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Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1732
Category : Russia
ISBN : BL:A0018179366
Author : Gustavus Adlerfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1740
Category : Poltava, Battle of, Poltava, Ukraine, 1709
ISBN : PRNC:32101074631332
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1734
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018175348
Author : François Marie Arouet de Voltaire,King of Sweden CHARLES XII.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1734
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591018395
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Sweden
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3MEX
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1751
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022054464
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:933172534
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Sweden
ISBN : OCLC:52012813
Author : VOLTAIRE. VOLTAIRE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103313449X
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1379438691
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T154462 The recto of p.206 contains 'A letter to the Right Honourable Lord ******, .. '; the register is continuous. With an index. Edinburgh: printed for, and sold by John Wood, 1755. vii, [1],215, [2],206-207, [13]p., plate: port.; 12°
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Sweden
ISBN : UCBK:C072602327
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11419646
Author : Voltaire,John Joseph Stockdale
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020185627
This historical biography explores the life of Charles XII, the young and successful king of Sweden who led the country through a period of military might and expansion. From his early years to his eventual death on the battlefield, Voltaire and Stockdale provide a detailed account of his reign and influence on Swedish history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613108437
THE “Life of Charles XII” that Mr. John Burns once bought for a penny in the New Cut—an incident in itself historical if one looks at it in the right way—was, he writes to say, an English version of Voltaire’s book. The “Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suède,” was first published at Rouen in 1731, first freely translated into English by Alexander Henderson in 1734, and soon afterwards reduced into a chap-book, which made the King a proverbial hero in English fairs and market-places. There have been other translations since Henderson’s, and it is now retranslated by Miss Todhunter with a closer correspondence than his to Voltaire’s original. The book may claim a particular right to an English hearing, apart from the main interest of its subject. It was in England that the life of Charles XII was written by Voltaire, when he was on a visit of exigency there after the Rohan escapade and his second Bastille imprisonment. The effect of this stay in England was that of a determining event in his career. “Voltairism,” writes Mr. John Morley, “may be said to have begun from the flight of its founder from Paris to London. This, to borrow a name from the most memorable instance of outward change marking inward revolution, was the decisive ‘hegira,’ from which the philosophy of destruction in a formal shape may be held seriously to date.” We may supplement this passage from the criticism of a French critic of another school, who says, “England at this time was worked by a spirit of dogmatic irreligion which based itself on a false erudition, a bold criticism and an insidious metaphysic. It was the time of Woolston, of Toland, of Tindal, of Chubb, of Collins, of Bolingbroke. Until then, an insouciant disciple and imitator of the epicureans of the Temple and the roués of the Regency, Voltaire had only ventured on impiety by sallies; dogmas and mysteries had so far only inspired him with bon mots. In the school of the English philosophers he learnt to reason out his incredulity.” Voltaire had had time by this to mend his youth and find his intellectual stature. Born in 1694, he was now a man approaching thirty-three. He had written plays, for his love for the theatre, as it lasted late in him, began early; he had completed his epic, “la Henriade”; he had used his wit irresponsibly, and, thanks to it, had twice been in the Bastille. In England he learnt, if one may say so, to take his wit seriously, that is, to realize it as a decisive weapon in his inevitable revolt and warfare. Similarly he was to use some of his other faculties in their most adroit perfection. If in the “Henriade” the epic method had failed him, considered by the side of other poems as ambitious and as long, he was able to sit down on his return from his English exile and complete this rapid piece of biography, in effect a short prose epic, which shows us the narrative art used by a consummate master in that art. More than this we need not claim for him. If we admit Carlyle’s stigma of “persifleur” as applying to his first period, we need not go on to write him down now philosopher, by way of compensation, because he had studied for a brief period under certain notorious English philosophers. He was neither a persifleur nor a philosopher: he was a militant scribe and hyper-critic with a master bias, anti-religious or anti-Catholic, and an inimitable gift of expression. We see his gift in a very luminous special form in his “Charles XII,” which luckily need offend no man’s susceptibilities.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1750
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:185157028
