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... Voltaire thus descants : Pope dit que l'homme ne peut savoir pourquoi les Lunes de Jupiter sont moins grandes que Jupiter . Il se trompe en cela ; c'est une erreur par- donable . Il n'y a point de Mathématicien qui n'eût fait voir ...
... Voltaire thus descants : Pope dit que l'homme ne peut savoir pourquoi les Lunes de Jupiter sont moins grandes que Jupiter . Il se trompe en cela ; c'est une erreur par- donable . Il n'y a point de Mathématicien qui n'eût fait voir ...
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... Voltaire . Questions sur l'Ency- clopédie , 9 Partie , p . 348. I have heard Dr. Adam Smith say , that these Dialogues concerning Natural Religion were the most laboured of all Hume's works . They were the occasion of Dr. Balguy's ...
... Voltaire . Questions sur l'Ency- clopédie , 9 Partie , p . 348. I have heard Dr. Adam Smith say , that these Dialogues concerning Natural Religion were the most laboured of all Hume's works . They were the occasion of Dr. Balguy's ...
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... Voltaire , has also translated , but not published , the Essay on Man . Millot has given another , published 1762. - Warton . Ver . 286. And each vacuity of sense by pride : ] An eminent Casuist , Father Francis Garasse , in his Somme ...
... Voltaire , has also translated , but not published , the Essay on Man . Millot has given another , published 1762. - Warton . Ver . 286. And each vacuity of sense by pride : ] An eminent Casuist , Father Francis Garasse , in his Somme ...
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... Voltaire to oppose one Romance to another , had he rested there . But his tale of Candide , which professes to ridicule the Optimisme of Leibnitz , was apparently composed in favour of an irreligious Naturalism , which he makes the ...
... Voltaire to oppose one Romance to another , had he rested there . But his tale of Candide , which professes to ridicule the Optimisme of Leibnitz , was apparently composed in favour of an irreligious Naturalism , which he makes the ...
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... Voltaire , in the Essay on the Spirit of Nations , chapter 67 , on Switzerland . " You are not , by this term Equality , " says the last , " to understand that absurd and impossible Equality , by which the master and the servant , the ...
... Voltaire , in the Essay on the Spirit of Nations , chapter 67 , on Switzerland . " You are not , by this term Equality , " says the last , " to understand that absurd and impossible Equality , by which the master and the servant , the ...
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