Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobism, Bind 1translator, 1798 |
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Side 354 - It was on his return from the theatre, and in the midst of the toils he was resuming in order to acquire fresh applause, when Voltaire was warned, that the long career of his impiety was drawing to an end.
Side 355 - Unfortunately, after the explanations we have feen him give of his exterior a6ls of religion, might there not be room for doubt ? Be that as it may, this is a public homage, paid to that religion in which he declared he meant to die, notwithftanding his having perpetually confpired againft it during his life. This declaration is alfo figned by that fame friend and adept the Marquis dc Villevieille to whom eleven years before, Voltaire was wont to write, " Conceal your march (( from the enemy in your...
Side 355 - I fhould proteft againft every thing I did at " my death ; I declare I never made fuch a fpeech, " and that it is an old jeft attributed, long fince, to " many of the learned, more enlightened than I am.
Side 354 - God to dispose of me, I die in the holy Catholic church, in which I was born ; hoping that the divine mercy will deign to pardon all my faults. If ever I have scandalized the church, I ask pardon of God and of the church. (Signed) VOLTAIRE. March 2, 1778. " In presence of the Abbe Mignot, my nephew ; and the Marquis de Villevieille, my friend.
Side 357 - In vain he turned his head away; the time was coming apace when he was to appear before the tribunal of Him he had blasphemed; and his physicians, particularly Mr.
Side 159 - It will perifli by thofe of truth *." At length he begins to think that force muft ftrike the laft blow at Religion. He is not averfe to this force, and...
Side 354 - You had promised me, Sir, to come and hear me, I entreat you would take the trouble of calling as soon as possible. Signed, VOLTAIRE — Paris, the 26th Feb., 1778.
Side 357 - Christ ! And then complain that he was abandoned by God and man. The hand which had traced in ancient writ the sentence of an impious and reviling King, seemed to trace before his eyes, Crush then, do crush the wretch.
Side 333 - have contributed to it, and far more than I was " aware of. I was fecretary to the committee to " which you are indebted for it ; but I call heaven " to witnefs, that I never thought it would go to
Side 13 - might be tempted," fays he, " to fufpecT: its " author of want of fenfe and fkill when, calum" mating the Chriftian religion, he imputes to it " failings that it has not. How can he with truth " aflert that religion can be the caufe of the mif...