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Voltaire: Philosophical Letters
Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation
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Voltaire: Philosophical Letters
Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation
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In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a translation of Voltaire's Proposal for a Letter about the English, a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Translator's Note
- Chronology
- First Letter: On the Quakers
- Second Letter: On the Quakers
- Third Letter: On the Quakers
- Fourth Letter: On the Quakers
- Fifth Letter: On the Anlgican Religion
- Sixth Letter: On the Presbyterians
- Seventh Letter: On the Socinians, or Arians, or Antitrinitarians
- Eighth Letter: On the Parliament
- Ninth Letter: On the Government
- Tenth Letter: On Commerce
- Eleventh Letter: On Smallpox Inoculation
- Twelfth Letter: On Chancellor Bacon
- Thirteenth Letter: On Mr. Locke
- Fourteenth Letter: On Descartes and Newton
- Fifteenth Letter: On the System of Attraction
- Sixteenth Letter: On Mr. Newton's Optics
- Seventeenth Letter: On Infinity and on Chronology
- Eighteenth Letter: On Tragedy
- Nineteenth Letter: On Comedy
- Twentieth Letter: On Noblemen Who Cultivate Literature
- Twenty-First Letter: On the Earl of Rochester and Mr. Waller
- Twenty-Second Letter: On Mr. Pope, annd Some Other Famous Poets
- Twenty-Third Letter: On the Esteem Due to Men of Letters
- Twenty-Fourth Letter: On the Academies
- Twenty-Fifth Letter: On Mr. Pascal's Pensees
- Proposal for a Letter about the English
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography