Voltaire and His Times

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T. Constable and Company, 1854 - 552 páginas
 

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Página 374 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Página 402 - Let mothers deign to nurse their children, morals will reform themselves, nature's sentiments will be awakened in every heart, the state will be repeopled. This first point, this point alone, will bring everything back together.
Página 482 - My countrymen did not even know what a planet was; they were all arrant ignoramuses. Their superstitions were quite different from those of the Greeks.
Página 417 - If you acknowledge it to be founded on the equality of all men in the sight of God, on the...

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