The Works of M. de Voltaire: A treatise on tolerationJ. Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, at Salisbury., 1764 |
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... must have been heard by the whole neighbourhood , with- out repeated blows paffing between them , with- out any marks of violence , or without any of their cloaths being in the leaft difordered !: It was evident , that if this murder ...
... must have been heard by the whole neighbourhood , with- out repeated blows paffing between them , with- out any marks of violence , or without any of their cloaths being in the leaft difordered !: It was evident , that if this murder ...
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... must be ftill more cruel than at Toulouse : at length , however , the duty of re- venging the death of her husband , got the bet- ter of her weakness . She fet out for Paris , arrived there half dead ; and was furprised to find herself ...
... must be ftill more cruel than at Toulouse : at length , however , the duty of re- venging the death of her husband , got the bet- ter of her weakness . She fet out for Paris , arrived there half dead ; and was furprised to find herself ...
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Voltaire. After the death of Francis I. a prince , whom it must be confeffed , was more remarkable for his gallantries and his misfortunes than for his cruelty , the execution of a thousand here- tics , and in particular that of Dubourg ...
Voltaire. After the death of Francis I. a prince , whom it must be confeffed , was more remarkable for his gallantries and his misfortunes than for his cruelty , the execution of a thousand here- tics , and in particular that of Dubourg ...
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... must observe , that it is in a chapter in favour of perfecution , that we meet with this extraordinary paffage ; and none but fuch who preach up perfe- cution can write thus . This deteftable book , which feems the work of a madman ...
... must observe , that it is in a chapter in favour of perfecution , that we meet with this extraordinary paffage ; and none but fuch who preach up perfe- cution can write thus . This deteftable book , which feems the work of a madman ...
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... must confefs that they are both generous and charitable , they therefore certainly cannot think that those whom they thus drive out of their diocefe , would become converts in any other country , but great honour would redound from the ...
... must confefs that they are both generous and charitable , they therefore certainly cannot think that those whom they thus drive out of their diocefe , would become converts in any other country , but great honour would redound from the ...
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Popular passages
Page 71 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Page 123 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews...
Page 133 - Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
Page 171 - They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them : and they perished from among the congregation.
Page 172 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities : and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 172 - They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Page 173 - No eye shall see me : And disguiseth his face. In the dark they dig through houses, Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime : They know not the light. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: If one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Page 123 - For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Page 157 - Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah...
Page 184 - But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth ; and he fent forth his armies, and deftroyed thofe murderers, and burnt up their city. Then faith he to his fervants, The wedding is ready, but they who were bidden were not worthy.