 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.  Scribner's Magazine - Página 719editado por - 1909Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 páginas
...remotely contributed to form tlie historian of the Roman empire. From Pascal, he tells us, that he learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on subjects uf ecclesiastical solemnity ; forgetting that irony, in every shape, is beneath the dignity of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 páginas
...1. 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... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1839 - 754 páginas
...infidelity. He wrote memoirs of himself. He acknowledges that from the Provincial Letters of Pascal, he " learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." In describing the characteristics of his intellect, he says, " Wit I have none; my imagination is rather... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1846 - 726 páginas
...infidelity. lie wrote memoirs of himself. He acknowledges that from the Provincial Letters of Pascal, he " learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." In describing the characteristics of his intellect, he says, "Wit I have none; my imagination is rather... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1848 - 728 páginas
...infidelity. He wrote memoirs of himself. He acknowledges that from the Provincial Letters of Pascal, he " learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." In describing the characteristics of his intellect, he says, " Wit I have none ; my imagination is... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1849 - 732 páginas
...infidelity. He wrote memoirs of himself. He acknowledges that from the Provincial Letters of Pascal, he " learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." In describing the characteristics of his intellect, he says, "Wit I have none ; my imagination is rather... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 páginas
...1. 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.1 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbé de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 468 páginas
...1. 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.i 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbe" de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 páginas
...Locke, and Grotius, and was especially delighted with the "Provincial Letters" of Pascal, from which he learned " to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." During the 5 years of his exile he made the French language more familiar to him than the English.... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 páginas
...Locke, andGrotius, and was especially delighted with the "Provincial Letters" of Pascal, from which he learned " to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." During the б years of his exile he made the French language more familiar to him than the English.... | |
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