The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 137
... reason . There have been law - givers too that have styled themselves the interpreters of the will of heaven to establish a religious worship which has not had reason to support it . But to make , as the poets have done , a perpetual ...
... reason . There have been law - givers too that have styled themselves the interpreters of the will of heaven to establish a religious worship which has not had reason to support it . But to make , as the poets have done , a perpetual ...
Page 170
... reason ? The reason is that the noblest souls , answered Eugene , are like painters who , however skillful they may be , can do nothing without the instru- ments of their art . The good disposition of the organs and the special tem ...
... reason ? The reason is that the noblest souls , answered Eugene , are like painters who , however skillful they may be , can do nothing without the instru- ments of their art . The good disposition of the organs and the special tem ...
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... reason they may imagine against the orders they receive . It is easy to join this instruction with the other by bestowing on this wise and industrious prince such subjects as in his absence would rather follow their own judgment than ...
... reason they may imagine against the orders they receive . It is easy to join this instruction with the other by bestowing on this wise and industrious prince such subjects as in his absence would rather follow their own judgment than ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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