The Works of M. de Voltaire: Miscellaneous poemsJ. Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, at Salisbury, 1764 |
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Page 259 - I will send it you when it is finished ; and I am sure that the force of evidence in all his propositions, and their close geometrical sequence, will strike you. ' The kindness and assistance you afford to all who devote themselves to the Arts and Sciences, makes me hope that you will not exclude me from the number of those whom you find worthy of your instructions...
Page 48 - Say, when you hear their piteous, half-formed cries. Or from their ashes see the smoke arise, Say, will you then eternal laws maintain, Which God to cruelties like these constrain? Whilst you these facts replete with horror view, Will you maintain death to their crimes was due ? And can you then impute a sinful deed To babes who on their mothers