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Page vii
... nature , who have not had the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the French . language , I have no doubt will thank me for interpreting to them these honest and truthful fictions of the frank old JEAN , and will beg me to proceed ...
... nature , who have not had the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the French . language , I have no doubt will thank me for interpreting to them these honest and truthful fictions of the frank old JEAN , and will beg me to proceed ...
Page xvii
... nature , when fresh from the hand of God , was full of poetry . Its sociality could not be pent within the bounds of the actual . To the lower inhabitants of air , earth , and water , —and even to those elements themselves , in all ...
... nature , when fresh from the hand of God , was full of poetry . Its sociality could not be pent within the bounds of the actual . To the lower inhabitants of air , earth , and water , —and even to those elements themselves , in all ...
Page xxvii
... nature , that he was never satisfied with his art of verse till he had brought it to the confines of perfection . He did not philosophize over the animals ; he sympathized with them . A philosopher would not have lost a fashionable ...
... nature , that he was never satisfied with his art of verse till he had brought it to the confines of perfection . He did not philosophize over the animals ; he sympathized with them . A philosopher would not have lost a fashionable ...
Page xxxii
... nature — not by the calculation of consequences . Indeed it does not seem ever to have occurred to him that kindness , gratitude , and truth , could have any other than good consequences . He was truly a Frenchman without guile , and ...
... nature — not by the calculation of consequences . Indeed it does not seem ever to have occurred to him that kindness , gratitude , and truth , could have any other than good consequences . He was truly a Frenchman without guile , and ...
Page xxxvii
... nature with the utmost frankness of disposition , he sympathized fully with Arnauld and Pascal in the war against the Jesuits ; and it would seem , from his Ballade sur Escobar , that he had read and relished the " Provincial Letters ...
... nature with the utmost frankness of disposition , he sympathized fully with Arnauld and Pascal in the war against the Jesuits ; and it would seem , from his Ballade sur Escobar , that he had read and relished the " Provincial Letters ...
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