Provincial Letters: Containing an Exposure of the Reasoning and Morals of the Jesuits (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Tm: name of pascal (that prodigy Of parts, as Locke calls says Mr. Dugald stew art,k is more familiar to modern ears than that of any of the other learned and polish ed anchorites who have rendered the sanc tuary of port-royal so illustrious. Abstract ing from his great merit in mathematics and in physics, his reputation nests chiefly on the Provincial Letters a work from which Vol taire, notwithstanding his strong prejudices against the Author, dates the firation of the French language; and Of which the same ex cellent judge has said, 'moliere's best co medies DO not excel them in war, nor the compositions OF Bossum'. M suntmrrr.

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