Alembert
Britishnoun
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If the Gospel cost twelve hundred sesterces, the Christian religion would never have been established.—Correspondence with D1 Alembert, 1765.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)
The popularizers of science during this period were Voltaire, Montesquieu, Alembert, Diderot, and other encyclopædists.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Now and again the effort is admirable, notably in The Adventures of Ernest Alembert, but on the whole it amounts to as little as did the juvenile productions of Shelley.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
It is said that at Petersburg Diderot is considered a tiresome reasoner," wrote the King of Prussia to D' Alembert in January, 1774; "he is incessantly harping on the same things.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert
The Adventures of Ernest Alembert is a booklet of this date, and Arthuriana, or Odds and Ends: being a Miscellaneous Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, by Lord Charles Wellesley, is yet another.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
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