The Ruins, Volney’s most influential work, appeared in 1791, and soon became a revolution inside a revolution. According to the Britannica encyclopedia, The Ruins epitomized the rationalist historical and political…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Originally published in the late eighteenth century, this philosophical work combines historical analysis with Enlightenment-era political theory to argue that all empires and civilizations eventually decline and decay. Volney's critique…

Oeuvres de C.-F. Volney. T. I Date de l'edition originale: 1825-1826

Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature Francaise mise en place…

""Simplification des langues orientales: ou m?????thode nouvelle et facile"" (1796) de Volney, C. F. est un livre qui propose une m?????thode pour simplifier l'apprentissage des langues orientales. L'auteur y expose…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Ruins or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature, by C. F. Volney. To purchase the entire…