Moral Maxims
Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
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Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1749 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
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Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1749 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
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Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874138207 |
"In preparing his translation for an English audience, the anonymous translator made many references to English authors in his notes, among them More, Hobbes, Swift, and Milton. While he could also have used a variety of French comments on the duke's maximes as well, he deliberately chose to cater to his English readers by emphasizing English parallels and classical sources. In his introduction, Dr. Primer reviews the translation history of the duke's maxims and finds that some of the main characteristics of this translation were borrowed from the posthumously published French edition prepared by the Sieur Abraham-Nicholas Amelot de la Houssaye, whose presence in this edition is visible from time to time. The anonymous translator of selections from Amelot's edition adopted a more colloquial style than is generally associated with La Rochefoucauld's maxims; he also turns out to be significant not only as a translator but also as a reinterpreter of the central moral issue in the entire book. Most readers, including Jonathan Swift, had taken the duke's position on human nature to be the same as Hobbes's (stressing the human being's selfishness or natural egoism), but the translator/annotator finds that the duke's message is not inconsistent with the more positive view of human nature found in Lord Shaftesbury and in the poetry of Pope."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Maxims |
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Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1775 |
Genre | : Aphorisms and apothegms |
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Author | : Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2015-05-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781514133705 |
Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times by J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell.
Author | : François VI (duke de La Rochefoucauld) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1797 |
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Author | : François Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1504044495 |
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. This famed work by a noted French author of the Renaissance era, seventeenth-century nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld, offers hundreds of brief, brutally honest observations of humankind and its self-serving nature. The perfect read for any realist—or anyone with the desire to evaluate their moral standing—this edition includes three supplements with additional maxims and essays. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Author | : Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781511566582 |
Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims By Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac. NEW Complete Edition A Complete World Classic Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times by J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell "As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature--I believe them true. They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."--Swift. "Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d'esprit."--Montesquieu. "Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."--Sir J. Mackintosh. "Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria Verba do not always occur to one mind."--Luther's Table Talk, iii.
Author | : Francois La Rochefoucauld, duc de |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781479350926 |
Of all the French epigrammatic writers La Rochefou- cauld is at once the most widely known, and the most distinguished. Voltaire, whose opinion on the cen- tury of Louis XIV. is entitled to the greatest weight, says, “One of the works that most largely contributed to form the taste of the nation, and to diffuse a spirit of justice and precision, is the collection of maxims, by Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld.”This Francois, the second Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac, the author of the maxims, was one of the most illustrious members of the most illus- trious families among the French noblesse.
Author | : Miscellaneous moral maxims |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1830 |
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