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Jean le Rond D'Alembert : Unknown

'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect; and at any rate, my hopes have never yet failed me. A French Author (D'Alembert, one of the few persons who deserve the honourable epithet of honest man) whom I was lately reading, remarks that one who devotes his life to learning ought to carry for his motto-Liberty, Truth, Poverty; for her that fears the latter can never have the former.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Unknown

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert : Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die

'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

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