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De l'esprit.
A La Haye, Chez Pierre Moetjens, (Provins, Michelin), 1759. With title-vignettes, titles printed in red and black. 3 volumes. (4), viii, x, 244 pp.; (4), xi, 209 pp.; (4), 166, iv, 34 pp. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt fillets on sides, gilt lettering to spine, a very good copy. Smith, E.10; Keim p. 714; Thomas, Checklist, p. 72; not in Tchemerzine-Scheler. Rare clandestine edition, made 'à la Hollandaise' by Michelins in Provins, of this epoch-making work which brought together the 'philosophes' in a common front against their ennemies (see: Belin, Commerce des livres prohibés, p. 102). Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) obtained the lucrative post of fermier-général in which he soon grew rich. He became known, however, for the philantropic and enlightened uses he made of his great wealth, particularly as a patron of the philosophers and men of letters. He resigned in 1751 from tax-farming, married and retired to his country estate, thenceforth devoting himself primarily to philosophical and literary persuits. The publication in 1758 of his principal work, De l'Esprit, proved to be one of the ideological causes célébres of the eighteenth century. Appearing at a moment of political reaction, De l'Esprit was noisily condemned by the authorities, both ecclesiastical and ministerial, for its dangerously heretical and subversive opinions. No book during the eighteenth century, except perhaps Rousseau's Emile, evoked such an outcry from the religious and civil authorities or such universal public interest. Condemned as atheistic, materialistic, sacrilegious, immoral and subversive, it enjoyed a remarkable succès de scandale. It lost its privilège within a fortnight of its publication. It was attacked in Church periodicals and in polemical pamphlets, in the literary salons and in popular songs, from bishops' pulpits and from the stage of the Théâtre français. When the work appeared it was censured by the Sorbonne, the pope and the Parlement of Paris and in 1759 it was burnt by the public executioner. Even Diderot found himself unable to subscribe to it. But in spite of Diderot's systematic refutation of the work and in spite of the fact that Helvétius never collaborated in the Encyclopédie the authorities held the sensationalistic philosophy expounded by the encyclopédistes responsible for Helvétius dangerous principles. The appearance of De l'Esprit was thus an important factor in the second suppression of the Encyclopédie. The thought of Helvétius sprang mainly from the predominant current of sensualism in the Enlightenment, which he fashioned with marked originality into what may be described as a thoroughgoing doctrine of 'environmental behaviorism'. - In this copy the 'Tables sommaires' are bound before the 'discourses.'
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Abbaye du Saint Esprit. Spiritual Instruction for Laywomen, 1250 -1500
, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xiii + 219 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503586816.
Summary The Abbaye du Saint Esprit was a successful work of vernacular spiritual advice for women, surviving in sixteen manuscripts and a widely copied Middle English translation. Unlike many other didactic religious texts, it offers few prescriptions for behaviour; rather, it instructs the reader to build a convent of virtues in her conscience and uses the allegorical structure of the building and its inhabitants to arrange brief teachings on prayer and virtuous practice. Between its genesis in the last quarter of the thirteenth century to its final development towards the end of the fifteenth, it was reworked several times for new audiences of women both lay and cloistered, bourgeois and aristocratic. The examination of these successive adaptations offers insights into the growth of lay religious culture, the participation of women in new religious movements, and the use and transformation of twelfth and early thirteenth-century monastic formation literature for new audiences. This book also offers, for the first time, editions of all the French versions of the Abbaye and a modern English translation of the earliest version. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements, Abbreviations Introduction Part I Chapter 1. The Cloister of the Soul as a Lay Rule of Life Chapter 2. The Religion of the Heart Chapter 3. A Royal Cloister: The Sainte Abbaye Chapter 4. The Miroir des dames Compilation Chapter 5. A Franciscan Version: La Religion du benoit Saint Esprit Chapter 6. A Devotional Text for Margaret of York: The Abbaye du Saint Esprit Conclusion Part II Introduction to the Editions and Translation La religion dou cuer de l'abbaie dou saint esprit (?1) and translation The Religion of the Heart of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost La sainte abbaye (?1) Le cloistre de l'ame (?2) La religion du benoit saint esprit (?) L'abbaye du saint esperit (?2) Enseignement (?) *** Bibliography Index
Recueil des oraisons funèbres, prononcées par Messire ESPRIT FLECHIER, Evêque de Nîmes. Nouvelle édition dans laquelle on à ajouté un précis de la vie de l'auteur. Relié à la suite: Recueil des oraisons funèbres, prononcées par feu Messire Jacques-Bénigne
Chez Faucheux Lyon 1780 Recueil des oraisons funèbres, prononcées par Messire ESPRIT FLECHIER, Evêque de Nîmes. Nouvelle édition dans laquelle on à ajouté un précis de la vie de l'auteur. Relié à la suite: Recueil des oraisons funèbres, prononcées par feu Messire Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET, Evèque de Meaux. Nouvelle édition dans laquelle on à ajouté un précis de la vie de l'auteur.2 ouvrages reliés en 1 volumes in-12 ( 170 X 100 mm ) de XXI-226 et 227 pages, pleine basane fauve marbrée, dos à nerfs orné de caissons et fleurons dorés, tranches briques. ( Reliure de l'époque ). Usures aux coiffes et aux coins, petit manque au dos. Bon exemplaire, solide.
La Fausseté des Vertus Humaines précédée de Traité Sur Esprit par Pascal Quignard.
Aubier Paris 1996 In-8 ( 220 X 140 mn ) de 563 pages, broché sous couverture illustrée. Très bel exemplaire.
ESPRIT DU SIECLE en matière de religion par un Franc Picard.
Imp. De Aug. Auffray Paris 1833 In-8 ( 230 X 160 mm ), de 79 pages, cartonnage de percaline bleue à la bradel couvertures imprimées conservées. Nombreuses figures gravées sur bois, dont gravures sur papier de chine ( par Godard et Tellier ) portrait de Mingrat, Curé de Saint Quentin, convaincu, en 1822, par la Cour d'assises de l'Isère de viol et assassinat, ainsi que celui de Dugas, Curé de Saint Martial, convaincu, en 1826, par la Cour d'assises de Nîmes de viol et infanticide. Les huit dernières pages sont constitués d'un prospectus. Pamphlet anticlérical et républicain XIXe particulièrement violent. Bel exemplaire.
ESPRIT DE MADAME NECKER.
, Leopold Collin, Libraire, Paris, 1808.**, Relie de l' epoque, demi - maroquin, plats marbre, dos orne dore, etiquette rouge avec titre dore, plats de papier marbre, 13x21cm, 325pp.
Extrait des cinq volumes des melanges tires de ses manuscrits, publies en 1798 et en 1801. fragments de correspondance / penees et souveniers /
