10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOLTAIREAN»
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Voltairean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Voltairean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Voltairean Plays: The Triumvirate and Comedy at Ferney
Voltaire, Louis Lurine, Albéric Second. BORGO PRESS BOOKS BY FRANK J.
MORLOCK The Chevalier d'Éon and Other Short Farces from the Eighteenthand
Nineteenth-Century French Theatre (Editor) Chuzzlewit Congreve's Comedy of ...
Voltaire, Louis Lurine, Albéric Second, 2013
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Two
Voltairean Plays: The Triumvirate and Comedy at Ferney
Set in Roman times, Voltaire's play THE TRIUMVIRATE details a meeting on an island between Anthony and Octavian, in which the two main players in the post-Caesar Roman world decide how to divide up the spoils of war--and eliminate all ...
Voltaire, Frank J. Morlock, Louis Lurine, 2013
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Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century ...
Although metaphors of authority are treated ambiguously, the opera serves
primarily as a critique of the intolerance and despotism of political and religious
institutions - Voltairean themes that were espoused anew by a young, reform-
minded ...
If the word " Voltairean " denotes a destroyer of prejudices, the German
Voltairean s are grave and religious. It might be even maintained that of all the
enemies of Voltaire the German Voltaireans are the most formidable, not by their
blind and ...
The faith of the Voltairean egoists is that they will direct the powers of the
surrounding world from evil into better courses through the exercise of the
superior social or cultural intelligence of the creative genius, the writer-prophet.
The faith of the ...
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. warmth of heart; intellect, nothing but one farthing's
worth of intellect... you are simply a pitiful, antiquated Voltairean, that's what you
are!" "I'm a Voltairean?" "Yes, like yourfather, andyou yourself do not suspect it.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 2009
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Modern Arabic Literature
He speaks of those poets and writers who had the Voltairean T, that is 'the
confidence that they stood outside a world of injustices and irrationality which
they judged clearly with their powers of reason and imagination. They are not the
product ...
Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī, 1992
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
The woman's remark might be taken as a simple and even touchingly literal
expression of faith; it might be taken as a Voltairean sneer; it might be taken
again, as I suggest, as one of the most profound and inscrutable of the double
truths of ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 2001
He Will himself sometime have urged probably that the religious wars that have
deluged the world are reasons why we should give up the belief in the
supernatural. Accepting the Voltairean thesis they are so, but not otherwise.
Otherwise it ...
Charles Francis Keary, 2011
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Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual
"It is a mockery!" No, it is an arcanum. "How can I make use of an arcanum which
I fail to understand?" Believe and act ; you will understand later. One day a
person said to me: "I woiald that I could be a fervent Catholic, but I am a
Voltairean.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOLTAIREAN»
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Voltairean is used in the context of the following news items.
Do Moralists Make Bad Novelists?
Their own precarious position made Voltairean moralism seem a remote fantasy. Writers in the 19th century found themselves trapped in a professional and ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Charlie, Secular Culture and Practical Wisdom
And, should Voltairean reason be the only guideline for satire in the West? In France (but also, in more subtle ways, in other contexts) the secular is portrayed as ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
Don't Limit Speech in France
This combination of Voltairean bravado and restrictive measures has created a deeply contradictory attitude toward free speech. The Roman Catholic Church ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
On Charlie Hebdo Pope Francis is using the wife-beater's defence
Pope Francis in Manila Pope Francis arrives at Manila Cathedral in the Philippines. '… demanding a special, anti-Voltairean status of protection for religious ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
The Chronicles of Kalki review – a curious encounter with a …
Or is she intended to confirm the Voltairean belief that, if God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him? Whatever the answer, this avatar seems to be ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
Laughter and Terror
The French varieties come in many kinds, from the Rabelaisian belly laugh to the Voltairean smirk. Charlie Hebdo specialized in broad, free-swinging jokes, ... «The New York Review of Books, Jan 15»
How Catholics brought Napoleon to his knees
Napoleon Bonaparte's fraught relations with the Catholic Church started early in life, for although his mother was a devout Catholic, his father was a Voltairean ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jan 15»
André Glucksmann in His Voltairean Garden
How many of us remember that Europe is a new and unprecedented political creation born from the triple rejection of Nazism, Communism, and colonialism? «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
A dark day for Australia
The measure of a man's commitment to liberty has long been whether he will do the decent Voltairean thing of defending to the death other people's right to think ... «Spectator.co.uk, Aug 14»
Minarets and steeples
For liberal-humanist libertarians, Mr McConnell's diatribe probably epitomises everything they find most repulsive about religion; but they too have a Voltairean ... «The Economist, Jun 14»
