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1 XXIII| promised a reward of 20,000 pounds sterling to any person
2 XV | circumference of the earth is 123,249,600 feet. This, among
3 III | spread itself in England in 1642.~It was at the time when
4 VIII | i.e., Cardinal Mazarin, in 1648.]~~
5 XVIII| from Paris to London about 1660, with our ribbons and our
6 XV | earth. But being retired in 1666, upon account of the Plague,
7 III | presented to the King, in 1675, his "Apology for the Quakers,"
8 Int | born at Paris, November 21, 1694. His father was a well-to-do
9 XIX | glorious war that broke out in 1701, was thrown into the Bastille,
10 XV | Memoirs of the Academy of 1709, and M. de Fontenelle in
11 XXII | Extraordinary at Paris in 1712. I also designed to have
12 IV | Ruscombe, in Berkshire, in 1718.~I am not able to guess
13 XV | appear again the 17th of May, 1719. Not a single astronomer
14 Int | imprisoned in the Bastile. In 1726 he took refuge in England,
15 XIV | system, died in March, anno 1727. His countrymen honoured
16 Int | king's bedchamber; from 1750 to 1753 he lived at the
17 Int | bedchamber; from 1750 to 1753 he lived at the court of
18 Int | period of his life, from 1758 to 1778, on his estate of
19 XV | 1680 would appear again the 17th of May, 1719. Not a single
20 XXIII| have promised a reward of 20,000 pounds sterling to any
21 Int | born at Paris, November 21, 1694. His father was a
22 XV | circumference of the earth is 123,249,600 feet. This, among other
23 Int | work. He died at Paris, May 30, 1778.~It will be seen that
24 XV | of the earth is 123,249,600 feet. This, among other
25 III | first the spectators fell a-laughing, but they afterwards listened
26 XXI | roi des animaux, combien a-t'il de rois?"~"Yet, pleased
27 II | distinction? Why should we abandon our babe to mercenary nurses,
28 XVIII| les langueurs de son ame abattue, A des amis ingrats qui
29 XV | the water rises because it abhors a vacuum.' But with regard
30 XV | which persons of greater abilities that I can pretend to may,
31 XIX | persons of no character or ability; but a Buononcini esteems
32 XX | number of the clergy, are abler scholars, have a finer taste,
33 I | baptism of the Spirit, that ablution of the soul, which is the
34 V | some imagined, were for abolishing it; however, after these
35 IX | were conscious that it was abominable for many to sow, and but
36 VIII | folly of religious wars, an abomination reserved for devout preachers
37 III | flattering encomiums, but abounds with bold touches in favour
38 X | who had disbursed him the above-mentioned sums: "Gentlemen, I received
39 V | contented themselves with only abridging it.~At the time when the
40 IV | religiously observed in his absence, a circumstance in which
41 XVI | of a certain order and to absorb all the rest.~What, then,
42 VII | of propagating them, and absorbed so entirely in problems
43 I | that of Christ, ought to abstain to the utmost of their power
44 XIII | infinite space, possessing all abstract ideas-in a word, completely
45 XI | confessed that this princess, abstracted from her crown and titles,
46 XIV | now grown common, was so abstruse in his time, that not so
47 Int | quality it has little, but abundant technical cleverness. For
48 XXI | whose works nobody reads; he abused Quinault, whose poetical
49 X | and a name terminating in ac or ille, may strut about,
50 XXIV | into a custom for every academician to repeat these eulogiums
51 XV | Gravity, the falling of accelerated bodies on the earth, the
52 XXII | English trumpet to the soft accents of the flute. His compositions
53 X | gratis to any one who will accept of it; and whosoever arrives
54 IV | All the English sectarists accepted from William III. and his
55 III | predictions; so that this accident made more converts to Quakerism
56 IV | manner that is hardly to be accounted for.~All the English sectarists
57 XV | the laws of gravitation accounts for all the apparent inequalities
58 XVII | received by the rest of men.~Accustomed to unravel and disentangle
59 XXIV | last perform more glorious achievements than others who are mere
60 XIV | chemistry are performed by acids, alkalies and subtile matter;
61 XIII | turn, you are forced to acknowledge your own ignorance, and
62 XIV | up in arms. So far from acquiescing with M. Fontenelle's judgment,
63 IX | the villains, afterwards acquiring riches by their industry,
64 II | thou livest in God, thou actest, thou thinkest in God. After
65 XIX | men of honour, but their actions are those of knaves-a proof
66 Int | be seen that Voltaire's active life covers nearly the whole
67 XV | the sphere of the sun's activity, and that they describe
68 XXIII| and Louis XV. performed as actors; that we give the title
69 XXIII| interring the celebrated actress Mrs. Oldfield in Westminster
70 XIII | methodical genius, or was a more acute logician than Mr. Locke,
71 XVIII| dramatic character, so as to adapt it to the manners of the
72 XVII | work, which, though more adapted to the capacity of the human
73 V | Church by female intrigues, address the fair publicly in an
74 IV | Europe, for which reason he adhered so inviolably to King James,
75 VIII | keep the latter out of the administration than by employing them in
76 Int | Zadig," "Candide," and many admirable short stories; in history,
77 XIV | his last moments.~We may admire Sir Isaac Newton on this
78 XXIII| by the greatest men, and admired by whole nations? And that
79 XII | the British Court, and his admirers were foreigners.~When the
80 XXI | Obei dans sa vie, a sa mort adore, Son palais fut un Temple," &
81 XVIII| perruques. The ladies who adorn the theatrical circle there,
82 XIV | works, which are everywhere adorned with very shining, ingenious
83 XXII | her as a prostitute, an adulteress, a murderer. Thus the English
84 XIII | this chapter he presumed to advance, but very modestly, the
85 I | him, bending forwards and advancing, as is usual with us, one
86 XIII | time on his bare word; the adventure of the crusade having a
87 I | penned by man; and as our adversaries confess it to be of dangerous
88 III | dedicatory, "of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is
89 III | after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto
90 XXII | the title of the English aebelais which is given the dean
91 XIII | affirmed that the soul was an aerial spirit, but at the same
92 XXII | elle est couchee, C'est l'Afectation qui grassaie en parlant,
93 XXII | bosom with lampoons. There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows
94 IV | father, indulged the same affection to the son, and no longer
95 VIII | much less is there any affinity between their Governments.
96 I | judges believe us on our bare affirmation, whilst so many other Christians
97 XIII | sometimes presumes to speak affirmatively, but then he presumes also
98 XIII | nature than that, which affirming nothing but what it conceives
99 XXIV | great a distance, cannot afford us the least light.~With
100 XVIII| suivie. O mort! moment fatal! affreuse eternite! Tout coeur a ton
101 XVIII| et tout meurt, mais un affreux reveil Doit succeder peut
102 VII | given a religion to Asia and Africa, and that Sir Isaac Newton,
103 XV | celestial matter was the agent. But so far from knowing
104 XXI | ivresse. L'homme est ne pour agir, et tu pretens penser?" &
105 XXI | they had done to Cromwell: "Ah, sir!" says the Ambassador, "
106 XXII | sans en savoir la cause. N'aiant pense jamais, l'esprit toujours
107 XXIV | fundamental rules of arithmetic, aided by a little good sense,
108 XXII | gnome rechigne, Va d'une aile pesante et d'un air renfrogne
109 V | have the pious ambition to aim at superiority.~Moreover,
110 XXI | ignorant, the people of which aimed at wit, though they had
111 XVI | been given to bodies in the air-pump. By the assistance of telescopes
112 XIII | after their way, sounded an alarm. The superstitious are the
113 X | no more than a factor in Aleppo, where he chose to live,
114 XVII | of the equinoxes.~Clemens Alexandrinus informs us, that Chiron,
115 XVII | subjecting everywhere infinity to algebraical calculations, that the name
116 XXIV | Heathcote, whilst a poor algebraist spends his whole life in
117 IX | feared them, got their lands alienated. By this means the villains,
118 XXII | handmaids wait the throne. Alike in place, But differing
119 XI | in 1723 would have been alive at this time. But are not
120 XIV | are performed by acids, alkalies and subtile matter; but
121 IV | took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours,
122 XIV | crying down that of a base alloy.~I indeed believe that very
123 XXII | almost every part of it alludes to particular incidents.
124 XIX | delicacy of the humour, the allusion, the a propos-all these
125 XVIII| at the same time very far aloft, though with an irregular
126 | along
127 XVIII| she is strangling, cries aloud that she dies very unjustly.
128 XIII | Anaxagoras, in whose honour an altar was erected for his having
129 IX | they are not allowed to alter anything in it, and must
130 XXI | has he?"~Oldham, a little altered.~The Lord Rochester expresses
131 | although
132 XIII | question purely philosophical, altogether independent of faith and
133 Int | Oedipe," "La Mort de Cesar," "Alzire," and "Merope." His chief
134 XXI | fanatiques, Compilez bien l'amas de vos riens scholastiques,
135 XXIV | little good sense, shall amass prodigious wealth in trade,
136 XVIII| flashes through this gleam, as amaze and astonish. The style
137 VIII | reason but because he was ambitious, and declared war against
138 XVIII| montrer les langueurs de son ame abattue, A des amis ingrats
139 IV | His own people and the Americans received him with tears
140 XII | King James I. Nevertheless, amidst the intrigues of a Court,
141 XVIII| de son ame abattue, A des amis ingrats qui detournent la
142 V | the fair publicly in an amorous way, amuse themselves in
143 XVII | whose reigns added together amount to six hundred and forty-eight
144 XV | Almighty.~"Procedes huc, et non amplius."~(Thus far shalt thou go,
145 IV | crowned with success in Amsterdam, but a circumstance which
146 VI | Presbyterian confides in the Anabaptist, and the Churchman depends
147 XVI | all these paradoxes, and anatomise a single ray of light with
148 XIII | manner as we do.~The divine Anaxagoras, in whose honour an altar
149 XI | Circassians borrowed this custom anciently from the Arabians; but we
150 XXI | Qui croit entr'eux et l'Ange, occuper le milieu, Et pense
151 XIII | the Subtile Doctor, the Angelic Doctor, the Seraphic Doctor,
152 VII | your majesty," said he, "is angry when your son has not due
153 XIII | not in the power of God to animate matter, and inform it with
154 XIV | Cartesian system, died in March, anno 1727. His countrymen honoured
155 XXI | eclatant sur nos tetes Vient d'annoncer sa mort.~"Par ses derniers
156 XXIV | publishing a set of compliments annually, they would give us new
157 IV | pleasing the Quakers by annulling the laws made against Nonconformists,
158 XXIV | great man, the director answers in the very same strain,
159 X | acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a prime minister; or
160 VIII | Sylla, Caesar and Pompey, Anthony and Augustus, did not draw
161 XIX | heroical follies, which the antiquated errors of fable or history
162 VII | Socinians, Or Arians, Or Antitrinitarians~There is a little sect here
163 | anyhow
164 Int | all but the highest rank. Apart from his "Henriade," an
165 XIX | Battle of Hochstet. Were the apartments but as spacious as the walls
166 III | to his disciples. These aped very sincerely their master'
167 XV | from the other in their Aphelia, and a little nearer in
168 XVIII| mistress' presence, all the apish tricks of a lewd, impotent
169 III | the King, in 1675, his "Apology for the Quakers," a work
170 I | Likewise Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles, writes
171 III | the requisites of a true apostle-that is, without being able either
172 I | respect and obedience.~"Our apparel is also somewhat different
173 XV | gravitation accounts for all the apparent inequalities in the course
174 XII | the Lord Bolingbroke was appealed to (who, having been in
175 XV | twenty-six thousand. The several appearances observed in the tides are
176 I | to thee. However, thou appearest to me too well read not
177 XIX | made a eunuch. Upon his appearing in this noble character,
178 XIX | comedies, which I am so fond of applauding; nor to give you a single
179 I | wrong, but very specious application of four or five texts of
180 XIV | men who understood it.~He applied this geometrical and inventive
181 III | prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that light of
182 III | beer and brandy, died of an appolexy two days after, the moment
183 IX | tiling their houses from any apprehension that their taxes will be
184 XIII | Besides, we must not be apprehensive that any philosophical opinion
185 XII | elasticity of the air. He approached, on all sides as it were,
186 XXI | the billows rolled, Th' approaching fate of his great ruler
187 IV | theeing" and "thouing" was not approved of in a country where a
188 XXI | nature est la baze et l'appui, Et le dixieme ciel ne tourne
189 XVIII| c'est mon unique asile Apres de longs transports, c'est
190 XIII | matter. But divines are too apt to begin their declarations
191 XXII | son sejour, Les Tristes Aquilons y sifflent a l'entour, Et
192 XI | custom anciently from the Arabians; but we shall leave the
193 XV | this cause is among the Arcana of the Almighty.~"Procedes
194 IX | following privileges to the archbishops, bishops, priors, and barons
195 XIX | and likewise a poet and an architect. The general opinion is,
196 XXIII| painting, sculpture, and architecture. Louis XIV. has immortalised
197 XVII | of a square, to give the area of a curve, to find the
198 XX | illustres faineants, Sans argent, et sans domestiques.~"Pour
199 XXIV | most learned bodies, is, to argue and debate on things which
200 XI | years, a circumstance that argues very much in its favour,
201 VII | very wrong step, that his argument was inconclusive, and that
202 VII | all England than merely an Arian parson.~You see that opinions
203 XXII | souffle mal sain de leur aride haleine Y porte aux environs
204 XIX | pleasure from the perusal of Aristophanes and Plautus, and for this
205 XV | way of reasoning of the Aristotelians; Mr. Sorin in the Memoirs
206 VII | will, the principles of Arius begin to revive, not only
207 IX | themselves at their head, and armed with their briefs, their
208 X | Italy tremble, and that his armies, which had already possessed
209 Int | Introduction~Francois-Marie Arouet, known by his assumed name
210 XXII | form in black and white arrayed; With store of prayers for
211 XVIII| sort? Qui suis je? Qui m'arrete! et qu'est-ce que la mort?
212 XVIII| scrupule parle, et nous crie, arretez; Il defend a nos mains cet
213 XVIII| to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or
214 IX | not once mentioned in the articles of this Charter-a proof
215 IX | sciences, of traders, of artificers, in a word, of all who were
216 XI | heighten by the most voluptuous artifices the pleasures of their disdainful
217 XV | saw, for instance, water ascend in pumps, and said, 'the
218 XV | first observed that water ascends in pumps, but should leave
219 XIII | know of the matter. Shall I ascribe to an unknown cause, what
220 IV | buttons and ruffles; and quite ashamed of being called Quakers
221 VII | rises at last out of its own ashes; but it has chosen a very
222 VII | have given a religion to Asia and Africa, and that Sir
223 XVIII| abound so much with the Asiatic fustian. But then it must
224 XVIII| nos maux, c'est mon unique asile Apres de longs transports,
225 XX | thousand may in their turns aspire to the same honour. The
226 XXIV | not enough that a man who aspires to the honour of being a
227 I | two little sticks on an ass' skin extended. And when,
228 VIII | stabbed by a monk; thirty assassinations projected against Henry
229 V | allow those gentlemen to assemble, so that they are at this
230 II | The brethren were already assembled at my entering it with my
231 XIII | the same as extension. He asserted, that man thinks eternally,
232 XXI | polite arts with as much assiduity as though they had been
233 XXII | La medisante Envie, est assise aupres d'elle, Vieil spectre
234 II | men clothed in black to assist our poor, to bury our dead,
235 XVI | of increasing it, and of assisting our eyes by telescopes,
236 XVI | ray of a green colour, it assumes a green colour, and so of
237 I | bestow on other worms by assuring them that they are with
238 XVIII| this gleam, as amaze and astonish. The style is too much inflated,
239 XVI | for Sir Isaac taught the astonished philosophers that bodies
240 XVI | great would have been his astonishment had he been told that light
241 XVII | on the observations which astronomers have made.~By the course
242 XXIII| beneficial an encouragement for astronomy and all parts of the mathematics,
243 XX | dans l'Italie? Orgueil, astuce, et pauvrete, Grands complimens,
244 VII | dissent entirely from St. Athanasius with regard to their notions
245 XIV | injuriously accused of being an atheist, the last refuge of religious
246 XXIII| personages were viewed in Athens; and I am persuaded that
247 XXI | l'image de son Dieu. Vil atome imparfait, qui croit, doute,
248 XVIII| forcible passages which atone for all his faults. But
249 XXIV | so much ridicule is now attached to their very names, that
250 VI | honours which they can never attain to. Figure to yourself the
251 VII | emperor was going to order his attendants to throw the bishop out
252 XV | of the planetary system) attracts them all in a direct ratio
253 III | manner, that fifty of the auditors became his converts, and
254 VIII | only, in order to take the augury. The English have hanged
255 XI | Villequier, father to the Duke d'Aumont, who enjoys the most vigorous
256 IV | the Princess Palatine, aunt to George I. of Great Britain,
257 XXII | medisante Envie, est assise aupres d'elle, Vieil spectre feminin,
258 XXI | first who shone in this aurora of French literature. Had
259 XVIII| momens nous maudissons l'aurore, Et de la nuit qui vient
260 XVIII| De tourmens eternels est aussi-tot suivie. O mort! moment fatal!
261 XXI | visions, et d'enigmes sacres, Auteurs du labirinthe, ou vous vous
262 XI | with the several proofs or authorities. All I have to say upon
263 XXI | n'est plus.~"Tel au ciel autrefois s'envola Romulus, Tel il
264 XXI | adorer vos chimeres. Il est d'autres erreurs, il est de ces devots
265 XVII | the middle of the Ram; the autumnal equinox to the middle of
266 XXI | monarch of the world who awes The creatures here, and
267 V | are married. The stiff and awkward air contracted by them at
268 XVIII| regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action -"~
269 XXII | Bourdaloue to have been a mere babbler. The Jacobites consider
270 II | assembly to suffer such a babbling? "We are obliged," said
271 VI | the name of the whore of Babylon to all churches where the
272 XVII | remove its original as far backward as possible. Besides, the
273 I | imitate them. Others wear the badges and marks of their several
274 I | one who is at law of the badness of his cause; nor attempt
275 XXII | sentiments than words, should baffle the endeavours of the ablest
276 VIII | but the Romans had no such balance. The patricians and plebeians
277 XVI | in the same manner as a ball on the surface of a solid
278 XVIII| the time drinking, singing ballads, and making humorous reflections (
279 VI | name of infidel to none but bankrupts. There thee Presbyterian
280 V | own houses, and after the banquet is ended withdraw to invoke
281 IX | liberty and happiness.~The barbarians who came from the shores
282 VIII | countries. A city in Spain, in Barbary, or in Turkey, takes up
283 XXI | before (as is usual with bards and monarchs) presented
284 XXI | milieu, Et pense etre ici bas l'image de son Dieu. Vil
285 XI | this time there is not a bassa in Constantinople but communicates
286 IX | here as haute, moyenne, and basse justice-that is, a power
287 XIX | 1701, was thrown into the Bastille, and detained there for
288 VIII | another to pieces in pitched battles, for quarrels of as trifling
289 VI | sprightly French graduate, who bawls for a whole morning together
290 XXI | seul de la nature est la baze et l'appui, Et le dixieme
291 XVI | never change the colour it bears; in like manner, as gold,
292 VIII | the plebeians as a wild beast, whom it behoved them to
293 X | to deliver Turin, and to beat the French; after which
294 XX | complimens, peu de bonte Et beaucoup de ceremonie~"L'extravagante
295 XXII | negligemment panchee Une jeune beaute non loin d'elle est couchee,
296 Int | gentleman of the king's bedchamber; from 1750 to 1753 he lived
297 XVIII| horrors of the Marquis of Bedemar's conspiracy. Antonio, the
298 XXI | thinking fools, Those reverend bedlams, colleges, and schools;
299 III | himself every day with bad beer and brandy, died of an appolexy
300 XV | great calamity which was to befall mankind. Sir Isaac Newton,
301 XIII | sensation? Consider only, I beg you, what a dilemma you
302 I | same freedom as we do a beggar, and salute no person; we
303 XVIII| Which fools us young, and beggars us when old."~I shall now
304 IV | suggest to engage him to behave and act like other people.
305 VIII | as a wild beast, whom it behoved them to let loose upon their
306 III | had brought over to their belief. But the circumstances which
307 XIII | renounced the vanity of believing that we think always; after
308 X | English; a second to Porto Bello, to dispossess the King
309 I | air, of thanksgivings, of bells, of organs, and of the cannon,
310 XXIV | genius like that of Sir Isaac belonged to all the academies in
311 Int | Pucelle," most of his verse belongs to the class of satire,
312 I | Sir," said I to him, bending forwards and advancing,
313 XI | history to some learned Benedictine, who will not fail to compile
314 XI | Nature, nor of exerting her beneficence. It is she who, being informed
315 XV | suspected that they are very beneficent, and that vapours exhale
316 XVIII| De nos pretres menteurs benir l'hypocrisie; D'une indigne
317 XX | Ces beaux lieux du Pape benis Semblent habitez par les
318 XXI | vapeurs legeres, Soi-meme se bercer de ses propres chimeres,
319 VIII | execution, and the last bereaving that great monarch of his
320 IV | he dying in Ruscombe, in Berkshire, in 1718.~I am not able
321 XIII | improve upon every system. St. Bernard, as Father Mabillon confesses,
322 III | magistrate, being one who besotted himself every day with bad
323 IV | crowds to William Penn, and besought him to admit them into the
324 V | supply. Employments are here bestowed both in the Church and the
325 I | in the miserable contests betwixt man and man. When we are
326 XV | caution about it. He bids him beware of confounding this name
327 XV | some caution about it. He bids him beware of confounding
328 XXI | bienheureux fanatiques, Compilez bien l'amas de vos riens scholastiques,
329 XX | folie.~"La Nature en vain bienfaisante Veut enricher ses lieux
330 XXI | Allez, reverends fous, bienheureux fanatiques, Compilez bien
331 IX | whole nations. These were birds of prey fighting with an
332 XVIII| mimics a bull and a dog, and bites his mistress' legs, who
333 XII | herself from what coast this blazing star should first appear,
334 XXIII| from attempting to cast a blemish on the opera, or to excommunicate
335 XVIII| from Shakspeare. Pardon the blemishes of the translation for the
336 XIX | raised the famous Castle of Blenheim, a ponderous and lasting
337 IV | upon his knees to ask his blessing, he went up to him with
338 XXII | and repartees is himself a blockhead. This is the reason why
339 VIII | wars under Charles VI. were bloody and cruel, those of the
340 XXII | east is all the wind that blows. Here, in a grotto, sheltered
341 X | disdainfully, is fool enough to blush at it. However, I need not
342 XVIII| quietus make With a bare bodkin. Who would fardels bear
343 XIX | strokes are stronger and bolder than those of our misanthrope,
344 XVI | on light are equal to the boldest things which the curiosity
345 XVIII| character, tends sometimes to bombast. Mr. Addison's Cato appears
346 XXIII| and some passages from St. Bonaventure, to prove that the Cedipus
347 IX | world-they were villains or bondsmen of lords-that is, a kind
348 XX | Grands complimens, peu de bonte Et beaucoup de ceremonie~"
349 XXIII| against the stage is seen in a bookseller's shop' standing the very
350 XVII | was arrived at the very borders of infinity, but went not
351 XXI | colleges, and schools; Borne on whose wings each heavy
352 XXII | scrupled to be in our debt) to borrow from them. Both the English
353 IX | lords-that is, a kind of cattle bought and sold with the land.
354 IV | Penn did not think himself bound in any manner to renounce
355 XXII | Jansenists affirm Father Bourdaloue to have been a mere babbler.
356 XVIII| undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles
357 I | are too full of their bows and compliments, but I never
358 XXI | with idle whimsies of his brain, And puffed with pride,
359 XVIII| that throws out a thousand branches at random, and spreads nequally,
360 III | every day with bad beer and brandy, died of an appolexy two
361 XXI | cet ile; Cet ile que son bras fit trembler tant de fois,
362 XI | tender, delicate skin to break through, they never leave
363 XXIII| has fired more than one breast, and been the occasion of
364 XXI | finished poet. The graces breathe in such of Waller's works
365 XXII | dismal dome, No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows,
366 III | that purpose attempted to bribe them by money. However,
367 XII | unbecoming a philosopher: I mean bribery and extortion. You know
368 IX | head, and armed with their briefs, their bulls, and reinforced
369 Int | by him; in all he showed brilliant powers; and in several he
370 I | and had on a beaver, the brims of which were horizontal
371 XV | should be a plenum; and brings back the vacuum, which Aristotle
372 XXI | cours de ses exploits, Il brisoit la tete des Rois, Et soumettoit
373 XXI | conceits instead of sentiments. Bristol stones are more easily found
374 IX | Gauls, the Germans, and the Britons, to be always governed by
375 XXI | About his palace their broad roots are tost Into the
376 I | with sadness of spirit and brokenness of heart, for the sad havoc
377 XVII | infinite series.~The Lord Brouncker employed this series to
378 IX | of the peasants are not bruised by wooden shoes; they eat
379 XXII | paravent Loin des flambeaux, du bruit, des parleurs et du vent
380 XXI | Roscommon, the two Dukes of Buckingham, the Lord Halifax, and so
381 XVIII| players have struck these buffooneries (which indeed were calculated
382 XXII | looked upon as the prince of buffoons. The readers are vexed to
383 XII | and preparing metals, of building houses, and the invention
384 XIX | writings as he is heavy in his buildings. It is he who raised the
385 IX | with their briefs, their bulls, and reinforced by monks,
386 XIX | character or ability; but a Buononcini esteems that great artist,
387 XXIII| object to in us, for having buried Mademoiselle Le Couvreur
388 Int | classical model, and the burlesque "La Pucelle," most of his
389 II | black to assist our poor, to bury our dead, or to preach to
390 XXIII| by no other principle in burying Mrs. Oldfield in Westminster
391 XXI | and the ever blest. This busy, puzzling stirrer up of
392 VIII | of a defenseless party, caballed for caballing's sake, and
393 VIII | defenseless party, caballed for caballing's sake, and seemed to foment
394 X | counting-house to Surat and Grand Cairo, and contributes to the
395 VIII | been involved in as great calamities, and have shed as much blood;
396 XVI | with. He has presumed to calculate the density of the particles
397 XVII | Bernoulli claimed the integral calculus. However, Sir Isaac is now
398 XIII | got the reputation of a calm and unprejudiced divine
399 XIII | opponents needed but to examine, calmly and impartially, whether
400 IV | his being a Jesuit. This calumny affected him very strongly,
401 VII | whimsical enough that Luther, Calvin, and Zuinglius, all of '
402 VI | is directly the same with Calvinism, as it was established in
403 XIII | addressed these gentlemen in the candid, sincere manner following:
404 Int | fiction he wrote "Zadig," "Candide," and many admirable short
405 IX | the English either fire or candle in their houses after eight
406 I | bells, of organs, and of the cannon, we groan in silence, and
407 XVI | seven minutes through a cannon-ball, which were not to lose
408 VII | and lost him the See of Canterbury but, in my humble opinion,
409 XV | and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student
410 XVII | though more adapted to the capacity of the human mind, does
411 V | corruption which reign in the capital. They are not called to
412 XVII | solstice to the middle of Capricorn.~A long time after the expedition
413 I | in scarlet, and wearing caps two foot high, enlist citizens
414 XXI | fly, And bear a crippled carcass through the sky. 'Tis this
415 VI | London on Sundays, and even cards are so expressly forbidden
416 XXIII| beginning to run the noble career which his father had set
417 XI | instructed to fondle and caress men; are taught dances of
418 XII | driven as far westward as the Caribbean Islands. Be this as it will,
419 I | willing to submit to that carnal ordinance. "But art thou
420 IV | aspect, and a very engaging carriage, he soon gained over some
421 XIV | assistance. According to your Cartesians, everything is performed
422 IX | for them, the horses and carts of freemen. The people considered
423 VIII | Parliament, and the next moment cashiered them. He threatened, he
424 XXIV | whereas Chapelain, Colletet, Cassaigne, Faret, Perrin, Cotin, our
425 XVIII| same scene with Brutus and Cassius. You will undoubtedly complain,
426 XXIII| himself damned had he worn a cassock instead of a short cloak,
427 XXIII| their baptism. This was casting the highest insult on the
428 XI | small-pox to prevent their catching it; and madmen, because
429 XI | girls among us repeat their catechism without understanding one
430 XII | a thesis on Aristotle's "Categories," on the universals a part
431 I | opened with that which good Catholics have more than once made
432 XV | books, gives the reader some caution about it. He bids him beware
433 XXII | Repairs to search the gloomy cave of Spleen, Swift on his
434 XXII | Chercher en murmurant la caverne profonde, Ou loin des doux
435 VIII | Slingers, and figuratively Cavillers, or lovers of contradiction,
436 XXI | government, Where action ceases, thought's impertinent."~
437 XVIII| academical sophs, who set up for censors of the eminent writers,
438 XXIII| honours to mere merit, and censured for interring the celebrated
439 XXI | in his encomiums and his censures. He applauded Segrais, whose
440 XXII | rit de tout sans joie, De cent maux differens pretend qu'
441 VII | having triumphed during three centuries, and been forgot twelve,
442 XXI | in his "Satire on Man":~"Cependant a le voir plein de vapeurs
443 XX | de bonte Et beaucoup de ceremonie~"L'extravagante comedie
444 I | what! baptism a Jewish ceremony?" "Yes, my friend," says
445 XV | more cunning, if not more certainty, in fixing its return to
446 Int | Oedipe," "La Mort de Cesar," "Alzire," and "Merope."
447 XXII | repose, Le coeur gros de chagrin, sans en savoir la cause.
448 XXIII| to appear before the Star Chamber; his wonderful book, from
449 XII | otherwise; all these great changes happened in the most stupid
450 XXII | dechirant son prochain, Et chansonnant les Gens l'Evangile a la
451 XVII | unravel and disentangle chaos, he was resolved to convey
452 XX | Chaulieu, our Sarrasin, or Chapelle. The translation I have
453 XIII | knowledge. It was in this chapter he presumed to advance,
454 XXII | toujours trouble, L'oceil charge, le teint pale, et l'hypocondre
455 XII | of Marlborough had been charged, some examples whereof being
456 I | owing nothing to mankind but charity, and to the laws respect
457 XX | Veut enricher ses lieux charmans, Des pretres la main desolante
458 IV | savages (falsely so called), charmed with the mild and gentle
459 III | with that had resisted the charms of gold.~The Quakers were
460 IX | pretended masters. This great Charter, which is considered as
461 IX | in the articles of this Charter-a proof that it did not yet
462 XX | of Rochester, or in our Chaulieu, our Sarrasin, or Chapelle.
463 II | Shall we, after these words, cheapen, as it were, the Gospel,
464 XVIII| consider life, 't is all a cheat, Yet fooled by hope, men
465 XXII | reached the dismal dome, No cheerful breeze this sullen region
466 I | gravely, "we would submit cheerfully to baptism, purely in compliance
467 XXIV | fortune to a geometrician or a chemist; but this is so far from
468 XXII | pesante et d'un air renfrogne Chercher en murmurant la caverne
469 XIII | Seraphic Doctor, and the Cherubic Doctor, who were all sure
470 XXIV | people who should seem to chew with great eagerness, and
471 III | another sect, Dove non si chiavava,1 began to persecute these
472 VIII | shirt, or whether the sacred chickens should eat and drink, or
473 XIV | destroyed all the absurd chimeras with which youth had been
474 XXIII| Minister hangs over the chimney of his own closet, but I
475 VII | put his hand under the chin of the monarch's son, and
476 XXII | La Deesse aux Vapeurs a choisi son sejour, Les Tristes
477 XVIII| thus:~"Demeure, il faut choisir et passer a l'instant De
478 VI | schools, and hums a song in chorus with ladies in the evening;
479 XVIII| heros guerrier, fait un Chretien timide," &c.~Do not imagine
480 I | forcing him to get himself christened. "Were that all," replied
481 II | there is no such thing as Christianity without an immediate revelation,
482 XIV | for the entertainment of Christina, Queen of Sweden, which
483 XII | been always thought that Christopher Columbus undertook his voyage
484 XVII | hundred years younger than chronologers declare it to be. He grounds
485 XVII | principle, others fell upon his chronological system. Time, that should
486 VI | the Anabaptist, and the Churchman depends on the Quaker's
487 V | sect of Episcopalians or Churchmen, called the Church of England,
488 XXI | tombe, et nie encore sa chute, Qui nous dit je suis libre,
489 XVIII| tired with waiting for his chymic gold, Which fools us young,
490 XIX | Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Cibber, who is an excellent player,
491 XI | much dread in France.~The Circassian women have, from time immemorial,
492 I | Himself to be circumcised; but circumcision and the washing with water
493 I | when I answered all thy civilities without uncovering my head,
494 XXI | heaven his great soul does claim In storms as loud as his
495 XVII | fluxions, and Mr. Bernoulli claimed the integral calculus. However,
496 XII | illustrious wicked men. That man claims our respect who commands
497 III | 1: "Where there were no clandestine doings."]~Fox was bold enough
498 XIII | Though our demonstrations clash directly with our mysteries,
499 Int | his verse belongs to the class of satire, epigram, and
500 Int | Henriade," an epic on the classical model, and the burlesque "