A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10

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Voltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10

STYLE

SUPERSTITION

SYMBOL, OR CREDO

SYSTEM

TABOR, OR THABOR

TALISMAN

TARTUFFE – TARTUFERIE

TASTE

TAUROBOLIUM

TAX – FEE

TEARS

TERELAS

TESTES

THEISM

THEIST

THEOCRACY

THEODOSIUS

THEOLOGIAN

THUNDER

TOLERATION

TOPHET

TORTURE

TRANSUBSTANTIATION

TRINITY

TRUTH

TYRANNY

TYRANT

UNIVERSITY

USAGES

VAMPIRES

VELETRI

VENALITY

VENICE

VERSE

VIANDS

VIRTUE

VISION

VISION OF CONSTANTINE

VOWS

VOYAGE OF ST. PETER TO ROME

WALLER

WAR

WEAKNESS ON BOTH SIDES

WHYS (THE)

WICKED

WILL

WIT, SPIRIT, INTELLECT

WOMEN

XENOPHANES

XENOPHON, AND THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND

YVETOT

ZEAL

ZOROASTER

DECLARATION OF THE AMATEURS, IN-QUIRERS, AND DOUBTERS, WHO HAVE AMUSED THEMSELVES WITH PROPOSING TO THE LEARNED THE PRECEDING QUESTIONS IN THESE VOLUMES

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I have sometimes heard you say – We are no longer superstitious; the reformation of the sixteenth century has made us more prudent; the Protestants have taught us better manners.

But what then is the blood of a St. Januarius, which you liquefy every year by bringing it near his head? Would it not be better to make ten thousand beggars earn their bread, by employing them in useful tasks, than to boil the blood of a saint for their amusement? Think rather how to make their pots boil.

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The letter from Warsaw which gives the particulars of this attempt, adds: "The religious who employ their pious ardor in causing blood to flow and ravaging their country, have succeeded in Poland, as elsewhere, in inculcating on the minds of their affiliated, that it is allowable to kill kings."

Indeed, the assassins had been hidden in Warsaw for three days in the house of the reverend Dominican fathers; and when these accessory monks were asked why they had harbored thirty armed men without informing the government of it, they answered, that these men had come to perform their devotions, and to fulfil a vow.

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