The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
La Bruyère
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- HEAD ORNAMENTSample
- M. Bruyèreʼs Speech upon his Admission into the
- FOOT ORNAMENT
- THE AUTHOR
- Preface
- MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
- TIRED OUT
- THE TOILETTE
- IV. OF THE AFFECTIONS.
- Preface
- RUSTIC COURTSHIP
- THE TUILERIES
- THE COURT
- Preface
- THE GREAT
- Preface
- THE PRICE OF GLORY
- XI. OF MANKIND.
- Preface
- DIFFERENT OPINIONS
- Preface
- WILLIAM III
- THE BIRD-FANCIER
- Preface
- C ERTAIN people want a fortune to becomeennobled.746
- Preface
- MONK PREACHING
- Preface
- 1 Pascalʼs
- 9 All the passages on pages
- 15 Wattʼs “Bibliotheca Britannica.”
- 18 The re are few portraits in Shaftesburyʼs “Characteristics;” one of the
- 45 It is said that the great dramatic poet Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
- 51 Probably Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) is meant here.
- 53 Those “able men” were the dramatist Jean Racine (1639-1699) and the
- 57 In his
- Preface
- XIV. Fénelon became archbishop of Cambrai in 1695.