Selections (Great Philosophers)
By (author): "Voltaire"
Publish Date:
January 1st 1948
ISBN0023316101
ISBN139780023316104
AsinSelections (Great Philosophers)
Original titleSelected Writings (Everyman's Library (Paper))
Disarmingly comic & savagely witty, Voltaire (1694-1778) was commonly regarded as the genius of the French Enlightenment. This selection is taken mainly from his non-fiction prose but includes some letters, portions of which have never before appeared in English translation.IntroductionPoem on the Lisbon disasterWe must take sidesThe questions of ZapataEpistle to the RomansThe sermon of the fiftyHomily on superstitionHomily on the interpretation of the Old TestamentHomily on the interpretation of the New TestamentA treatise on toleration
