...with Shere Ali. For Gibbon it is essential to record that "from the 'Provincial Letters' of Pascal I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." Truly, if the great Pascal had done nothing else than teach our supreme ironist the management of his...

...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, 1 learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." — Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon, in 5 vols., vol. ip 96. Reasoning post hoc propter hoc, Franklin...

...declared to have the wit of Molière and the sublimity of Uossuet^while. Gibbon says he learned from them to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. His " Pensées " appeared in 1669. — B. p. tiO. M. pp. 186-190. 9. It discouraged ambition and led...

...Provincial Letters of Pascal, which he read "with a new pleasure" almost every year. From them he said, "I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." As one thinks of his chapters in "The Decline and Fall" on Julian, one is interested to know that during...

...Provincial Letters of Pascal, which he read "with a new pleasure" almost every year. From them he said, "I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." As one thinks of his chapters in "The Decline and Fall" on Julian, one is interested to know that during...

...Provincial Letters of Pascal, which he read "with a new pleasure" almost every year. From them he said, " I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." As one thinks of his chapters in "The Decline and Fall" on Julian, one is interested to know that during...

...Roman Empire, Gibbon says: " From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I havr perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the...temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity."—Afitctllaneoiu Works of Gibbon, in 5 vols., vol. ip 96. Reasoning post hoc propter hot....

...sarcasm and sneer. From Voltaire, from Pascal and from Tacitus " he 'learned,' as he tells us himself, 'to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.' This, indeed, is the easiest mode of vanquishing an enemy too strong to be seriously attacked. Hence,...

...Provinciales "almost every year . . . with new pleasure" and credits Pascal with having shown him how "to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of Ecclesiastical solemnity" (M, 79). There could hardly be a better characterization of Pascal's irony, or Gibbon's, than grave...

...particular books, since they may have remotely contributed to form the historian of the Roman Empire, 1. From the provincial letters of Pascal which, almost...irony even on subjects of Ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The life of Julian by the Abbe de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and the times; and...