The Philosophical Dictionary for the PocketFirst edition in English of Voltaire's 'Dictionnaire philosophique, portatif', which had originally appeared in Geneva under a false London imprint. The book was banned in France, and burned in Geneva. |
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... Rome , it has there been fanctified , and to every man has been affigned a good and evil an- gel ; one affifting him , and the other annoying him , from his cradle to his coffin : but , whether these good and evil angels continually ...
... Rome , it has there been fanctified , and to every man has been affigned a good and evil an- gel ; one affifting him , and the other annoying him , from his cradle to his coffin : but , whether these good and evil angels continually ...
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... Rome , which almoft totally confifted of atheists both in theory and practice , believing neither in Providence nor a future ftate . It was a meeting of philofophers , of yotaries to pleasure and ambition ; all very danger- ous fets of ...
... Rome , which almoft totally confifted of atheists both in theory and practice , believing neither in Providence nor a future ftate . It was a meeting of philofophers , of yotaries to pleasure and ambition ; all very danger- ous fets of ...
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... at Japan is indecent at Rome , and what is fashionable at Paris is otherwise at Pekin ; and thus he faved himself the trouble of compofing a long treatife on the beautiful . BODY . A BODY . S we know nothing of fpirit , 32 A PHILOSOPHICAL.
... at Japan is indecent at Rome , and what is fashionable at Paris is otherwise at Pekin ; and thus he faved himself the trouble of compofing a long treatife on the beautiful . BODY . A BODY . S we know nothing of fpirit , 32 A PHILOSOPHICAL.
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... Rome itself muft for three hours have been involved in thick darkness , and furely fuch a prodigy would have been noted in the annals of Rome , and those of all other nations . But God , I fuppofe , would not allow that fuch divine ...
... Rome itself muft for three hours have been involved in thick darkness , and furely fuch a prodigy would have been noted in the annals of Rome , and those of all other nations . But God , I fuppofe , would not allow that fuch divine ...
Page 89
... Rome , mingling with the Jews , to whom the Romans allowed a fynagogue . At first they continued with the Jews , and fo far practifed circumcifion , that , as we have elsewhere obferved , the fifteen first bishops of Je- rufalem were ...
... Rome , mingling with the Jews , to whom the Romans allowed a fynagogue . At first they continued with the Jews , and fo far practifed circumcifion , that , as we have elsewhere obferved , the fifteen first bishops of Je- rufalem were ...
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Page 261 - I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it...
Page 287 - Rejoice, oh young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart ; and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment...
Page 143 - The fathers have eaten four grapes, " and the children's teeth are fet on edge...
Page 292 - The wrath of a king is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as the dew upon the grass.
Page 32 - Ask a Guinea Negro ; and with him beauty is a greasy black skin, hollow eyes, and a flat nose. Put the question to the devil, and he will tell you, that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws, and a tail.
Page 11 - Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Page 3 - Otherwise, the land is a good land, and still capable of affording its neighbours the like supplies of corn and oil, which it is known to have done in the time of Solomon.
Page 144 - Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love ; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
Page 318 - That house had some distant claim to a province, the last proprietor of which died of an apoplexy. The prince and his council instantly resolve, that this province belongs to him by divine right. The province, which is some hundred leagues from him, protests that it does not so much as know him ; that it is not disposed to be governed by him ; that before prescribing laws to them, their consent, at least, was necessary: these...
Page 214 - I think he will as plainly perceive that liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will, which is also but a power.