The French Librarian: Or Literary Guide, Pointing Out the Best Works of the Principal Writers of France, in Every Branch of Literature; with Criticisms, Personal Anecdotes, and Bibliographical Notices; Preceded by a Sketch of the Progress of French Literature |
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... productions of a coun- try , while it is calculated to improve the lan- guage and keep it free from corruptions and innovations , is likely also , by setting up a fan- cied standard of perfection , to cramp the genius of a people whose ...
... productions of a coun- try , while it is calculated to improve the lan- guage and keep it free from corruptions and innovations , is likely also , by setting up a fan- cied standard of perfection , to cramp the genius of a people whose ...
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... productions of the tragic muse . What Corneille had done for the dramatic poetry , was done for the language of France by Pascal , one of the most surprising men that perhaps any country ever produced . To him is due the merit of having ...
... productions of the tragic muse . What Corneille had done for the dramatic poetry , was done for the language of France by Pascal , one of the most surprising men that perhaps any country ever produced . To him is due the merit of having ...
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... productions of the Port - Royal- ists . It was the intention of the Editor to have given them a place in it , but finding that he could not , without increasing too much the size of the book , do justice to their extensive and valuable ...
... productions of the Port - Royal- ists . It was the intention of the Editor to have given them a place in it , but finding that he could not , without increasing too much the size of the book , do justice to their extensive and valuable ...
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... productions of the eighteenth century , was doubtless the Encyclopédie . " Voltaire , D'Alembert , Di- derot , Helvetius , Raynal and Condillac , first conceived the idea of this stupendous work , the purpose of which was to bring under ...
... productions of the eighteenth century , was doubtless the Encyclopédie . " Voltaire , D'Alembert , Di- derot , Helvetius , Raynal and Condillac , first conceived the idea of this stupendous work , the purpose of which was to bring under ...
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... productions , even if there had been in France a man capable of turning aside from the troubles that agitated his country , to devote his time to literary pur- suits ; hence the only compositions worthy of being recorded , ( such as the ...
... productions , even if there had been in France a man capable of turning aside from the troubles that agitated his country , to devote his time to literary pur- suits ; hence the only compositions worthy of being recorded , ( such as the ...
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