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Eve of Pentacost
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Bible Encyclopedias

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Search Results: "encyclopedists

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Encyclopedist
Generally a man of encyclopedic knowledge, or who conducts or contributes to an encyclopædia; specially one who has, as the French encyclopedists, an overweening, false, and illusory estimate of the moral worth and civilising power of such knowledge. See Carlyle's "Sartor," Bk. I.
Hume, David
and mercantile life gave himself up to study and speculation; spent much of his life in France, and fraternised with the sceptical philosophers and encyclopedists there; his chief works, "Treatise on Human Nature", "Essays" (1741-42), "Principles of Morals", and "History of England" (1754-61); his
Philosophe
name for a philosopher of the school of 18th century enlightenment, represented by the encyclopedists (q. v .) of france; the class have been characterised by the delight they took in outraging the religious sentiment. see aufklärung and illumination, the .
 
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