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  1.  Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France / Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928
    -- LA ROCHEFOUCAULD LA BRUYERE VAUVENARGUES THE GALLANTRY OF FRANCE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ... that I am not aware of the relative importance of some of them. But although La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyere  details...
  2.  A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) / Gally, Henry, 1696-1769
    of the two English translations of Theophrastus before Gally--the one a rendering of La Bruyere's French ... about it."[4] By Gally's time writers like Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, and La Bruyere had done much to show  details...
  3.  Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age / Various
    .--LA BRUYERE. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt ... is not to be found.--LA BRUYERE. An Atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended  details...
  4.  Metzengerstein / Poe, Edgar Allen
    of our incredulity- as La Bruyere says of all our unhappiness- "vient de ne pouvoir etre seuls ...  details...
  5.  The Man Of The Crowd / Poe, Edgar Allen
    . LA BRUYERE. IT WAS well said of a certain German book that "er lasst sich nicht lesen ...  details...
  6.  Initiation into Literature / Émile, 1847-1916
    of Seventeenth Century: Poets: Racine, Moliere, Boileau, La Fontaine; Prose Writers: Bossuet, Pascal, La Bruyere ... and _continued_ by La Bruyere. STOICS AND EPICUREANS.--In the fourth and even the third century, philosophy  details...
  7.  For Auld Lang Syne / Woodward, Ray
    ; and there is no passing from firm friendship to even feeble love. --_La Bruyere ... intellect can never taste. --_La Bruyere_. * * * * * Sweet words will  details...
  8.  The Insurrection in Paris / Davy (An Englishman)
    of Bicetre, Ivry, and Hautes Bruyeres. Was it worth while for the sake of eight cannon to commit ... Montrouge is still held, and is strongly supported by the Hautes Bruyeres. The Government troops  details...
  9.  Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues / Morley, John, 1838-1923
    of their turn. Compared with him La Rochefoucauld's manner is hard, and that of La Bruyere sententious ... . There is almost a difficulty in forgiving a writer who can say that 'La Bruyere, animated with nearly  details...
  10.  Character Writings of the 17th Century / Various
    wit. La Bruyere in France translated the characters of Theophrastus, and his own writing of Characters ... Characters. La Bruyere was born in 1639 and died in 1696. Our Joseph Hall, whose "Characters of Vices  details...

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