An historical and critical dictionary / By Monsieur Bayle ; translated into English with many additions and corrections, made by the author himself, that are not in the French editions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.

Standardized Title:

Dictionnaire historique et critique. English. 1710

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581. Vindiciae contra tyrannos.

Languet, Hubert.

Biography--Dictionaries.

Biography.

History--Dictionaries.

History.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)

Physical Description:

4 volumes (32 unnumbered pages, 3108, xciv pages, 56 unnumbered pages) ; 41 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for C. Harper [and 12 others], 1710.

Contents:

A dissertation concerning the book of Stephanus Junius Brutus [i.e. Hubert Languet, Vindiciae contra tyrannos], printed in the year 1579

A dissertation concerning defamatory libels

A dissertation concerning hippomanes

A dissertation upon the day

A dissertation which was printed before some essays or fragments of this work in the year 1692 under the title of, A project of a critical dictionary, dedicated to Mr. du Rondel ...

Explanations of some things dispers'd in this dictionary which may be reduced to four general heads: I. To the praises given to such persons as deny'd the providence or existence of God, II. To the objections of the Manichees, III. To the objections of the Pyrrhonists, IV. To obscenities.

Notes:

Each vol. has half title: Bayle's dictionary.

Vol. 1: [32], 800; v. 2: [4], 801-1550; v. 3: [4], 1551-2434; v. 4: 2435-3108, xciv, [56] p.

OCLC:

13612105