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Now ready, in Two Volumes (over 1,200 pages), demy 8vo. cloth extra, gilt top, price 32s. LIFE OF YOLTAIEE. BY JAMES PARTON. WITH TWO IFIIfcTIE POBTBAITS. r
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T | l I ¦ •• • - — - ^^ l 4 © 2 The Publishers' Circular May l 6 ' >
Now Ready, In Two Volumes (Over 1,200 Pages), Demy 8vo. Cloth Extra, Gilt Top, Price 32s. Life Of Yoltaiee. By James Parton. With Two Ifiifctie Pobtbaits. R
Now ready , in Two Volumes ( over l , 2 OO pages ) , demy 8 vo . cloth extra , gilt top , price 32 s . Life or Yoltaiee , BY JAMES PARTON . WITH TWO ZFUDnTIE POUTHAITS .
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< .. . . The reader is probably aware that every circumstance in the history of this man , from the date of his birth to the restingplace of his bones , is matter of controversy . . . . The Voltaire of these volumes is the nearest to the true one that I have been able to gather and construct . I think the man is to be found in these pages delineated by himself . '— From Preface . EPITOME OF CONTENTS / Birth—The School Poet—Wild Oats—Head over Ears in Love-Exiled for an Epigram—In the Bastille— ' ( Edipe' performed—Voltaire a Courtier—In the Bastille again—First Impressions of England-Residence in England—Madame du CMtelet—Voltaire at Cirey—Voltaire and Frederic—The Widower—Settling in Prussia—The First Tiff with Frederic—Work in Prussia—The Rind of an Orange—Leaving Prussia—Threatened on every side—To Switzerland—Settling at Les D & ices—The Lisbon Earthquake—In the Seven Years' War— Country Gentleman and Farmer—Ecrasez Tlnf & me—The Storm of Monosy llables — Voltaire builds a Church—The Calas Tragedy—Life at Ferney— - His Prodigious Reputation—His Return and Welcome to Paris—Stifled under Roses—Death—Burial—To the Pantheon—The Places that knew Him . London : SAMPSON LOWMARSTONSEARLE & BIVINGTONT , Crown Buildings , , 188 Fleet , Street , E . C , , ( 241 ^
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 16, 1881, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16051881/page/18/
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