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malheureux 1
malheurs 1
malice 1
man 81
man-hater 1
man-of-war 1
mankind 29
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87 some
83 you
82 most
81 man
79 our
78 such
77 other
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques

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man

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1 I | ruddy complexioned old man, who had never been afflicted 2 I | Friend," replies the old man in a soft tone of voice, " 3 I | baptised." Thus did this pious man make a wrong, but very specious 4 I | convincing an enthusiast. A man should never pretend to 5 I | that ever was penned by man; and as our adversaries 6 I | miserable contests betwixt man and man. When we are obliged 7 I | contests betwixt man and man. When we are obliged to 8 II | because no one knows when a man rises up to hold forth whether 9 III | as the effect of the holy man's predictions; so that this 10 III | oppressor is both to God and man. If, after all these warnings 11 III | epistle, written by a private man of no figure, was so happy 12 IV | had known at Oxford, this man made a proselyte of him; 13 IV | of in a country where a man is perpetually obliged to 14 IV | Quaker, and the good old man entreated his son William 15 IV | sectary, but as a very great man. The king's politics on 16 V | religion, that in which a man makes his fortune, is the 17 VI | others to take a glass. This man goes and is baptized in 18 VI | Son, and Holy Ghost: that man has his son's foreskin cut 19 VII | window, when the good old man gave him this handsome and 20 VII | illustrious Dr. Clark. This man is rigidly virtuous, and 21 IX | it was possible for one man to extend his power over 22 IX | mediators between God and man. They enacted laws, they 23 IX | whole nation pays, every man in proportion to his revenue 24 X | about, and cry, "Such a man as I! A man of my rank and 25 X | cry, "Such a man as I! A man of my rank and figure!" 26 XI | constitution, and is the healthiest man in France, would not have 27 XII | viz., Who was the greatest man, Caesar, Alexander, Tamerlane, 28 XII | mind and that of others, a man like Sir Isaac Newton, whose 29 XII | years, is the truly great man. And those politicians and 30 XII | illustrious wicked men. That man claims our respect who commands 31 XII | Bacon, as is the fate of man, was more esteemed after 32 XII | You know that this great man was accused of a crime very 33 XII | matter): "He was so great a man," replied his lordship, " 34 XII | of our planets, &c. And a man who maintained a thesis 35 XIII | On Mr. Locke~Perhaps no man ever had a more judicious 36 XIII | mathematics. This great man could never subject himself 37 XIII | that it is possible for a man to have a geometrical head 38 XIII | terms, what the soul of man is; but as these absolutely 39 XIII | indeed, pretend that a man who boasted his being attended 40 XIII | extension. He asserted, that man thinks eternally, and that 41 XIII | anything?~The superstitious man comes afterwards and declares, 42 XIII | irreligious? And indeed, what man can presume to assert, without 43 XIII | will never know that such a man as Mr. Locke existed. In 44 XIV | the reason of that is, a man who discovers a new tract 45 XIV | created a world; he made man according to his own fancy; 46 XIV | is justly said, that the man of Descartes is, in fact, 47 XIV | masterpiece. But then the man who first brought us to 48 XV | myself, I am in the case of a man who should have first observed 49 XVI | things which the curiosity of man could expect after so many 50 XVI | large pores, and that a man should arise who would demonstrate 51 XVI | dissects a human body. This man is come. Sir Isaac Newton 52 XVII | would you not imagine that a man laughed at you who should 53 XVII | to allow one and the same man the glory of having improved 54 XVII | of self-love that is in man will scarce suffer him to 55 XVIII| a most tender piece, a man strangles his wife on the 56 XVIII| oppressor's wrong, the poor man's contumely, The pangs of 57 XIX | friend. Nevertheless the real man of honour, whom he suspects 58 XIX | ingenious. Sir John was a man of pleasure, and likewise 59 XX | judges over these, and every man has the liberty of publishing 60 XX | conversation, so that every man is under a necessity of 61 XXI | other light than as the man of pleasure, as one who 62 XXI | willingly describe in him the man of genius, the great poet. 63 XXI | reason in his "Satire on Man":~"Cependant a le voir plein 64 XXI | in his "Satire against Man," in pretty near the following 65 XXI | runs thus:~"Hold mighty man, I cry all this we know, 66 XXI | Oliver was quite another man___." It is not my intent 67 XXII | kind of music in which a man should have some knowledge 68 XXII | are vexed to think that a man who was master of so much 69 XXII | declare Pascal to have been a man of little or no genius, 70 XXIII| exalted talents, that a man of merit in their country 71 XXIII| glanced at the porter of some man in power. Mr. Addison was 72 XXIII| them.~One Mr. Prynne, a man of most furiously scrupulous 73 XXIV | those the most essential to man, are wanting in the Royal 74 XXIV | indeed small expense. Any man in England who declares 75 XXIV | it is not enough that a man who aspires to the honour 76 XXIV | predecessor was a great man, that Cardinal Richelieu 77 XXIV | Richelieu was a very great man, that the Chancellor Seguier 78 XXIV | Seguier was a pretty great man, that Louis XIV. was a more 79 XXIV | XIV. was a more than great man, the director answers in 80 XXIV | also be a sort of great man, and that himself, in quality 81 XXIV | the least benefit to it! A man who understands the four


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