Author: François duc de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"In preparing his translation for an English audience, the anonymous translator made many references to English authors in his notes, among them More, Hobbes, Swift, and Milton. While he could also have used a variety of French comments on the duke's maximes as well, he deliberately chose to cater to his English readers by emphasizing English parallels and classical sources. In his introduction, Dr. Primer reviews the translation history of the duke's maxims and finds that some of the main characteristics of this translation were borrowed from the posthumously published French edition prepared by the Sieur Abraham-Nicholas Amelot de la Houssaye, whose presence in this edition is visible from time to time. The anonymous translator of selections from Amelot's edition adopted a more colloquial style than is generally associated with La Rochefoucauld's maxims; he also turns out to be significant not only as a translator but also as a reinterpreter of the central moral issue in the entire book. Most readers, including Jonathan Swift, had taken the duke's position on human nature to be the same as Hobbes's (stressing the human being's selfishness or natural egoism), but the translator/annotator finds that the duke's message is not inconsistent with the more positive view of human nature found in Lord Shaftesbury and in the poetry of Pope."--BOOK JACKET.
Moral Maxims
Author: François duc de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"In preparing his translation for an English audience, the anonymous translator made many references to English authors in his notes, among them More, Hobbes, Swift, and Milton. While he could also have used a variety of French comments on the duke's maximes as well, he deliberately chose to cater to his English readers by emphasizing English parallels and classical sources. In his introduction, Dr. Primer reviews the translation history of the duke's maxims and finds that some of the main characteristics of this translation were borrowed from the posthumously published French edition prepared by the Sieur Abraham-Nicholas Amelot de la Houssaye, whose presence in this edition is visible from time to time. The anonymous translator of selections from Amelot's edition adopted a more colloquial style than is generally associated with La Rochefoucauld's maxims; he also turns out to be significant not only as a translator but also as a reinterpreter of the central moral issue in the entire book. Most readers, including Jonathan Swift, had taken the duke's position on human nature to be the same as Hobbes's (stressing the human being's selfishness or natural egoism), but the translator/annotator finds that the duke's message is not inconsistent with the more positive view of human nature found in Lord Shaftesbury and in the poetry of Pope."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"In preparing his translation for an English audience, the anonymous translator made many references to English authors in his notes, among them More, Hobbes, Swift, and Milton. While he could also have used a variety of French comments on the duke's maximes as well, he deliberately chose to cater to his English readers by emphasizing English parallels and classical sources. In his introduction, Dr. Primer reviews the translation history of the duke's maxims and finds that some of the main characteristics of this translation were borrowed from the posthumously published French edition prepared by the Sieur Abraham-Nicholas Amelot de la Houssaye, whose presence in this edition is visible from time to time. The anonymous translator of selections from Amelot's edition adopted a more colloquial style than is generally associated with La Rochefoucauld's maxims; he also turns out to be significant not only as a translator but also as a reinterpreter of the central moral issue in the entire book. Most readers, including Jonathan Swift, had taken the duke's position on human nature to be the same as Hobbes's (stressing the human being's selfishness or natural egoism), but the translator/annotator finds that the duke's message is not inconsistent with the more positive view of human nature found in Lord Shaftesbury and in the poetry of Pope."--BOOK JACKET.
Reflections
Author: Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511566582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims By Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac. NEW Complete Edition A Complete World Classic Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times by J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell "As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature--I believe them true. They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."--Swift. "Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d'esprit."--Montesquieu. "Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."--Sir J. Mackintosh. "Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria Verba do not always occur to one mind."--Luther's Table Talk, iii.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511566582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims By Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac. NEW Complete Edition A Complete World Classic Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times by J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell "As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature--I believe them true. They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."--Swift. "Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d'esprit."--Montesquieu. "Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."--Sir J. Mackintosh. "Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria Verba do not always occur to one mind."--Luther's Table Talk, iii.
Les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld Suivies Des Réflexions Diverses. [With a Preface by J.F. Thénard.].
Author: François de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (2nd Duke.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Maxims
Author: François duc de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
English and French texts.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
English and French texts.
Reflections; Or Sentences and Moral Maxim
Author: Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720318385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."--Swift."Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d'esprit."--Montesquieu."Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."--Sir J. Mackintosh."Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria Verba do not always occur to one mind."--Luther's Table Talk, iii.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720318385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."--Swift."Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d'esprit."--Montesquieu."Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."--Sir J. Mackintosh."Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria Verba do not always occur to one mind."--Luther's Table Talk, iii.
Sentences et Maximes de Morale. [By the Duke de La Rochefoucauld.]
Maxims
Author: La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908149
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908149
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
La Rochefoucauld and the Seventeenth-century Concept of the Self
Author: Vivien Thweatt
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035767
Category : French literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035767
Category : French literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 292
Book Description
Maxims
Author: François de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758150578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is the first-ever French-English edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales, long known in English simply as the Maxims. The translation, the first to appear in forty years, is completely new and aims -- unlike all previous versions -- at being as literal as possible. This involves, among other things, rendering the same word -- for example, amour-propre as self-love - as consistently throughout as good sense allows. This also means that the translators have made every effort to maintain La Rochefoucauld's word order. This allows the reader the best vantage point for viewing La Rochefoucauld's dramatic and paradoxical juxtapositions of words and ideas, juxtapositions of the utmost importance to understanding his thought. Despite the translation's concern with literalness, careful attention has been paid to the nuances of the literary character of the Maxims.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758150578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is the first-ever French-English edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales, long known in English simply as the Maxims. The translation, the first to appear in forty years, is completely new and aims -- unlike all previous versions -- at being as literal as possible. This involves, among other things, rendering the same word -- for example, amour-propre as self-love - as consistently throughout as good sense allows. This also means that the translators have made every effort to maintain La Rochefoucauld's word order. This allows the reader the best vantage point for viewing La Rochefoucauld's dramatic and paradoxical juxtapositions of words and ideas, juxtapositions of the utmost importance to understanding his thought. Despite the translation's concern with literalness, careful attention has been paid to the nuances of the literary character of the Maxims.
Reflections Or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974634880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974634880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.