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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Bayle, Pierre 1647-1706. French philosopher and critic. Considered the progenitor of 18th-century rationalism, he compiled the famous Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) and championed the cause of religious tolerance.
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“See in Bayle, in the article of Marcion, a curious detail of a dispute on that subject.”
“He asserts that he has committed an unpardonable crime in calling Bayle a great man.”
“Even Henri Bayle aka the author Stendhal referred to Moore as one of only two singers in Britain worth listening to.”
“Theses of Beziers, A.D. 1682, in Bayle’s Nouvelles de la”
“Shaftesbury, who knew him well, called Bayle "one of the best of Christians.”
“I name Bayle, for he was certainly the author of the Avis aux”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
“Bayle, which is incorporated with this voluminous work, he is stated to have been a large contributor.”
“I name Bayle, for he was certainly the author of the Avis aux Refugies; consult the Dictionnaire Critique de Chauffepie, tom.i. part ii.p. 21 Buchanan is the earliest, or at least the most celebrated, of the reformers, who has justified the theory of resistance.”
“Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is what I love most.”
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
“Bayle's _Dictionary_ is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is what I love most.”
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