Montesquieu

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• Montesquieu is a stranger.] 91 See the Salic law, (tit.lxii. in tom.iv. p. 156.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• They quote with a certain fatuity the eulogy of Montesquieu, who says it is the only book they have; "a proposition" which Navarrete considers "inexact," and we agree with Navarrete. Castilian Days
• Madame de Montesquieu's visits were made only at long intervals, which distressed Josephine greatly; but the child was growing larger, an indiscreet word lisped by him, a childish remembrance, the least thing, might offend Marie Louise, who feared Josephine. Recollections of the private life of Napoleon
• He is a sort of 'complaisant' of the President Montesquieu, to whom you have a letter. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750
• “If a particular cause, like the accidental result of a battle, has ruined a state,” wrote Montesquieu in considering the role of chance and contingency in the Roman case, “there was a general cause that made the downfall of this state ensue from a single battle.” Imperial Follies
• “For instance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what he had already bought — Sismondi and Rousseau and Montesquieu,” he added with a smile. War and Peace
• Montesquieu's fame rests above everything else on his political theory of the separation of powers.
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• The brilliant imagination of Montesquieu is corrected, however, by the dry, cold reason of the Abbe de Mably. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu.