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Letters on England
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pubOne.info present you this new edition. Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer's office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and was a chief leader in the movement of thought that preceded the Revolution. Though he lived to his eighty-fourth year, Voltaire was born with a weak body. His brother Armand, eight years his senior, became a Jansenist. Voltaire when ten years old was placed with the Jesuits in the College Louis-le-Grand. There he was taught during seven years, and his genius was encouraged in its bent for literature; skill in speaking and in writing being especially fostered in the system of education which the Jesuits had planned to produce capable men who by voice and pen could give a reason for the faith they held
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Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION
- LETTERS ON ENGLAND
- LETTER II.—ON THE QUAKERS
- LETTER III.—ON THE QUAKERS
- LETTER IV.—ON THE QUAKERS
- LETTER V.—ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
- LETTER VI.—ON THE PRESBYTERIANS
- LETTER VII.—ON THE SOCINIANS, OR ARIANS, OR ANTITRINITARIANS
- LETTER VIII.—ON THE PARLIAMENT
- LETTER IX.—ON THE GOVERNMENT
- LETTER X.—ON TRADE
- LETTER XI.—ON INOCULATION
- LETTER XII.—ON THE LORD BACON
- LETTER XIII.—ON MR. LOCKE
- LETTER XIV.—ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- LETTER XV.—ON ATTRACTION
- LETTER XVI.—ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S OPTICS
- LETTER XVII.—ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S CHRONOLOGY
- LETTER XVIII.—ON TRAGEDY
- LETTER XIX.—ON COMEDY
- LETTER XX.—ON SUCH OF THE NOBILITY AS CULTIVATE THE BELLES LETTRES
- LETTER XXI.—ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER AND MR. WALLER
- LETTER XXII.—ON MR. POPE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS POETS
- LETTER XXIII.—ON THE REGARD THAT OUGHT TO BE SHOWN TO MEN OF LETTERS
- LETTER XXIV.—ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES
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