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Original Title:	Lettres Philosophiques
ISBN:	1603866426 (ISBN13: 9781603866422)

Letters on England

Voltaire

Paperback | Pages: 102 pages

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Title	:	Letters on England
Author	:	Voltaire
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 102 pages
Published	:	February 26th 2014 by Rough Draft Printing (first published 1733)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Classics. Nonfiction. History. Cultural. France

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Voltaire was a colorful figure in Paris in the time just before both France and America began turbulent revolutions for their freedom. Voltaire was a 17th century writer philosopher and supporter of social reform. He spoke openly in defense of civil liberties and freedom of religion. His satires often poked fun at the Catholic Church and other French institutions. Voltaire along with other authors of the Enlightenment period was influencal in the American and French Revolutions. Voltaire was a prolific letter writer having written over 21,000 letters. As a young outspoken poet in Paris, Voltaire was often in trouble with the crown. In 1717 his satirical writing got him locked up in the Bastille for a year. In 1731 he published Lettres sur les Anglais. These letters appeared in England two years later. The collection of his letters is an excellent resource for historians of the period.

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This book is a collection of Voltaires observations of England, a country where he lived a few years in exile. Its written with Voltaires singular wit and intelligence, and caused a flurry of controversy in France on its publication because Voltaires homeland is compared to England throughout the letters, and, for the most part, England comes out ahead in these comparisons. This book has interesting things to say about the Quakers, religion, Isaac Newton, theater, and learned societies. Some of

This is the one that destroys my braincells irredeemably with its meta-level, airy, grandiose, subtweeting-the-French morality and I just can't even any more, so after dragging my eyeballs 22% of the way through, I am cashing in my Get Out Of Book Jail Free card. Let me never again suffer my way through a single word by He Who Shall Not Be Read.

His thoughts on British parliament, Newton, Descartes, Shakespear, Bacon, Locke, Pope, Blaise Pascal and then also, his opinions on Comedy, Tragedy, cosmology, astrology, education and small pox inoculation. He discusses all of this with brilliance and ease and to think he'd only learned English a few years back.Voltaire's thoughts on science, religion and censorship are still so relevant and I would say in a world more and more obsessed with political correctness, a world where it seems

Voltaire writes about England, and seems quite well taken with it, but of course he is really addressing France, and not so much praising the former as taunting the latter. There are three major arcs to the letters. The first describes the English religious sects as they stood at the time, all of which Protestant faiths he seemed to find more value in than the Catholic sects of his home country. The Quakers steal the show with their simple but profound convictions, but I did share in his

Voltaires Letters on England is hardly as exhaustive as Alexis de Tocqueville or as ordinary as Montaigne. In fact not, and thankfully not as exhausting to read. Voltaire has written a few letters to France, if for no other reason to remind them that he is a free man in England and might not be one in France. I am speaking to the free Kindle edition which seems to have copied over with no obvious mistakes in the transfer process. The quality of the translation is for another to judge, that this

IntroductionLetters on England--Letter 1: On the Quakers--Letter 2: On the Quakers--Letter 3: On the Quakers--Letter 4: On the Quakers--Letter 5: On the Anglican Religion--Letter 6: On the Presbyterians--Letter 7: On the Socinians, Arians or Anti-Trinitarians--Letter 8: On Parliament--Letter 9: On the Government--Letter 10: On Commerce--Letter 11: On Inoculation with Smallpox--Letter 12: On Chancellor Bacon--Letter 13: On Mr Locke--Letter 14: On Descartes and Newton--Letter 15: On the System of

Does not stand the test of time. The best letters are on religious practices and, if science is your thing,the eulogies about Newton's genius will appeal. The letters on stage and poetry are disappointing.