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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... .............................. 96 4 Letters on England Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) INTRODUCTION FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET, who ca... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...is opinion on the ordinary course of Nature, and on the observations which astronomers have made. By the course of Nature we here understand the time ...

...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambr...

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