The Works of M. de Voltaire: The ancient and modern history

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J. Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, at Salisbury., 1761
 

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Trang 157 - Maifonfort, why cannot I give you my experience ? Why cannot I make you fenfible of that uneafinefs, which wears out the great, and of the difficulties they labour under to employ their time? Do not you...
Trang 171 - I would chiefly recom» mend to you, is never to forget the obligation you are under to God. Remember that you are indebted to him for all that you are. Endeavour to preferve peace with your neighbours. I have been too fond of war ; in this do not follow my example any more than in my too
Trang 69 - ... war. Lewis XIV. was the firft who kept on foot numerous armies. His example excited other princes to do the fame; fo that after the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle the chriftian powers of Europe had about a million of men under arms. The inconvenience of...
Trang 37 - French cavalry charged them with great impetuosity, increasing the confusion that was already produced, and penetrating through the lines of the allied army, which was thus divided about the centre. The duke of Cumberland, who exerted...
Trang 171 - You are foon going to be the king of a great kingdom. What I would chiefly recommend to you, is never to forget the obligation you are under to God. Remember that you are indebted to him for all that you are.
Trang 152 - ... which was paid to the great and pompous Louis; nor could all the reserve and dignity of the widow efface the impression made by the remembrance of her buffoonish husband. It was necessery, therefore, that madam de Maintenon should obliterate madam Scarron. In the mean time, her elevation was to her only a retreat. Shut up in her apartment, which was on the same floor with the king's, she confined herself to the society of two or three ladies, as retired as herself; and even these she saw but...
Trang 89 - ... Europe. Yet that the prisoner was one is beyond all doubt, for the following event took place during an early period of his residence in the Isle. The governor himself put the dishes on the table, and then withdrew, after having locked him in. The prisoner one day wrote with his knife on a silver plate, and threw the plate out of the window, towards a boat, which was near the shore, almost at the foot of the tower. A fisherman, to whom the boat belonged, picked up the plate, and took it to the...
Trang 227 - Gambling is a pariah — not of the same blood, nor to be confused with ^Investment and Speculation. WEALTH; MONEY; SECURITIES "Since the time of the ancient Romans, I know of no nation that has enriched itself by its victories. Italy in the fourteenth century owed her wealth entirely to commerce; Holland would have subsisted but a very short time had she looked no further than the seizure of the Spanish Plate fleets and had neglected to lay the foundation of her power in India. England is ever impoverished...
Trang 89 - His face was concealed with a mask of black velvet, with springs of steel, which were so constructed that he could eat without taking it off. A physician of the Bastile, who had often attended him, said he had never seen his face, though he had frequently examined his tongue, and other parts of his body ; but added, that he was admirably well made; that his skin was brown, his voice interesting ; that he was very accomplished, read much, played on the guitar, and had an exquisite taste for lace and...
Trang 243 - Aix in 1611, had publicly owned that he was a forcerer, and the judges believed him. It is fhameful that father le Brun, in his treatife of Superfluous Practices, flill admits of the decifion of doubtful matters by cafling lots.

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