This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ...not confine his protection to those of Paris alone, but to the romotest parts of Russia would he extend his paternal care; he would follow their progress, their destiny, or protect them in adversity. When he found his power insussicient, he would have recourse to Voltaire's credit; he would write, for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ...not confine his protection to those of Paris alone, but to the romotest parts of Russia would he extend his paternal care; he would follow their progress, their destiny, or protect them in adversity. When he found his power insussicient, he would have recourse to Voltaire's credit; he would write, for instance: " The poor Bertrand is not "lucky. He had petitioned fair Kate (the Empress of Russia) to restore to liberty five or six giddy-headed Velches. He had conjured her, in the name of phi"losophy; he had drawn up, under that facred name, the most eloquent pleading that from memory of mon"key was ever made, and Kate pretends not to under"stand it." This was as much as to fay to Voltaire, try in your turn whether you can succeed better, and do for them what you have so often done for other adepts whose misfortunes I have made known to you. This understansting equally subsisted in all that re-How he carded the conspiracy; little fatisfied with pointing out teTra Vo1 works that were to be refuted, or with giving the sketch fpy; of some new impious work, he would also be the spy over every religious author. It has often been an object of surprise, to see Voltaire, so familiar with the anecdotes of the private lives of those whose works he pretended to refute, though generally they are slanderous, sometimes ridiculous, but always foreign to thequestion. He was indebted to D'Alembert for them. Whether true or false, the latter always chose such as could attach ridicule to the person of the authors, knowing how well Voltaire could substitute ridicule for proof, or for sound argument. Those who doubt of this fact, may consult D'Alembert's letters on the Pere Bertier, or the Abbe Guenee, whom Voltaire, himself, could not but admire, or in...
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