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Sa kanyang pilosopiko dialogue D'Alembert's Dream , Diderot ipinaliwanag kung paano ang mga bato ay maaaring dumating sa isip.
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According to D'Alembert's “Discours préliminaire” to the Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment brought to fruition the aspirations of two earlier pe -
ENLIGHTENMENT HELLMUT O. PAPPE 1968
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The ideas and quota - tions in this article are therefore derived from the writings of the philosophes responsible for Diderot's and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie of 1751 and of the
ENLIGHTENMENT HELLMUT O. PAPPE 1968
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A less creditable contribution of D'Alembert's to the "Encyclopædia" was his article on "Geneva," in the course of which, at the instance of Voltaire, who wanted a chance to have his plays represented in that city, he went out of his way to recommend to the Genevans that they establish for themselves a theatre.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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D'Alembert's "Éloges," so called, a series of characterizations and appreciations written by the author in his old age, of members of the French Academy, enjoy deserved reputation for sagacious intellectual estimate, and for clear, though not supremely elegant, style of composition.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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D'Alembert's articles, with few exceptions, are on the mathematical and physical sciences.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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D'Alembert's article hardly goes beyond what to us seem the axioms of all men of sense.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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It is a magnanimous trait in D'Alembert's history that he should have procured for Lagrange a position and livelihood at Berlin, warmly commending him as a man of rare and superior genius, although Lagrange had vigorously opposed some of his own mathematical theories.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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At length his opinion came round to D'Alembert's reiterated assertions of the shame and baseness of men of letters subjecting themselves to the humiliating yoke of ministers, priests, and police.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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If you knew with what joy they have learnt D'Alembert's desertion!
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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