A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 04

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Voltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 04

COUNTRY

CRIMES OR OFFENCES

CRIMINAL

CROMWELL

CUISSAGE

CURATE (OF THE COUNTRY)

CURIOSITY

CUSTOMS – USAGES

CYRUS

DANTE

DAVID

DECRETALS

DELUGE (UNIVERSAL)

DEMOCRACY

DEMONIACS

DESTINY

DEVOTEE

DIAL

DICTIONARY

DIOCLETIAN

DIONYSIUS, ST. (THE AREOPAGITE),

DIODORUS OF SICILY, AND HERODOTUS

DIRECTOR

DISPUTES

DISTANCE

DIVINITY OF JESUS

DIVORCE

DOG

DOGMAS

DONATIONS

DRINKING HEALTHS

THE DRUIDS

EASE

ECLIPSE

ECONOMY (RURAL)

ECONOMY OF SPEECH —

ELEGANCE

ELIAS OR ELIJAH, AND ENOCH

ELOQUENCE

EMBLEMS

ENCHANTMENT

END OF THE WORLD

ENTHUSIASM

ENVY

EPIC POETRY

EPIPHANY

EQUALITY

ESSENIANS

ETERNITY

EUCHARIST

EXECUTION

EXECUTIONER

EXPIATION

EXTREME

EZEKIEL

FABLE

FACTION

FACULTY

FAITH

FALSITY

FALSITY OF HUMAN VIRTUES

Отрывок из книги

Of Time and Place.

A Roman in Egypt very unfortunately killed a consecrated cat, and the infuriated people punished this sacrilege by tearing him to pieces. If this Roman had been carried before the tribunal, and the judges had possessed common sense, he would have been condemned to ask pardon of the Egyptians and the cats, and to pay a heavy fine, either in money or mice. They would have told him that he ought to respect the follies of the people, since he was not strong enough to correct them.

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The heads of the accusation were clearly incompatible. The sage and enlightened court of judicature, after having yielded to the public fury so far as to seek every possible testimony for and against the accused, fully and unanimously acquitted them. Formerly, perhaps, this innocent prisoner would have been broken on the wheel, or judicially burned, for the pleasure of supplying an execution – the tragedy of the mob.

Example Taken from the Condemnation of a Whole Family.

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