Pascal's Pensées

by Blaise Pascal · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 8 · 5,437 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Apologetics — Early works to 1800 · Catholic Church — Apologetic works — Early works to 1800 · Catholic Church — Doctrines — Early works to 1800

Words worth knowing: opus · heretical · perpetuity · pedant · deprivation · esprit · covetousness · typify

PASCAL'S PENSEES INTRODUCTION BY T. S. ELIOT A Dutton Paperback New York E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC. _This paperback edition of "Pascal's Pensees" Published 1958 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. All rights reserved.

Printed in the U.S.A._ SBN 0-525-47018-2 INTRODUCTION It might seem that about Blaise Pascal, and about the two works on which his fame is founded, everything that there is to say had been said.

The details of his life are as fully known as we can expect to know them; his mathematical and physical discoveries have been treated many times; his religious sentiment and his theological views have been discussed again and again; and his prose style has been analysed by French critics down to the finest particular.

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