Letters on England by Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Letters on England by Voltaire (1694 - 1778) is a arts podcast hosted by LibriVox. It has 25 episodes, with the latest published January 1970.
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he then wrote this series of letters in English putting forward his views on the 18th century England, in contrast with the feudal society of his home country, encompassing aspects of religion, politics, sciences, and literature. The book was published in England and the free England received these philosophical, political, critical, poetical, heretical, and diabolical letters with delight, whereas in France, the book was denounced and publicly burnt in Paris as scandalous, contrary to religion, to morals, and respect for authority. - Summary by IstXA
arts ·en ·25 episodes
LETTER XV. ON ATTRACTION
LETTER XVI. ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S OPTICS
LETTER XVII. ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S CHRONOLOGY
LETTER XVIII. ON TRAGEDY
LETTER XIX. ON COMEDY
LETTER XX. ON SUCH OF THE NOBILITY AS CULTIVATE THE BELLES LETTRES
LETTER XXI. ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER AND MR. WALLER
LETTER XXII. ON MR. POPE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS POETS
LETTER XXIII. ON THE REGARD THAT OUGHT TO BE SHOWN TO MEN OF LETTERS
LETTER XXIV. ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES
INTRODUCTION
LETTER I. ON THE QUAKERS
LETTER II. ON THE QUAKERS
LETTER III. ON THE QUAKERS
LETTER IV. ON THE QUAKERS
LETTER V. ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
LETTER VI. ON THE PRESBYTERIANS
LETTER VII. ON THE SOCINIANS, OR ARIANS, OR ANTITRINITARIANS
LETTER VIII. ON THE PARLIAMENT
LETTER IX. ON THE GOVERNMENT
LETTER X. ON TRADE
LETTER XI. ON INOCULATION
LETTER XII. ON THE LORD BACON
LETTER XIII. ON MR. LOCKE
LETTER XIV. ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON
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