| 单词 | Diderot |
| 例句 | The answer may seem obvious: Diderot is writing about the transformation in knowledge that we now call the Scientific Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What is important here is not, despite what Diderot says, the idea that experience is the best way to acquire knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many eighteenth-century atheists, such as d’Holbach and Diderot, were to take their inspiration from Descartes’ mechanism and turn it into a systematic materialism with no room for God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Diderot’s name for this newly born colossus is not ‘Science’, as we might expect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Diderot had one great advantage over us: graduating from the Sorbonne in 1732, he had been educated in the world of Aristotelian philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Diderot’s peculiar chapter also serves as a warning: with its dream framing, its monsters and its allegories, its linguistic slipperiness, it conveys a sense of difficulty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In this new biography, Curran looks to remind us just what a radical Diderot was in his time. New & Noteworthy 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z As readers of Kundera’s essays know, he greatly admires Sterne, Diderot and other practitioners of those tricksy meta-fictions that make little pretense of being “real.” Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z You can sit at a table where Hemingway drank wine —or Degas or Baudelaire or even Diderot, if you prefer — and imagine that they just stepped out to take the air. | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z Reading Andrew S. Curran’s “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely” will, among other things, make you feel very lazy. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z My thesis adviser at N.Y.U., who died last year, once told me the only man she has loved, other than her husband, is Diderot. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The encyclopaedist Denis Diderot danced an elaborate pas de deux around the Parisian censor for years by devising cunning literary disguises for notions that were anathema to the Catholic establishment. Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott – review 2012-06-01T21:55:09Z Lembit Beecher’s “Small Infinities,” a Diderot Quartet commission, was the more pleasing contemporary half. The Diderot String Quartet wins some converts 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Rousseau and Diderot probably didn't talk about villas in Greece or Spain. Let's seek inspiration from Dorothy Parker – and revive the salon 2013-07-24T04:00:00Z Below, Curran talks about grave robbers, Diderot’s political prescience, how he was like Benjamin Franklin and more. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z But their efforts paid off, and tomes have since been written, by authors from Diderot to Richard Dawkins, about the triumph of secular man. The search goes on 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Very likely, we will tend to Diderot’s sense that sketches are better than finished works because they empower us, the viewer, to complete them. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The name of the guy who ostensibly wrote the book was Raynal; he got kicked out of France, whereas Diderot, who wrote the most incendiary parts, got to stay. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Like Voltaire and Diderot, who frequently feature in his writing, Bruckner writes across a variety of forms and genres, as a philosopher, a polemicist, an essayist and a novelist. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z Philosophical critic Denis Diderot complained of the shallowness of rococo art and championed a new kind of serious, high-minded painting. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z The shelves are finished with crown moldings, atop which perch small white busts, all of which were specially chosen: George Washington, Lafayette, Pierre de Ronsard, Benjamin Franklin, Diderot, Voltaire, Leibniz, Tocqueville, Descartes, Molière, and Balzac. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z He weaves in his own preoccupations about art and film, Diderot and Kant, and what it means to be a spectator and a subject of art. Philippe Parreno at the Serpentine: The installation that won't sit still 2010-12-01T16:19:00Z Gregory Cowles, Book Review Preview Editor In this political climate, I considered revisiting “The Nun,” Denis Diderot’s scathing classic about an innocent teenager forced into a convent and systematically corrupted there. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Religious Fiction 2012-05-31T17:00:23Z The story of a teenage girl forced by her parents into a nightmarish convent, “La Religieuse” is based on Denis Diderot’s 18th-century epistolary novel. ‘La Religieuse,’ a Culture War Casualty of 1960s France 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Sade, he added, was one of France’s most influential authors of the 18th century, alongside Voltaire and Diderot, and inspired the surrealist movement in the 20th century. sade-manuscript 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z “Fifteen years ago our theaters were tumultuous places,” Denis Diderot wrote in 1758, fretting that guards — yes, it came to that — were turning unruly Paris stages into “resorts more peaceful and respectful than our churches.” Turn off your phone. And ignore the prostitute. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Diderot and his Encylopédie and this Enlightenment idea that basically knowledge had been held back by the aristocrats and all the rest. Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world 2013-05-04T23:00:04Z Renowned for landscapes in which ancient monuments and modern buildings were arranged in imaginary scenes called architectural capriccios, he was nicknamed “Robert des ruines” by the philosopher Denis Diderot. Revisiting Hubert Robert and His Romantic Ruins 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But after about a year, I figured out this wasn’t going to work for Diderot because so much of his existence was based on the idea of posterity. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z But sculpture skeptics from Leonardo through Hegel and Diderot have cultivated our prejudice against the medium. Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? 2011-08-09T17:39:27Z “Believe it or not,” he once wrote, “Diderot is a more modern scriptwriter than Faulkner is.” 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z Diderot Victor Hugo Beaumarchais Voltaire "Once in the Bastille, there is no afterwards." Quiz: Bastille in literature 2010-07-14T10:23:00Z If Diderot is arguing that the horse’s true purpose is not as ornate as Jacques superstitiously imagined, I am arguing that neither may be ours. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z While brief accounts of several hundred dead scholars and public intellectuals militates against sustained reading, a few pages at a time about interdisciplinary giants such as Leibniz, Diderot and Germaine de Stael can be energizing. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Mahoney takes her title from the 17th-century “Letter on the Blind for the Benefit of Those Who See” by Denis Diderot, a rationalist who openly questioned both the church and how the blind were treated. ‘For the Benefit of Those Who See:’ the resilience of the blind 2014-01-29T23:32:56Z Persuade someone to read “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely” in 50 words or less. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z There were compelling reasons for Diderot to see so much more in Greuze that meets our eyes. For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z Diderot raises a question: is a good critic one who is right, or one who makes an interesting case, however wrong-headed? For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z Today, the most famous of these 18th-century critics is Denis Diderot, the Enlightenment philosopher who also wrote passionately about his loves and hates in contemporary art. For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z This was aimed squarely at the "middling classes", and was published, Fox notes dryly, while Diderot was still struggling with the famous Encyclopédie, which had yet to publish any plates. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z And in January, Millah Gilbert, a Diderot graduate, joined the team. In Paris, a Kind of Watch Repair Cooperative 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z For Diderot, this painter of grief-stricken families and sincere young people was a truly serious and worthwhile artist – the antithesis of Boucher. For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z Based on a prizewinning semiautobiographical novel by Béatrix Beck, the film takes the form of a philosophical discourse à la Diderot. DVD: Gleason as Tripster, Groucho as God 2011-07-22T05:27:59Z The painting is still identified as Diderot in other places, including Wikipedia, and if you love Diderot, this is the man you want Diderot to look like. Review | A recently discovered document unlocks the mystery of Fragonard 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Diderot created a large set of books to which many leading scholars of Europe contributed articles and essays. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Denis Diderot, the philosopher and art critic, also was a big admirer. This painting of plums is perfection The University of Paris, set up last year through a merger of Paris-Descartes University and Paris Diderot University, is now under the same charge. French academic Dardel charged in Paris donated bodies scandal 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Figures like Diderot and Hume derived some of their ideas on liberty from classical texts, where they found declarations of political and personal freedoms. He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The last time I saw her on the big screen was in “La Religieuse,” Rivette’s brilliant, controversial 1966 adaptation of Denis Diderot’s novel, on the occasion of its reissue earlier this year. Appreciation: Anna Karina, more than Jean-Luc Godard's muse, helped define the French New Wave 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z I was less moved by one of the high shrines of atheism, in Langres, the hometown of the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot. Opinion | One Cure for Malnutrition of the Soul 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z To see what Diderot meant by “uncomplicated surface finish,” home in on the plums in this painting, which is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This painting of plums is perfection His latest book is “Catherine & Diderot: An Empress, A Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment.” Opinion | We need a mandatory retirement age for professors 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Robert D. Zaretsky is a professor of modern European intellectual and cultural history at the University of Houston and the author of “Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, The Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment.” Opinion | Notre Dame tells a story of quarreling, not unity. That’s why it unites the French. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z None was more daring, none challenged a wider range of beliefs and institutions, than French philosopher Denis Diderot, the subject of this engrossing biography by Andrew S. Curran, professor of humanities at Wesleyan University. Review | A French encyclopedist who challenged church and state 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The town is just one step short of being Diderot Disneyland, which only the French could pull off. Opinion | One Cure for Malnutrition of the Soul 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z More subtly, as Curran argues, Diderot’s insistence on organizing the Encyclopédie alphabetically “implicitly rejected the long-standing separation of monarchic, aristocratic, and religious values from those associated with bourgeois culture and the country’s trades.” How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Diderot, who was responsible for about 20% of the book, was its most daring ghostwriter. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z She corresponded with Voltaire, and welcomed Denis Diderot to stay for five months at her court in St. Petersburg, where she met with him almost daily. The business class doesn’t understand the Enlightenment 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z He dodged and battled the censors for a quarter-century as lead editor of the “Encyclopédie,” a massive project that eventually filled 17 volumes containing some 74,000 articles, several thousand of which Diderot wrote himself. Review | A French encyclopedist who challenged church and state 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z She is an emeritus professor at the Université Paris Diderot and a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. Julia Kristeva was communist secret agent, Bulgaria claims 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Diderot’s engagement with Catherine—this is the aspect that Bradbury captures well—was marked by half steps, hesitations, ironic asides, pervasive self-knowledge. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z On a typical day, Denis Diderot might write about ancient Chinese music in the morning, study the mechanics of a cotton mill in the afternoon, then work on a play after dinner. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Diderot, for example, even looks far into the future to tell the descendants of America's pioneers: The business class doesn’t understand the Enlightenment 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Of the 150 or so contributors to the “Encyclopedia,” none was more willing to question the scriptures or flout received opinion than Diderot. Review | A French encyclopedist who challenged church and state 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Digital assistants often develop an attitude, says Clarabelle Diderot, author of “Living With the Cheeky Appliance.” My Electronic Devices Are Laughing at Me 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Diderot was her man to bring the hour to hand. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z As a young man, Diderot did not concern himself with politics per se. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Sade, he added, was one of France’s most influential authors of the 18th century, alongside Voltaire and Diderot, and inspired the Surrealist movement in the 20th century. Halting Auction, France Designates Marquis de Sade Manuscript a ‘National Treasure’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z He considered throwing Diderot and a co-editor into the Bastille but chose instead to order that all unpublished “Encyclopedia” articles be confiscated. Review | A French encyclopedist who challenged church and state 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z But Rose Ndengue, an African history expert at Diderot University in Paris. says the French president is doing little in terms of concrete action. Just how effective is Macron's foreign policy? 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z He speaks up so lucidly and passionately for his reductive view that, when the dialogue was at last published—first in German, and long after Diderot’s death—his position was taken for the author’s. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z If Voltaire became the era’s most prominent anti-cleric, Diderot was its most ingenious and freethinking atheist. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z But it wasn’t with this in mind that Marc-Antoine Fardin, a physicist at Paris Diderot University, set out to find out whether house cats flow. Cats that behave like liquids, tampons that play music, and other ‘advances’ honored with Ig Nobel Prizes 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z By the time police showed up at the print shop, however, Diderot had managed to spirit away the manuscripts, and he eventually saw them all through to publication. Review | A French encyclopedist who challenged church and state 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Sebald’s work can put you in mind of Diderot selling his library to Catherine the Great: he seems to be downloading everything he has ever read. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z When Voltaire and Diderot met at last, in Paris, in 1778, the long-awaited meeting of the two master minds of the Enlightenment, they had a squabble about Shakespeare. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Catherine often did needlework while Diderot inveighed against religious persecution, bigotry and superstition. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Join the Cathedral’s Artists in Residence, the Diderot String Quartet, and prepare for an unforgettable ride into the past. Religion events from around the Washington area 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z When he concluded his heroic, quarter-century effort on this revolutionary publication, Diderot regretted having sacrificed so much of his life to this enterprise and having been forced to make so many concessions to the censors. Review | A French encyclopedist who challenged church and state 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z To Diderot, an animal’s past was as uncertain as its future. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Diderot thought that the only way to treat a queen was as a woman—a notion that, at times, he seems to have carried right to the edge of danger. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z For a time, Diderot believed that the empress might be the rarest of all creatures: a sitting monarch willing to let a philosopher help liberate her country from medieval institutions and prejudices. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z The Cathedral’s Artists in Residence and the Diderot String Quartet perform Bach and Mendelssohn on period instruments, while surrounded with the Gothic architecture of the Cathedral. Religion events from around the Washington area 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “What Diderot did not fully realize,” Curran writes, “was that he had carried the ideas of the Enlightenment forward in a way that no person, not Voltaire, and certainly not Rousseau, had done before.” Review | A French encyclopedist who challenged church and state 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Denis Diderot, an important enlightenment thinker and editor of the Encyclopédie, did not see the question as quite so simple. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The two American academic authors of these revivifying new books are testaments to Diderot’s legacy, both in the avid lucidity of their writing and in the good humor of their attitudes. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Upon his return to France, Diderot produced a series of reflections on the Russian empire that, per his will, were sent to the empress after his death in 1784. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Diderot was happy to indulge Rousseau’s polemic, and did not initially realize that it amounted to a declaration of war on his own project. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The Diderot String Quartet will perform the piece, written by Schubert as he realized that his death was not far off, and premiere a work by Lembit Beecher. Religion events from around the Washington area 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Diderot String Quartet The ensemble performs Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” and a new work by Lembit Beecher. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, May 19-25, 2016 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Diderot was the enemy of truths that people knew already, and so he couldn’t compact—only enlarge. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Diderot also turned his attention to France, nine years before the revolution. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z He quarrelled with most of his friends and well-wishers, including Hume and Diderot, and many people derided him as a madman. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Catherine read Diderot, corresponded with Voltaire and engaged in myriad romances, including a long, volatile relationship with Prince Grigori Potemkin. The Romanovs: fascinating, odd and odious 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z With the help of this international cohort of data enthusiasts, Genius’s aim—one worthy of Age of Enlightenment sages like Diderot and Voltaire—is to annotate the entire Internet. Start-Up Genius Wants to Annotate the Internet 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Diderot is known to the casual reader chiefly as an editor of the Encyclopédie—it had no other name, for there was no other encyclopédie. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But the part of the world that fascinated Diderot most was the fledgling United States of America. 'Beware the affluence of gold': on reading Diderot in the age of Trump 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z One of his earliest acquaintances there was Denis Diderot, a fellow-provincial who was committed to making the most of that decade’s relatively free intellectual climate. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z He studied German at Oxford but did his academic work on France, on Diderot and especially religious painting. British Museum’s Director Follows a Fascination to Germany 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z When he visited France, he mentioned that he had read Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Sartre, and twelve others. Rise of the Red Prince 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Until the moment, in the late seventeen-forties, when he was asked to undertake the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was mainly a figure of the low Enlightenment, and might have seemed a quite improbable encyclopedist. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Montaigne wrote a “defense” of Seneca, Diderot an essay on his life. The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z On this logic, to oppose technological innovation is tantamount to defaulting on the ideals of the Enlightenment: Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg are simply the new Diderot and Voltaire – reborn as nerdy entrepreneurs. When Wall Street and Silicon Valley come together – a cautionary tale 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z French philosophers like Diderot consorted with Catherine the Great, while Russian explorers established outposts in California. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd "We could have done like in Asia, one task per employee, which is faster, but we wanted to have a better quality product," said Diderot Musset, Sûrtab's production manager. Impoverished Haiti manufacturing its own Android tablet 2014-03-16T11:08:18Z Diderot has such an engaging aura in his writing that an idealized Fragonard portrait of a reader at work—open collar, wigless, bright-eyed and wry—was, until 2012, falsely identified as Diderot. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “That’s the biggest source of uncertainty,” says James Bartlett, a cosmologist at the University of Paris Diderot who is part of the Planck collaboration. Missing galaxy mass found 2014-02-19T18:50:18.631Z At Paris Diderot University, Karsenti studied the typical range of science disciplines, but he also developed an interest in statistical physics, a sideline that would later change the course of his research. Systems ecology: Biology on the high seas 2013-09-04T17:20:24.237Z In return, in 1773, Diderot went to St. Petersburg, where he enjoyed long tête-à-têtes with Catherine, whom he described as embodying the charms of Cleopatra and the soul of Caesar. Op-Ed Contributor: A Frenchman Dreams of Russia 2013-01-10T00:51:35Z Among the writers whom he most carefully read were Plato, Hume, Shaftesbury, Leibnitz, Diderot and Rousseau. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z It was the way Diderot ought to have looked, even if he didn’t. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z On the appearance, however, in 1770 of the Baron d’Holbach’s System of Nature—in which he was very considerably helped by Diderot—Voltaire took alarm at its openly pronounced atheism. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z He had no sympathy with Helvetius, D'Holbach, Diderot or Voltaire, those fierce disturbers of intellectual peace; he had as little with William Law and Coleridge, dreamers and visionaries, who substituted vapor for solid earth. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z La mission civilisatrice — France’s civilizing mission — was nevertheless started in Russia, and furthered by a wave of French celebrity émigrés fleeing the very event for which thinkers like Diderot were held responsible: the revolution. Op-Ed Contributor: A Frenchman Dreams of Russia 2013-01-10T00:51:35Z Diderot was for a time heartily in sympathy with deistic thought; and the Encyclop�die was in its earlier portion an organ of deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Diderot would have wanted it to be read in this way. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Voltaire not only wrote for the Encyclopædia, but gave valuable hints and suggestions to Diderot and D’Alembert, as well as much sound advice. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Diderot has said that it is the peculiarity of the French to judge everything with the mind. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Diderot’s reasons for visiting were not terribly different from Mr. Depardieu’s. Op-Ed Contributor: A Frenchman Dreams of Russia 2013-01-10T00:51:35Z The old falsehoods about Voltaire, Paine, Hume, Julian, Diderot and hundreds of others, grow green every spring. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z One couldn’t just drink coffee and talk and still make a living, though—especially after Diderot was disinherited for his bohemianism by his bourgeois dad. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z If the publication of the Encyclopœdia was the work of Diderot, the union of the group of men who rendered that publication possible was, in great measure, the work of Voltaire. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z His cry for water has become so common that his voice is now recognized through all the realms of heaven, and the angels laughing, say to one another, "That is Diderot." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z The more pressing motivation, however, was financial: Diderot was broke. Op-Ed Contributor: A Frenchman Dreams of Russia 2013-01-10T00:51:35Z Let us compare Bruno with the Christians who burned him; and we will compare Spinoza, Voltaire, Diderot, Hume, Jefferson, Paine—with the men who it is claimed have been the visible representatives of God. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Diderot’s idea of enlightenment included the light of shared and open delight. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In Paris she secured the warm friendship and admiration of Diderot and Voltaire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Through Diderot and Lessing and, a little later, through German translations of Lillo's plays, domestic tragedy continued its leavening work in the German drama. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Catherine thus took the extraordinary step of buying Diderot’s personal library, leaving it in his possession until his death and paying him a salary as librarian. Op-Ed Contributor: A Frenchman Dreams of Russia 2013-01-10T00:51:35Z The moment Diderot was dead, Catholic priests began painting and recounting the horrors of his expiring moments. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z And then, sometime after his return to France, Diderot revised, though he did not publish, the single literary work of his that seems likeliest to last: the philosophical dialogue called by tradition “Rameau’s Nephew.” How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In this sense the works of Rousseau, Montesquieu, Mirabeau, Diderot, d'Alembert, Voltaire, and several other modern philosophers, among whom was Filangieri, were excepted from the privilege. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z Among the writings of the encyclopedist Diderot we find a famous dialogue, The Nephew of Ramau, which no less a person than Goethe has translated into German. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Hearing Diderot couldn’t afford a dowry for his daughter, she bought his library. Catherine the Great Rides to Glory in Bio: Manuela Hoelterhoff 2011-12-01T02:19:01Z Diderot thought for himself, and bravely gave his thoughts to others. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Remarkably, though, the Diderot character never counters his opponent with references to God or grace or natural law or even the abstract Deistic divine. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Diderot well saw this when he said: "There is less inconvenience in being mad with the mad than in being wise by oneself." English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z It is not either the "love of God", for an atheist may have morality, and "Diderot, d'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been the most virtuous of men." Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z In thanks, Diderot undertook the difficult journey to St. Petersburg, losing his wig en route, and amused his patron by banging on her thighs when he wished to make a point. Catherine the Great Rides to Glory in Bio: Manuela Hoelterhoff 2011-12-01T02:19:01Z He was one of the foremost friends of the Encyclopedia—of Diderot, and did all in his power to give information to all. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Zaretsky documents the reasons that, for all Diderot’s good ideas and Catherine’s good will, liberal reform, then as now, did not find root in Russia. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “Into what a wasps’ nest you have put your head,” said Diderot to him. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Now that was exactly how the eighteenth century writers worked: neither Voltaire, Montesquieu nor Diderot cared about composing a book, as a skilful architect builds a house, to stand alone, imposing and complete. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z It is strangely instructive to see how so great a writer as Diderot has affected this double entendre of Sterne's—to be equally ambiguous throughout is just the Sternian super-humour. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z This is as good as the remark of Diderot: "If Christ had the power to defend himself from the Jews and refused to use it, he was guilty of suicide." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Diderot was one of the first to ask. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z We have spoken already of Beaumarchais’s natural aversion to the heroic in literature, all his instincts led him toward the new dramatic school which was then appearing in France, and whose master was Diderot. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Before the romantic movement in France Diderot in that country, Lessing and some of his successors in Germany, Hazlitt, Coleridge and Lamb in England, had been admirable critics and reviewers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Is it necessary to add that of all great authors Sterne is the worst model, in fact the inimitable author, and that even Diderot had to pay for his daring? Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Diderot made a joke about a giant statue that used to stand in front of Notre-Dame, saying that Voltaire’s plays couldn’t touch Shakespeare’s balls. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Diderot proposed to paint upon the scene the different duties of the social condition, the father of the family, the magistrate, the merchant, in order to show the virtues which each requires. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Of lighter letters the charming correspondence of Diderot with Mademoiselle Voland deserves special mention. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Another notion is that neutrinos may travel faster through Earth than through empty space, with Earth essentially acting like a lens, says theoretical physicist Dmitri Semikoz of University of Paris Diderot in France. Leading Light: What Would Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Mean for Physics? 2011-10-13T10:45:03.010Z Voltaire, Rousseau, Raynal, Price, Priestley, Paine, Diderot, and others, have done evil by their infidel writings. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Indeed, one can’t help loving Diderot, even while realizing that the one typical gift of French intellect he lacks is wit. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Diderot, the founder of the new school of literature, also refused his concurrence. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Works on the arts in general or on special divisions of them were not wanting, as, for instance, that of Dubos before alluded to, the Essai sur la peinture of Diderot and others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z In a turn of the hand, again like Diderot, he forgot his existence, and lost on his account neither a step in the dance nor a galant rendezvous. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Diderot says they were rotten before they were ripe. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Diderot exists in memory to show that materialism can be miserable or it can be magical. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z "Voltaire, Diderot, and their like have done much to educate our ears." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Its style and argument are very unequal, as books written in collaboration are apt to be, and especially books in which Diderot, the paragon of inequality, had a hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z He could have given points to Diderot in regard to the facility of pouring out torrents of tears, and he often astonished the Court by his emotion. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z In 1763 Garrick and his wife visited Paris, where they were cordially received and made the acquaintance of Diderot and others at the house of the baron d’Holbach. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Diderot and his team stepped around the prohibitions by an intricate dance of legalisms, which enabled them, for instance, to continue printing it in France while officially publishing it in Switzerland. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Diderot, with this end in view, began a book—much too long—on a period of the history of Imperial Rome. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The elaborate eulogy of Diderot is well-known, and though extravagant in parts is full of true criticism. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Diderot, too, in his varied intellectual activity, found time to speculate on the genesis of sensation and thought out of a combination of matter endowed with an elementary kind of sentience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Or if one prefers to look back instead of forward, one might say that in it the rules of Diderot and Sedaine’s Drame Bourgeois seem to have been transferred to Roman tragedy. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Diderot was a more self-aware man; with him, praise would merely get you almost anywhere. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Back in the eighteenth century Diderot stated admirably the qualities a dramatist must have if he is to plot well. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z It set Chateaubriand aside and began to read Voltaire again; but it did not go so far as Diderot: its debilitated nerves could not stand nourishment so strong. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z About 1772 he made a journey to Paris, where he formed the acquaintance of Condorcet, Diderot, d’Alembert, Rousseau and most of the other eminent Frenchmen of the day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z What is one to think of Diderot’s paradox about the actors’ art, and what do actors think of it themselves? The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Diderot gladly consented, and although the name of the mathematician is not given, it is well known to have been Euler. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Selection, Proportion, Emphasis, Movement,—all making for clearness,—these as the words of Diderot suggest, are what the dramatist studies in developing his play from Subject, through Story, to Plot. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Mirabeau's novels, Chénier's Greek verses, Diderot's correspondence, and Montesquieu's minor works are as daring as the writings of Catullus himself. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z The names of Diderot and Baudelaire were coupled. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Thus it is that Irving passes, smiling, by Diderot’s paradox about the actor. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Diderot, to whom algebra was Hebrew, was embarrassed and disconcerted, while peals of laughter rose on all sides. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Long ago, Diderot summed up the subject thus: One can form an infinitude of plans on the same subject and developed around the same characters. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Diderot, it is true, had an enthusiasm for beauty and art, but enthusiasm was never so ill placed. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z We have already, in discussing Voltaire, adverted sufficiently to Mr. John Morley’s volumes in honor of Diderot and his compeers. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It was made the subject of a pompous eulogy by Diderot, and was bought by the king, who had it reproduced at the Gobelins factory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The following anecdote regarding his deficiency in this respect is given by Thiébault and indorsed by Professor De Morgan: At the invitation of the Empress, Catherine II, Diderot paid a visit to the Russian court. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Cat Diderot goes after war and taxes, The slave trade, privilege, the merchant stomach. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Diderot had genius; but, as Voltaire said of him, his was a head in which every thing fermented without coming to maturity. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Diderot is therein ably presented in the best possible light to the reader; and we are bound to say that, despite Mr. Morley’s friendly endeavors, Diderot therein appears very ill. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He said nothing, but soon brought out "Diderot" among the philosophers, Grimm, D'Alembert, Baron Holbach, and others in the seventeenth century. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Diderot was informed that a learned mathematician was in possession of an algebraical demonstration of the existence of God and would give it to him before all the court if he desired to hear it. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Diderot and D'Alembert, however, enlarged upon this project, and made the new Encyclop�dia a magnificently comprehensive and bold account of all the thought and science of the time. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Diderot himself was a prolific contributor on a wide variety of topics. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z For there came a time when D’Alembert abdicated responsibility as editor and left the undertaking to fall heavily on the single shoulder, Atlantean shoulder it proved to be, of Diderot. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Faguet found it difficult to be just to Diderot, and difficult to tolerate Rousseau, but to love Voltaire he made no effort whatever; he acknowledged that feat to be impossible. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Diderot, however, did not obtrude in the Encyclop�dia the definitely anti-religious opinions which he had developed and which are revealed in his correspondence. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Diderot now tried writing for the stage, but his pieces were failures. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Diderot was appointed to edit it, and enlisted the ablest men of the time as contributors. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z When Montesquieu died, only Diderot, among Parisian men of letters, followed him to his tomb. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Diderot, who seems to have been a great student of the works of Terence, thinks the Hecyra, or Mother-in-law, should be classed among the serious dramas. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Rumour gave the credit of its authorship to Diderot, who was so disturbed by the compliment as hastily to leave Paris for the frontier. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Diderot, besides revising the whole, undertook at first the mechanical arts, and subsequently made contributions in history, philosophy, and art criticism. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Fontenelle forms a link between two very widely different periods of French literature, that of Corneille, Racine and Boileau on the one hand, and that of Voltaire, D’Alembert and Diderot on the other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Graphic is Diderot's vulgar vituperation: he would draw out the entrails of a priest to strangle a king! Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Diderot has objected strongly to the principal subject which gives name to this play, and to the character of the self-tormenting father. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z You know that by devoting himself to the encyclop�dia, Monsieur Diderot has kept himself poor, and his threadbare coat is no affectation. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z On account of his great interest in almost every branch of human knowledge, Voltaire nicknamed him 'Pantophile Diderot'.—Bibliography: The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Victor Hugo in his Shakespeare, when he calls the lists of poets, mentions prose writers like Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Le Sage and Cervantes. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Raphaël Clément and another graduate student at the at the Université Paris Diderot in France discovered the effect while playing around in the lab with empty tea canisters. Convince Your Friends You're a Genius With Two Cans and Some Sand 2011-02-07T21:00:00Z In the article Pardonner Diderot refers to these persecutions, and says, “In the space of some months we have seen our honour, fortune, liberty and life imperilled.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Have you heard what the Empress of Russia said to Monsieur Diderot? The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Diderot, Montesquieu, Voltaire and the Encyclopedists share the views of Rousseau. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z In the eighteenth century men of science were learning that such is the case; men like Diderot and D'Alembert had come to realize it, and they believed that the logical result was atheism. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z But the latter mixed caution with his courage; for on the issue of the government prohibition of the work, he abandoned the editorship and left it to Diderot. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The printing of the work was nearly finished when Diderot, having to consult one of his great philosophical articles in the letter S, found it entirely mutilated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Monsieur Diderot went to St. Petersburg four years ago, to thank her in person, and while he was there Catherine and he got into many disputes on questions of philosophy. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Diderot declares that serious studies do not comport with woman's sex, while Montesquieu would limit female education to mere accomplishments. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Frontispiece in Heliogravure from Meissonier's picture entitled 'A Reading at Diderot's House.' Left on the Prairie Rousseau long appeared to him an eccentric poor devil, and the conscientious and pure spirit of Diderot he considered as shallow. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. But, as Diderot indignantly refused to edit what he considered a fraud on the subscribers to the as yet unfinished work, they began simply to reprint the work, promising supplementary volumes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z One day Diderot hinted that he was at a disadvantage in arguing with the Empress of all the Russias. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Even Gautier had his limitations just as much as Diderot had, and in modern England Goethes are rare. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Wits and dunces contribute their share, and Diderot as well as Desmaretz are candidates for oblivion. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Diderot, who understood Italian well, accepted the suggestion, and the two parted friends. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern De Gua’s papers were handed over to Diderot in great confusion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Rousseau visited Diderot in prison, and is reported to have suggested a system of embossed printing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Many of them reminded me of the first visit that Diderot paid to Voltaire, on which occasion he talked the great French wit deaf and dumb. Rambles in Womanland Even Diderot could not refrain from writing of them in his Encyclop�die. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Diderot replied that some of his compositions had done him much harm. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern Malesherbes, Choiseul and Mme de Pompadour protected the work; Diderot obtained private permission to go on printing, but with a strict charge not to publish any part until the whole was finished. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The heterodox speculations contained in his “Letter on the Blind” caused Diderot to be imprisoned three months in the Bastille. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The philosophers and encyclopaedists who, by the mouth of Diderot, complimented Catherine on being superior to such female affectations as modesty and chastity, flattered her to some extent even here. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Before the nineteenth century, one may find illustrations of bloodletting instruments in the major textbooks on surgery, in encyclopedias such as that of Diderot, and in compendia of surgical instruments written by surgeons. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology Diderot did not perceive this, and in his fury wrote a slashing criticism of all the Italian's plays, stigmatising them as "Farces in three Acts." The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern Diderot at first refused to correct the remaining proofs, or to do more than write the explanations of the plates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z His father, a man of affectionate temper but strong will, refused to support him unless he chose a regular mode of life, and Diderot at once set up for himself and attempted literature. A Short History of French Literature Here are also preserved the private libraries that once belonged to Zimmermann, Voltaire, and Diderot, besides those of several other men of letters. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The Empress was the friend of Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot. An Outline of Russian Literature Goldoni, who, with all his sweetness of temper, was perfectly fearless, simply called on Diderot, and asked him what cause for spite he had against him and his works. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern Articles by Diderot have no mark, and those inserted by him as editor have an asterisk prefixed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Diderot was a rapid and careless writer, devoted to general society and conversation, interested in everything that was brought to his notice, passionate, unselfish, frequently extravagant. A Short History of French Literature Diderot’s own plays were a literary rather than a theatrical success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Diderot came to St. Petersburg, and the Russian military schools were flooded with French teachers. An Outline of Russian Literature In the pictorial art, Diderot’s criticisms are no less rich, fertile and wide in their ideas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Diderot was dissatisfied with it as a whole; much of it was compiled in haste; and carelessly written articles and incompetent contributors were admitted for want of money to pay good writers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z While La Chaussée was a clever versifier and an adroit playwright, Diderot understood the theory both of poetry and of the theatre much better than he understood the practice. A Short History of French Literature But the technical skill which he and contemporary dramatists displayed in the execution of their self-imposed task was such as had been undreamt of by Diderot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Well, it was what Diderot calls self-sacrificing sincerity; but all men who travel much and mix with varied classes of mankind, fall into this habit. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Diderot’s most intimate friend was Grimm, one of the conspicuous figures of the philosophic body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" A certain Signor Gabriel, with whom he sojourned months long in the Maremma, introduced him to Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau: his own discursive tastes added others to the list.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier But the greatest of the Encyclopædists in this respect was unquestionably Diderot. A Short History of French Literature But “at a distance,” as was well said, the effect of Diderot’s endeavours, the earlier in particular, was extremely great, and Lessing, though very critical as to particular points, greatly helped to spread it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" It has been heralded in Germany by the writings of Lessing, and in France by those of Diderot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Greuze’s most characteristic pictures were the rendering in colour of the same sentiment of domestic virtue and the pathos of common life, which Diderot attempted with inferior success to represent upon the stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The doctrines of Diderot and Jean Jacques form but sorry homilies. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Most of Diderot's criticisms were written for Grimm's 'Leaves,' which thus acquired a value entirely different from and far superior to any that their nominal author could give them. A Short History of French Literature Diderot had for the first time consciously sought to proclaim the theatre an agency of social reform, and to entrust to it as its task the propagation of the gospel of philanthropy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Voltaire, Helv�tius, Diderot, had no secrets for this young girl. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty It is a mistake to set down Diderot for a coherent and systematic materialist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" He who reads Jean Jacques lives like Rousseau; he who pores over Diderot acts the fatalist.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier It is impossible to name a subject which Diderot has not treated, and hardly possible to name one on which he has not said striking and memorable things. A Short History of French Literature Those who did are tempted to repeat the mot of Diderot when they gave him the portrait of his father. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections His influence upon the dramatic literature of Germany was direct and immediate; it appeared in the plays of Lessing and Schiller, and much of Lessing's criticism was inspired by Diderot. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 All accounts agree that Diderot was seen at his best in conversation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Klopstock and Schiller attracted him greatly; but he also read J. J. Rousseau, Voltaire and Diderot. The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart No inconsiderable portion of the extensive and unequal work of Diderot is occupied by prose fiction. A Short History of French Literature Diderot confesses that Clarissa was read by him over and over again, and that it was for a long time his very life, his joy, his grief, his summer and winter. Priests, Women, and Families Richardson was then the chief force in fiction, and the sentimental element so characteristic in him reappears in the dramas of Diderot. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Diderot himself was conscious of the want of literary merit in his pieces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" To Diderot, who visited him at Puiseaux, he put some very singular questions as to the transparency of glass, and as to colors, and other facts and conditions which could be recognized only through sight. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 Diderot's miscellaneous works are, like Voltaire's, penetrated by the philosophe spirit, but it is less prominent, owing to his greater acquaintance with the individual matters which he handled. A Short History of French Literature In his earlier days in Paris he came much into contact with the circle of Diderot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Diderot's monumental work, 'L'Encyclopédie,' dates from the middle of the century. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Diderot accepted the proposal, but in his busy and pregnant intelligence the scheme became transformed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The Memorie inutile in which Gozzi has depicted himself with such lifelike realism are sincere and vivacious, and rival Diderot and Rousseau for directness, luminousness and interest. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. After he had joined Diderot, he wrote a preliminary discourse for the Encyclopædia—a famous and admirable sketch of the sciences—besides many articles. A Short History of French Literature When compared with such philosophic writing as Hume’s, Diderot’s, Berkeley’s, then Comte’s manner is heavy, laboured, monotonous, without relief and without light. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Breaking with the old traditions, Diderot abandoned the lofty themes of classic tragedy and portrayed the life of the bourgeoisie. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 If there were any inevitable compulsion to name a masterpiece for Diderot, one must select this singular “farce-tragedy.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" It has always been a matter for speculation why so sagacious an observer as Diderot should have formulated the wild paradox that the greatest actor is he who feels his part the least. Logic, Inductive and Deductive None of the writers hitherto mentioned made open profession of atheism, and it is doubtful whether even Diderot deserves the appellation of a consistent atheist. A Short History of French Literature Diderot, the husband of a stupid seamstress, had no right to the love of a Mlle. The Kempton-Wace Letters In 1749 Diderot first showed himself a thinker of original power, in his Letter on the Blind. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Diderot had almost as much to say against society as even Rousseau himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Diderot's paradox was a protest against a still wilder one. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Of the three greatest literary names of the time, Diderot, it has been seen, tried the theatre not too happily. A Short History of French Literature Like Dalembert and Diderot, he is "in the thick of the fight." The Forerunners Yet it may be conceded that Diderot anticipated things great and strange; for his mind, although neither precise nor capable of sustained and systematic thought, was amazingly original in conception and powerful in grasp. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Varied and incessant as was Diderot’s mental activity, it was not of a kind to bring him riches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Catherine II. was the friend of Diderot and Voltaire, and herself translated French masterpieces into Russian. German Problems and Personalities It need only be said that Rousseau showed his usual temper and judgment, that Diderot was to all appearance quite guiltless, and that the chief fault lay elsewhere, probably with Grimm. A Short History of French Literature A new religion, heralded by a new evangel, that of Diderot and Montesquieu, Lessing, Beccaria, and Voltaire, and sanctified by the blood of new martyrs, the Girondins, offered itself to the world. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe From these, Diderot and D'Alembert gathered the inner group known as the French Encyclopædists, to whose writings has been ascribed a general tendency to destroy religion and to reconstitute society. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 In 1773 Diderot started on an expedition to thank his imperial benefactress in person, and he passed some months at St Petersburg. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Now, I can't change my style; I don't paint in beauty paste, I render what I see—it's like Diderot's old story about the amateur who asked a floral painter to portray a lion. General Bramble His judgment, however, is much limited by prejudice, and some of his studies, such as those on Baudelaire and Diderot, show that he is an untrustworthy judge of what is not commonplace. A Short History of French Literature So Diderot perceives the true bent of Rousseau's genius long before the Dijon essay reveals it to the latter himself and to France. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Goethe was strongly attracted by the genius of Diderot, and thought it worth his while not only to translate but to supply with a long and luminous commentary the latter's 'Essay on Painting.' Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 For Diderot was not a great writer; he stands out as a fertile, suggestive and daring thinker, and a prodigious and most eloquent talker. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Diderot and the French encyclopædists, with the ramification of their school at the court of Frederick II of Prussia, form the point of transition. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion This was a mere vehicle for philosophe tirades on religious and political subjects, many if not most of which are known to have proceeded from Diderot's fertile pen. A Short History of French Literature An English Diderot, he must bear a harder version of the judgment on Diderot, that he had written good pages but no good book. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Among literary critics of painting, Diderot has his place in the highest rank. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 These twenty years were to Diderot years not merely of incessant drudgery, but of harassing persecution, of sufferings from the cabals of enemies, and of injury from the desertion of friends. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The great peculiarity of Diderot, as of Johnson, was his encyclopædic knowledge, and his versatility in comprehending a variety of subjects. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Diderot's correspondence is also considerable in bulk, though not in that respect to be compared to Voltaire's. A Short History of French Literature Discourse on Method, by Descartes, preceded by the Novum Organum of Bacon, and followed by the Interpretation of Nature, by Diderot. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed His doctrine so far coincides with that of Diderot and other revolutionists, though he has no sympathy with their social aspirations. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Greuze was Diderot’s favourite among contemporary artists, and it is easy to see why. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Diderot's atheism is a still further development of his unbelief. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Of drama Diderot had a formal theory which he illustrated by examples not quite so happy as his precepts. A Short History of French Literature Hume's Philosophical Essays, preceded by the two Dissertations on the Deaf, and the Blind, by Diderot, and followed by Adam Smith's Essay on the History of Astronomy. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed Shades of Voltaire and Diderot, of Mirabeau and Danton, listen to this apologist of the faith you despised! Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) There is no unity in Diderot, as there was in Voltaire or in Rousseau. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Montesquieu studied the former; Rousseau and Diderot the latter. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Of poetry proper we have little formal criticism from Diderot. A Short History of French Literature Theory of the Beautiful, by Barthez, preceded by the Essay on the Beautiful, by Diderot. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed Among the great Atheists who prepared the Revolution we single out two—Diderot and D'Holbach. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) As for the merits of the old quarrel between Rousseau and Diderot, we may agree with the latter, that too many sensible people would be in the wrong if Jean Jacques was in the right. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Diderot's unbelief may be considered to embody that which resulted from the abuse at once of erudition, physical science, and the sensational theory in metaphysics. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Sénancour was in a certain sense a Philosophe, in so far that he was dogmatically unorthodox and discarded conventional ideas as to moral conduct; but he is much nearer Rousseau than Diderot. A Short History of French Literature Wandering in an immense forest during the night, said Diderot, I have only one little light to guide me. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) The sagacious mind of Comte perceived that Diderot was the greatest thinker of the band. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) And a worse thing than troublesome interference by the police now befell Diderot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" A craniologist would say that in both D'Holbach and Diderot, the philosophical organs were largely developed, but that Diderot excelled in ideality; D'Holbach's countenance only indicated mildness, and the habitual sincerity of his mind. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The extraordinary quarrel which took place between Rousseau and Diderot has been endlessly written about. A Short History of French Literature The hostess of Diderot breathed fiery indignation against "these Western atheists"; and the nationalization of church property, the very first of her own reforms, becomes, in the men of '89, an "organized brigandage." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Here and there its somewhat diffuse rhetoric was lit up with the splendidly concise eloquence of Diderot, who touched the work with a master-hand. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Diderot was left to bring the task to an end as he best could. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" His forehead, large and open, like that of Diderot, indicated a vast and capacious mind; but his forehead having fewer sinuosities, less roundness than Diderot's, announced less warmth, less energy, and less fecundity of ideas. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Molière and Diderot are the most shining examples among these, but many others keep them company. A Short History of French Literature Diderot, on that adventurous visit of his, was bursting with eagerness to take Russia off the wall, and put it "in the kettle of magicians." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Diderot's colossal labors were ended; his epitaph was written, and the great Encyclopaedia remained as his living monument. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) It is calculated that the average annual salary received by Diderot for his share in the Encyclopaedia was about �120 sterling. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" It relates to a conversation between the Abbe Galiana and Diderot, in which it is said Condorcet acquiesced. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Neither Voltaire, however, nor Diderot devoted, in proportion to their other work, as much attention to prose fiction as did Jean Jacques Rousseau. A Short History of French Literature Diderot said that it placed Richardson with Homer and Euripides, Rousseau openly imitated it, and Alfred de Musset has styled it the best novel in the world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 For study and pleasure consult Lord Morley's books on Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Diderot’s earliest writings were of as little importance as Goldsmith’s Enquiry into the State of Polite Learning or Burke’s Abridgement of English History. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The subject is the fair sex:— Diderot.—How do you define woman? Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The letters of Voltaire, of Diderot, and of the Abbé Galiani are not so typical of a sex, but are more representative of individuals and at the same time of the age. A Short History of French Literature This great edifice, "built half of marble, half of mud," as Voltaire himself said, had as its chief architects Diderot and D'Alembert. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Since Diderot, it is said that France has produced no talker to be compared with him. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 “Fi, donc,” said Catherine one day, when Diderot hinted that he argued with her at a disadvantage, “is there any difference among men?” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Diderot.—Observe her at a ball, no vigor, then, M. l'Abbe? Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Less voluminous and manifold than Voltaire, less picturesque than Diderot, he is a model of general letter-writing. A Short History of French Literature Also she was a philosopher, and invited Diderot, chief of the French Cyclopædists, to dwell at her court, much as Voltaire had dwelt at Frederick's. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 When compared with such philosophic writing as Hume's, Diderot's, Berkeley's, then Comte's manner is heavy, laboured, monotonous, without relief and without light. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 10: Auguste Comte Diderot died on the 30th of July 1784, six years after Voltaire and Rousseau, one year after his old colleague D’Alembert, and five years before D’Holbach, his host and intimate for a lifetime. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The chief of the essays which he produced at Craigenputtock are those on Burns, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The last piece of any importance which is included in the philosophical works of Diderot is an extensive scheme for a Russian university. A Short History of French Literature Diderot tells in his Memoirs that his wife gave him every day nine sous to get his coffee there. All About Coffee Diderot actually makes mention of the prestige of harmony. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Notwithstanding Diderot’s peals of laughter at the thought, an elaborate and exhaustive collection of his writings in twenty stout volumes, edited by MM. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The leaders of the French revolution were the disciples of Rousseau, Voltaire and Diderot. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 The characteristics of Diderot's philosophical works are the same as the characteristics of those other works of his which have been noticed, and his general position as a writer may well be considered here. A Short History of French Literature Forgive me, the last thing about Diderot's christening I made up just now. The Brothers Karamazov The philosophes, except Diderot—who was busy with other things and used his acquaintance with miscellaneous "documents" in another way—would have disdained it, and the Sentimentalists still more so. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century His wife, Anne Toinette Champion, was a devout Catholic, but her piety did not restrain a narrow and fretful temper, and Diderot’s domestic life was irregular and unhappy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Though these consequences irresistibly flow from the doctrine of necessity, yet the injury resulting from them would be far less if they were maintained only by such men as Helvetius and Diderot. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Another and very serious fault, arising partly from temperament and partly from circumstances, was the want of needful pains and deliberation which characterises most of Diderot's work. A Short History of French Literature Did you ever hear, most Holy Father, how Diderot went to see the Metropolitan Platon, in the time of the Empress Catherine? The Brothers Karamazov If anybody ever concentrated his whole life to the enthusiasm for truth and justice, taking the words in a moral sense, it was Diderot, for example. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy From tales Diderot went back to the more congenial region of philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" "The Dutchman is a living alembic," writes Diderot; and it does really seem as though smoking is to him one of the necessary functions of life. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) In temperament, religious views, and social ideas he was a belated philosophe of the Diderot school. A Short History of French Literature And as for Diderot, I heard as far as ‘the fool hath said in his heart’ twenty times from the gentry about here when I was young. The Brothers Karamazov The revolution came in any case because the social order was out of joint, not simply because Voltaire or Rousseau or Diderot had preached destructive doctrines. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. The monument to which Diderot had given the labour of twenty long and oppressive years was irreparably mutilated and defaced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" On one side were Diderot and the publishers promoting an expansive and perpetual natural authorial right, which nevertheless was supposed to vest suspiciously easily in publishers. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind But in literature he had improved even on Diderot, and very nearly anticipated the full results of the Romantic movement, while in politics, as has been said, he was an imperialist. A Short History of French Literature Diderot will do no harm, though sometimes a word will do harm. The Brothers Karamazov But he broke off, refusing to be connected with a party professedly hostile to revealed religion; and he rejected the declamatory paradoxes of Diderot and Raynal. Lectures on the French Revolution Although the Encyclopaedia was Diderot’s monumental work, he is the author of a shower of dispersed pieces that sowed nearly every field of intellectual interest with new and fruitful ideas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" In place of Diderot's perpetual natural right, Condorcet sketched out a regime that encourages production and distribution by granting the minimum rights necessary for progress. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind In the last quarter of the 19th century the tool catalogue replaced Moxon, Duhamel, Diderot, and the builders' manuals as the primary source for the study and identification of hand tools. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Was Rousseau, more than any one, more than Voltaire, more than Diderot, responsible for the French Revolution? Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Yet all these fractions of opinion were called Liberal: Montesquieu, because he was an intelligent Tory; Voltaire, because he attacked the clergy; Turgot, as a reformer; Rousseau, as a democrat; Diderot, as a freethinker. Lectures on the French Revolution Diderot helped his friend at one time and another between 1759 and 1779, by writing for him an account of the annual exhibitions of paintings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Even before the Revolution, publishers had been making the arguments that their privileges were a form of property rights and had the very good sense to hire the young Diderot to make those arguments. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind A Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and industry. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Diderot admired, or at least excused, that procedure of Richardson's which involved the telling of the conversation of an average dinner-party in something like a small volume. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 There is an elaborate description, however, of the machine, by Diderot, in the first volume of the ‘Encyclopédie,’ which is reprinted in the collection of Pascal’s scientific works. Pascal A great work was, however, in course of publication, under the editorship of D'Alembert and Diderot, to which Voltaire, Rousseau, and others contributed, entitled "The Encyclop�dia." The Huguenots in France The last, a delightful work, won for the artist Diderot's powerful advocacy, and made him the popular interpreter of bourgeois intimacies. The Story of Paris Diderot, to whom algebra was Hebrew, was embarrassed and disconcerted; while peals of laughter rose on all sides. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Diderot indicates, in whatever questionable material, the vast possibilities of psychological analysis. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 "The fanatic Diderot has come on the stage again," he thought,—"so just wait, I'll put him in action; I'll astonish you all." A Nobleman's Nest The appearance of these two compositions made their artist famous, and won for him the ardent admiration and powerful friendship of the encyclopædist Diderot. Child-life in Art Each of these became the theme of extravagant eulogy and didactic preachments by Diderot, his literary protagonist, who hailed him as a French Hogarth making Virtue amiable and Vice odious. The Story of Paris Diderot was informed that a learned mathematician was in possession of an algebraical demonstration of the existence of God, and would give it him before all the Court, if he desired to hear it. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Diderot, as has been fully admitted, was too often grossier: sometimes when it was almost irrelevant to the subject. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The old man cherished a particular dislike for Voltaire, and for the "fanatic" Diderot, although he had never read a single line of their writings: reading was not in his line. A Nobleman's Nest It was in the former year that he exhibited his 1814, his Reading at Diderot's and other incomparable works, which placed him beyond all dispute at the head of the French school. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Moreover, while thus drilling her own subjects, the quondam friend of Diderot kept her eyes fixed upon Warsaw. William Pitt and the Great War Diderot gladly consented: though the name of the mathematician is not given, it was Euler. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II But the piece itself would be more amusing if Voltaire could let the Bible alone, though he does not here come under the stroke of Diderot's sledge-hammer as he does in Amabed. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Diderot, among his many gifts, did not possess a talent for dramatic writing. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Has he, like Diderot, inquired curiously into the meaning and message of this thing and that? The Gentle Art of Making Enemies But more powerful than either of these false prophets and guides, in immediate influence, was Diderot. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The amazing success of this one was not remarkable if, as some critics now believe, at least a third of the text was by Diderot. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Of that of Diderot there have recently been several partial collections, but I think no complete one. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Diderot attempted to justify his theory by examples, and only proved his own incapacity as a writer for the stage. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. "And," said Durtal, who chose his words carefully, "tell me, I suppose that tales like those which Diderot gives in his foolish volume 'La Religieuse' are incorrect?" En Route Diderot; and with him the whole school of bold and avowed infidels, who united open atheism with a fierce democracy. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges But, if I understand Mr. Wells aright, he seems to elevate the reason of the peasant into something very like the "eternal reason" of Diderot and Rousseau. Socialism: Positive and Negative Diderot has to get hold of the abnormal, if not the unreal, before he can give you something like a true novel. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Through all difficulties and dangers Diderot held his ground. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Diderot made, in his ‘Encylopédie,’ the first stand in France against the Voltairean position, and increased opportunities of studying Shakespeare’s works increased the poet’s vogue. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles M. Villey quotes Diderot as affirming that the blind cannot imagine. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge This is especially evident in his work on "Diderot and the Encyclopædists," where his propagandist desire to clear the character of his hero bribes him once and again to unconscious false dealing. Classic French Course in English Its existence shows, of course, Diderot's worst side, that is to say, the combination of want of breeding with readiness to get money anyhow. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 As Laharpe was bound in filial loyalty to Voltaire, so Grimm was in fraternal attachment to the least French of eighteenth-century French authors—Diderot. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The nine Salons are one of the results of this willing bondage, and they are perhaps the only part of Diderot’s works that has enjoyed a certain measure of general popularity. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. According to Diderot, images require colour, and colour being totally wanting to the blind the nature of their imagination was to him inconceivable. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge But in his "Diderot and the Encyclopædists," such fine severity is conspicuously absent. Classic French Course in English It shows Diderot's own power of observation and easy fluid representation of character and manners, but not, as I venture to think, much more. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Again in Paris, Rousseau obtained celebrity by his operas and comedies, was received in the salons, and associated joyously with Diderot, Marmontel, and Grimm. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. And on this Diderot sails off into a digression on the grounds of praise and blame. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Diderot attempts to solve the problem by maintaining that tactual sensations occupy an extended space which the blind in thought can add to or contract, and in this way equip himself with spatial conceptions. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Diderot is therein ably presented in the best possible light to the reader; and we are bound to say, that, despite Mr. Morley's friendly endeavors, Diderot therein appears very ill. Classic French Course in English But Diderot and his evil angel Grimm got up sham letters between themselves and her patron, which are usually printed with the book. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 For such serious comedy or bourgeois drama the appropriate vehicle, so Diderot maintained, is prose. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. These digressions are one source of the charm of Diderot’s criticism. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Voltaire's criticism provoked replies in England and a defense from Diderot, who shared with Lessing the effort to emancipate the drama from some of its neo-classical restriction. The Facts About Shakespeare For there came a time when D'Alembert abdicated responsibility as editor, and left the undertaking to fall heavily on the single shoulder, Atlantean shoulder it proved to be, of Diderot. Classic French Course in English But the wonder is in the treatment of the "scabrous" part of the matter by the author of Diderot's other books. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 In his Salons, Diderot elevated and enlarged the criticism of the pictorial art in France. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. It was through the medium of this friendly and intelligent man that the Empress had acted in the purchase of Diderot’s library. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. He read literature, history, travels, philosophy, politics and such authors as Lamennais, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Horace Say, Ricardo and the like. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 It is a kingdom, no doubt, that is, as Diderot expressed it, "diablement idéal." The Task of Social Hygiene Compare the mendicant friar in Diderot, who drew him from nature, centuries later; it is the same sort of nature. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance A coherent system of thought cannot be found in Diderot's writings, but they are pregnant with ideas. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Frederick had told him that, intrepid reader as he was, he could not endure to read Diderot’s books. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. After all, Diderot was in the right when he told Rousseau which side of the question to take. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Other men of the highest distinction—Pascal, Condillac, Voltaire, Diderot, Ampère, Jacob Grimm—have sought or desired a solution to this problem. The Task of Social Hygiene Before writing his essay on Diderot, he read twenty-five volumes at the rate of one per day. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Her own Memoirs and her Correspondence with Voltaire, Diderot, and others, furnish invaluable pictures of contemporary views and manners. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The patriotic Björnstähl was very anxious that Diderot should go to Stockholm, to see for himself that the Holstein blood was as noble in Sweden as it was in Russia. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The brilliant but profoundly inadequate essays on Voltaire and Diderot were the outcome in Mr. Carlyle of the same reactionary spirit. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle Diderot was about the same age when the torments against which he had struggled for the best part of twenty arduous years in his gigantic task seemed to reach the very climax of distraction. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs Chaumette followed Diderot, and Diderot told Samuel Romilly in 1783 that belief in God, as well as submission to kings, would be at an end all over the world in a very few years. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre While thus pursuing his minute investigations, Diderot can scarcely help laughing at himself, and candidly owns that he is open to the suspicion of discovering in the poem beauties which have no existence. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers The cheap severity of abstract ethics has always abounded against Seneca, and this severity was what Diderot had all his life found insupportable. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. When Romilly saw Diderot in 1783, the great encyclopaedic chief assured him that submission to kings and belief in God would be at an end all over the world in a very few years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" In this last capacity he had travelled in France, and visited Paris, where he had made the acquaintance, among others, of Diderot and D'Alembert. The Youth of Goethe Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot were all students and admirers of Locke, and his political theories were at the base of Rousseau's "Social Contract." The Rise of the Democracy Just at the side of Voltaire stood the Encyclopedists, led by Diderot and d'Alembert. The French Revolution A Short History It is inevitable, as the composition is Diderot’s, that it should have many a rambling and declamatory page. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Catherine of Russia, the friend of Voltaire and the benefactress of Diderot, sent her congratulations to the man who denounced French philosophers as miscreants and wretches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Both Rousseau and Diderot, considered as men of letters, were conscious literary revolutionists, before they were used as half-conscious social revolutionists. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century Well did Diderot say that Erasmus laid the egg which Luther hatched. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Diderot early recognized Chardin's excellence, and many artists since his day have admired his pictures; but he is not now a well-known or popular painter. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Seneca’s position as the minister of Nero seemed exactly one of those cases which always excited Diderot’s deepest interest—a case, we mean, in which the general rules of morality condemn, but common sense acquits. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. From the age of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, the French genius produced almost no imaginative work of really European importance until it somewhat revived again with Chateaubriand in the present century. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Indeed, it may sometimes occur to the student of such a man as Diderot to wonder how far materialism in France was only seized upon as a means of making scepticism both serious and philosophic. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century The intensely artificial painting of France, to which Diderot objected so much, had become perfect and sterile. Masques & Phases "When Correggio excels he is a painter worthy of Athens," wrote Diderot, whose art criticism had in it more of sentiment than knowledge. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Even here Diderot’s impetuosity carries him in two or three bounds over every obstacle. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. There, also, Diderot would often delight his circle of admirers by the fluency and richness of his conversation, his friends extolling his disinterestedness and honesty, his enemies whispering about his cunning and selfishness. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag The correspondence of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, D'Alembert, is sufficient to show how immediately, as well as how powerfully, they were influenced by Montesquieu's memorable book. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century Diderot was also a warm partisan of the Italians. Great Italian and French Composers They have translated the French materialists, p. 240Helvetius, Holbach, Diderot, etc., and disseminated them, with the best English works, in cheap editions. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Of any system that could not be verified by experience Diderot would have disdained to speak in connection with the interpretation of nature. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Diderot compared Richardson, as the father of the English novel, to Homer, father of epic poetry. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life It is well—as no one would be more likely to contend than myself, who have attempted the task—to demonstrate the contradictions, the superficiality, the inadequateness, of the teaching of Rousseau, Voltaire, or Diderot. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century "Go on, then," said the Minister: "Voltaire, Diderot, and Company, have tutored our ears to good purpose." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 I shall notice the opinions of three celebrated writers, D'Alembert, Rousseau, and Diderot. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The world has advanced rapidly along this path since Diderot’s day, and has opened out many new and unsuspected meanings by the way. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The expression of Diderot has been greatly vaunted: The Russians are rotten before they are ripe. Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. Thus Diderot says: "Genius is the higher activity of the soul." Preaching and Paganism Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, waited in her ante-chambers, and implored her patronage. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power The fervent opinion of Rousseau must be familiar to the reader; but Diderot, in his éloge on Richardson, exceeds even Rousseau in the enthusiasm of his feelings. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 In 1769 Diderot composed three dialogues, of which he said that, with a certain mathematical memoir, they were the only writings of his own with which he was contented. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. How did he appeal to natures so different as the worldly Lord Chesterfield, the country shopkeeper, and the impassioned Diderot? A History of English Prose Fiction Diderot accepted her invitation, and was received with confiding and friendly attentions which no merely crowned head could have secured. The Empire of Russia Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, D'Alembert, and Diderot had founded a new school of universal inquiry, and from their bold investigations and startling theories sprang the society of the illuminati, and the race of thinkers. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction And Diderot had delicacy and respect in his pity. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) First, Diderot never intended the dialogues for the public eye. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Catherine the Great, in her colloquies with the nervous and hesitating Diderot, used to say, "Proceed; between men all is allowable." Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality Catharine, with her own hand, kept up a regular correspondence with many literary and scientific men in other parts of Europe, particularly with Voltaire and Diderot, the illustrious philosophers of France. The Empire of Russia She is destitute of the supreme gift of sensibility that Talma considers essential, and Diderot maintains is detrimental to the highest acting. Mary Anderson And the important thing, as we have said, is that Diderot was as good as his sentiment. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) It is indispensable to describe their drift, because it is here that Diderot figures definitely as a materialist. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Underneath his passionate admiration for Diderot smouldered a spark of resentment that he was not understood. Aspects of Literature Diderot sat at the table of the empress, and daily held long social interviews with her, conversing upon politics, philosophy, legislation, freedom of conscience and the rights of nations. The Empire of Russia Diderot may be right, and Talma may be wrong, but we are convinced that the art Miss Anderson has practiced is, on the whole, barren and unpersuasive. Mary Anderson He begged Diderot to do him the favour of reading it, and to make any remarks he might think useful on the margin. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) She made D’Alembert insist that the dialogue should be destroyed, and Diderot believed that he had burned the only existing copy. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. For a long time he looked upon Rousseau as an eccentric vagabond, and upon the conscientious and accurate spirit of Diderot even as shallow. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 "Diderot," said she, "is a hundred years old in many respects, but in others he is no more than ten." The Empire of Russia The dithyrambs of Diderot are, though not ridiculously, amusingly excessive: but they are only an exaggeration of the truth. The English Novel Diderot found it to be a bitter satire upon his own person and writings. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The attempt to give an air of polite comedy to functions and secretions must be pronounced detestable, in spite of the dialectical acuteness and force with which Diderot pressed his point. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. There was nothing left to be done at Versailles, simply because in Paris the power was already in the hands of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Diderot. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 It is a fine proof of the author's naturally dramatic genius that this terrific successor of Vanini and precursor of Diderot should be other than a mere man of straw. The Age of Shakespeare Even Gautier had his limitations just as much as Diderot had, and in modern England Goethes are rare. Miscellanies On the young man's return, Diderot asked him his grounds for making such an attack. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Of Oxford and Cambridge Diderot spoke more kindly than they then deserved. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. To these he is a dealer in oracles, at second-hand, from Voltaire and Diderot. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Shall I recall the fact that in his victorious struggle against Voltaire, Lessing had to call in Diderot's assistance? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 "There is nothing precise in Nature," according to Diderot's saying. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society "Sit down," said Diderot, "and I will write one for you." Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) “Tell me, Diderot,” said the Empress by and by, “what they say in Paris about the death of my husband.” Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. |
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