This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ..."You will see by the Advertisement," he writes, "that I have some designs upon you, and that I must mention you for the honour of yr country and for the improvement of mine. Do not forbid me to grace my relation with yr name. Let me indulge the satisfaction of talking of you as posterity will do." As a matter of fact, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ..."You will see by the Advertisement," he writes, "that I have some designs upon you, and that I must mention you for the honour of yr country and for the improvement of mine. Do not forbid me to grace my relation with yr name. Let me indulge the satisfaction of talking of you as posterity will do." As a matter of fact, Swift was given scant space although a certain amount of warm praise in the Lettres philosophiques. 21728 though. 31728 any. 4 This passage indicates one way in which Voltaire may have gathered information for his work, at the same time arousing the interest of the English public in it. An English translation of the Lettres philosophiques appeared in London in 1733 before the original French version had been published. Cf. Bengesco, II, p. 11. 6 In the edition of 1731 "which is... answer for " has been omitted and replaced by "the Octavo edition whereof is sold by N. Prevost; as also the French tragedy of Brutus." Voltaire's Brutus was first presented in Paris in December, 1730. Because of its connection with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar it was of particular interest to the English public as was the Discours sur la tragedie, containing a comparison between the French and the English stage and printed as an introduction to Brutus when the play was published in 1731. An English translation of this Discours was issued with Voltaire's essays that year in London (cf. p. 9, note 3, ante). It is natural that, at the same time, the tragedy should have been put on sale in London book-shops and that it should have been announced together with the Henriade in the Advertisement preceding the essays. Yet Churton Collins (V.M.R., p. 95) in an attempt to explain Parton's statement Life of Voltaire, I, Appendix) that Bru...
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