Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of the Literary Relations Between France and England During the Eighteenth Century |
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Page 21
... Montesquieu says somewhere that in the days of his youth ministers " knew no more of England than a child six months old , " 5 but from 1715 this ceased to be true . Even the public began to follow English politics some- what closely ...
... Montesquieu says somewhere that in the days of his youth ministers " knew no more of England than a child six months old , " 5 but from 1715 this ceased to be true . Even the public began to follow English politics some- what closely ...
Page 46
... Montesquieu , to describe the manners of a harem , assuredly there was considerable novelty in aspiring to give us " an idea of German pleasures and Teutonic gallantry , " or , better still - since here Prévost was drawing from life of ...
... Montesquieu , to describe the manners of a harem , assuredly there was considerable novelty in aspiring to give us " an idea of German pleasures and Teutonic gallantry , " or , better still - since here Prévost was drawing from life of ...
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... Montesquieu , with a fondness for travel . Never for a moment , as he crosses continent or sea , does his philosophy fail him . In the depths of misfortune , in the heart of American solitudes , among savages who murder his dearest ...
... Montesquieu , with a fondness for travel . Never for a moment , as he crosses continent or sea , does his philosophy fail him . In the depths of misfortune , in the heart of American solitudes , among savages who murder his dearest ...
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... Montesquieu , in the record of his travels . " If any one mentions religion , everybody begins to laugh . Someone having said , during my own stay there , I hold that as an article of faith , ' everybody began laughing . " Montesquieu ...
... Montesquieu , in the record of his travels . " If any one mentions religion , everybody begins to laugh . Someone having said , during my own stay there , I hold that as an article of faith , ' everybody began laughing . " Montesquieu ...
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... Montesquieu borrows from Mariana , Boiardo from Pulci , Ariosto from Boiardo . The English have frequently pilfered from the French without making any acknowledgment . Books are like " the fire on our hearths . " from our neighbours ...
... Montesquieu borrows from Mariana , Boiardo from Pulci , Ariosto from Boiardo . The English have frequently pilfered from the French without making any acknowledgment . Books are like " the fire on our hearths . " from our neighbours ...
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