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... interesting work . Nor is it merely as a repository of medieval erudition that Jean de Meung's poem deserves atten- tion ; for it is easy to perceive in it an in- tellectual tendency far in advance of its age- a spirit which , however ...
... interesting work . Nor is it merely as a repository of medieval erudition that Jean de Meung's poem deserves atten- tion ; for it is easy to perceive in it an in- tellectual tendency far in advance of its age- a spirit which , however ...
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... interesting chiefly for its psychological studies and for the light that it throws on those principles of cunning statecraft which per- meated the politics and diplomacy of the age and were to receive their final exposition in the ...
... interesting chiefly for its psychological studies and for the light that it throws on those principles of cunning statecraft which per- meated the politics and diplomacy of the age and were to receive their final exposition in the ...
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... but he was far less interesting . It was in the gentle , personal , everyday things of life that his nature triumphed . Here and there in his Essays , this simple goodness wells up clear and pure ; and in the 40 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... but he was far less interesting . It was in the gentle , personal , everyday things of life that his nature triumphed . Here and there in his Essays , this simple goodness wells up clear and pure ; and in the 40 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... interesting : it is as a critic .: When the lines upon which French literature was to develop were still uncertain , when the Classical school was in its infancy , and its great leaders - Molière , Racine , La Fontaine -were still ...
... interesting : it is as a critic .: When the lines upon which French literature was to develop were still uncertain , when the Classical school was in its infancy , and its great leaders - Molière , Racine , La Fontaine -were still ...
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... interesting , no complications however suggestive , no irrelevances however beautiful --but plain , intense , vigorous , and splendid with nothing but its own essential force . Nor can there be any doubt that Racine's view of what a ...
... interesting , no complications however suggestive , no irrelevances however beautiful --but plain , intense , vigorous , and splendid with nothing but its own essential force . Nor can there be any doubt that Racine's view of what a ...
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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.