Maistre's

The knowledge that this was the case, added to the sound conviction that men can never live by analysis alone, gave its fire to de Maistre's powerful attack, and its immense force to Burke's plea for what he called prejudice.

Voltaire 2007

In the next stack she discovered a first edition of Maistre's Voyage autour de ma chambre.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

Perhaps a reader has a better idea of the true manner in which events march, from Comines or Clarendon, than from all the elegance and manifold graces of Voltaire, and we sometimes feel inclined to repeat de Maistre's angry demand for that grave and unhasting dignity which is the life of history.

Voltaire 2007

In the social, and especially political, sphere, it was one of the cardinal values of the Enlightenment and the main target of the latter's critics, who were terrified by this exaltation of the individual's private judgment: hence de Maistre's “political protestantism ....”

TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM STEVEN LUKES 1968

At bottom it is an argument against anarchy that he constructs, and much of what he said is medieval enough in tone to suggest de Maistre's great defence of papalism as the secret of world-order.

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

And when we make allowances for the grave errors of personal taste, the gross exaggeration, the inability to see the Revolution as something more than a single point in time, it becomes obvious enough that his criticism, de Maistre's apart, is by far the soundest we possess from the generation which knew the movement as a living thing.

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

This work is not among the most highly esteemed of De Maistre's writings.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The vilification of the Greeks is strikingly like some vehement passages in De Maistre's estimate of their share in sophisticating European intellect.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

It is to be hoped that most people who will read these pages know Xavier de Maistre's charming little books; it is probable that at least some of them do not know

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Maistre's rather grotesque conviction that infidels always die of horrible diseases with special names, could now only be held among the very dregs of the ecclesiastical world.

On Compromise John Morley 1880