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Page 132 - Qui peut tout ce qu'il veut , veut plus que ce qu'il doit.
Page 94 - ... origin. Minds that are stupid and incapable of science, are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena : minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.
Page 31 - The discreet Corneille had remained a lawyer. Thus it is that the devotion of a mother, the death of Cromwell, deer-stealing, the exclamation of an old man, and the beauty of a woman, have given five illustrious characters to Europe.
Page 77 - ... 10. (p. 26.) The Jesuits afford a striking example of the power of education. If their order has produced few men of genius in the arts or sciences ; if they have had no Newton in physics, no Racine in Tragedy, no Huygens in astronomy, or Pot in chymistry ; no Bacon, Locke, Voltaire, Fontaine, &c. it is not that the religious of this order never find among their scholars those who discover the greatest genius. The Jesuits moreover, from...
Page 30 - Shakefpeare had been, like his father, always a dealer in wool; if his imprudence had not obliged him to quit his commerce, and his country; if he had not aflbciated with libertines, and ftole deer from the park of a nobleman ; had not been purfued for the theft...
Page 332 - He had 30 watches on his table, and observing that no two of them marked the same time, he exclaimed, "How could I imagine that in matters of religion I could make all men think alike !"— A servant carelessly entering his cell, threw down all the watches. The Emperor laughed, and said, " You are more lucky than I, for you have found the way to make them all go together.
Page 74 - ... men of science. The minister, who was then at the head of the finances, availed himself of their information. 3. (p. 3.) To whatever degree of perfection education may be carried, let it not be imagined, however, that all who are able to receive it may be made men of genius. By the aid of instruction an emulation may be excited among the people, they may be habituated to attention, have their hearts opened to humanity, and their minds to truth ; in a word, all the people may be made, if not men...
Page 30 - fallen on evil days" was happy to be enabled to retire ; and it was in the leisure of retreat and disgrace he executed the poem which he had projected in his youth ; and which has enabled our nation to boast of a work which is rivalled by none, if we except the Italians.
Page 375 - To limit the press is to insult the nation; to prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Page 276 - Experience then proves that the character and fpirit of a people change with the form of government ; and that a different government gives by turns, to the fame nation, a character noble or bafe, firm or fickle, courageous or cowardly.