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François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques

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1 Int | tendency which led to his being twice exiled from Paris 2 I | solitude not far from London. Being come into it, I perceived 3 I | unreasonable ceremonies, it not being easy to disengage one's 4 I | art a Christian without being circumcised, and I am one 5 I | circumcised, and I am one without being baptised." Thus did this 6 I | even in a court of justice, being of opinion that the most 7 I | which unites us with the Being of Beings; but the reason 8 III | apostle-that is, without being able either to read or write. 9 III | was seized at Derby, and being carried before a justice 10 III | became his first disciples. Being set at liberty, he ran up 11 III | whipped from time to time. Being one day set in the pillory, 12 III | his favour that, his head being freed tumultuously from 13 III | saints." This magistrate, being one who besotted himself 14 III | sit upon the throne; and, being oppressed, thou hast reason 15 IV | proselyte of him; and William being a sprightly youth, and naturally 16 IV | Footnote 1: Thomas Loe.]~Being returned, after his leaving 17 IV | dwindle away, daily; and Penn being young, handsome, and of 18 IV | prevailed universally of his being a Jesuit. This calumny affected 19 IV | Quakers are disqualified from being members of Parliament; nor 20 IV | ruffles; and quite ashamed of being called Quakers they become 21 V | they bless God for their being Protestants. But these are 22 VII | appearance in, the present age being quite cloyed with disputes 23 VIII | this gentleman, so far from being disconcerted, repeated the 24 VIII | them to be conquerors. By being unhappy at home, they triumphed 25 IX | Every nation, instead of being governed by one master, 26 IX | in the government, they being villains or peasants, whose 27 XI | sexes immediately upon their being weaned.~Some pretend that 28 XI | in the British Kingdoms, being with her husband, who was 29 XI | beneficence. It is she who, being informed that a daughter 30 XI | advanced age.~The princess being assured of the usefulness 31 XII | visited the Lord Bacon, who, being at that time sick in his 32 XII | charged, some examples whereof being given, the Lord Bolingbroke 33 XII | been made sacred by their being rediculously blended with 34 XIII | that a man who boasted his being attended by a familiar genius 35 XIII | he consults himself; the being conscious that he himself 36 XIII | capable of knowing whether a being, purely material, thinks 37 XIII | to do in the affair, it being a question purely philosophical, 38 XIII | presume to assert, without being guilty at the same time 39 XIII | the work of divines, who being at first puffed up with 40 XIII | soon grew very desirous of being at the head of a party. 41 XIV | was injuriously accused of being an atheist, the last refuge 42 XIV | believe there was no such Being.~Such a persecution from 43 XV | ellipses, and consequently being at a much greater distance 44 XV | fluid that carries it along, being then more pressed, ought 45 XV | vortices, he despaired of ever being able to discover whether 46 XV | gravity on the earth. But being retired in 1666, upon account 47 XV | one and the same power; it being demonstrated that the moon 48 XVI | of coloured rays, which, being united, form white colour. 49 XVI | object glass of the telescope being convex on one side and flat 50 XVII | which time Sir Isaac Newton, being then twenty-three years 51 XVII | and, consequently, authors being not so obnoxious to censure, 52 XVII | forty-eight years; which, being divided equally among the 53 XVII | that the sun, instead of being in that part of the heavens 54 XVII | this revolution.~All this being laid down, the only thing 55 XVIII| through length of time (it being a hundred and fifty years 56 XIX | there for some time, without being ever able to discover the 57 XXI | only design in this letter being to display the genius of 58 XXII | common with Rabelais) of being a priest, and, like him, 59 XXIII| sense. They are far from being so ridiculous as to brand 60 XXIV | but this is so far from being the case at London, that 61 XXIV | aspires to the honour of being a member of the Academy, 62 XXIV | infancy. But Queen Anne being snatched suddenly from the 63 XXIV | two of them, but without being able to understand the style 64 XXIV | to say, and a desire of being witty, are three circumstances 65 XXIV | ridiculous. These gentlemen, not being able to strike out any new 66 XXIV | compared to stars which, by being placed at too great a distance, 67 XXIV | and valuable French books being then printed at the King' 68 XXIV | many useful projects, of being applauded and neglected.~ ~ ~


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