Dictionnaire philosophique, volume 04

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A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY VOLUME IV By VOLTAIRE EDITION DE LA PACIFICATION THE WORKS OF VOLTAIRE A CONTEMPORARY VERSION With Notes by Tobias Smollett, Revised and Modernized New Translations by William F. Fleming, and an Introduction by Oliver H.G. Leigh A CRITIQUE AND BIOGRAPHY BY THE RT. HON. JOHN MORLEY FORTY-THREE VOLUMES One hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures, and curious fac-similes VOLUME VIII E.R. DuMONT PARIS--LONDON--NEW YORK--CHICAGO 1901 _The WORKS of VOLTAIRE_ _"Between two servants of Humanity, who appeared eighteen hundred years apart, there is a mysterious relation. * * * * Let us say it with a sentiment of profound respect: JESUS WEPT: VOLTAIRE SMILED. Of that divine tear and of that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization."_ _VICTOR HUGO._ LIST OF PLATES--VOL. IV VOLTAIRE'S ARREST AT FRANKFORT _Frontispiece_ OLIVER CROMWELL TIME MAKES TRUTH TRIUMPHANT FRANCIS I. AND HIS SISTER * * * * * VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. IV. COUNTRY--FALSITY * * * * * COUNTRY. SECTION I According to our custom, we confine ourselves on this subject to the statement of a few queries which we cannot resolve. Has a Jew a country? VOLTAIRE A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY IN TEN VOLUMES VOL. IV. COUNTRY--FALSITY * * * * * COUNTRY. SECTION I According to our custom, we confine ourselves on this subject to the statement of a few queries which we cannot resolve. Has a Jew a country? If he is born at Coimbra, it is in the midst of a crowd of ignorant and absurd persons, who will dispute with him, and to whom he makes foolish answers, if he dare reply at all. He is surrounded by inquisitors, who

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