Voltaire and His TimesT. Constable and Company, 1854 - 552 páginas |
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Página 552 - To commend these works is superfluous ; they have met with universal approbation from the British press and public. That the periodical press, representing so great a variety of religious and political opinion, should have so generally noticed them, and that, too, with high commendation, is a circumstance exceedingly rare, if not altogether altogether unparalleled. They have charms for the merely literary man, and they will obtain a hearing for evangelical truth in quarters from which it would otherwise...
Página 552 - Harms very much as he has served himself in the course of his labours, in compiling these Memoirs. He, occupied with his great subject, has kept himself out of view ; and we, warmed at the same fire, have been almost forgetting him, as he himself. But he will have his revenge of us. All the world has read, or will presently be reading, what he has written ; and thousands of readers will be grateful to him for what he has done, so well, for their edification and pleasure ; or even if they forget to...
Página 153 - You are not ignorant," * you will find him say, " that this great revolution in the human mind, and in the political system of Europe, commenced with Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, who was commissioned by his superiors to preach against the wares which they could not sell.