The Works of Voltaire: A philosophical dictionaryWerner, 1904 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... human flesh . Juvenal relates that among the Egyptians— that wise people , so renowned for their laws - those pious worshippers of crocodiles and onions - the Tentyrites ate one of their enemies who had fallen into their hands . He does ...
... human flesh . Juvenal relates that among the Egyptians— that wise people , so renowned for their laws - those pious worshippers of crocodiles and onions - the Tentyrites ate one of their enemies who had fallen into their hands . He does ...
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... human beings as it now is with elephants , lions , or tigers , the race of which has very much decreased . In times when a country was but thinly inhabited by men , they had few arts ; they were hunters . The custom of eating what they ...
... human beings as it now is with elephants , lions , or tigers , the race of which has very much decreased . In times when a country was but thinly inhabited by men , they had few arts ; they were hunters . The custom of eating what they ...
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... human flesh ; for , in his thirty - ninth chapter , he foretells to them that God will cause them to eat , not only the horses of their enemies , but moreover the horsemen and the rest of the warriors . And , indeed , why should not the ...
... human flesh ; for , in his thirty - ninth chapter , he foretells to them that God will cause them to eat , not only the horses of their enemies , but moreover the horsemen and the rest of the warriors . And , indeed , why should not the ...
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... humanity must often have the same effect . " How can it have been that nations constantly separated from one another have united in so horrible a custom ? Must we believe that it is not 8 Philosophical other tribes, ate their captives ...
... humanity must often have the same effect . " How can it have been that nations constantly separated from one another have united in so horrible a custom ? Must we believe that it is not 8 Philosophical other tribes, ate their captives ...
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Página 291 - ... and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth : wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter ; kill, and eat.
Página 156 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Página 290 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Página 19 - I have known women kill themselves for the most stupid men imaginable. And sometimes we kill ourselves when we are in bad health, which action is a real weakness. Disgust with our own existence, weariness of ourselves, is a malady which is likewise a cause of suicide. The remedy is, a little exercise, music, hunting, the play, or an agreeable woman. The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself to-day, would have wished to live, had he waited a week.* I was almost an eye-witness of a suicide...
Página 304 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets.
Página 229 - Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
Página 229 - Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Página 27 - And loathing anxious life, suborn'd their fate. With late repentance, now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live ; Their pains and poverty desire to bear, To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air: But fate forbids ; the Stygian floods oppose, And, with nine circling streams, the captive souls inclose.
Página 223 - Word, that he takes no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but that he turn from his wickedness and live...