… to himself’ and pronounced that gambling did not foster the rational tone of mutual improvement but instead produced ‘lies, oaths, […] the most bitter and opprobrious expressions […] envy, dissimulation, malice and revenge’. 4 To gamble …
… am blind to Shakespeare’s merits; but as I hold your judgement in high regard, I must therefore conclude that the fault lies with the translators.’ 6 To keep the conversation flowing between friends, the rules of sociability sometimes called …
… the libertines worked to their advantage, confusing their victims with their hypocrisy, their seductive words and their lies that were condoned by the very precepts that regulated social interaction. 7 . Didier Masseau, 'Le dévoiement des … became the libertines’ weapon of choice to carry out their deeds. Les Liaisons dangereuses ou Lettres recueillies dans une société, et publiées pour l’instruction de quelques autres ( Dangerous Connections: A Series of Letters, …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
… and social justice in the wake of the Glorious Revolution in England (1688). The principal value of Williams’s works lies in the fact that her perspective on French culture (from the Revolution to the Restoration) was delivered to her …
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… by nature, he occasionally meets people who drive him off the right track. Among the excesses he can become a victim of lies or excessive alcohol consumption as denounced by a young soldier reacting to his Colonel’s enticing his men to drink …