DRESS.(Female tenacity, in regard to.) THOMAS CONECTE, a monk of the order of the
Carmelites, born in Britanny, was burnt at Rome for a Heretic, in the year 1434, after he had
been followed by the people as the greatest preacher of his time. Having been much
admired in his own country, he left the convent of Rennes, and went into Flanders. He
acquired such a reputation there by his preaching, that one cannot sufficiently express the
honour that was done him in all the places that he went through, nor the concourse of …

Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--
contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The
bulk of the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those that influenced
Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for so many eighteenth-century
discussions--are present, including David, Manicheans, Paulicians, Pyrrho, Rorarius,
Simonides, Spinoza, and Zeno of Elea.