Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War. E-book. Formato PDF Mrs. N. B. De Saussure   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Those memories are a legacy to the new gen cration from the old, and it behooves the old to hand them down to the new.

Recherches Chimiques sur la Végétation. E-book. Formato PDF Théod. De Saussure   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Les fonctions de l'eau et des gaz dans la nutrition des végétaux les change ments qu'ils font sub1r leur atmoephère, sont les sujets que j'ai le plus approfondis. Les observations de Priestley de Sene hier, d'lngenhoutz ont ouvert la carrière que j'ai parcourue; mais elles n'ont point atteint le but que je me suis proposé. Si l'imagination a quelquefois rempli les vi des qu'elles ont laissés c'est par des con jectures dont l'obscurité et l'opposition ont toujours montré l'incertitude.j'ai em ployé pour mes épreuves eudiométriques.

Course in General Linguistics. E-book. Formato PDF Ferdinand De Saussure   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

All those who had the privilege of participating in his richly rewarding instruction regretted that no book had resulted from it. After his death, we hoped to find in his manuscripts, Obligingly made available to us by Mme. De Saussure, a faithful or at least an adequate outline of his inspiring lectures. At first we thought that we might simply collate F. De Saussure's personal notes and the notes Of his students. We were grossly misled. We found nothing — or almost nothing — that resembled his students' note books. As soon as they had served their purpose, F. De Saussure destroyed the rough drafts of the outlines used for his lectures. In the drawers of his secretary we found only Older outlines which, although certainly not worthless, could not be integrated into the material of the three courses. Our discovery was all the more disappointing since professorial duties had made it impossible for us to attend F. De Saussure's last lectures — and these mark just as brilliant a step in his career as the much earlier one that had witnessed the appearance of his treatise on the vocalic system of proto-indo — European.