 | Louis Dutens - Europe - 1806 - 292 pages
...inclination to fill their heads with such verses of Voltaire as the following, in CEdipus : Les pretres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense : Notre credulite fait toute leur science ; as well as a hundred other passages of the same kind, which put every body at their ease. The Chevalier... | |
 | Lewis Goldsmith - France - 1810 - 674 pages
...was at the representation of CEdipe, a tragedy of Voltaire's, in which are these lines: " Nos pretres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense ; " Notre credulite fait toute Ibur science." The applause was very general, and the performer was obliged to repeat the verses three... | |
 | John Scott - Paris (France) - 1815 - 434 pages
...wanted : — the reply was — " Monsieur, I am a soldier, — •- 1 know nothing of churches /"-— In the tragedy of CEdipus, by Voltaire, Jocaste says to her wretched husband — " Nos pretres ne sont point ee qu'un vain peuple pense, " Notre credulite fait toute leur science." These... | |
 | John Scott - Paris (France) - 1816 - 436 pages
...wanted : — the reply was — " Monsieur, I am a soldier, — / l-noic nothing of churches !" — In the tragedy of CEdipus, by Voltaire, Jocaste says...ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense, " Notre credulit^ fait toute leur science." These lines, on the night I saw the piece performed, were scarcely... | |
 | Edmund Boyce - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1816 - 396 pages
...atrocious acts of cruelty and despotism would have excited less indignation. In the tragedy of GEdipus, by Voltaire, Jocaste says to her wretched husband, " Nos prStres ne sont point ce qu•un vaine peuple pense, " Notre credulite• fait toute leur science." These lines, on the night I saw... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 586 pages
...one especially is generally given as his first declaration of war against the sacred order : — 4 " Nos prStres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense — Notre credulite fait toute leur science." — (Act iv. sc. 4.) But surely, when we observe that this is only the first expressions of the vox... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Biography - 1845 - 594 pages
...especially is generally given as. h^s first declaration of war against the sacred order : — " Nos prfetres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense — Notre credulite fait toute leur science." — (Act iv. sc. 4.) But surely, when we observe that this is only the first expressions of the vox... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Authors - 1845 - 582 pages
...especially is generally given as his first declaration of war against the sacred order:— " Nos prfetres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense— Notre credulite fait toute leur science."—(Act iv. sc. 4.) But surely, when we observe that this is only the first expressions of... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...especially is generally given as his first declaration of war against the sacred order : — " Nos pretres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense — Notre cre'dulite fait toute leur science." — (Act iv. sc. 4.) But surely, when we observe that this is only the summing up of an invective satirical,... | |
 | Bishop Imre Szabo - Europe - 1857 - 414 pages
...sufficed to squash the most elaborate satire of the defenders of the ancient regime. " Les pretres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense ; notre credulite fait toute leurs science," said the poet philosopher, and the world laughed and believed. Still, amid this onward... | |
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Nos pretres ne sont point ce qu'un vain peuple pense ; Notre credulite fait toute leur science. 
