Greece as they please," wrote Hume from Paris, " but no nation was ever so proud of genius as this, and no person ever so much engaged their attention as Rousseau ! Voltaire and everybody else are quite eclipsed by him. Adam Smith - Página 130de Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 240 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1846 - 614 páginas
...thousand spectators. People may talk of ancient Greece as they please; hut no nation was ever so fond of genius as this, and no person ever so much engaged their attention as Rousseau. Voltaire and every body else are quite eclipsed by him. ' I am sensible that my connexions with him add to my importance... | |
| John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 556 páginas
...thousand spectators. People may talk of ancient Greece as they please; but no nation was ever so fond of genius as this, and no person ever so much engaged their attention as Rousseau. Voltaire and every body else are quite eclipsed by him. " I am sensible that my connexions with him add to my importance... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 722 páginas
...impossible to express or imagine the enthusiasm of this nation in his favour ; ... no person ever во much engaged their attention as Rousseau. Voltaire and everybody else are quite eclipsed by him." Burtorís Life of Hume, vol. ii. p. 299. A letter written in 1754 (in Grimm, Correspond, vol. ip 122)... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 894 páginas
...Paris : " It is impossible to express or imagine the enthusiasm of this nation in his favour ; ... no person ever so much engaged their attention as Rousseau. Voltaire and every body else are quite eclipsed by him." Burton's Life of Hume, vol. ii. p. 299. A letter written... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 páginas
...Paris : " It is impossible to express or imagine the enthusiasm of this nation in his favour ; ... no person ever so much engaged their attention as Rousseau. Voltaire and every body else are quite eclipsed by him." Burton's Life of Hume, vol. ii. p. 299. A letter written... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1866 - 726 páginas
...Paris : " It is impossible to express or imagine the enthusiasm of this nation in his favour ; ... no person ever so much engaged their attention as...Voltaire and everybody else are quite eclipsed by him." Hurtónos Life of Hume, vol. ii. p. 299. A letter written in 1754 (in Grimm, Correspond, vol. ip 12'.;)... | |
| 1868 - 402 páginas
...Paris in 1765. "It is impossible to express or imagine the enthusiasm of this nation in his favor : no person ever so much engaged their attention as...Voltaire and everybody else are quite eclipsed by him." When " La Nouvelle Helo'ise " appeared, the libraries could not answer the calls made for it from all... | |
| 1871
...Hume writes from Paris : ' It is impossible to express or imagine the enthusiasm in his favor ; ... no person ever so much engaged their attention as Rousseau. Voltaire, and every body, else is quite eclipsed by him.' Montesquieu was forgotten, and all his wisdom was obsolete.... | |
| John Morley (visct.) - 1873 - 370 páginas
...the keenest excitement. ' People may talk of ancient Greece as they please,' wrote Hume from Paris, ' but no nation was ever so proud of genius as this,...no person ever so much engaged their attention as Eousseau; Voltaire and everybody else are quite eclipsed by him.' Even his maid, Le Vasseur, who was... | |
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