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... Voltaire himself is more perspicuous than Gibbon . Everything is in its place , and disposed in such appa- rently natural sequence that the uninitiated are apt to think the matter could not have been managed other- wise . It is a case ...
... Voltaire himself is more perspicuous than Gibbon . Everything is in its place , and disposed in such appa- rently natural sequence that the uninitiated are apt to think the matter could not have been managed other- wise . It is a case ...
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... Voltaire , but it led to no intimacy or fruitful reminiscence . ' He received me with civility as an English youth , but I cannot boast of any peculiar notice or distinction . " Still he had " the satisfaction of hear- ing - an uncommon ...
... Voltaire , but it led to no intimacy or fruitful reminiscence . ' He received me with civility as an English youth , but I cannot boast of any peculiar notice or distinction . " Still he had " the satisfaction of hear- ing - an uncommon ...
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... Voltaire and my old friends . In the spring I would cross the Alps , and after some stay in Italy , as the war must then be terminated , return home through France , to live happily with you and my dear mother . I am now two - and ...
... Voltaire and my old friends . In the spring I would cross the Alps , and after some stay in Italy , as the war must then be terminated , return home through France , to live happily with you and my dear mother . I am now two - and ...
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... Voltaire ; he simply wrote under the stimulus of the same order of ideas . Robertson , who shortly followed him , no doubt drew direct inspiration from Voltaire , and his weightiest achievement , the View of the State of Europe ...
... Voltaire ; he simply wrote under the stimulus of the same order of ideas . Robertson , who shortly followed him , no doubt drew direct inspiration from Voltaire , and his weightiest achievement , the View of the State of Europe ...
Side 102
... Voltaire , who is never so happy as when he can make the past look mean and ridiculous , merely because it was the parent of the odious present . But , excellent as were the Scotch historians - Hume , in style nearly perfect ; Robertson ...
... Voltaire , who is never so happy as when he can make the past look mean and ridiculous , merely because it was the parent of the odious present . But , excellent as were the Scotch historians - Hume , in style nearly perfect ; Robertson ...
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Side 12 - The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By EH PALMER, MA, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of St.
Side 139 - I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the revolution of France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Side 4 - MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March, 1874. By R.
Side 10 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Side 12 - Without a single lecture, either public or private, either Christian or protestant, without any academical subscription, without any episcopal confirmation, I was left by the dim light of my catechism to grope my way to the chapel and communiontable, where I was admitted, without a question, how far, or by what means, I might be qualified to receive the sacrament.
Side 136 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Side 1 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years
Side 27 - The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.
Side 21 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Side 104 - He remains the one historian of the eighteenth century whom modern research has neither set aside nor threatened to set aside.