History of Charles XIIHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 452 Seiten |
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admiration Altranstädt ambassador arms army attack Augustus battle battle of Poltava Bender camp carried Catiline character Charles XII Christian conquered conqueror Count Piper court crown czar Danes death Demotica Denmark dominions Duke emperor enemy England Europe Fabricius favor France Frederick French gave genius Görtz Grand Seignior grand-vizier Grothusen hands head Holstein honor horse hundred Ingria Janizaries khan King of Denmark King of Poland King of Sweden king's kingdom leagues letter Lithuania lived Livonia Louis Louis XIV Madame majesty manner master Maupertuis ment minister Muscovites Narva nature never obliged officers Paris pasha passed Patkul peace person philosopher poet Poltava Poniatowski Porte prince prisoner Prussia received Rehnskiöld resolved Russians Saxons sent soldiers soon Stanislaus Stockholm Stralsund subjects sultan Swedish taken Tartars thing thousand throne tion took town treaty troops truth Turks victory vizier Voltaire Voltaire's whole writing Zaire
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Seite 180 - Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky ; but the stars are there, and will reappear.
Seite 30 - Quand on a tout perdu, quand on n'a plus d'espoir, La vie est un opprobre, et la mort un devoir.
Seite 43 - Henri, se détourne, et soupire. ' Auprès d'elle est l'Orgueil, qui se plaît et s'admire; La Faiblesse au teint pâle, aux regards abattus, Tyran qui cède au crime et détruit les vertus; L'Ambition sanglante, inquiète, égarée, De trônes, de tombeaux, d'esclaves entourée...
Seite 47 - Les miracles sont bons; mais soulager son frère, Mais tirer son ami du sein de la misère, Mais à ses ennemis pardonner leurs vertus, C'est un plus grand miracle, et qui ne se fait plus.
Seite 95 - ... both the accounts of events or of individuals, and the reflections to which they justly lead, at once with great brevity and with striking effect. But it is also to be remarked that in the two great qualities of the historian he eminently excels — his diligence and his impartiality. To take an example of the former, we may observe that it would not be easy anywhere to find a more accurate account of the Council of Trent than in the 172nd chapter...
Seite 176 - Were the memory of this faith never so obscured, as, indeed, in all times, the coarse passions and perceptions of the world do all but obliterate it in the hearts of most, yet in every pure soul, in every poet and wise man, it finds a new missionary, a new martyr, till the great volume of universal history is finally closed, and man's destinies are fulfilled in this earth. 'It is a height to which the human species were fated and enabled to attain ; and from which, having once attained it, they can...
Seite 96 - ... zealot, and a gloomy religious persecutor, we find him praising the attractive parts of the Pope's character, the amiable qualities of the apostle's and the rigid disinterestedness of the intolerant reformer's, as warmly as if the former had never domineered in the Vatican, and the latter had not outraged, the one all taste and decorum by his language, the other all humanity by his cruelty. But it is a merit of as high an order, and one which distinguishes all Voltaire's historical writings,...
Seite 14 - No man is accountable for the opinion he may form, the conclusion at which he may arrive, provided that he has taken due pains to inform his mind and fix his judgment. But for the conduct of his understanding he certainly is responsible. He does more than err if he negligently proceeds in the inquiry; he does more than err if he allows any motive to sway his mind save the constant and single desire of finding the truth ; he does more than err if he suffers the least influence of temper or of weak...
Seite 100 - That there is caricature throughout, no one denies ; but the design is to caricature, and the doctrines ridiculed are themselves a gross and intolerable exaggeration. That there occur here and there irreverent < expressions is equally true ; but that there is anything irreligious in the ridicule of a doctrine which is in itself directly at variance with all religion, at least ' with all the hopes of a future state, the most valuable portion of every religious system, may most confidently be denied.
Seite 20 - ... be disturbed, nor his quietness discomposed. But if a man cannot change his opinion when he lists, nor ever does heartily or resolutely but when he cannot do otherwise, then to use force may make him a hypocrite, but never to be a right believer ;• and so, instead of erecting a trophy to God and true religion, we build a monument for the devil.