Life of Voltaire, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 "This book is the second volume in a two volume set describing the life and works of Voltaire. The first volume described the life of Voltaire from childhood through middle age. The second volume describes Voltaire's later years and death." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Seite 187 - I'll have a double quantity; for I am told Foote means to take me off, as he calls it, and I am determined the fellow shall not do it with impunity.
Seite 432 - is King when he meets his friends; indeed so completely forgetting it ' that he made me too almost forget it, and I needed an effort of memory ' to recollect that I here saw sitting at the foot of my bed a Sovereign ' who had an Army of 100,000 men. That was the moment to have ' read your amiable Verses to him...
Seite 228 - This reason (which carries mathematical evidence with it) has converted such numbers of Dissenters of all persuasions, that not a twentieth part of the nation is out of the pale of the Established Church.
Seite 352 - I envy the beasts two things, — their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said of them.
Seite 206 - Criticism, which have dressed Homer so becomingly in an English coat, should have been so barbarously treated ? Let the hand of Dennis, or of your poetasters be cut off; yours is sacred.
Seite 255 - There were religious disputes, however, among them, as well as in other countries ; but their greatest controversy was, whether laymen should make the sign of the cross with two fingers or with three.
Seite 207 - Hervey, would you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.
Seite 27 - twas false, 'twas never so, Yet, feeling it, thus much I know, It is as true as steel.
Seite 339 - Three days after he wrote thus to Thieriot : " Lying is a vice only when it does harm ; it is a very great virtue when it does good. Be, then, more virtuous than ever. It is necessary to lie like a devil ; not timidly, not for a time, but boldly and always. What does it matter that this censorious public should know whom to punish for having put upon the stage a Croupillac ? Let it hiss her if she has no merit, but let the author remain unknown, I conjure you, in the name of the tender friendship...
Seite 210 - Milton's page With Sin and Death provoked thy rage, Thy rage provoked, who soothed with gentle rhymes ; Who kindly couched thy censure's eye, And gave thee clearly to descry Sound judgment giving law to fancy strong ; Who half...