The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
Pascal
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Pascal · 36 chapters
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- Literary English
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- Advanced vocabulary
- Long sentence structures
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It must always be remembered that each editor must necessarily follow his own judgment in regard to the position he should give to fragments not placed by the writer.
The course of an English translator is clear; his responsibility is confined to deciding which text to follow, he has no right to make one for himself.
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- PREFACE.Sample
- PASCAL'S PROFESSION OF FAITH.
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
- NOTES FOR THE GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST PART.
- MAN'S DISPROPORTION.
- DIVERSION.
- THE GREATNESS AND LITTLENESS OF MAN.
- OF THE DECEPTIVE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATION.
- OF JUSTICE, CUSTOMS, AND PREJUDICES.
- THE WEAKNESS, UNREST, AND DEFECTS OF MAN.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND PART.
- OF THE NEED OF SEEKING TRUTH.
- THE PHILOSOPHERS.
- THOUGHTS ON MAHOMET AND ON CHINA.
- OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
- THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SACRED BOOKS.
- THE PROPHECIES.
- OF TYPES IN GENERAL AND OF THEIR LAWFULNESS.
- THAT THE JEWISH LAW WAS FIGURATIVE.
- OF THE TRUE RELIGION AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS.
- THE EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- OF ORIGINAL SIN.
- THE PERPETUITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- PROOFS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- PROOFS OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST.
- THE MISSION AND GREATNESS OF JESUS CHRIST.
- THE MYSTERY OF JESUS.
- OF THE TRUE RIGHTEOUS MAN AND OF THE TRUE CHRISTIAN.
- THE ARRANGEMENT.
- OF MIRACLES IN GENERAL.
- JESUITS AND JANSENISTS.
- THOUGHTS ON STYLE.
- VARIOUS THOUGHTS.
- NOTES.
- INDEX.