... ; on the whole his outlook was French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's ... dangers, and must to the end remain a high and terrible enterprise. They postured a little as republicans, and sneered at the divine pretensions of monarchy; but the republicanism that appealed to Voltaire w...

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... and man while the Realists question the existence or at least the importance of, God and discount the beliefs of organized Christian religions. Instead of seeking transcendence as the Romantics did, the Realists focused on ethical choices and morality in the life of middle class individuals, often without supporting Christian beliefs. In the eighteenth century, in the period leading up to the French Revolution, which brought about the final collapse of the economic and ideological structure of feudalism, realism took ... in common, as they have a common past history, both having been ma...

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... of the colonial assemblies nor tighten the lax enforcement of the Navigation Acts, leaving trade in a relatively precarious position by 1756. The limited war effort displayed by the colonies during the physical confrontation of the Seven Years 1756-1763, the fourth in a world-wide series of conflicts over the supremacy of North America, revealed just how little authority British government now held at the end of George II reign. Regardless of Britain's attempts to protect the colonies against the oppressive French, the ... the political phenomena surrounding the rise of the assemblies. ...

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