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  • Helvétius, Duclos, Condillac, Buffon, Grimm, D'Holbach, with many others whom we must not stay even to mention, contributed to the work.

    Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

  • At her house he met in social familiarity D'Alembert, Diderot, D'Holbach, Morellet, Cabanis, and Condorcet, with their compeers.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

  • D'Holbach (dōl-bäk´), Paul Henri Thyry (1723-1789), 287.

    Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

  • D'Holbach, 'is but a child when he quits physical science, to lose himself in the imaginary regions of theology.'

    An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

  • I esteem myself very happy to find that the hurry of business, and your exhaltation to the rank of chief-magistrate, could not make you forget your friendship to me; though my present circumstances do not permit me to make use of your friendly invitation, be persuaded my very dear lord that Madame D'Holbach and myself shall forever keep these signs of your kindness, in very grateful remembrance.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • I esteem myself very happy to find that the hurry of business, and your exhaltation to the rank of chief-magistrate, could not make you forget your friendship to me; though my present circumstances do not permit me to make use of your friendly invitation, be persuaded my very dear lord that Madame D'Holbach and myself shall forever keep these signs of your kindness, in very grateful remembrance.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • He came from Paris full of inarticulate and smouldering resentment against the irreverence and denial of the materialistic circle which used to meet at the house of D'Holbach.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • There were industrious, worthy, disinterested men, who used their minds honestly and actively with sincere care for truth, like D'Holbach.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • I one day examined the music of D'Holbach, in his closet.

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

  • Grimm, Diderot and D'Holbach were, on the contrary, in the centre of the vortex, lived in the great world, and divided amongst them almost all the spheres of it.

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

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