Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 25, 2025
When taking up his pen to write, he seems to be continually posing for his portrait; and whereas at times his features are drawn to look like Lessing's, anon they are made to assume the Voltairean mould. While reading his praise of Voltaire's manner, we almost seem to see him abjuring the consciences of his contemporaries for not having learned long ago what the modern Voltaire had to offer them.
My father is quite right; he accepts the Voltairean philosophy, and cries, Vivent les indifferents!" "My dear M. de Vandemar," said Graham, "in every country you will find the same thing. All individuals massed together constitute public life.
But even here we felt that it was not human nature that was revealed. It was Voltairean rather than Rabelaisian; and I dislike both.
And unfortunately, the corruption lurking beneath the utmost polish tricked itself out in Voltairean wit. If the Chevalier went rather too far at times, he always added as a corrective that a man must always behave himself like a gentleman. Of all this discourse, Victurnien comprehended just so much as flattered his passions. From the first he saw his old father laughing with the Chevalier.
He was a man of great height and spare, with grave and solemn manners, though his face expressed all gentle sentiments and an inward calm; while his mere presence carried with it a sacred authority. He was very fond of the Voltairean chevalier. Those two majestic relics of the nobility and clergy, though of very different habits and morals, recognized each other by their generous traits.
"Mongenod, endowed with an excellent heart and fine courage, a trifle Voltairean, was inclined to play the nobleman," went on Monsieur Alain. "His education at Grassins, where there were many young nobles, and his various gallantries, had given him the polished manners and ways of people of condition, who were then called aristocrats.
He would not be able to read the words "Quai Voltaire;" but he would see the sneering statue and the hard, straight roads; without having heard of Voltaire he would understand that the city was Voltairean. He would not know that Fleet Street was named after the Fleet Prison. But the same national spirit which kept the Fleet Prison closed and narrow still keeps Fleet Street closed and narrow.
The very first day of his arrival he ordered a service with holy water, and sprinkled everything with water, all the rooms in the house, even the lofts and the cellars, in order, as he put it, 'radically to expel the Voltairean and Jacobin spirit. In the first week several of Ivan Matveitch's favourites were sent to the right-about, one was even banished to a settlement, corporal punishment was inflicted on others; the old valet he was a Turk, knew French, and had been given to Ivan Matveitch by the late field-marshal Kamensky received his freedom, indeed, but with it a command to be gone within twenty-four hours, 'as an example to others. Semyon Matveitch turned out to be a harsh master; many probably regretted the late owner.
"You are giving a proof of irreligion which is in bad taste," said Laura. "Only janitors talk like that." "On such questions I am an honourary janitor." "That's all right, but you ought to realize that there are religious people here, like the abbe...." "Preciozi? Why, he's a Voltairean." "Oh! Oh! My friend...." exclaimed Preciozi, emptying a glass of wine. "Voltaireanism," continued Caesar.
There were but two parties Royalists and Liberals, Classics and Romantics. You found the same hatred masquerading in either form, and no longer wondered at the scaffolds of the Convention. Lucien had been a Liberal and a hot Voltairean; now he was a rabid Royalist and a Romantic.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking