The complete works of Voltaire, Volume 3, Part 2Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1968 - French literature |
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Page 333
... Language . Many Writers complain now - a - days , that the Latin is us'd only in the Schools , and in the Romish Churches ; they upbraid the Insufficiency of modern Languages ; they say that their own Idioms sink under their Imagination ...
... Language . Many Writers complain now - a - days , that the Latin is us'd only in the Schools , and in the Romish Churches ; they upbraid the Insufficiency of modern Languages ; they say that their own Idioms sink under their Imagination ...
Page 388
... Language has its own particular 390 Genius , flowing chiefly from the Genius of the Nation , and partly from its own Nature . On the one side , more or less Liberty in the Government , and in Religion , a more or less free Conversation ...
... Language has its own particular 390 Genius , flowing chiefly from the Genius of the Nation , and partly from its own Nature . On the one side , more or less Liberty in the Government , and in Religion , a more or less free Conversation ...
Page 389
... Language , now improv'd into Strength and Energy , its Copiousness , its admitting of many Inversions , fit it for more sublime Perfor- mances . Besides , the Force of that Idiom is wonderfully height- en'd , by the Nature of the ...
... Language , now improv'd into Strength and Energy , its Copiousness , its admitting of many Inversions , fit it for more sublime Perfor- mances . Besides , the Force of that Idiom is wonderfully height- en'd , by the Nature of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Critical edition by Richard Waller | 9 |
AN ESSAY ON THE CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE | 42 |
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