The Enlightenment: The Culture of the Eighteenth CenturyIsidor Schneider |
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... French supplanted Latin as the inter- national language , thereby helping to prepare the way for France's intel- lectual leadership in the Enlightenment . It is illuminating that in a recent French textbook on French civilization the ...
... French supplanted Latin as the inter- national language , thereby helping to prepare the way for France's intel- lectual leadership in the Enlightenment . It is illuminating that in a recent French textbook on French civilization the ...
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... French economy , which boomed in spite of the restrictive official mercantilist policies , but in the nation's ... French philosophes . The comparatively democratic English institutions were studied and generally overrated by their ...
... French economy , which boomed in spite of the restrictive official mercantilist policies , but in the nation's ... French philosophes . The comparatively democratic English institutions were studied and generally overrated by their ...
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... French colonies was one of the first acts of the French Revolution ; England was set on the course that led , in 1820 , to the emancipation of the slaves in its colonies ; and even the American slave states were shamed into ending the ...
... French colonies was one of the first acts of the French Revolution ; England was set on the course that led , in 1820 , to the emancipation of the slaves in its colonies ; and even the American slave states were shamed into ending the ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 15 |
Toward a Rational Society | 43 |
Thomas Jefferson | 65 |
Copyright | |
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient animal Antoine Watteau beauty believe body Calas called cause child Christians civil common commonwealth constitution creatures DENIS DIDEROT Diderot earth eighteenth century empire Enlightenment evil executive father feel follow force Francisco de Goya freedom French genius Giovanni Battista Piranesi give Greek hands happiness heart human ideas imagination individual innocent Jacques Ange Gabriel Jean Calas judge king labour laws learned legislative less liberty living Lord Louis XIV Madame de Pompadour mankind manner master ment mind Montesquieu moral mother nations nature necessary never observed passions perfect person philosopher PHOTO pleasure political preservation principles produced progress punishment reason religion Roman Rousseau sense smallpox social society species spirit supreme things Thomas Gainsborough thought tion truth Voltaire whole William Hogarth word Yahoos young