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...ater times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to wh...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ncle became the husband of my aunt, and their children were doubly cousins german. Before a year was ex- pired, both had the happiness to become fathe... ...t he suddenly disappeared, and we learned some time af- ter that he was in Germany, but he never wrote to us, and from that day we heard no news of hi... ... War- rens, therefore, was more useful to me on this occasion than all the theologians in the world would have been. She, who brought everything into ... ...s and whey. In this respect physicians and philosophers differ widely from theologians; admitting the truth only of what they can ex- plain, and makin... ...ttered, civilities signify but little. Yet, after my solemn union with the reformed church, and living in a Prot- estant country, I could not, without... ...already knew I was not one. Were they desirous of proving I was not a good Calvinist? Of what consequence was this to them? It was taking upon themsel...

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... been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ualities and precious gifts of a states- man under the mocking fire of the Calvinist press. Those facts are incontestable. Therefore, to whosoever bur... ...ublic buildings, as if to repair the loss caused by the iconoclasms of the Calvinists, who did as much harm 8 Catherine dé Medici to art as to the bo... ...ra, and others; also all the princes and noble strangers, both Italian and German, who were then residing at his court in great numbers. These all bei... ...mn occasion, when he was starting, March 25, 1552, for his expedition into Germany, Henri II. declared Catherine regent during his absence, and also i... ...he Holy Father as an equal. Vain of his eloquence, and one of the greatest theologians of his time, he kept incessant watch over France and Italy by m... ..., and immediately advanced. Ambroise, who at this time was inclined to the reformed religion, eventually adopted it; but the friendship of the Guises ... ... in the documents as her daughter-in-law turned to him. “You belong to the Reformed religion?” inquired Mary Stuart of Christophe. “Yes, madame,” he a...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A m...

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...ated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...h as to the number and value, of perhaps a hundred to one. We take in, not Germany alone, but France and Italy; not the Schlegels and Schellings, but ... ...r years. Their effects over Europe at large were not less striking than in Germany. ‘It would be difficult,’ observes a writer on this subject, ‘to na... ...n,” a book designed to advance tolerance, especially between Lutherans and Calvinists. But here he got in a controversy with the theologians: one Dr. ... ...etween Lutherans and Calvinists. But here he got in a controversy with the theologians: one Dr. Benner of Giessen, in particular, wrote against him. V... ... side-board, yet unenjoyed. Hofrath Huesgen, not born in Frankfort, of the Reformed* religion, and therefore incapable of public office, including the... ...cellent jurist, he man- *Eyes, not hands.—Trans. *That is to say, he was a Calvinist, as distinguished from a Lutheran.—Trans. 159 Goethe aged to exe... ...ound in all the faculties,—nay, in all classes and trades. In this way the theologians could not help inclining to what is called natural religion; an...

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...I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the P... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...uestion, are here found in, what seems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as ... ...ty could never have existed. Translators there have been, English, French, German, of Mahometan books, who have so colored the whole vein of thinking ... ...tinued to be the fountain of honors, even to Caesar himself: the titles of Germanicus, Britannicus, Dalmaticus, &c. (which may be viewed as peerages,)... ...assim Palantes error recto de tramite pellit,’ by the four cases of—1, the Calvinist; 2, the Newmanite; 3, the Romanist;*4, the Evangelical enthusiast... ...inguishing between the Romanist and Newmanite on the one hand, between the Calvinist and the Evangelican man on the other, though perhaps a young gent... ... may describe myself gener- ally as Philo-Phil., am not less a son of the ‘Reformed Angli- can Church’ than Phil. Consequently, it is not likely that,... ... philosophic Christians doubt or deny. b.—Grace: both predisposing [by old theologians called prevenient] and effectual. c.—Prayer considered as ...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, h...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ch that fact or series belongs. The primeval world,—the Fore-World, as the Germans say, —I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with resea... ...readily suffers all things on their account. But where it departs from the Calvinistic Chris- tianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it repre... ...hing unless it have an outside badge,—some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer-meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, ... ...which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which com- mands his own. The life of ma... ...in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition. Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the Spiritual meaning o... ...k of Webster. We conceive dis- tinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German ge- nius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not mee...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by... ...SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ..., but, like Erasmus, between the two extremes. He was neither Lutheran nor Calvinist, neither German nor Genevese, and it is quite natural that his wo... ...re and liking; but, since that of their own accord and free will they have reformed themselves, their accoutrement is in manner as followeth. They wor... ...t afterwards to the Sorbonne, where he maintained argument against all the theologians or divines, for the space of six weeks, from four o’clock in th...

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...ed edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; ...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylva- nia S... ...y the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller: German Writer — 1759-1805. Volume One Preface THE PRESENT IS the only colle... ... of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany. — Count Tilly takes the 5 Friedrich Schiller Command of the Imper... ...o feel directly or in- directly more or less of its influence. Against the reformed doctrine and its adher- ents, the House of Austria directed, almos... ...y connected with it, vain and powerless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so... ...in defence of freedom of belief; but for the ambi- tion of the Guises, the Calvinists in France would never have beheld a Conde or a Coligny at their ... ...of Geneva, for instance, of England, of Germany, or of Holland, the French Calvinist possessed a common point of union which he had not with his own c... ...he support- ers of Popery, but their countries were far from being so. The reformed opinions had penetrated even these, and favoured by Ferdinand’s ne...