MaximesThe second English translation of La Rochefoucauld's maxims was made by Mrs Aphra Behn, a woman who is now admired as England's first professional female author. This facing-page bilingual edition offers an accurate translation of the text, an introduction and extensive annotations of the maxims. |
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... self - love , self - esteem , pride , and vanity , but no single word in English can capture all of its meanings.3 Just as Hobbes was regarded in England as the leading voice among those who held human nature to be essentially selfish ...
... self - love , self - esteem , pride , and vanity , but no single word in English can capture all of its meanings.3 Just as Hobbes was regarded in England as the leading voice among those who held human nature to be essentially selfish ...
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... Love and Self - Love For Behn the most important matter in his maxims would have been his pronouncements on love ( amour ) , self - love ( amour- propre ) , and self - interest ( intérêt ) . His one maxim on marriage ( Behn no . 74 ...
... Love and Self - Love For Behn the most important matter in his maxims would have been his pronouncements on love ( amour ) , self - love ( amour- propre ) , and self - interest ( intérêt ) . His one maxim on marriage ( Behn no . 74 ...
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... self - love even in temperance that that can neither resolve nor condemn but what self - love permits , and secretly , even unknown to your own Reason approves . In fine , fix your resolve on what you will , you will if you with ...
... self - love even in temperance that that can neither resolve nor condemn but what self - love permits , and secretly , even unknown to your own Reason approves . In fine , fix your resolve on what you will , you will if you with ...
Contents
To Lysander | xlv |
The Translation with the French on facing pages | 1 |
From Behns Essay on Translated Prose | 135 |
Copyright | |
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