The Works of M. de Voltaire, Volum 30J. Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, at Salisbury, 1763 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 58 - And he spake to them a parable ; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees ; when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves, that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
Pàgina 205 - But even this opinion it would not be easy to confirm from contemporary writers. Any romantic legend or popular tradition may be readily welcomed by a poet to adorn his tale, without any nice inquiry as to its falsehood or its truth. But we may notice, in passing...
Pàgina 57 - D there mail be figns in the fun, and in the moon, and in the ftars ; and upon the earth diftrefs of nations, with perplexity; the fea and the waves roaring...
Pàgina 192 - Milan, and the festival of St. Stephen, to murder that prince at the foot of the altar. The...
Pàgina 229 - A there is [a race, though very few in number, of little men, who are as white as fnow, with faces like thofe of the negroes, and round eyes exadUy refembling thofe of partridges.
Pàgina 225 - The Negro race is a species of men as different from ours as the breed of spaniels is from that of greyhounds. The mucous membrane, or network, which nature has spread between the muscles and the skin, is white in us and black or copper-colored in them. . . . If their understanding is not of a different nature from ours, it is at least greatly inferior.
Pàgina 251 - ... beavers. This country, which was discovered some time before 1535, had been afterward abandoned; but at length, after several attempts badly supported by the government for want of a sufficient naval force, a small company of merchants of Dieppe and St. Malo founded Quebec, in 1608; that is to say, they built a few huts there, which did not take the form of a town till the reign of Louis XIV. This settlement and that of Louisburg, as well as all the rest in New France, have been always very poor,...
Pàgina 211 - Thomas d' Aquinas, in denying her the privileges of having been born without sin. The Franciscans, on the other hand, gained ground daily, by preaching upon all occasions the doctrine of immaculate conception, maintained by St. Bonaventure. The mutual hatred between those two orders was so great, that in 1503, a Franciscan being one day preaching at Frankfort, on the subject of the blessed Virgin, and seeing a Dominican enter the church, he cried out in the midst of his sermon, " that he blessed...
Pàgina 193 - ... many murders, poisonings, treasons, and debauchery of all kind. The people of Florence, who loved the family of Medici, revenged their deaths, with interest, on the bloody perpetrators. The bishop was hanged at one of the windows of the public palace. Lorenzo had the generosity, or prudence, to save the life of the cardinal's nephew, whom the enraged people were going to put to death, at the foot of that very altar which he had himself stained with blood, and whither he now fled for safety. One...
Pàgina 123 - to understand that absurd and impossible Equality, by which the master and the servant, the magistrate and the artificer, the plaintiff and the judge, are confounded together ; but that Equality by which the subject depends only on the laws.