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

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1 I | history of so extraordinary a people were worthy the attention 2 I | of your religion." "The people of thy country," replied 3 I | a magistrate upon other people's account (for lawsuits 4 II | Almighty, we are the only people upon earth that have no 5 III | need of entreating these people; the lashes were repeated, 6 III | before a large assembly of people: "Friend, take care what 7 IV | behave and act like other people. The youth made no other 8 IV | only treaty between those people and the Christians that 9 IV | priest in it, and for a people to be without arms, either 10 IV | to Pennsylvania. His own people and the Americans received 11 VI | thousand pounds, and where the people are weak enough to suffer 12 VI | Sunday in the three kingdoms. People are there forbidden to work 13 VI | there were but two, the people would cut one another's 14 VII | spread considerably. But people are now so very cold with 15 VIII | words, "The majesty of the people of England would be wounded." 16 VIII | opinion, the majesty of the people of England has nothing in 17 VIII | common with that of the people of Rome, much less is there 18 VIII | The English are the only people upon earth who have been 19 VIII | no vassals; and where the people share in the Government 20 VIII | affair was only whether the people should be slaves to the 21 IX | those days; but then the people were more wretched upon 22 IX | those who are called the people: these, I say, were by them 23 IX | authority of kings and of the people?~Happily, in the violent 24 IX | and carts of freemen. The people considered this ordinance 25 XI | fail. The Turks, who are people of good sense, soon adopted 26 XI | that we are an odd kind of people. Perhaps our nation will 27 XI | wisest and best governed people in the world. The Chinese, 28 XIII | prodigious lenghts, the people used to reason about the 29 XIII | in the nature of it. Some people, indeed, pretend that a 30 XIII | madman, but this kind of people are seldom satisfied with 31 XIII | that God is offended when people differ from them in opinion; 32 XIII | assistance. But what would these people say should they themselves 33 XIV | a king who had made his people happy.~The English read 34 XIV | former a sage.~Very few people in England read Descartes, 35 XV | unreasonable as to wonder that people laughed at him for making 36 XV | taught us?" will these people say further; "and to what 37 XV | of it. After this, shall people quarrel with me about the 38 XVII | stars; for in those ages people were far from imagining 39 XVIII| merely for the dregs of the people) out of Otway's tragedy; 40 XIX | perfectly acquainted with the people it represents.~~ 41 XX | which shows that all the people in general are indispensably 42 XXI | still rude and ignorant, the people of which aimed at wit, though 43 XXII | other half. I have met with people who assured me that the 44 XXIII| the English nor any other people have foundations established 45 XXIII| their citizens a set of people whose business is to set 46 XXIV | at all: in like manner as people who should seem to chew 47 XXIV | were invented by ignorant people. We know exactly the angle


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