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Detailed information on the Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary CD.
Bank of Wisdom CD-ROM books collections are in PDF format, therefore each page of every book is a graphic image (a picture) of that page. These electronic books can be used for scholarly research and quoted by page and paragraph exactly as the original book, AND they have SEARCH, and text can be CUT and PASTED into other programs.
- All these CDs ship for $3.00 to US destinations and $5.00 for foreign destinations.
- Payments are due in US funds only.
This CD contains the following books:
- This is the complete (5 volumes) second English edition of Peter Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, published by J. J. & P. Knapton, et al in 1734-1738, London.
- Thomas Jefferson nominated this English translation of Bayle’s Dictionary as one of the first 100 books for the Library of Congress.
- Bruntiere wrote about Bayle that “To forget Bayle or to suppress him is to mutilate and falsify the whole history of ideas in the eighteenth century.”
- Lecky, the historian, wrote that Bayle “did more than any previous writer to break the spell which St. Augustine had so long cast over theology” and termed him “one of the most important pioneers of religious liberty.”
- Robinson, in his work on Bayle, wrote the following: "When he [Holberg] was in Paris just at the beginning of the Regency Holberg found that the press of students wanting the Dictionary at the Bibliotheque Mazarine, the first French public library, was so great that they arrived long before the doors were opened, and almost fought for a chance at the precious volumes.”
- Finally, Disraeli called Bayle “the Shakespeare of dictionary makers” and “the historian of the human mind.”
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