Writings
Paixhans wrote, among others:
- "Considérations sur l'état actuel de l'artillerie des places" (1815)
- "Nouvelle force maritime" (1822), in which he envisionned a fleet protected by armour and equipped with explosive shells.
- "Force et faiblesse militaires de la France" (1830)
- "Constitution militaire de la France" (Paris 1849)
Read more about this topic: Henri-Joseph Paixhans
Famous quotes containing the word writings:
“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Even in my own writings I cannot always recover the meaning of my former ideas; I know not what I meant to say, and often get into a regular heat, correcting and putting a new sense into it, having lost the first and better one. I do nothing but come and go. My judgement does not always forge straight ahead; it strays and wanders.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)