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Voltaire:     more books (95)

Voltaire: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Voltaire, Raymond Geuss, et all 1994-06-24 Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Francois Voltaire, 2009-02-24 Philosophical Letters: Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation by Voltaire, 2007-03 Zadig; L'Ingenu (Penguin Classics) by Francois Voltaire, 1978-11-30 Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford, 1999-08-01 A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays (Great Minds) by Voltaire, Joseph McCabe, 1994-05 Candide: by Voltaire (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Voltaire, 1998-09-15 Zadig Or The Book of Fate by Voltaire, 2009-01-12 Voltaire in Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78 by Ian Davidson, 2006-01-13 Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) by Renee Waldinger, 1987-06 Micromegas and Other Short Fictions (Penguin Classics) by Francois Voltaire, 2002-08-27 The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, With Special Emphasis on the Conflict Between Religion and Philosophy (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 9) by Will Durant, Ariel Durant, 1997-07 Voltaire: A Collection of Critical Essays (Spectrum Books) The Age of Louis XIV (Everyman Paperbacks) by Francois Voltaire, 1962-04-17

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21. Voltaire (by Clarence Darrow)
    by Clarence Darrow. Index Historical Writings ( voltaire) Index Historical Writings ( Darrow) Index Historical Writings (Biography) Home to Positive Atheism. voltaire Écrasez l'Infâme Jim Herrick. voltaire 1894 Robert Green Ingersoll voltaire Thomas S. Vernon. voltaire was born in Paris in 1694  
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    Extractions: [hand-typed and edited from two sources by Cliff Walker] Voltaire was born in Paris in 1694. At that time, Louis XIV was on the throne in France. Though long years of profligacy and dissipation the lords and rulers of France had reduced the country to poverty and the people to slavery and superstition. France was nothing but the king and the favorites of the court. Noblemen, priests and women of easy virtue were the rulers, and people lived only to furnish them amusement and dissipation. Everyone believed in miracles, witchcraft and revealed religion. They not only believed in old miracles but in new ones. A person may be intellectual and believe in miracles, but the miracles must be very old. Doctors plied their trade through sorcery and sacred charms. Lawyers helped keep the poor in subjection; the criminal code was long, cruel and deadly. The priest, the doctor and the lawyer lived for the rich and helped make slaves of the poor. Doctors still believe in sorcery, but they administer their faith cures through a bottle instead of vulgar witchcraft. Lawyers still keep the poor in their place by jails and barbarous laws, but the criminal code is shorter and less severe. When Voltaire was born there was really but one church which, of course, was ignorant, tyrannical and barbarous in the extreme. All creeds are alike, and whenever there is but one, and the rulers honestly believe in that one, they are bound to be ignorant, barbarous and cruel. All sorts of heresies were punishable by death. If anyone dared to write a pamphlet or book that questioned any part of the accepted faith, the book was at once consigned to flames and the author was lucky if he did not meet the same fate. Religion was not maintained by the precepts of the priest, but by the prison, the torture chamber and the fagot. Everyone believed; no one questioned. The religious creeds, while strict and barbarous, did not interfere with the personal conduct of any of the rulers. They were left free to act as they pleased, so long as they professed to believe in the prevailing faith.

22. Cabaret Voltaire
    Axis. Cabaret voltaire Demos, soundtracks, radio and TV. Live performances. brainwashed hosts the primary site dedicated to Cabaret voltaire.  
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    Extractions: Cabaret Voltaire CABARET VOLTAIRE evolved around 1973, a nucleus of three people - Richard H. Kirk, Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder - working mainly with sound experiments on tape recorders and electronic equipment and occasionally incorporating other people. The early performances were performance packages (Edinburgh Festival 1975), and occasional unadvertised performances. Around 1976 the group began to play on a more regular basis and took up offers of support slots for such groups as The Buzzcocks and Siouxsie and the Banshees. In October of 1978 the group released their first record, Extended Play for the Rough Trade label. Two months later they released two tracks for the Factory label (Factory Sample), and their first album Mix -Up was released in Autumn 1979. They have since gone on to release numerous records, working in the main for Rough Trade but also working with such labels as Industrial, Factory, Crepuscule and Fetish. As well as appearances in England, Cabaret Voltaire have played in various places throughout Europe, America and Japan. In November 1981 the group was reduced to a two piece unit when Chris Watson left to take up work in television. However they continued to incorporate other people in their studio and live work, Alan Fish in the main providing drums with the inclusion of Nort, another drummer, on occassions.

23. Voltaire, ND News - Topix.net
    Local, regional, and statewide news collected from diverse sources on the web.  
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    Extractions: Friday, May 28, 2004 Voltaire, ND News change city Search Local Sports University of Minnesota Colorado Rockies Minnesota Twins Minnesota Vikings ... Billings Mustangs Local Resources Map of Voltaire Aerial Photo Movie Times TV Listings ... Balfour, ND Improve your site Add these news headlines to your website -

24. Voltaire
    Biographical notes by Blake Wilfong. " I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." voltaire was the nom de plume of Francois Marie Arouet (16941778). One  
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    Extractions: Biographical notes by Blake Wilfong "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire was the nom de plume of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778). One of the most famous French writers, his works embrace almost every branch of literaturepoetry, drama, romance, history, philosophy, and science. The years between his birth and death overlapped those of famous early scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Edmund Halley, Joseph Priestly, and Benjamin Franklin; Voltaire wrote SF at a time when the crucial scientific foundations for it had scarcely been laid. He was eminently qualified; one of his own projects was a translation of Newton's Principia into French. Alas, though some of Voltaire's works contain elements of the bizarre and the fantastic, few qualify as even borderline sci-fi. Yet "Micromegas" (1752) is such a shining exception that for this single tale Voltaire deserves credit for inventing the science fiction short story, and possibly science fiction itself. Voltaire's writings brought him fame and fortune, but, like those of his character Micromegas, also brought trouble. His advocacy of freedom of speech and religion, along with attacks on the Church and the French nobility, resulted in two prison terms in the Bastille and years of exile from France. Yet Voltaire's works eventually catalyzed the French Revolution, and secured his lasting memory as a hero of all the free world.

25. Hassell Castle Presents Cirqus Voltaire
    Includes movies, pictures, owners lists, software updates and technical advice.  
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    voltaire leading provider of data center inteeligent connectivity solutions for the InfinBand era. Downloads. voltaire HPC PDF,943kb.  
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    Extractions: Home Contact Us Site Map Products Products InfiniBand Switch Routers InfiniBand to IP Routers InfiniBand to FC Routers VoltaireVision ... InfiniBand Software Stack Solutions Database Solutions HPC Solutions Apple Xserve Clusters Voltaire HPC Resellers Blade Computing Storage Solutions Downloads Voltaire HPC High Performance computing and InfiniBand Scaling Computational Clusters With InfiniBand Scientific and technical organizations around the world have embraced clusters as the most cost-effective way to provide superior performance to demanding applications. Now, high performance InfiniBand technology from Voltaire is enabling these organizations to significantly improve the price/performance of their computational and visualization clusters.

27. Voltaire's Cup - Gourmet Coffee, Tea, And Food - Located In St. Louis, Missouri
    Family owned store specializing in gourmet coffees, teas, cappuccinos, cocoas, spices, foods, and gifts.  
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28. Voltaire
    voltaire is remembered as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry. FrançoisMarie Arouet de voltaire was born in Paris into a middle-class family.  
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    Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer, satirist, the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Voltaire is remembered as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry. Compared to Rousseau's (1712-1778) rebelliousness and idealism, Voltaire was skeptical about the solution of the great philosophical problems. Voltaire disliked his great contemporary thinker, but their ideas influenced deeply the French Revolution. In 1761 he wrote to Rousseau: "One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work." " Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." (from Essay on Epic Poetry Voltaire did not support the dogmatic theology of institutional religions, his religiosity was anticlerical. The doctrines about the Trinity or the Incarnation he dismissed as nonsense. As a humanist, he advocated religious and social tolerance. When he wrote in his play of Muhammad as a blind and destructive barbarian, everyone knew that he meant the Roman Church. Atheism Voltaire considered not as baleful as fanaticism, but nearly always fatal to virtue. At his 1726 stay at the Bastille Voltaire was visited by a flow of admirers. Between 1726 and 1729 he lived in exile mainly in England. There he avoided trouble for three years and wrote in English his first essays, ESSAY UPON EPIC POETRY and ESSAY UPON THE CIVIL WARS IN FRANCE, which were published in 1727. After his return to France Voltaire wrote plays, poetry, historical and scientific treatises and became royal historiographer. HISTOIRE DE CHARLES XII (1731) used novelistic technique and rejected the idea that divine intervention guides history. In 1734 appeared his

29. Voltaire Oeuvres Complètes. Textes En Ligne
    Oeuvres en ligne, dont le Dictionnaire philosophique.  
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    Extractions: www voltaire-integral Voltaire, non édité en France depuis plus d'un siècle, notre auteur, symbole du combat pour la tolérance, la justice et contre tous les fanatismes, reste inaccessible aux Français. Il est relégué dans les bibliothèques universitaires. Les spécialistes distillent avec modération pour le public quelques Extraits ou Morceaux choisis par eux. L'édition monumentale actuellement en cours à Oxford est malheureusement inabordable pour les particuliers par son coût prohibitif. Combler le vide laissé par les éditeurs de l'écrit, telle est la motivation de la présente édition électronique. Elle reproduit l'édition Louis Moland chez Garnier, Paris 1870-1880 avec de nombreux compléments. Actuellement les Oeuvres Complètes et la Correspondance sont disponibles au format HTML pour une navigation de type internet avec indication des notes. Elles sont

30. Chateau De Cirey - Voltaire's Petit Theatre
    , photographs and history.One of the few remaining examples of an early theater.  
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    Extractions: The true architectural origin of the French theater dates from the second half of the 18th century. It is rare to find a theatrical structure used uniquely for plays before this date. Until the mid 1700's, there were few theaters and the existing ones were poorly designed for performances. It is paradoxical that France, a country which valued theater as a part of its national culture, was so slow to develop theatrical architecture comparable to Italy. Voltaire himself complained about the state of affairs after the failure of one of his plays "Semiramis," performed in Paris in 1748. He attributed the failure of the play to the sad state of the performance hall of the Comedie Francaise. Although it would be ten years before the French would create theaters based on the Italian model, Voltaire moved quickly to build an appropriate theater at Cirey.

31. Voltaire Quotes - The Quotations Page
    Quotations by Author. voltaire (1694 1778) French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist more author details. We have 1 book review related to voltaire.  
    http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Voltaire/

32. Voltaire - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    voltaire. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. voltaire voltaire. FrançoisMarie Arouet (November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
    
    Extractions: 6 References He was born in Paris Poitevin extraction, but the Arouets were long established in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. The family appears to have always belonged to the yeoman tradesman class; their special home was the town of Saint-Loup (his sponsor in more ways than one) having been her friend. The father appears to have been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother was very fond, married early, her husband's name being Mignot; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong Jansenist belles lettres and deism , and the child showed a faculty for facile verse-making. Aged ten, he was sent to the , which was under the management of the Jesuits , and remained there till . As part of his general liberalism , he depreciated the education he had received; but it seems to have been a sound one, which formed the basis of his extraordinarily wide, though not always accurate, collection of

33. Denis Diderot And Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
    Illustrated biographical article, focusing heavily on the Encyclopedia project.  
    http://www.visitvoltaire.com/v_diderot.htm
    
    Extractions: Diderot soon changed the nature of the publication by broadening its scope. The goal of the was to outline the present state of knowledge about the sciences, arts, and crafts, and to make the knowledge possessed by the few accessible to the many. Each subject was assigned to be written by the person or persons best acquainted with it, and was to be handled with as near an approach to freedom as the censors would permit. It was revolutionary in that it was the first encyclopedia to bring together the great minds of the time. Also among the contributors were many craftsmen who provided the details for technical articles about trades and industries.

34. - Great Books -
    voltaire (16941778), French philosopher preceded him. Not very much is known of the mother, who died when voltaire was but seven years old.  
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35. Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil Du Chatelet - And Voltaire
    Biography and portraits of du Ch¢telet, and the story of her affair with voltaire.  
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    Extractions: Emilie was born in 1706 into an upper class family in Paris. Her father, the Baron de Breteuil, was Principal Secretary and Introducer of Ambassadors to Louis XIV. This position placed him in the center of activities at court, and accorded high social prestige to Emilie when she entered society as an adult. Emilie was of average appearance with large expressive eyes, tall, and not particularly graceful. As a child, she was given lessons in fencing, riding and gymnastics in an attempt to improve her awkwardness. Emilie was a genius, the type that only needs two to four hours of sleep each night. It is possible that the fencing, riding, and gymnastics lessons, not typically included in a young girl's education, were an attempt to find an outlet for Emilie's boundless energy.

36. Le Voltaire - Végeolles - France
    Gerenoveerde hoeve voor maximaal 16 personen in V©geolles in de Corr¨ze in Frankrijk. Beknopte site met foto.  
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37. Le Jeu De Cartes Du Régime Bush [Réseau Voltaire]
    voltaire. Réseau voltaire.net - pour la liberté d expression,  
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    Extractions: George W. Bush s'est emparé du pouvoir avec la complicité de la Cour suprême et malgré les suffrages des électeurs ; un système de surveillance de chaque citoyen a été mis en place avec l'USA Patriot Act ; les militaires ont été autorisés à intervenir dans la vie politique intérieure ; un appareil de propagande a été constitué ; le pays a renoncé au droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes et s'est engagé dans des campagnes coloniales en Afghanistan et en Irak.

38. Voltaire Oeuvres Complètes, Textes En Ligne
    Translate this page voltaireoeuvres complètes électroniques, (prix 45 Euros, en France), textes avec notes et notices sur chacune des oeuvres, format MS Word 6 ou HTML, basée  
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39. Voltaire - Kalliope
    V¦rker, digttitler, f¸rstelinier fra digte, s¸gning, popul¦re digte, portr¦tter, biografi og samtid.  
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40. Voltaire Philosophe - Adpf
    Translate this page De fait, sans doute parce que la censure et les hommes de pouvoir ont cherché sans relâche à le bâillonner, voltaire a crié toute sa vie plus fort que les  
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