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...Jean David Par Paul Hazard. Paris: Boivin, 1946. 2 tomes. v et 375 pp.; 263 pp.; index et table pp. 264-301. 525 francs. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 370 Reviews La Penste Europtenne au XVIII” siBcle: De Montesquieu h Lessbag. Par...

...Roger B. Oake Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ∗ The first part of Mr. Oake's article appeared in the March, 1941, number. MONTESQUIEU AND HUME* By ROGERB. OAKE CLIMATE The question...

...Roger B. Oake Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 MONTESQUIEU AND HUME By ROGERB. OAKE INTRODUCTORY When in October, 1763, David Hume arrived in Paris as aide to Lord Hertford, newly appointed British...

... University of Buffalo Montesquieu in America, 1760-1801. By PAULM. SPURLIN.LOU- isiana State University Press, Romance Languages Series, 1940. Pp. xi + 302. $3.00. In this book Mr. Spurlin does admirably what he sets out to do as explained in his introduction...

...Alessandro S. Crisafulli Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 A NEGLECTED ENGLISH IMITATION OF MONTESQUIEU’S LETTRES PERSANES By ALESSANDROS. CRISAFULLI The fiction entitled Letters from...

... of the conquistadors’ American victims against Sepulveda’s unequiv- ocal rejection of them as barbarians. Arguing that hyperbole suppresses the nuances of the debate, Todorov restages it in France by contrasting Mon- taigne’s thoughts on the conquest with Montesquieu’s. Montaigne’s criti- cism in “On Coaches...

.... How strange, that an almost unreadable play should be well worth the resur- recting ! JULIAN PARK University of Buffalo Montesquieu in America, 1760-1801. By PAULM. SPURLIN.LOU- isiana State University Press, Romance Languages Series...

..., to Marmontel, to Falconet, to the AbE Paciaudi, as well as to Stanislas, a few to Montesquieu and Voltaire, nothing 1These letters are published by permission of the Council and Officers of the Royal Society of London, to whom I wish to express my thanks. My at- tention was called to them...

... disengaging a fundamental concept of human progress. The text, however, might have been made accessible to more readers if the spelling had been modernized and a glossary added. While Montesquieu’s works are not out of print, the selections given here present in convenient form his main...

...-color analogy. Yet Montesquieu was his friend, and Diderot was not uninterested in his theories. Castel tried to help Rousseau at the beginning of his career in Paris, before attacking later his famous Discours SUY Pin- kgalitk, though hardly without ever having read it, as Mr...

... of China as different as those of Voltaire and Montesquieu (Pinot, 158-67) .9 Through Jesuit contacts, moreover, early linguists such as Etienne de Fourmont and Nicolas Fr6ret could begin to study the Chinese language systematically. Fascination with Chinese writing is evident from the earliest...

... to five chapters. Several key authors, such as Montesquieu, Byron, and Loti, and painters such as Delacroix, Ingres, and Gérôme are taken up over many of the parts, along with a cast of minor characters that testifies to Yeazell’s patient documentation of thematic con- tiguities. Specific discussion...

... to five chapters. Several key authors, such as Montesquieu, Byron, and Loti, and painters such as Delacroix, Ingres, and Gérôme are taken up over many of the parts, along with a cast of minor characters that testifies to Yeazell’s patient documentation of thematic con- tiguities. Specific discussion...

... to five chapters. Several key authors, such as Montesquieu, Byron, and Loti, and painters such as Delacroix, Ingres, and Gérôme are taken up over many of the parts, along with a cast of minor characters that testifies to Yeazell’s patient documentation of thematic con- tiguities. Specific discussion...

... not follow the author in his opinion (voiced already by AssCzat) that the abbreviation “M. de M . . .” of the Lettre stands for M. de Marivaux instead of M. de Montesquieu, which Naigeon had given; the context fits Montesquieu quite well. I also doubt that it was Naigeon who mutilated...

... these features of the Nights as an incitement to relativistic thinking. Using the episodic, discontinuous form of the trav- elogue, ethnographic fiction like Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1721) and Diderot’s Supplement to Bougainville’s “Voyage” (1772) reenacted the shock of cultural difference catalyzed...

..., “Parallels between Lesage’s Theatre and His Novels”; RCmy G. Saisselin, “Rousseau et I’Ccriture”; Robert Shackleton, “Montesquieu, Suard, and the phi- losophes”; Judith N. Shklar, “Virtue in a Bad Climate: Good Men and Good Citi- zens in Montesquieu’s L’Esprit des lois”; Madeleine B...

... to a work that is little known, but that provides yet another instance of Diderot’s remarkable ability to reveal the innermost workings of his own mind by the contact with kindred spirits, in this case Seneca and Tacitus. Other papers are devoted to Pierre Bayle and Montesquieu, who...

... followed. Voltaire’s approach to political problems may be discerned in part through his reactions to works by Plato, Bodin, Grotius, Pufendorf, Hobbes, Locke, and Montesquieu. First, attempts to transcend the 1 George H. Sabine, History of Political Theory (New York, 1937), pp. 560-62...

.... Pp. vii+353. $3.50. Spurlin, Paul Merrill. Montesquieu in America, 1760-1801. Louisi- ana State University Press, 1940. Romance Language Series No. 4. Pp. vii+302. $3.00. Will, S. F. Bibliography of American Studies on the French Renais- sance ( 1500- 1600). Urbana...