...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ill be moved by the Spirit or by folly. In this doubt and uncer- tainty we listen patiently to everyone; we even allow our women to hold forth. Two or... ... to preach. At first the spectators fell a-laugh- ing, but they afterwards listened to him; and as enthusiasm is an epidemical distemper, many were pe... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ... bulls, and reinforced by monks, they made even kings tremble, deposed and assassinated them at pleasure, and employed every artifice to draw into the... ...ual is hardly found in a thousand years, is the truly great man. And those politicians and conquerors (and all ages produce some) were generally so ma... ... facto; and added, that doubtless Brutus, who was a very severe Jansenist, assassinated Julius Caesar for no other reason but because he, who was Pont...

...Introduction: 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 Chambr...

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