New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 23Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1828 |
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Page 93
... Voltaire , on his re- turn from England , came forward as a freethinker . Literature seemed to awaken from a long slumber , and a general eagerness was shown to imitate English writers , who , doubtless , were reprehensible on the score ...
... Voltaire , on his re- turn from England , came forward as a freethinker . Literature seemed to awaken from a long slumber , and a general eagerness was shown to imitate English writers , who , doubtless , were reprehensible on the score ...
Page 95
... Voltaire's " Essai sur les Mœurs et l'esprit des Nations , " This was the model which Robertson followed . The defect of Voltaire is , that when he comes to a strange or barbarous custom , he ridi- cules rather than describes . In one ...
... Voltaire's " Essai sur les Mœurs et l'esprit des Nations , " This was the model which Robertson followed . The defect of Voltaire is , that when he comes to a strange or barbarous custom , he ridi- cules rather than describes . In one ...
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... Voltaire , each of which frequently amounted to between two and three thou- sand copies , upwards of two millions of volumes of Voltaire have been pub- lished in Paris within ten years . Now , two - thirds of the books printed in Paris ...
... Voltaire , each of which frequently amounted to between two and three thou- sand copies , upwards of two millions of volumes of Voltaire have been pub- lished in Paris within ten years . Now , two - thirds of the books printed in Paris ...
Contents
Flowers | 16 |
Letters to the Students of Glasgow by T Campbell Letter VI 1 VII | 97 |
Landors Imaginary Conversations | 143 |
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| Title | New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 23 |
| Editors | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth |
| Publisher | E. W. Allen, 1828 |
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