The Life of Voltaire With Interesting Particulars Respecting His Death And Ane
The Life of Voltaire With Interesting Particulars Respecting His Death And Ane
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The influence of majesty, and the splendour of a crown, may, for a time, silence cotemporaneous animadversion ; but it will exist and breathe in history, when the bones of the monarch are as rotten as the clothes he wore, and when he is only seen and remembered through his vices and deformities. Thus, the superiority of the works of intellect, over the more perishable ones of art, are a foretaste of immorta- lity ; indeed, the only one with which we are acquainted, or which we can connect with ...the endurance of time.
During ten years Maupertuis had been flattered by Voltaire ; and when, in 1733, he wrote his Essay upon the Figures of the Stars, the philosopher of Cirey wrote to him thus : " I have read it with as much pleasure as a young Miss reads a romance, or a Devo- tee the Evangelist*. " But while resident in Lorraine, * Je Fai lu avec autant de plaisir, qu'une jeune demoiselle lit un roman, et qu'un devot lit FEvangile.
DOCTRINES OP DE PRADES. 229 Madame du Chatelet and Maupertuis had quarrelled, and Voltaire took the part of his friend ; thus all efforts to reconcile the philosophers at Potzdam failed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The influence of majesty, and the splendour of a crown, may, for a time, silence cotemporaneous animadversion ; but it will exist and breathe in history, when the bones of the monarch are as rotten as the clothes he wore, and when he is only seen and remembered through his vices and deformities. Thus, the superiority of the works of intellect, over the more perishable ones of art, are a foretaste of immorta- lity ; indeed, the only one with which we are acquainted, or which we can connect with ...the endurance of time.
During ten years Maupertuis had been flattered by Voltaire ; and when, in 1733, he wrote his Essay upon the Figures of the Stars, the philosopher of Cirey wrote to him thus : " I have read it with as much pleasure as a young Miss reads a romance, or a Devo- tee the Evangelist*. " But while resident in Lorraine, * Je Fai lu avec autant de plaisir, qu'une jeune demoiselle lit un roman, et qu'un devot lit FEvangile.
DOCTRINES OP DE PRADES. 229 Madame du Chatelet and Maupertuis had quarrelled, and Voltaire took the part of his friend ; thus all efforts to reconcile the philosophers at Potzdam failed.
What to read after The Life of Voltaire With Interesting Particulars Respecting His Death And Ane?
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