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Page 139
... original , always fine ; unfortu- nately , they are too often unsound into the bargain . The fluid elusive facts slip through his neat sentences like water in a sieve . His treatment of the English constitution affords an illustration ...
... original , always fine ; unfortu- nately , they are too often unsound into the bargain . The fluid elusive facts slip through his neat sentences like water in a sieve . His treatment of the English constitution affords an illustration ...
Page 142
... original research , of the life of Charles XII . + During this earlier period of his activity , Voltaire seems to have been trying - half un- consciously , perhaps to discover and to ex- press the fundamental quality of his genius ...
... original research , of the life of Charles XII . + During this earlier period of his activity , Voltaire seems to have been trying - half un- consciously , perhaps to discover and to ex- press the fundamental quality of his genius ...
Page 159
... original thinking on their own account , though they were bold and ingenious , they were apt also to be crude . In some sciences - political economy , for instance , and psychology- they led the way , but attained to no lasting ...
... original thinking on their own account , though they were bold and ingenious , they were apt also to be crude . In some sciences - political economy , for instance , and psychology- they led the way , but attained to no lasting ...
Page 170
... with a brilliant sketch of the age of Louis XIV . This work was highly original in many ways . It was the first history which attempted to describe the march of civilisation in its broad- est aspects 170 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... with a brilliant sketch of the age of Louis XIV . This work was highly original in many ways . It was the first history which attempted to describe the march of civilisation in its broad- est aspects 170 FRENCH LITERATURE.
Page 184
... was his originality . Neither Voltaire nor Diderot possessed this quality in a supreme degree . Voltaire , indeed , can only claim to be original by virtue of his overwhelming common sense , which enabled 184 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... was his originality . Neither Voltaire nor Diderot possessed this quality in a supreme degree . Voltaire , indeed , can only claim to be original by virtue of his overwhelming common sense , which enabled 184 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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Page 71 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
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 129 - Les choses les plus souhaitées n'arrivent point ; ou , si elles arrivent, ce n'est ni dans le temps ni dans les circonstances où elles auraient fait un extrême plaisir.
Page 128 - L'on voit * certains animaux farouches , des mâles et des femelles, répandus par la campagne, noirs , livides, et tout brûlés du soleil, attachés à la terre qu'ils fouillent et qu'ils remuent avec une opiniâtreté invincible : ils ont comme une voix articulée ; et quand ils se lèvent sur leurs pieds , ils montrent une face humaine , et en effet ils sont des hommes.
Page 126 - ... a pris racine au milieu de ses tulipes et devant la Solitaire; il ouvre de grands yeux, il frotte ses mains, il se baisse, il la voit de plus près, il ne l'a jamais vue si belle, il a le cœur épanoui de joie; il la...
Page 60 - Nous sommes plaisants de nous reposer dans la société de nos semblables : misérables comme nous, impuissants comme nous, ils ne nous aideront pas; on mourra seul.
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.
Page 123 - Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
Page 14 - ... n'ai jou que faire. Mais en infer voil jou aler, car en infer vont li bel clerc, et li bel cevalier qui sont mort as tornois et as rices gueres, et li...
Page 240 - Oui l'oeuvre sort plus belle D'une forme au travail Rebelle, Vers, marbre, onyx, émail!