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Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

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1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION BY 3. INTRODUCTION 4. introduction to the _Pensees_, are as follows. He was born at Clermont, 5. INTRODUCTION By T. S. Eliot vii 6. Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] 7. part I tell you, "You would soon have faith, if you renounced pleasure." 8. 1. In having preferred diversion and hunting to poetry. The half-learned 9. 2. In having distinguished men by external marks, as birth or wealth. 10. 3. In being offended at a blow, on in desiring glory so much. But it is 11. 4. In working for the uncertain; in sailing on the sea; in walking over 12. 3. To make us deserve other virtues by work. 13. 2. Proof by the Rabbis. Moses Maimonides says that it has two aspects, 14. 4. Proof by the mystical interpretation which the Rabbis themselves give 15. 5. Proof by the principles of the Rabbis, that there are two meanings; 16. 10. Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 12. 17. 40. See also ibid., iii, 10. 18. 13. Tacitus, _Ann._, iii, 25. 19. 36. See also iii, 1. 20. introduction.

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