 | Charles Beard - 1861 - 494 pages
...of Pascal," he says in his memoirs *, " which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." For the full discussion of this matter I must refer the reader to Pascal's eleventh letter. Then, as... | |
 | 1908 - 1086 pages
..."From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." But he owed, perhaps, even more to Bayle, whose character he has drawn with an admiration and sympathy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...1. From Pascal's Provincial Letters, " which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." 2. The Abbé de la Bleterie's Life of Julian; and 3. Giannone's Civil History of Naples, in which "I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pages
...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." — Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon, in 5 vols., vol. ip 96. Reasoning post hoc proptcr hoc, Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...From the Provincial letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity."—Miscellaneous Warks of Gibbon, in 5 vols., vol. ip 96. Reasoning fast hoc fropter hoc.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 pages
...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbe de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and the times ; and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 pages
...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." — Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon, in 5 vols., vol. ip 96. Reasoning post hoc propter hoc, Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." — Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon, in 5 vols., vol. ip 96. Reasoning post hoe prowler hoc. Franklin... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbe de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and the times ; and... | |
 | 1880 - 816 pages
...Provincial Letters' of Pascal," he says, " which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." § Lord Macaulay is reported to have classed them with two other works as the most perfect that he... | |
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From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. 
