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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal

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A new translation with historical introduction and notes by Rev. Thomas M'Crie, preceded by a life of Pascal, a critical essay, and a biographical notice. Edited by O. W. Wight.

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The Provincial Letters
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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The Provincial Letters
June 28, 2004, Nuvision Publications
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The Provincial Letters
December 1, 1997, Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Cover of: Briefe in die Provinz
Cover of: The mystery of Jesuitism
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The Provincial Letters
December 16, 1982, Penguin Classics
Cover of: Les Provinciales.
Les Provinciales.: [Extraits.]
1970, Larousse
in French
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The provincial letters.
1967, Penguin Books
in English
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Cover of: The provincial letters
The provincial letters
1967, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Provinciales
Provinciales
1964, Pauvert
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Cover of: Les Provinciales ; Ecrits des curés de Paris
Les Provinciales ; Ecrits des curés de Paris
1962, Librairie A. Colin
in French
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The provincial letters
1955, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclop©Œdia Britannica
translated by Thomas M'Crie. Pensées. translated by W. F. Trotter. Scientific treatises. translated by Richard Scofield / in English
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The provincial letters.
1955, Encyclopædia Britannica
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Provinciales: lettres I, IV, XIII et extraits
1922, Hachettes
in French - 13e ed.
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1890, Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, [189-?]
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal: with a biographical preface.
1889, Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal
1887, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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The provincial letters
1880, Deighton, Bell
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal
1875, Hurd and Houghton
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal
1875, Chatto & Windus
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal
1875, Chatto and Windus
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal
1863, William Collins
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal.
1860, H. W. Derby
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1859, Derby & Jackson
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CONTENTS.
Preface, vii
Historical Introduction, xiii
Letter I. — Disputes in the Sorboqne, and the invention of proximate power — a term employed by the Jesuits to procure the censure of M. Arnauld, 69
Letter II. — Of sufficient grace, 81
Reply of "the Provincial" to the first Two Letters of his Friend, 91
Letter III. — Injustice, absurdity, and nullity of the censure on M. Arnauld, 94
Letter IV. — On actual grace and sins of ignorance, 103
Letter V. — Design of the Jesuits in establishing a new system of morals — Two sorts of casuists among them — A great many lax and some severe ones — Reason of this difference — Explanation of the doctrine of probabilism — A multitude of modern and unknown authors, substituted in the place of the holy fathers, 110
Letter VI. — Various artifices of the Jesuits to elude the authority of the gospel, of councils, and of the popes — Some consequences which result from their doctrine of probabilism — Their relaxation in favour of beneficiaries, priests, monks, and domestics — Anecdote of John d'Alba, 132
Letter VII. — Method of directing the intention adopted by the casuists — Permission to kill in defence of honour and property, extended even to priests and monks — Curious question raised by Caramuel as to whether Jesuits may be allowed to kill Jansenists, 149
Letter VIII. — Corrupt maxims of the casuists relating to Judges — Usurers — The contract Mobatra — Bankrupts — Restitution — Divers ridiculous notions of these samo casuists, 161
Letter IX False worship of the Virgin introduced by the Jesuits — Devotion made easy — Their maxims on ambition, envy, gluttony, equivocation, mental reservations, female dress, gaming, hearing mass, 176
Letter X. — Palliatives applied by the Jesuits to the sacrament of penance, in their maxims regarding confession, satisfaction, absolution, proximate occasions, of sin, contrition, and the love of God, 192
Letter XI. — Ridicule a fair weapon, when employed against absurd opinions — Rules to be observed in the use of this weapon — The profane buffoonery of Fathers Le Moine and Garrassa, 20S
Letter XII. — Refutation of the chicaneries of the Jesuits regarding alms - giving and simony, 223
Letter XIII. — The doctrine of Lessius on homicide the same with that of Valentia — How easy it is to pass from speculation to practice — Why the Jesuits have recourse to this distinction, and how little it serves for their vindication, 238
Letter XIV. — In which the maxims of the Jesuits on murder are refuted from the Fathers — Some of their calumnies answered — And their doctrine compared with the forms observed in criminal trials, 253
Letter XV. — Showing that the Jesuits first exclude calumny from their catalogue of crimes, and then employ it in denouncing their opponents, 268
Letter XVI. — Shameful calumnies of the Jesuits against pious clergymen and innocent nuns, 284
Letter XVII. — The author of the Letters vindicated from the charge of heresy — A heretical phantom — Popes and general councils not infallible in questions of fact, 307
Letter XVIII. — Showing still more plainly, on the authority of Father Annat himself, that there is really no heresy in the Church, and that in questions of fact we must be guided by our senses, and not by authority even of popes, 328

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OL25891716M
Internet Archive
TheProvincialLetters
OCLC/WorldCat
11183395

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OL1262604W

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