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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... king be- daughter . - The came fmitten with young Sarah , and gave her fham brother abundance of sheep , oxen , he ... kings of Mem- phis were magnificently rewarded . Young Sarah had , according to fcripture , reach- ed her ninetieth ...
... king be- daughter . - The came fmitten with young Sarah , and gave her fham brother abundance of sheep , oxen , he ... kings of Mem- phis were magnificently rewarded . Young Sarah had , according to fcripture , reach- ed her ninetieth ...
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... king of this wilderness the like paffion which the Egyptian monarch had felt for her . The Father of the Faithful here enjoined her the fame lie as in Egypt : and thus his wife , paffing for his fifter , got more cattle and servants ...
... king of this wilderness the like paffion which the Egyptian monarch had felt for her . The Father of the Faithful here enjoined her the fame lie as in Egypt : and thus his wife , paffing for his fifter , got more cattle and servants ...
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... king of Babylon , " What is become of the exacter of tributes ? the fir - trees and cedars rejoice at thy overthrow : how art thou fallen from heaven , O HELEL , thou morning ftar ? " This HE- LEL has been rendered by the Latin word ...
... king of Babylon , " What is become of the exacter of tributes ? the fir - trees and cedars rejoice at thy overthrow : how art thou fallen from heaven , O HELEL , thou morning ftar ? " This HE- LEL has been rendered by the Latin word ...
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... king afford to hire twelve preach- ers of atheism ? This is fuch an abfurdity as never came into any one's mind but Father Merfenne . But from him the tale has been repeated over and over ; the journals and hiftorical dictionaries have ...
... king afford to hire twelve preach- ers of atheism ? This is fuch an abfurdity as never came into any one's mind but Father Merfenne . But from him the tale has been repeated over and over ; the journals and hiftorical dictionaries have ...
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... King of Lou , tributary to the CHINESE emperor GNEN- VAN , four hundred and feventeen years before our common æra . Tranflated into LATIN by Father FoUQUET , for- merly a Jefuit . The manufcript is in the VATI- CAN library , Number ...
... King of Lou , tributary to the CHINESE emperor GNEN- VAN , four hundred and feventeen years before our common æra . Tranflated into LATIN by Father FoUQUET , for- merly a Jefuit . The manufcript is in the VATI- CAN library , Number ...
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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.