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... doubt , was the very manner in which his mind worked ; and the essential element of his spirit resides precisely in this haphazard and various looseness . His exceeding coarse- ness is itself an expression of one of the most fundamental ...
... doubt , was the very manner in which his mind worked ; and the essential element of his spirit resides precisely in this haphazard and various looseness . His exceeding coarse- ness is itself an expression of one of the most fundamental ...
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... doubts . The form of the detached essay , which he was the first to use , precisely suited his habit of thought . In that loose shape - admitting of the most indefinite structure , and of any variety of length , from three pages to ...
... doubts . The form of the detached essay , which he was the first to use , precisely suited his habit of thought . In that loose shape - admitting of the most indefinite structure , and of any variety of length , from three pages to ...
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... doubt . Whatever the purely philosophical value of this doctrine may be , its importance as an influence in practical life was very great . If no opinion had any certainty whatever , then it followed that persecution 38 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... doubt . Whatever the purely philosophical value of this doctrine may be , its importance as an influence in practical life was very great . If no opinion had any certainty whatever , then it followed that persecution 38 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... doubt at all that one of its first actions was singularly inauspicious . Under the guid 、 ance of Cardinal Richelieu it delivered a futile attack upon the one writer of the time who stood out head and shoulders above his con ...
... doubt at all that one of its first actions was singularly inauspicious . Under the guid 、 ance of Cardinal Richelieu it delivered a futile attack upon the one writer of the time who stood out head and shoulders above his con ...
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... doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other writer of his own nation until the time of ...
... doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other writer of his own nation until the time of ...
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Page 126 - Dieu et la nature sont en tout cela ce qu'il n'admire point; il ne va pas plus loin que l'oignon de sa tulipe, qu'il ne livrerait pas pour mille écus, et qu'il donnera pour rien quand les tulipes seront négligées et que les œillets auront prévalu. Cet homme raisonnable, qui a une âme, qui a un culte et une religion, revient chez soi fatigué, affamé, mais fort content de sa journée : il a vu des tulipes.
Page 60 - Quelle chimère est-ce donc que l'homme ? Quelle nouveauté, quel monstre, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction, quel prodige ! Juge de toutes choses, imbécile ver de terre; dépositaire du vrai, cloaque d'incertitude et d'erreur ; gloire et rebut de l'univers.
Page 118 - Jupin pour chaque état mit deux tables au monde : L'adroit, le vigilant, et le fort, sont assis A la première ; et les petits Mangent leur reste à la seconde.