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See also:HOLBACH, See also:PAUL HEINRICH See also:DIETRICH, See also:BARON D' (1723–1789), See also:French philosopher and See also:man of letters, of See also:German origin, was See also:born at Heidelshe'minthe See also:palatinate in 1723. Of his See also:family little is known; according to J. J. See also:Rousseau his See also:father was a See also:rich parvenu, who brought his son at an See also:early See also:age to See also:Paris, where the latter spent most of his See also:life. Much of Holbach's fame is due to his intimate connexion with the brilliant coterie of bold thinkers and polished wits whose creed, the new See also:philosophy, is concentrated in the famous Encyclopedia. Possessed of easy means and being of hospitable disposition, he kept open See also:house for Helvetius, D'See also:Alembert, See also:Diderot, See also:Condillac, See also:Turgot, See also:Buffon, See also:Grimm, See also:Hume, See also:Garrick, Wilkes, See also:Sterne, and for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time J. J. Rousseau, guests who, while enjoying the intellectual See also:pleasure of their See also:host's conversation, were not insensible to his excellent cuisine and costly wines. For the Encyclopedia he compiled and translated a large number of articles on See also:chemistry and See also:mineralogy, chiefly from German See also:sources. He attracted more See also:attention, however, in the See also:department of philosophy. In 1767 Christianisme devoile appeared, in which he attacked See also:Christianity and See also:religion as the source of all human evils. This was followed up by other See also:works, and in 1770 by a still more open attack in his most famous See also:book, Le Systeme de la nature, in which it
Holbach is also the author of the following and other works: Esprit du clerge (1767); De l'imposture sacerdolale (1767); Preetres demasques (1768) ; Examen critique de la See also:vie et See also:des ouvrages de St Paul (1770) ; Histoire critique de Jesus-See also:Christ (1770), and Ethocratie (1776). For further particulars as to his life and doctrines see Grimm's Correspondance litteraire, &c. (1813); Rousseau's Confessions; See also:Morellet's Memoires (x.821); Madame de See also:Genlis, See also:Les Diners du Baron Holbach; Madame d'See also:Epinay's Memoires; Avezac-Lavigne, Diderot et la societe du Baron d'Holbach 0875), and See also:Morley's Diderot (1878).
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