The thoughts, letters, and opuscules of Blaise Pascal / translated from the French by O. W. Wight.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. [Pensees de M. Pascal sur religion. English. 1864]

Verlag: New York: 1864., Hurd and Houghton,

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[title continues] With introductory notes and notes from all the commentators. -- Contents: Editor's preface -- Editions of Pascal's thoughts / Charles Louandre -- Genius and writings of Pascal / Henry Rogers -- Pascal as a philosophic skeptic / Victor Cousin -- Plan of the Thoughts / Etienne Perier, from his preface to the 1670 edition -- Thoughts of Pascal, ch. 1-25 (p. [147]-408) -- Letters of Pascal (12, p. [411]-458) -- Opuscules of Pascal (Epitaph of M. Pascal, pere; Prayer, to ask of God the proper use of sickness; Comparison between Christians of early times and those of to-day; Discourses on the condition of the great I-III; On the conversion of the sinner; Conversation of Pascal with M. de Saci on Epictetus and Montaigne; The art of persuasion; Discourse on the passion of love; Of the geometrical spirit; Preface to the treatise on vacuum; New fragment of the treatise on vacuum - p. [459]-552) -- [First thus in 1859; a companion volume edited by Orlando Williams, Wight, 1824-1888, containing M'Crie's version of the Provincial letters, also appeared in 1859] Fair brown cloth. Spine taped and loose on upper joint". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 027141

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Titel: The thoughts, letters, and opuscules of ...

Verlag: New York: 1864., Hurd and Houghton,

Einband: Hardcover