Civilization in French and Francophone LiteratureBuford Norman, James Day |
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... later , more famous Revolution , but holds a salutary lesson on the resilience of common sense . With Guise , the Catholic League had lost its dashing figurehead , but with him disappeared the frustrating mix of personal vanity and ...
... later , more famous Revolution , but holds a salutary lesson on the resilience of common sense . With Guise , the Catholic League had lost its dashing figurehead , but with him disappeared the frustrating mix of personal vanity and ...
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... later conclude anti - climactically , " Soyons resolus de nous tenir fermes , et nous voila assez roides pour le desar- çonner " ( Avis à l'Irresolu 7-8 , 54 ) ; no need to leave one's home to run off to a battlefield . Nor is this ...
... later conclude anti - climactically , " Soyons resolus de nous tenir fermes , et nous voila assez roides pour le desar- çonner " ( Avis à l'Irresolu 7-8 , 54 ) ; no need to leave one's home to run off to a battlefield . Nor is this ...
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... later , one former participant in the League's revolt could not help but place in the Politiques ' mouths a dizzying suite of ratiocinations ; as he doggedly sets about trying to impeach them , his moderate adversary continues to speak ...
... later , one former participant in the League's revolt could not help but place in the Politiques ' mouths a dizzying suite of ratiocinations ; as he doggedly sets about trying to impeach them , his moderate adversary continues to speak ...
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... wars in the early 1560s , Étienne Pasquier and Michel de L'Hospital had begun to articulate this policy ( Skinner 2 : 250-52 ) . The implied principle of separation between Church and State would later make this insight explicit Hoffmann ...
... wars in the early 1560s , Étienne Pasquier and Michel de L'Hospital had begun to articulate this policy ( Skinner 2 : 250-52 ) . The implied principle of separation between Church and State would later make this insight explicit Hoffmann ...
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... later , John Dryden would translate Maimboug's History of the League in response to a challenge to royal authority across the Channel . Straining to hear undertones in the League's rhetoric may seem disingenuous , given the anarchy that ...
... later , John Dryden would translate Maimboug's History of the League in response to a challenge to royal authority across the Channel . Straining to hear undertones in the League's rhetoric may seem disingenuous , given the anarchy that ...
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The Model of Sparta in Montaignes | 33 |
Redeeming economies in Yvain | 69 |
Savoir et saveur à la table de Louis XIV | 85 |
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Page 22 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 148 - Il ne faut pas prendre les recherches, dans lesquelles on peut entrer sur ce sujet, pour des vérités historiques, mais seulement pour des raisonnements hypothétiques et conditionnels ; plus propres à éciaircir la nature des choses, qu'à en montrer la véritable origine, et semblables à ceux que font tous les jours nos physiciens sur la formation du monde.
Page 22 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
Page 152 - ... n'ayant aucune vérité à dissimuler. On ne les avait jamais effrayés en leur disant que Dieu réserve des punitions terribles aux enfants ingrats; chez eux l'amitié filiale était née de l'amitié maternelle. On ne leur avait appris de la religion que ce qui la fait aimer ; et s'ils n'offraient pas...
Page 36 - Les noms de mes chapitres n'en embrassent pas tousjours la matière ; souvent ils la dénotent seulement par quelque marque, comme ces autres c tiltres : VAndrie, l'Eunuche, ou ces autres 5 noms : Sylla, Cicero, Torquatus.
Page 23 - Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am : then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king ; Then am I king'd...
Page ix - It sums up everything in which Western society of the last two or three centuries believes itself superior to earlier societies or "more primitive" contemporary ones. By this term Western society seeks to describe what constitutes its special character and what it is proud of: the level of its technology, the nature of its manners, the development of its scientific knowledge or view of the world, and much more.
Page 126 - Je l'aime telle que les loix et religions non facent, mais parfacent et authorisent, qui se sente de quoy se soustenir sans aide, née en nous de ses propres racines par la semence de la raison universelle empreinte en tout homme non desnaturé.