1 THOUGHTS ON MN AND ON STYLE. 2 THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GD 3 OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER. 4 OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF. 5 JUSTICE AND THE REASON oF EFFECTS. 6 THE PHILOSOPHERS. 7 MORALITY AND DOCTRINE. 8 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGIN 9 PERPETUITY. 10 TYPOLGY 11 THE PROPHECIES. 12 PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST. 13 THE MIRACLES. 14 APPENDIX: POLEMICAL FRAGMENTS.
It consists, then, in a correspondence which we seek to establish between the head and the heart of those to whom we speak, on the one hand, and, on the other, between the thoughts and the expressions which we employ. This assumes that we have studied well the heart of man so as to know all its powers and, then, to find the just proportions of the discourse which we wish to adapt to them. We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us, and make trial on our own heart of the turn which we give to our discourse in order to see whether one is made for the other, and whether we can assure ourselves that the hearer will be, as it were, forced to surrender. We ought to restrict ourselves, so far as possible, to the simple and natural, and not to magnify that which is little, or belittle that which is great. It is not enou&nsp;that a thing be beautiful; it must be suitable to the subject, and there must be in it nothing of excess or defect.……