Vayer

Bayle notices (under "Vayer") the infamous book of Giovanni della Casa, Archbishop of Benevento, "De laudibus Sodomiæ," [FN#420] vulgarly known as "Capitolo del

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

La Mothe le Vayer; who, with all his sense, dresses himself like a madman.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

Skepticism deriving from classical sources, the works of Michel de Montaigne and Protestant and Catholic fideists, was developed philosophically and applied to historical and religious works by libertins such as Cyrano de Bergerac and érudits, including Gabriel Naudé, La Mothe le Vayer, and Giovanni Diodati — respectively two nominal

DEISM ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

Though some of the members of this tradition (Montaigne, Charron, La Mothe le Vayer) were accused of insincerity, their position was considered orthodox by many of the leaders of French Catholicism.

Bayle's Sincerity Popkin, Richard H. 1967

La Mothe le Vayer; who, with all his sense, dresses himself like a madman.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

"What can you be thinking of, M. la Mothe le Vayer," said the Cardinal;

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Vayer, and one of his daughters became the wife of George Crichton,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

His greatest work -- a treatise which has been rashly called the foundation of English deism, but which rather expresses the vague and not wholly unorthodox doubt expressed earlier by Montaigne, and by contemporaries of Herbert's own, such as La Mothe le Vayer -- was written in Latin, and has never been translated into English.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

When this cat died the Duchess was too much affected to write its epitaph herself, and accordingly it was done for her, in the following style, by La Mothe le Vayer, the author of the _Dialogues_:

Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

Chapelle in verse, La Mothe le Vayer in prose, may serve as representatives of art surrendering itself to vulgar pleasures, and thought doubting even its doubts, and finding repose in indifference.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878