Crossword-Solution: ENCYCLOPEDISTS 14 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 24

Thick, heavy folios, containing the labors of lexicographers, commentators, and encyclopedists, were flung in, and, falling among the embers with a leaden thump, smouldered away to ashes like rotten wood.

This was the great age of that statesmanship the code of which was written by Macchiavelli as well as by Spinosa, by Hobbes as well as by Montesquieu,--for the dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates contains Montesquieu’s true thought, which his connection with the Encyclopedists did not permit him to develop otherwise than as he did.

The persecution of the Encyclopedists availed little more than satire had done, in stemming the slowly rising tide of public opinion.

The second was the rallying point of the Encyclopedists and much frequented by political reformers, but the rare gifts of its hostess attracted many from the great world.

Her influence may be traced in the work of the encyclopedists, in which she was associated, and which she did more than any other woman to aid and encourage.