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One popular idea of Voltaire is that Roman Catholic doctrines , true or false , are of a mere scoffer at sacred things , a ribald no more affected by the blunders or the reviler of the best human sentiments . Ancrimes of a single pope ...
One popular idea of Voltaire is that Roman Catholic doctrines , true or false , are of a mere scoffer at sacred things , a ribald no more affected by the blunders or the reviler of the best human sentiments . Ancrimes of a single pope ...
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a the physical and human good directly arising | he doubts . But the satire is extravagantly out of every thing . The Lisbon earthquake overdone , just because the satirist felt his taken by itself -- and Voltaire would not take subject ...
a the physical and human good directly arising | he doubts . But the satire is extravagantly out of every thing . The Lisbon earthquake overdone , just because the satirist felt his taken by itself -- and Voltaire would not take subject ...
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Compare the Oriental correspondence up even the most insipid of human charac- of Amabed with the “ Persian Letters ” of ters ? To discern that some men were hon- Montesquieu . Nowhere does Voltaire sink est , and some hypocritical ...
Compare the Oriental correspondence up even the most insipid of human charac- of Amabed with the “ Persian Letters ” of ters ? To discern that some men were hon- Montesquieu . Nowhere does Voltaire sink est , and some hypocritical ...
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