The Works of M. de Voltaire, Band 33

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J. Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, at Salisbury., 1764

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Seite 253 - ... to govern all other men, if he had the courage to carry them into execution ; if he was born a prince, he enters into a...
Seite 259 - I will send it you when it is finished ; and I am sure that the force of evidence in all his propositions, and their close geometrical sequence, will strike you. ' The kindness and assistance you afford to all who devote themselves to the Arts and Sciences, makes me hope that you will not exclude me from the number of those whom you find worthy of your instructions...
Seite 48 - Say, when you hear their piteous, half-formed cries. Or from their ashes see the smoke arise, Say, will you then eternal laws maintain, Which God to cruelties like these constrain? Whilst you these facts replete with horror view, Will you maintain death to their crimes was due ? And can you then impute a sinful deed To babes who on their mothers
Seite 264 - ... infinitely touched by the letter with which your Royal Highness has deigned to honor me. My self-love was too much flattered by it; but my love for .the human race, which I have always had at heart, and which I venture to say makes my character, gave me a pleasure a thousand times purer when I discovered that there is in the world a prince who thinks like a man, a prince philosopher, who will render men happy. " Permit me to say to you that there is not a man on earth who does not owe you grateful...
Seite 39 - November, 1759, philosophers had cried out to the wretches, who with difficulty escaped from the ruins, "all this is productive of general good; the heirs of those who have perished will increase their fortune; masons will earn money by rebuilding the houses, beasts will feed on the carcasses buried under the ruins; it is the necessary effect of necessary causes; your particular misfortune is nothing, it contributes to universal good...

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