Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... VOLTAIRE [ Address by Victor Hugo , author , poet , and publicist ( born in Besançon , France , February 26 , 1802 ; died in Paris , May 22 , 1885 ) , de- livered in Paris , May 30 , 1878 , on the one hundredth anniversary of Voltaire's ...
... VOLTAIRE [ Address by Victor Hugo , author , poet , and publicist ( born in Besançon , France , February 26 , 1802 ; died in Paris , May 22 , 1885 ) , de- livered in Paris , May 30 , 1878 , on the one hundredth anniversary of Voltaire's ...
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... Voltaire alone , having before his eyes those united forces , the court , the nobility , capital ; that unconscious power , the blind multitude ; that terrible magistracy , so severe to subjects , so docile to the master , crushing and ...
... Voltaire alone , having before his eyes those united forces , the court , the nobility , capital ; that unconscious power , the blind multitude ; that terrible magistracy , so severe to subjects , so docile to the master , crushing and ...
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... Voltaire . In the pres- ence of menacing possibilities , let us be more pacific than ever . Let us turn toward that great death , toward that great life , toward that great spirit . Let us bend before the venerated sepulcher . Let us ...
... Voltaire . In the pres- ence of menacing possibilities , let us be more pacific than ever . Let us turn toward that great death , toward that great life , toward that great spirit . Let us bend before the venerated sepulcher . Let us ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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