Diderot

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Excerpt from Diderot: As a Disciple of English Thought His wishes for the United States. - Conclusion, Diderot's English Friends, An enemy: Horace Walpole. - Many Englishmen in Paris after 1763. - An anecdote by Goldsmith. - Incomplete state of Diderot's Correspondence. - A great friend: "Hoop, " or Hope, his life and character. - Tales of savages, Baron Dieskau, anthropology and philosophy. - Curiosities of literature: Hoop and Sterne, Smollett's "Roman dinner." - Sterne, did he know Diderot personally? - Gibbon. - Obscurer visitors to Paris, Three famous friends of Diderot: Garrick, Hume, Wilkes. - Franklin in Paris, English reaction against French free-thinking: Burke, Romilly. - The divorce between the French and English intellects, The Moralist and Philosopher, Diderot "le Philosophe" essentially a moralist. - Shaftesbury's popularity in England and France. - His Inquiry concerning merit or virtue. - Why Diderot found it especially interesting. - Rhetorical precautions. - English "boldness" tempered in the translation. - Shaftesbury's influence on Diderot. - Sceptical doubts About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.