The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... virtue badly ; but what we must esteem is the fixed and resolute intention of the men of those times never to fail in their word , whatever harm may come to them from standing by it . " What shall I say to you of their undying gratitude ...
... virtue badly ; but what we must esteem is the fixed and resolute intention of the men of those times never to fail in their word , whatever harm may come to them from standing by it . " What shall I say to you of their undying gratitude ...
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... virtue or stir us up to hate vice , it does it indirectly and by the entremise of the actions themselves ; of which sentiment Scaliger is so much as I dare quote him for my warrantee in this opinion . Now this may be done two ways : the ...
... virtue or stir us up to hate vice , it does it indirectly and by the entremise of the actions themselves ; of which sentiment Scaliger is so much as I dare quote him for my warrantee in this opinion . Now this may be done two ways : the ...
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... virtue , which ceases to be virtue when it comes to extremities , and keeps no longer within bounds . So likewise , thoughts which turn upon an hyperbole are all false in them- selves , and deserve to have no place in reasonable ...
... virtue , which ceases to be virtue when it comes to extremities , and keeps no longer within bounds . So likewise , thoughts which turn upon an hyperbole are all false in them- selves , and deserve to have no place in reasonable ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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