College for three months, was introduced to Gray's academic friends and spent the days reading Milton, Shakespeare and selections of natural history with the poet.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He spent 40 years writing a history of his homeland, but more interesting are his love letters to Charles Victor de Bonstetten a handsome young Swiss writer.
Outed by Goethe, Muller's poems to Bonstetten were not published until 1835, long after his death.
Although there is nothing to suggest she was a lesbian she was the women's rights pioneer who founded the National League of Women Voters in 1919.
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 Paysages-en-poesie
A historical itinerary which evokes the Grand chemin royal which traverses from one parade to another all the Pays-d’Enhaut of pre-Revolutionary France.
It follows Charles-Victor de Bonstetten of Bern and a few other charaters.
Stopping in various villages, it tells a few of the moments which created them: running along the Sarine, it speaks of the bridges joining them.
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 Business Software Review : Article 'Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Prussian government having declined to make him a full professor, Zschokke in 1796 settled in Switzerland, where he conducted an educational institution in the castle of Reichenau.
The authorities of Graubýnden granted him citizenship, and in 1798 he published his Geschichte des Freistaates der drei Bünde im hohen Ratien (Rhaetia).
This is a list of famous Swiss and notable people from or resident in Switzerland and cantons forming present-day Switzerland.
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