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Bayle
[ beyl ]
noun
- Pierre [pye, r], 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic.
Bayle
/ bɛl /
noun
- BaylePierre16471706MFrenchPHILOSOPHY: philosopherWRITING: critic Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists
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He also wrote a history of printing, and published a new edition of Bayle's Dictionnaire.
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It is, in my opinion, very singular that Bayle should pretend to be more severe than St. Augustine.
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Your own dingy well-thumbed Bayle or Moreri possibly cost you two or three pounds; his cost forty or fifty.
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Bayle was the son of a Calvinist minister in a remote province of France, at the foot of the Pyrenees.
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It occasioned Bayle to commit a remarkable literary blunder, which I shall record in its place.
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