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Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1741
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:N10705196
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840545
In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a translation of Voltaire's Proposal for a Letter about the English, a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486143163
The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton.
Author : Voltaire,John Leigh,Prudence L. Steiner
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603844314
In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a translation of Voltaire's "Proposal for a Letter about the English," a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1733
Category : English literature
ISBN : BL:A0019008652
Author : Voltaire,Ernest Dilworth
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486426734
The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton. Voltaire's observations on English tolerance sounded a revolutionary note among European readers that resonated long after the book's first publication.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HXLTN4
Author : Voltaire,Henry Morley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368455897
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1034303228
Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres Philosophiques) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729 (though from 1707 the country was part of the Kingdom of Great Britain). It was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as an attack on the French system of government and was rapidly suppressed. A revised edition appeared in English in 1778 as Lettres Philosophiques sur les Anglais (Philosophical Letters on the English). Most modern English editions are based on the one from 1734 and typically use the title Philosophical Letters, a direct translation of that version's title.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783989882263
A new translation directly from the original French manuscript of Voltaire's 1734 Philosophical Letters (original title "Lettres Philosophiques"). This edition also contains supplemental material on Voltaire including an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Voltaire's life and works, summaries of each of the works in his corpus, and a glossary of Philosophic Terminology used by Voltaire. Dubbed the "manifesto of the Enlightenment ", this work was a major intellectual and polemical report on English modernity, published throughout Europe in 20,000 copies, an extremely high figure at the time. In Paris, its praise of "English liberty and tolerance" was seen as an attack on government and religion. Written in 1734, it's also known as "Letters Concerning the English Nation." In this series of essays, Voltaire discusses his observations from his stay in England. He makes comparisons between the English system and French institutions, especially noting the freedoms and tolerances he observed in England. The book was condemned by the Jansenist-majority Parliament and burned at the bottom of the Grand Staircase of the Palais. A lettre de cachet was then issued against Voltaire, and Émilie du Châtelet offered him refuge in the Château de Cirey in Champagne. This work was written during a time when Voltaire was exiled to England by the French Monarchy, where he was introduced to the ideas of English Empiricist philosophers such as John Locke as well as the new Physics of Isaac Newton. The Philosophical Letters is a series of letters written to a fictional correspondent in France, in which Voltaire compares the political and intellectual climate of England to that of France. The work was important because it introduced English ideas to the French intellectual elite, and helped to inspire a wave of cultural and political reforms in France along with Rousseau's push for democracy and freedom of speech. This manuscript is a critical link between the English Empiricist thinkers such as Lock and Hume, and the new French Materialists.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798621973377
Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729 (though from 1707 the country was part of the Kingdom of Great Britain). It was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as an attack on the French system of government and was rapidly suppressed.n some ways, the book can be compared with Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, in how it flatteringly explains a nation to itself from the perspective of an outsider, as Voltaire's depictions of aspects of English culture, society and government are often given favourable treatment in comparison to their French equivalents.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3627008
Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1333303378
Excerpt from Letters Concerning the English Nation His fubj eets than his. Particular ta e, or perhaps the queries of his, friend. Be this as it will, 'twas thought that the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1733
Category : Wit and humor
ISBN : OCLC:1000351399
Noted as the most influential event of his career, Voltaire's living in England between 1726 and 1729 inspired his famous Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation), published in 1733. These were not letters, but actually a series of essays about the author's experiences of events, places and people.??Letters on the English consists of 24 essays on subjects including the Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Socinains, Parliament, government, trade, inoculation, Lord Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Isaac Newton, attraction, tragedy, comedy, geometry, the Earl of Rochester, Alexander Pope and more.??Although the portrayal of English people and government was largely positive, Voltaire had no problem finding people and institutions to satirize, including the Presbyterians and the House of Commons. He first published the essays in English, and upon seeing the success of the papers, published them in French the following year. The letters were immediately suppressed and banned in France as they were seen as an attack on the French government. Today, the letters are translated from the controversial French versions rather than the original English ones.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1446793087
