The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... probability of the thing reported , whether by the historian or by another ; this latter is the natural , efficacious means of acquiring belief to which the first is re- duced even when it professes the truth , if it be right that of ...
... probability of the thing reported , whether by the historian or by another ; this latter is the natural , efficacious means of acquiring belief to which the first is re- duced even when it professes the truth , if it be right that of ...
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... probability with it than that which is entirely of a new invention ; and yet he does not condemn the latter , his reason for which is that though the argument be taken from history , it may nevertheless be unknown to the greatest part ...
... probability with it than that which is entirely of a new invention ; and yet he does not condemn the latter , his reason for which is that though the argument be taken from history , it may nevertheless be unknown to the greatest part ...
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... probability . Against this rock most ordinarily fall the poets , who are too easily carried to say incredible things that they may be admirable . . XXIV Besides that probability serves to give credit to whatever poesy has the most ...
... probability . Against this rock most ordinarily fall the poets , who are too easily carried to say incredible things that they may be admirable . . XXIV Besides that probability serves to give credit to whatever poesy has the most ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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