Search Results for Pierre Bayle

... was printed in more than twenty French editions and When Histor y Caught Up with Histor ians 5 3 translated into English, German, Dutch, and Spanish.25 It also gave rise to a competing series of historical dictionaries by spurring the Protestant philosopher Pierre Bayle to write a counter- dictionary...

... Eighteenth-Century Life Jewish philosopher to the biting Cynic, however, is an equally unlikely pair of other philosophical outsiders, Pierre Bayle and Baruch Spinoza. The political collusion of the unusual quartet referred to in Mendels- sohn’s introductory paragraph—Diogenes the dogmatic...

... itself from sectarian religious and party- political hagiography only lately, during the 1680s.6 Ancient strains of biography now began to reenter British practice through the retranslation and reprinting of for- eign models principally of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Pierre Bayle and through English...

... in them at the time.” 19 She emphasizes the considerable differences in the biographical tradition, from Pierre Bayle’s inclusive historical-­critical method, and Jeremy Col- 32  Eighteenth-Century Life lier’s less-­substantial offerings, devoid of “quotations or notes or source material” (141...

... agreed with Glanvill, this does show his interest in the topic and his familiarity with one of the seventeenth century’s most infl u- ential students of skeptical doctrines. Another great skeptic, and one we might think of as a candidate for Johnson’s severe dislike, is Pierre Bayle, whose...

... merit. Loveland repeatedly offers favorable comparisons between Coetlogon and the great writers and encyclopedists of the day, such as Pierre Bayle, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Johann Heinrich Zedler, and William Smellie. While such comparisons may be defensible, in a limited sense, they detract...

... and primary evidence, referenced exactly and quoted at length (112). The techniques used to preserve Ancient texts actually reflected Modern scholarly techniques inherited from Richard Simon, Jean Le Clerc, and Pierre Bayle, again aligning Ancient and Modern in the development of methodologies so strongly...

..., animating each as moments in a dialectic of opposing influences that culminate in the Treatise. Hume’s uninspiring time at the University of Edinburgh, the “Town’s College,” finds an “antidote” in Lord Shaftesbury’s Stoicism (44), the spell of which is broken in turn by a heady mixture of Pierre...

..., is central to the publication history of the letters. Each edition and translation of the letters was preceded by a short biographical sketch drawn from one or more of three sources: Abelard’s Historia calamitatum, the account by François d’Amboise and André Duchesne (Paris, 1616), or Pierre Bayle’s...

..., highlighting Partridge’s role in propagandistic predictions during the Glorious Revolution. Partridge’s involvement is set out in Pierre Bayle’s Continuation des Pensées Diverses, Ecrites à un Docteur de Sorbonne, à l’Occasion de la Comete qui parut au Mois de Decembre, 1680 (Rotterdam, 1705), a copy...

... of the footnote: “[Edward] Gibbon and [Justus] Möser, [William] Robertson and [Friedrich August] Wolf replicated in full-­length narratives the structures that [Pierre] Bayle had erected on a small scale in each article, bearing in mind [Jean] Le Clerc’s directions for users of erudite compilations...

... four other works that Donald Greene classified as encyclopedias (22). They are Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire, in its second edition (1702); Nicholas Lloyd’s English version (1670) of the Dictionarium Historicum by Charles Estienne, the first French encyclopedia (1563); Louis Moreri’s Grand Dic...

... of feeling (Wieland) at a much later one. But even apart from such total re-­creations of earlier phi- losophy, the more piecemeal forms of anecdotal or biographical scholarship of a Diogenes Laertius or a Bayle may also serve their own purposes, stockpiling the materials of philosophy for later use...

... in 1686. He was censor and secretary of the Supreme Council of the Inquisition of Spain, and first interpreter of the scripture at Salamanca University. Pierre Bayle described him as “one of the Learned men” of the seventeenth century. His principal works include a collection of the councils...