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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.
Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont Ferrand in Auvergne, on June 19,
1623. He sprung from a well known legal family, many members of
which had held lucrative and responsible positions. His father,
Etienne Pascal, held the post of intendant, or provincial
administrator, in Normandy, where, and at Paris previously, Pascal
lived from the age of sixteen to that of twenty five; almost wholly
educated by his father on account of his precarious health. His
mother died when he was eight years old. Etienne Pascal was a pious
but stern person, and by no means disposed to entertain or allow
any undue exaltation in religion, refusing as long as he lived to
allow his daughter Jaqueline to take the veil. But he had the usual
faiths and superstitions of his time, and believing that his son's
ill health arose from witchcraft, employed the old woman who was
supposed to have caused the malady to remove it, by herbs culled
before sunrise, and the expiatory death of a cat. This made a great
impression on his son, who in the Thoughts employs an ingenious
argument to prove that wonders wrought by the invocation of the
devil are not, in the proper sense of the term, miracles. At any
rate the the counter charm was incomplete, as the child's feeble
health remained feeble to the end.
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imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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