 | W. B. Carnochan - History - 1987 - 260 pages
...Provinciales "almost every year . . . with new pleasure" and credits Pascal with having shown him how "to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of Ecclesiastical solemnity" (M, 79). There could hardly be a better characterization of Pascal's irony, or Gibbon's, than grave... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - History - 2001 - 364 pages
...From the provincial letters of Pascal which, almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony even on subjects of Ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The life of Julian by the Abbe de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and the times; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1907 - 412 pages
...From the provincial letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of Ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The life of Julian, by the Abbe* de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and the times ;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 608 pages
...historian. ' From the provincial letters of Pascal, which almost every year I peruse with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of Ecclesiastical solemnity.' By M. 1'Abbe de la Bletterie, he was introduced to Julian and his times. And in the ' Civil History... | |
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From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. 
