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The Cynics Breviary, The Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

by Nicolas de Chamfort ...

The worst wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed - Nicolas de Chamfort. Nicolas de Chamfort (1741 1794) was a French author, known for his sharp wit. He served as secretary to Louis XVIs Sister Madame Elisabeth. During the French Revolution, Chamfort served briefly as secretary for the Jacobin club. The last year of his life was spent in agony after a botched suicide ... Read more

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The worst wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed - Nicolas de Chamfort. Nicolas de Chamfort (1741 1794) was a French author, known for his sharp wit. He served as secretary to Louis XVIs Sister Madame Elisabeth. During the French Revolution, Chamfort served briefly as secretary for the Jacobin club. The last year of his life was spent in agony after a botched suicide
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100 Quotes by Nicolas de Chamfort

by Nicolas de Chamfort, Nicolas de Chamfort ...

Narrated by Brad Carty ...

Unabridged

26 min

Featuring some of the most brilliant and notable sayings from a revolutionising world, '100 Quotes by Nicolas de Chamfort' paints a vivid mosaic of life during and after the French Revolution.Having thrown himself into the Republican movement and fight to overthrow the last king of France, Chamfort was one of the first to have entered the Bastille as it was triumphantly stormed.Secretary to Louis ... Read more

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Featuring some of the most brilliant and notable sayings from a revolutionising world, '100 Quotes by Nicolas de Chamfort' paints a vivid mosaic of life during and after the French Revolution.Having thrown himself into the Republican movement and fight to overthrow the last king of France, Chamfort was one of the first to have entered the Bastille as it was triumphantly stormed.Secretary to Louis
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400 Quotations from Contemporary Philosophy

by Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein, Emil Cioran, Emil Cioran, Gaston Bachelard, Gaston Bachelard, Nicolas de Chamfort ...

Narrated by Brad Carty ...

Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

'400 Quotations from Contemporary Philosophy' features the unparalleled wit and wisdom of some of contemporary philosophy's greatest practitioners.These great minds include Albert Einstein, Gaston Bachelard, Emil Cioran and Nicolas de Chamfort. A carefully crafted collection, '400 Quotations from Contemporary Philosophy' is guaranteed to educate and entertain.Ideal for those needing a dose of ... Read more

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'400 Quotations from Contemporary Philosophy' features the unparalleled wit and wisdom of some of contemporary philosophy's greatest practitioners.These great minds include Albert Einstein, Gaston Bachelard, Emil Cioran and Nicolas de Chamfort. A carefully crafted collection, '400 Quotations from Contemporary Philosophy' is guaranteed to educate and entertain.Ideal for those needing a dose of
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500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 18th Century

by Denis Diderot, Denis Diderot, Adam Smith, Adam Smith, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas de Chamfort, Beaumarchais ...

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Unabridged

2 hours 12 min

Known as the 'Age of Enlightenment,' the 1700s was a time that provoked significant leaps in philosophical thought.Most importantly, the thinkers of the time espoused the virtues of happiness, the evidence provided by the senses, and the distance between organised religion and the state.'500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 18th Century' offers a fascinating insight into the ... Read more

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Known as the 'Age of Enlightenment,' the 1700s was a time that provoked significant leaps in philosophical thought.Most importantly, the thinkers of the time espoused the virtues of happiness, the evidence provided by the senses, and the distance between organised religion and the state.'500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 18th Century' offers a fascinating insight into the
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3500 Final Quotes

by Jane Austen, Jane Austen, Platon, Platon, Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Oscar Wilde, Anne Frank, Ralph Waldo Emerson0, Albert Einstein1, Marcel Proust2, Søren Kierkegaard3, Friedrich Nietzsche4, Buddha5, Laozi6, Fyodor Dostoevsky7, Mahatma Gandhi8, Voltaire9, Henry David Thoreau0, Montesquieu1, Immanuel Kant2, Arthur Schopenhauer3, Denis Diderot4, Marcus Aurelius5, Abraham Lincoln6, Baruch Spinoza7, Charles de Gaulle8, Cicero9, Confucius0, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg1, Leonardo da Vinci2, Martin Luther King3, Napoleon Bonaparte4, Nicolas de Chamfort5, Beaumarchais6, Socrates7 ...

Narrated by Brad Carty8 ...

Unabridged

14 hours 35 min

Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen!Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.'3500 Final Quotes' is ideal ... Read more

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Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen!Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.'3500 Final Quotes' is ideal
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600 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 18th Century

by Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais, Nicolas de Chamfort, Nicolas de Chamfort, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Montesquieu ...

Narrated by Brad Carty ...

Unabridged

2 hours 36 min

"600 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 18th Century" features the wit and wisdom of some of the greatest French writers ever,From Montesquieu and Voltaire to Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this carefully crafted collection is an entertaining, educational and enthralling insight into the finest minds of the 18th Century.Ideal for those needing a dose of encouragement. ... Read more

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"600 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 18th Century" features the wit and wisdom of some of the greatest French writers ever,From Montesquieu and Voltaire to Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this carefully crafted collection is an entertaining, educational and enthralling insight into the finest minds of the 18th Century.Ideal for those needing a dose of encouragement.
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How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It

The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500–1800

by Benerson Little ...

Who were the world's most successful pirates, and why? "Interesting and very readable . . . Little clearly knows his subject well." — International Journal of Naval HistoryMore than just simple retellings of tried-and-true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through the 1800s to give an in-depth view of how pirates functioned through history. ... Read more

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Who were the world's most successful pirates, and why? "Interesting and very readable . . . Little clearly knows his subject well." — International Journal of Naval HistoryMore than just simple retellings of tried-and-true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through the 1800s to give an in-depth view of how pirates functioned through history.
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More Lives Than One

by Gerard Hanberry ...

The story of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. His parents, the brilliant Sir William and flamboyant Lady Jane, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy. His wife Constance Wilde had to change her name and live in exile until her death. An epic family saga against a background of rebellion and famine, this has new revelations on Oscar's time in prison, ... Read more

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The story of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. His parents, the brilliant Sir William and flamboyant Lady Jane, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy. His wife Constance Wilde had to change her name and live in exile until her death. An epic family saga against a background of rebellion and famine, this has new revelations on Oscar's time in prison,
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Quebec 1759

The battle that won Canada

by Stuart Reid ...

Series Book 121 - Campaign
What a scene!' wrote Horace Walpole. 'An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!' In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe's men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm's French army into bloody ruin. Sir John Fortescue famously described it as the 'most perfect volley ever ... Read more

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What a scene!' wrote Horace Walpole. 'An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!' In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe's men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm's French army into bloody ruin. Sir John Fortescue famously described it as the 'most perfect volley ever
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The Expanding Blaze

How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

by Jonathan Israel ...

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ... Read more

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A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical
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Frederick the Great

by Nancy Mitford ...

An entertaining royal biography of Prussian king Frederick the Great—a fascinating character with conflicting visions of authority and reform, power and art—from “one of Britain’s most piercing observers of social manners” (New York Times).The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, ... Read more

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An entertaining royal biography of Prussian king Frederick the Great—a fascinating character with conflicting visions of authority and reform, power and art—from “one of Britain’s most piercing observers of social manners” (New York Times).The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria,
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Napoleon in Italy

The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799

by Phillip R. Cuccia ...

Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument to the sufferings of townspeople during the 1796–1797 siege, when the city, held by Austrian ... Read more

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In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument to the sufferings of townspeople during the 1796–1797 siege, when the city, held by Austrian
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