Strange Contrarieties, Pascal in England During the Age of Reason
Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Item #001101
336pp. This work explores the celebrated French thinker's impact upon English readers from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centures, and views especially his assessment of man's powers, limitations, and need of salvation. Pascal enjoyed a large English audience. Among those who are here shown to have made a clear response to his writings are Boyle, Locke, Addison, Pope, Hume, Preiestley, the Wesley family, Johnson and Coleridge. An appendix explores Pascal's influence im America. A very good copy bound in gray and white pictorial cloth picturing Pacal on both boards, spinewhite with lettering black, in a very good pictorial dust jacket lettered in white, spine light blue with lettering in black and white, rubbed along the edges, some chipping to spine, upper edge and a couple of chips to rear panel.
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