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Page 200
... Voltaire would acknowledge as much if they were now alive . I shall say nothing to you of the observatory , where I saw a very will find a good account in the Encyclopedia . There is a descent large telescope , made after the manner of ...
... Voltaire would acknowledge as much if they were now alive . I shall say nothing to you of the observatory , where I saw a very will find a good account in the Encyclopedia . There is a descent large telescope , made after the manner of ...
Page 283
... Voltaire and D'Alembert on the subject of Shakspeare , though long on our files , have not , on our part , been wilfully neglected . But we have looked , at present , in vain for some authorities and documents , necessary to the defence ...
... Voltaire and D'Alembert on the subject of Shakspeare , though long on our files , have not , on our part , been wilfully neglected . But we have looked , at present , in vain for some authorities and documents , necessary to the defence ...
Page 330
... Voltaire , is natural from the pen of a deist and a Frenchman , and therefore may well be forgiven . I neither defend his French prejudices , nor his deistical theories : but it is competent even to a Frenchman and a deist , to be a ...
... Voltaire , is natural from the pen of a deist and a Frenchman , and therefore may well be forgiven . I neither defend his French prejudices , nor his deistical theories : but it is competent even to a Frenchman and a deist , to be a ...
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taste , is your esteem for Voltaire , to whose works you have consecrat- ed that leisure which your family duties have afforded you ; a family , whose good order is the fruit of your superintendance , your industry , and your prudent ...
taste , is your esteem for Voltaire , to whose works you have consecrat- ed that leisure which your family duties have afforded you ; a family , whose good order is the fruit of your superintendance , your industry , and your prudent ...
Page 356
... Voltaire , Age of Louis XIV . remarks " such has been the fate of the Ěhuman mind , in all countries , that verse has every where been the first child ' of Genius , and the parent of Eloquence . " has impelled us to look for higher ...
... Voltaire , Age of Louis XIV . remarks " such has been the fate of the Ěhuman mind , in all countries , that verse has every where been the first child ' of Genius , and the parent of Eloquence . " has impelled us to look for higher ...
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