A Critical Analysis and Review, of All Mr. Voltaire's Works: With Occasional Disquisitions on Epic Poetry, the Drama, Romance, &C (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is my intention to-fpeak here of his works only. Of what is merely perfonal, or relates bur. To his private life, I {hall fay nothing. Let us not furnifh.matter to that treacherous curiofity which feeks for anecdote-s of an illufirious man, with a View rather to derive confolation under his {uperiority, than to add to his fame. The life of a fedentary writer, as Mr. Voltaire himfelf has'very well obferved, is belt found in his own works. It is this part of his life only in which the liberal contemporary, or pof'terity, can be truly interefied. It is from thence only that thofe who have not been perlbnally acquainted with him can form a certain judgment of his character.

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