1. The Fall Of The Roman Empire
... ; he had a partial and interrupted education at Oxford, and then he completed his studies in Geneva; 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 works runs to ninety- four; he ... of Christianity, and what fires, of political and religious passion might...
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