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NOTE1850

Pascal's Lettres Provinciales

By GUSTAVE MASSON.

I take the liberty of forwarding to you the following "Note," suggested by two curious blunders which fell under my notice some time ago. In Mr. Stamp's reprint of the Rev. C. Elliott's *Delineation of Romanism* (London, 8vo. 1844), I find (p. 471., in note) a long paragraph on Pascal's *Lettres Provinciales*:— "This exquisite production," says the English editor, "*is accompanied, in some editions of it, with the learned and judicious observations of Nicole*, who, under the fictitious name of Guillaume Wendrock, has fully demonstrated the truths of those facts which Pascal had advanced withou…

Topics: Lettres Provinciales, Translation, Literary Criticism, Annotations

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