1730
Nathaniel
Bailey,
Dictionarium Britannicum
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Henry St. John
Bolingbroke,
Remarks on the History of England
The Remarks with Dissertation upon Parties (1733) grew out of essays which Bolingbroke wrote for the newspaper The Craftsman in which he attacked the prime minister Walpole, the corrupt ‘Robinocracy’, and demanded frequent elections and limits on placemen and standing armies. Together with The Idea of a Patriot King (1738), these three works argued for an end to party divisions as a prelude to the re-establishment of English liberties.
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Thomas
Chubb,
Christianity as Old as the Creation
Tindal sets a natural religion of reason against clericalism and demonstrates a scepticism towards the Bible. According to Tindal, Priests have perverted natural religion: “Priests, on the pretence of the good of the Church” work the people up “to Tumults, Mutiny, Sedition and Rebellion”; and a close look at “Ecclesiastical History” will show that the clergy have allied themselves with secular power: “The worst of princes have been most sure of their Assistance even in carrying on the vilest Designs”. (254) A German version of Christianity as Old as the Creation appeared in 1741and other deist writings soon followed to enjoy success in the German states much to the alarm of the authorites and orthodox opinion.
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Thomas
Chubb,
A Collection of Tracts, on Various Subjects
Comprises 35 treatises, including The Supremacy of the Father, An Enquiry concerning Infinite Justice and Infinite Satisfaction, A Vindication of God’s Moral Character, An Examination of Mr. Barclay's Principles, Human Nature Vindicated, Reflections on Natural Liberty, etc.
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Pierre-François Guyot
Desfontaines,
Le Nouveau Gulliver
A French fictitious or pseudo-translation which was translated into English by Lockman in 1731.
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Balthasar
Gibert,
La rh‚torique, ou les rŠgles de l'‚loquence
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Johann Christoph
Gottsched,
Essay on a Critical Poetics for the Germans
Work in which Gottsched argued that German literature should emulate that of the French. ?What the Greeks were to the Romans the French now are to us. They have given us in all of the major genres of poetry the most beautiful models and have written very many discourses, reviews, critiques and other guides from which we can take a number of rules.?
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Pierre
Marivaux,
Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard (The Game of Love and Chance)
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Petrus van
Musschenbroek,
Oratio de methodo instituendi experimenta physica (Discourse on the Method for Performing Physical Experiments)
Celebrated text on natural science.
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James
Ralph,
The Fashionable Lady
A ballad-opera, the first play by an American to appear on the London stage. Ralph was probably born in New Jersey. He accompanied Benjamin Franklin to London in 1724. In imitation of James Thomson he published the blank-verse poems The Tempest and Night in 1727. He was employed as political writer and liaison officer by Bubb Dodington and Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales and was given a pension by the Pelham ministry to purchase his silence. Author of The History of England (1744, 1746) and The Case of Authors by Profession (1758).
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Tho
Stackhouse,
A Fair State of the Controversy between Mr. Woolston and his Adversaries: containing the Substance of what he asserts in his Six Discourses against the Literal Sense of our Blessed Saviour’s Miracles; and what Bishop Gibson, Bishop Chandler, Bishop Smallbroke, Bishop Sherlock, Dr. Pearce, Dr. Rogers, Mr. Stebbing, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Lardner, Mr. Ray, &c. have advanc’d against him
According to Stackhouse, civil justice serves as a warning that, if Woolston did not abandon his infidelity, God would punish him much more severely.
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Matthew
Tindal,
Christianity as Old as the Creation, or the Gospel a Republication of the Religion of Nature
"A work that became known as the ""Deists' Bible"", Toland was reviled by his own college chaplain as ""Spinoza revived""."
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Voltaire,
A Mlle Delaunay
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise d' Ussé
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Voltaire,
La Pucelle d' Orléans
Mock-heroic verse epic based on the life of Joan of Arc; the subject was suggested to Voltaire by the duc de Richelieu.
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Voltaire,
Historie de Charles XII
After meeting Fabrice, a former companion of Charles XII, in London, Voltaire wrote this biography. All 2,600 copies of the first edition were sold immediately and it appeared in sixty editions during Voltaire's lifetime.
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Voltaire,
A M. de *** ['Pour des Luberts point n' en manquez, beau sire' ]
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Voltaire,
Impromptu ‚crit chez Mme du Deffand
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Voltaire,
Epigramme ['Les d‚lires de tes ‚crits' ]
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Voltaire,
La Mort de Mlle Lecouvreur
A poem Voltaire wrote on the death of his former mistress and actress Adrienne Lecouvreur at the age of thirty-eight. He was at her bedside at the time of her death and subsequently tried unsuccessfully to arrange for her funeral, since France was the only Catholic country in Europe which refused to allow actors a Christian burial. The poem was circulated privately.
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Voltaire,
Description du compas dans les M‚tamorphoses d' Ovide
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Voltaire,
A M. de La Faye
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Voltaire,
Epigramme sur Boyer
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Voltaire,
Eriphyle
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Voltaire,
A Mme de ***, en lui envoyant les oeuvres mystiques de F‚nelon
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Voltaire,
A M. *** qui était malade
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre connue sous le nom des vous et des tu
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Voltaire,
A Mme la maréchale de Villars en lui envoyant la Henriade
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Voltaire,
Réponse à M. de Linant
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Voltaire,
A M. de Cideville, ‚crits sur un exemplaire de la Henriade
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Voltaire,
A M. Maurice de Claris
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Voltaire,
A Mme de *** ['De votre esprit la force est si puissante' ]
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Voltaire,
Traduction
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Voltaire,
Vers … l' occasion du traitement fait … Mlle Lecouvreur, aprŠs sa mort
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Voltaire,
Epigramme contre J.-B. Rousseau
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Voltaire,
Harangue prononc‚e le jour de la cl“ture du th‚ƒtre
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William
Whiston,
Memoirs
Memoirs of Whiston's close friend and fellow Arian Samuel Clarke.
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Thomas
Woolston,
Discourse on our Saviour' s Miraculous Power of Healing
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1731
Anonymous,
Some Reflections on Prescience
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John
Arbuthnot ,
Essay concerning the nature of Ailments
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Henri
Boulainvilliers,
Vie de Mahomed (Life of Mahomed)
The work, though unfinished, was circulated in manuscript before being published in England in 1731. It presented a sympathetic account of the prophet's life.
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Edward
Cave,
Gentleman's Magazine
Journal (1731-54) founded and edited by Cave under the pseudonym "Sylvanus Urban, Gent". It published reports of debates in the House of Commons. Johnson gained his first job writing some of these reports. Cave was employed by the post office in London and supplied country newspapers with London newsletters.
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Thomas
Chubb,
Discourse Concerning Reason
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Ralph
Cudworth,
Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
This work appeared more than forty years after the author’s death.
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Marie
Huber,
Le monde fou pr‚fer‚ au monde sage (The Mad World Preferred to the Wise World)
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François
Lamy,
R‚futation des erreurs de BenoŒt de Spinoza par M. de F‚nelon[?]par le P. Lami et M. le comte de Boullainvilliers (Refutation of the Errors of Baruch de Spinoza by F‚nelon, Lamy, and Boullainvilliers)
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Pierre
Marivaux,
La Vie de Marianne
Unfinished novel written between 1731-6. With its emphasis on feminine sensibility it anticipates Richardson’s Pamela (1740).
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Antoine François
Prévost,
Le Philosophe anglais, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell (The English Philosopher, or The Life of Mr. Cleveland)
Published in Utrecht in eight volumes between 1731 and 1739 and drawing on Prévost’s extensive knowledge of England, they are based on a fictitious account of the adventures of the natural son of Oliver Cromwell.
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Antoine François
Prévost,
Historie du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
Novel published when the author was thirty-one. Manon Lescaut appeared as the final installment of a seven-volume novel called Mémoires et aventures d’un homme de qualité qui s’est retiré de monde (1728-31). It was publicly burned by the authorities as an immoral work when it was first published. In The Confessions Rousseau remarks that his works “deserve immortality”, p.348.
Prévost, copying Addison’s Spectator, published Le Pour et le Conte
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Jonathan
Swift,
Verses on the Death of Mr Swift
Swift’s most admired poem, a partly satirical piece in which he imagines public reaction to his death, and where he then gives a deceptive description of his life and achievements.
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Voltaire,
A M. de Formont, en lui renvoyant les oeuvres de Descartes et de Mallebranche
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Voltaire,
Réponse à M. de Formont
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Voltaire,
Les PoŠtes ‚piques. Stances
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Voltaire,
A M. le mar‚chal de Richelieu, en lui envoyant plusieurs piŠces d‚tach‚es
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Voltaire,
Epigramme sur l' abb‚ Terrasson
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Voltaire,
La Mort de César
Another example of Voltaire’s verse tragedies which met with little success; it was performed only in a college.
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Voltaire,
Sur l' estampe du R. P. Girard et de la Cadière
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Voltaire,
Sur M. de La Faye
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Voltaire,
Chanson pour Mlle Gaussin, le jour de sa fˆte
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Voltaire,
A l' hôtel de Mantes
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1732
George
Berkeley,
Alciphron: Or, the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, against those who are called Free-thinkers
Published in London in two volumes; volume 2 includes An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. The dialogues constitute a defence of Christianity from the point of view of an Anglican divine, though based on the philosophical beliefs defined in Berkeley's earlier works.
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Henry St. John
Bolingbroke,
Dissertation upon Parties
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Henri
Boulainvilliers,
The old government of France
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Thomas
Chubb,
An Enquiry concerning the Grounds and Reasons, or What those principles are, on which two of our anniversary solemnities are founded: viz. That on the 30th of January, being the day of the martyrdom of King Charles the First, appointed to be kept as a day of fasting; and that on the 5th November, being the day of our deliverance from Popery and slavery, by the happy arrival of his late Majesty King William the Third, appointed to be kept as a day of thanksgiving. To which is added, The Sufficiency of Reason in Matters of Religion, farther considered. Wherein is shewn, that reason, when carefully used and followed, is to every man .... a sufficient guide in matters of religion ....
Thomas Chubb, deist, “was a disciple of Samuel Clarke, but gradually diverged further from Arianism into a modified deism.” (D.N.B.) This Enquiry was directed against a sermon by Dr. Croxall.
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Robert
Dodsley,
The Muse in Livery: or, the Footman’s Miscellany
A collection of short poems published by subscription.
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Jacques-Joseph
Duguet,
Explication du livre de la GenŠse (Explanation of Genesis)
Influential work which aimed to rejuvenate the Roman Catholic Church.
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Benjamin
Franklin,
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Published annually until 1757.
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Johann Christoph
Gottsched,
Contributions to a Critical History of the German Language, Poetry and Eloquence
Eight volume work that appeared between 1732 and 1744.
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Albrecht von
Haller,
Versuch scheiwerischer Gedichte (Attempt at Swiss Poetry)
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Pierre
Marivaux,
Les serments indiscrets (Rash Promises)
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Pierre Louis Moreau de
Maupertuis,
Discours sur les différentes figures des astres
Visiting London in 1728 Maupertuis abandoned Cartesian for Newtonian science. The Discours was the first of several defences of Newton, in fact, the first book by a Frenchmen to accept and expound Newton’s theory of gravitation, and it helped to spread his ideas in France.
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Johann Jakob
Moser,
Foundations of International Law
Moser was Professor at Tbingen (1720-24, 1729-34) and was first the legal scholar to bring out a complete presentation of German constitutional law.
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Aubry de La
Mottraye,
The Voyages and Travels of Aubry de La Mottraye
Aubry de La Mottraye made three visits to London
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Alberto Radicati di
Passerano,
A Philosophical Dissertation on Death
Passerano took refuge in London in 1730. His Dissertation caused such an outcry due to its defence of materialism and athesim that he and his translator Joseph Morgan were arrested.
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Noel Antoine
Pluche,
Le spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularit‚s de l'histoire naturelle qui ont paru les plus propres … rendre les jeunes gens curieux et … leur former l'esprit (The Spectacle of Nature, or Conversations about the Particularities of Natural History That Have Appeared Most Apt to Make Young People Curious and Form Their Minds)
Published between 1732 and 1750 a Christian apologia of the argument from the design. Translated into almost all the European languages,Le spectacle de la nature became hugely popular during the eighteenth century.
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Alberto
Radicati,
A Philosophical Dissertation upon Death
A bold defence of self-determination which proposed that individuals should have the legal right to commit suicide.
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Voltaire,
Madrigal ['Ah! Camargo, que vous ˆtes brillante' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mlle Aïssé
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … Mlle de Lubert ['Charmante Iris, qui, sans chercher … plaire' ]
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … une dame
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Voltaire,
Epigramme sur Fr‚ret, qui avait ‚crit contre Newton
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Voltaire,
A Mme de Fontaine-Martel
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Voltaire,
Zaïre
Zaïre, was written in twenty-two days; with its exotic subject matter, bringing Christian crusaders in conflict with acts of Muslim chivalry, was greeted with great acclaim on its first performance on 13 August 1732. Garrick appeared in the staging of the play at a latter date.
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Voltaire,
Le Temple de l' amitié
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … Mme de Fontaine-Martel
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Voltaire,
A M. Grégoire
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Voltaire,
Ériphyle
A tragedy, which like Hamlet, included an apparition of a ghost. It was booed by the audience at its first performance on the 7th March 1732. Voltaire revised the play fifteen years later with the more successful Sémiramis.
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … Mlle de Lubert ['Le cur‚ qui vous baptisa' ]
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Voltaire,
Fragment d' une lettre sur un usage trŠs utile ‚tabli en Hollande
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Voltaire,
Pour le portrait de Mlle Sallé
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Christian
Wolf,
Psychologia empirica methodo scientifica pertractata
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Johann Heinrich
Zedler,
Grosses vollst„ndiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Knste (Great Complete Encyclopaedia of all Sciences and Arts)
A 68-volume encyclopaedia published by Johann Heinrich Zedler in Leipzig between 1732 and 1754. It was published under its full-name: "Great Complete Encyclopaedia of all Sciences and Arts which so far have been invented and improved by human mind and wit: Including the geographical and political description of the whole world according to all monarchies, empires, kingdoms, principalities, republics, free sovereignties, countries, towns, sea harbours, fortresses, castles, areas, authorities, monasteries, mountains, passes, woods, seas, lakes ... and also a detailed historical and genealogical description of the world's brightest and most famous family lines, the life and deeds of the emperors, kings, electors and princes, great heroes, ministers of state, war leaders... ; equally about all policies of state, war and law and budgetary business of the nobility and the bourgeois, merchants, traders, arts".
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1733
George
Berkeley,
The Theory of Vision, or Visual Language, shewing the Immediate Presence and Providence of a Deity, Vindicated and Explained. By the Author of Alciphron, or, The Minute Philosopher
The Theory of Vision was Berkeley’s answer to an attack in the London Daily Post-boy, with the anonymous letter appended. “This book was thought to be of such small importance that it was overlooked by the editor of the Works, 1784, and, as Luce says, ‘was lost to sight for over a century’, that is until it was reprinted with annotations by H.V.H. Cowell in 1860 and restored to the Works by Fraser in 1871. It was Berkeley’s final word on his Theory of Vision, and he wrote of it in a letter to the Revd. Samuel Johnson, 4 April, 1734, that he composed it simply to explain his doctrine. Luce suggests that his real object was ‘to broaden the basis of his theory of vision, and so to bring its metaphysics into conformity with the Principles’. He argues that with the passage of time the Theory of Vision had become much better known than the Principles, so that the ‘semi-materialism’ of the earlier book had overshadowed the immaterialism of the later one. The Vindication was designed to set this right and is therefore of major importance. The fact of its having been overlooked for so long was not due to any particular rarity; more probably its small size and modest appearance without the author’s name suggested that it was only a trivial addition to the argument.” (Jessop 134. Keynes 4.)
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George
Cheyne,
The English Malady
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Thomas
Cooke,
A Demonstration of the Will of God by the Light of Nature
A defence of deism in which Cooke asked his readers to turn away from the prejudices of a Christian education and to adopt ?no other Guide but Nature?, a guide he called ?the Rule of Right?.
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Crébillon fils,
L’écumoire, ou Tanzaï et Néardarné
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Stephen
Hales,
Haemastaticks
An investigation of the arterial systems of animals.
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Samuel
Madden,
Memoirs of the 20th Century
Depicts a utopia based on a collection of imaginary state papers. Although the book was printed it was never published because of its subversive implications; copies are therefore extremely rare.
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Benjamin
Martin,
Philosophical Grammar
An introduction to general science for the layman which went through forty editions in as many years.
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Issac
Newton,
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
Dedicated to the Right Honourable Peter Lord King, Baron of Ockham. “It seems remarkable that a scientist could have written this theological study of abstruse prophecy, but Brewster says that Newton ‘had been a searcher of the Scriptures from his youth, and he found it no abrupt transition to pass from the study of the material universe to an investigation of the profoundest truths, and the most obscure predictions, of Holy Writ ... Sir Isaac regards the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments, not as given to gratify men’s curiosities, by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and afford convincing arguments that the world is governed by Providence ... This ingenious work is characterized by great learning, and marked with the sagacity of its distinguished author.’ ” A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, p.110.
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Bernard
Picart,
The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the World
Published between 1733 and 1738, an encyclopedic description of religious practices.
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Alexis
Piron,
Gustave Vasa
A historical tragedy.
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Alexander
Pope,
An Essay on Man
Published in 1733-34, the Essay was translated and enjoyed great success in France. It was printed in French more than sixty times before 1789. Pope’s deism found an echo in the French deists, while the themes of order, harmony and optimism were readily assimulated by a public who had been prepared for them by Leibniz’s philosophy. Voltaire’s seven Discours en vers sur l’homme (1734-70) were inspired by the Essay, while Zadig (1748) registers clearly Pope’s influence.
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Jonathan
Swift,
On Poetry: a Rhapsody
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, sur une d‚finition des Grƒces
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Châtelet ['Ma flamme est un embrasement' ]
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Voltaire,
A M. ***, qui ‚tait … l' arm‚e d' Italie
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Voltaire,
Samson
Libretto for an opera commission by Rameau, it was never staged.
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Voltaire,
Sur les disputes en métaphysique
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Voltaire,
Le Temple de Goût (The Temple of Taste)
Inspired by Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, this was Voltaire’s attempt to satirize French cultural dullness. It provoked many denunciations.
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet
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Voltaire,
A M. Linant
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Voltaire,
Le Siècle de Louis XIV
Vast history written between 1740-51. Voltaire spent twenty years preparing the material for this work by interviewing survivors of le grand siècle. He was concerning with establishing the truth by collecting evidence from as many witnesses as possible.
The famous opening paragraph reads: “It is not merely the life of Louis XIV that we claim to write; we have set ourselves a larger objective. We want to attempt to paint for posterity, not the actions of a single man, but the spirit of men in the most enlightened century that ever was.” Concluding the work with chapters on religious disputes and the Jesuits’ penetration of China Voltaire finishes with the comment, “But if God had wanted China to be Christian, would he have been content with putting crosses in the air? Would he not have put them into the hearts of the Chinese?” “The time will not come again when a duke de La Rochefoucauld, author of the Maximes, upon leaving the conversation of a Pascal and an Arnauld, goes to the theatre of Corneille.”
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Voltaire,
Tanis et Zélide
Voltaire's first attempt to write an opera.
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Voltaire,
Deux h‚ros diff‚rents, l' un superbe et sauvage'
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Châtelet ['Il est deux dieux qui font tout ici-bas' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Châtelet: sur deux arbres du jardin de Cirey
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Voltaire,
Alamire
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Voltaire,
Stances à Mgr le prince de Conti
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Voltaire,
Sur des conseils que Mme Du Châtelet lui avait donnés sur sa santé
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Voltaire,
Vie de Molière
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Voltaire,
Letters Concerning the English Nation
Published first in English in August in a print run of 2,000 copies; the French version appeared in 1734 augumented by a long 24th letter on the Pensees of Pascal. Also known as Les Lettres philosophiques, the Letters introduced the ideas of Locke to a French reading public and thus help to establish sensationalism within French philosophy. The work became an 18th century best-seller and appeared in a further eighteenth editions before 1800.
The French government seized the French edition in June 1734 and had it publicly burned as “scandalous, contrary to religion, good morals, and the respect due to authority”. In spite of Voltaire’s attack on Pascal the Jesuits found Les Lettres philosophiques disturbing; a reviewer in the Journal de Trévoux said Voltaire had acted the “deist with the Quakers”.
Gustave Lanson, the first modern editor of the French text, famously described the work as "the first bomb thrown against the ancien régime".
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Chƒtelet, en recevant son portrait
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Chƒtelet ['Vous suiv‚s les plaisirs, les jeux et les amours' ]
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Voltaire,
A M. de Forcalquier ['Vous philosophe! ah, quel projet' ]
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Voltaire,
Stances à M. Hourcastremé
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Châtelet ['Aimable dans l' amour et fort naïve en affaire' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Châtelet: En revenant avec elle à cheval au clair de la lune
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Voltaire,
Lettre à un premier commis ('Letter to a Head Clerk')
Fictitious letter to a State censor that Voltaire did not publish for another thirteen years. Using England as an example Voltaire argues that the state has no right to decide what can and cannot be read by the public.
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Chƒtelet, en lui envoyant l' Histoire de Charles XII
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Châtelet ['Mon coeur est pénétré de tout ce qui vous touche' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Châtelet ['Ainsi que ta beauté' ]
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Voltaire,
Devise pour Mme Du Chƒtelet
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, sur sa liaison avec Maupertuis
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Voltaire,
A Mlle de Rochebrune, en lui envoyant Le Temple du g“ut
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Châtelet dans un accès de fièvre
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, en lui pr‚sentant un de ses ouvrages
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Voltaire,
A M. de Forcalquier ['Des boulets allemands la pesante tempête' ]
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Voltaire,
Vers présentés à la reine
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Châtelet ['Lorsque Linus chante si tendrement' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Châtelet en lui rendant compte d' un voyage
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Voltaire,
'Trio charmant, que je remarque'
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Issac
Watts,
Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects
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1734
Pierre
Bayle,
General Dictionary Historical and Critical
First English edition, published in 10 vols between 1734 and 1741.
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George
Berkeley,
The Analyst; Or, a Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith. By the Author of The Minute Philosopher
The ‘Infidel Mathematician’ was probably Edmund Halley, astronomer and mathematician. This work started a controversy among mathematicians beginning with Jurin's attack on Berkeley, answered in his ‘Defence of Free-thinking in Mathematics’; other pamphlets followed, some of which Berkeley did not trouble to answer. According to Keynes “This book was the origin of the Berkeley-Newton controversy. In it, Bishop Berkeley attacks the logical basis of the Fluxion and higher mathematics in general, as leading to free thinking.”
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Stephen
Hales,
A Friendly Admonition to the Drinkers of Brandy and Other Distilled Spirit
Printed anonymously this plea against excessive drinking was widely distributed.
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Louis de
Jaucourt,
Biography of Leibniz
De Jaucourt eventually became, after Diderot, the chief mainstay of the Encyclopédie. It has been calculated that of the 60,660 articles in its seventeen volumes 17,050, or 28 per cent, were written by de Jaucourt.
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marquise de
Lambert,
Trait‚ de l'amiti‚ (Treatise on Friendship)
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Pierre
Marivaux,
Le cabinet du philosophe (The Philosopher's Study)
Journal that appeared in 1734.
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Charles
Montesquieu,
Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence. (Reflections on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Romans, by the author of the Persian Letters, etc., trans. 1734)
Although scholars at the time frowned on Montesquieu’s disregard for archaeology the Considérations is noteworthy for its comments on the history of Rome and the question of historical causation. Drawing on Malebranche and Italian writers, Montesquieu drew a distinction between cause and occasion in order to reconcile free will and historical determinism.
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Charles
Montesquieu,
La Monarchie universelle en Europe
A short treatise which was immediately withdrawn so that only Montesquieu’s own copy is still extant.
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Alberto
Radicati,
Discours moraux, historiques et politiques (Moral, Historical and Political Discourses)
Radicati first attempted to publish his Discours in London in 1730. Only the first part appeared under the title Christianity Set in a True Light; the first complete edition was published in English in 1734.
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René-Antoine Ferchault de
Réaumur,
M‚moires pour servir …l' histoire des Insectes
Published between 1734 and 1742.
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Emmanuel
Swedenborg,
Opera philosophica et mineralia (Philosophical and Logical Works)
A monumental work, consisting of a mixture of metallurgy and metaphysical speculation on the creation of the world.
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Voltaire,
A Mme la comtesse de La Neuville, pour excuser un jeune homme
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Voltaire,
A Mme la duchesse de Richelieu
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, de Cirey o— il ‚tait pendant son exil
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Voltaire,
A M. le duc de Guise qui prêchait l' auteur à l' occasion des vers précédents
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Voltaire,
Vers … feue Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, sur les poŠtes latins
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Voltaire,
A Uranie ['Qu' un autre vous enseigne, “ ma chŠre Uranie' ]
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Voltaire,
‘Liberte d’imprimer’ published in Dictionnaire Philosophique
“In general, we have a natural right to use both our pen and our tougue at our own risk. I know many tedious books, but I do not know a single one that has done any real harm”.
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Voltaire,
Impromptu fait dans les jardins de Cirey
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Voltaire,
A Mlle de Guise
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Voltaire,
A M. de Corlon, qui ‚tait avec l' auteur … Montjeu
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Voltaire,
A Mme la comtesse de La Neuville
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, avec un envoi de bougies ou de cierges
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, qui soupait avec beaucoup de prˆtres
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet ['Allez, ma muse, allez vers Emilie' ]
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Voltaire,
Ode
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Voltaire,
A M. le duc de Richelieu, sur son mariage
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Voltaire,
A Uranie ['Je vous adore, “ ma chŠre Uranie' ]
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Voltaire,
Traité de métaphysique
“To wish and to act, this is precisely the same thing as to be free”.
“It is with this motivating force (i.e. the passions) that God, whom Plato called the eternal geometer, and whom I call the eternal machinist, has animated and embellished nature: the passions are the wheels which make all these machines go”.
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Voltaire,
A Mme de *** ['Le plaisir inquiet des raccommodements' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, faisant une collation sur une montagne
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Voltaire,
Au camp de Philisbourg le 3 juillet 1734
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Voltaire,
Ad‚la‹de Du Guesclin
A drama set during the early years of the Hundred Years war; it was first performed at the Com‚die-Fran‡aise on 18th January 1734.
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Voltaire,
Epithalame sur le mariage de M. le duc de Richelieu avec Mlle de Guise
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Voltaire,
Au marquis d' Argens sur ce que la comtesse de Hacke lui contait la fleurette
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, sur les anciens philosophes
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet ['Nymphe aimable, nymphe brillante' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mlle de Guise, dans le temps qu' elle devait ‚pouser M. le duc de Richelieu
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Voltaire,
A Mme de Bassompierre, abbesse de Poussai
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Châtelet ['Vous m' ordonnez de vous écrire' ]
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Voltaire,
La Mule du pape
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Voltaire,
Le Comte de Boursoufle, com‚die
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Voltaire,
Sur le portrait de Mme de ***
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Voltaire,
Vers à M. de Forcalquier au nom de Mme la marquise Du Châtelet
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Voltaire,
Lettres Philosophiques, (trans. as Philosophical Letters on the English Nation)
Voltaire’s radical comments on philosophy and religion caused him to attract further scandal. A warrent was issued for his arrest in May and he took refuge in the château of Mme du Châtelet at Cirey, in Champagne. The Lettres have been described as the first bomb thrown at the ancien régime.
The work was condemned by the Paris parlement on 10 June 1734 and was meant to be burnt at 11 that morning on the steps of the Palais de Justice. The clerk in charge of the burning substituted the Lettres Philosophiques with a book about the Spanish Inquistion.
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Christian
Wolf,
Psychologia rationalis, methodo scientifica pertractata
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1735
Alexander Gottlieb
Baumgarten,
Philosophical Meditations on Matters Pertaining to Poetry
This was Baumgarten's dissertation.
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George
Berkeley,
The Querist, containing Several Queries, proposed to the Consideration of the Public. To which is added, by the same Author, A Word to the Wise: Or, an Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland
Published between 1735 and 1737, epigrams on the economic plight in Ireland. A second edition appeared in 1750.
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Henry St. John
Bolingbroke,
The Letters on the Study of History
A work which coined the phrase “history is philosophy teaching by examples”.
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Thomas
Carte,
History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde
Carte was a stauch Jacobite who in 1715 resigned as reader at Bath Abbey rather than take oaths to George I. He served as secretary to Bishop Atterbury, after whose fall in 1722 he lived in exile in France for six years.
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Robert
Dodsley,
The Toyshop
A satirical farce
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Abbé
Dubos,
Histoire critique de l’établissement de la monarchie française
A work that proved a great success. It attacked feudalism and legitimized Louis XIV’s attack on the power of the parlements and offered a defence of his monopoly of legislative and executive power. Montesquieu presented a “refutation” of Dubos in De l’esprit des lois.
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Carolus
Linnaeus,
Systema naturae
First published at the recommendation of Linnaeus's Dutch scientific patrons, Systema naturae was enlarged and republished many times throughout Linnaeus's lifetime.
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Pierre
Marivaux,
Le Paysan pervenu (The Fortunate Peasant)
A story of a young and handsome youth who seduces elder women in order to advance in the world.
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John
Rowning,
A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy
Published between 1735 and 1742.
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George
Sale,
The Koran (trans.)
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Alexandrine Claude de Guérin de
Tencin,
Mémoires du comte de Comminges
Autobiographical novel. Tencin was the mother of D’Alembert. She was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1726 on a false though plausible charge of murder, and released after the intervention of her brother Pierre, then an archbiship, later a cardinal. She became a hostess and attracted the likes of Fontenelle, Montesquieu (who she twice assisted with the publication of his works), Marivaux and Marmontel to her salon.
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Voltaire,
A M. de Verrières
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Voltaire,
Epigramme ['Quand les Fran‡ais … tˆte folle' ]
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Voltaire,
Impromptu … M. Thi‚riot, qui s' ‚tait fait peindre, La Henriade … la main
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Voltaire,
A Mme la duchesse de Bouillon
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Voltaire,
A M. Algarotti
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Voltaire,
Vers écrits à la marge d' un manuscrit de Mme Du Châtelet sur Newton
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Voltaire,
Epigramme ['On dit que notre ami Coypel' ]
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Voltaire,
A Mme de Boufflers, en lui envoyant un exemplaire de la Henriade
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Voltaire,
A M. Cl‚ment, de Montpellier
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Voltaire,
A Mme la duchesse de Brancas, sur la mort de Mme la duchesse de Lauraguais, sa belle-fille
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Voltaire,
Le Comte de Boursoufle (conte)
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Voltaire,
Placet … la reine pour l' abb‚ de La Marre, qui sollicitait une grƒce
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Voltaire,
A Mme la duchesse de Bouillon, qui vantait son portrait fait par clinchetet
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet, lorsqu' elle apprenait l' algŠbre
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Voltaire,
Sur M. de La Condamine, qui ‚tait occup‚ de la mesure d' un degr‚ du m‚ridien au P‚rou
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1736
Jean Baptiste de Boyer
Argens,
Lettres juives
Published between 1736 and 1738, the Lettres, like Argens other Lettres, was inspired by Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes.
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Joseph
Butler,
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added, Two brief Dissertations: I. Of Personal Identity. II. Of the Nature of Virtue
The Analogy did much to influence the history of Christian apologetics during the 19th century. It defends the doctrine of immortality and the need for revelation against deistic rationalism; Butler argues that a sound use of reason does not contradict but at the least supports faith in divine revelation and in human immortality. In other words, Butler attempted to establish the complementarity of natural and revealed religion. He proposed that “probability is the very guide of life”. Butler’s writings were much admired by the leaders of the Oxford movement.
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Crébillon fils,
Les Égarements du coeur et de l’esprit (The Wayward Head and Heart)
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Leonhard
Euler,
Mechanica
Euler's first book, an extension of Newtonian mechanics.
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Henry
Fielding,
Pasquin
Popular satire where ?the Sun? is the deity worshiped by Queen Common Sense, who is murdered by the hypocritical priest Firebrand.
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Thomas
Hanmer,
Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet
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Carolus
Linnaeus,
Musa Cliffortiana
Includes a description of the first flowering of a banana plant in Europe.
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Alberto
Radicati,
Recueil de piŠces curieuses sur les matiŠres les plus int‚ressantes (Collection of Curious Pieces on Most Interesting Subjects)
A collection which consisted of Histoire abr‚g‚e de la profession sacerdotale ancienne et modern d‚di‚e … la trŠs illustre et trŠs c‚lŠbre secte des Esprit-forts, par un Free-thinker chr‚tien (Short History of the Ancient and Modern Priestly Profession, Dedicated to the Most Illustrious and Famous Freethinkers by a Christian Freethinker) and Nazarenus et Lycurgos mis en parallŠle (The Nazarene and Lycurgus Compared).
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Themiseul de
Saint-Hyacinthe,
Recueil de divers ‚crits sur l'amour et l'amiti‚ (Collection of Various Writings on Friendship and Love)
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Jonathan
Swift,
Poetical Works
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Chƒtelet, qui dŒnait avec l' auteur
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Voltaire,
Le Mondain
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Voltaire,
Ode sur le fanatisme
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Voltaire,
A M. Berger qui lui avait envoyé des vers de M. Bernard
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Voltaire,
A Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet ['Tout est ‚gal, et la nature sage' ]
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Voltaire,
Epigramme ['Certain ‚m‚rite envieux' ]
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Voltaire,
Ode sur la paix de 1736
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Voltaire,
Épître à la Madame du Châtelet sur la philosophie de Newton
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Voltaire,
A M. Pallu, intendant de Moulins
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Voltaire,
Le Mondain
An optimistic Epicurean poem celebrating worldiness.
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Voltaire,
A Mlle Gaussin
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Voltaire,
Ode … M. le duc de Richelieu, sur l' ingratitude
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Voltaire,
Epigramme ['On dit qu' on va donner Alzire' ]
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Voltaire,
L' Enfant prodigue
An example of Voltaire’s attempt at the comédie larmoyante (sentimental comedy), which met with little success.
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Voltaire,
La Cr‚pinade
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Voltaire,
Discours de M. de Voltaire en r‚ponse aux invectives et outrages de ses d‚tracteurs
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … M. de Saint-Lambert ['Mon esprit avec embarras' ]
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Voltaire,
A M. Pallu
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … M. Pallu ['Quoi! le dieu de la po‚sie' ]
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre au prince royal, depuis roi de Prusse
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Voltaire,
A Mme Du Chƒtelet, … qui l' auteur avait envoy‚ une bague
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Voltaire,
R‚ponse … M. de Formont, au nom de Mme Du Chƒtelet
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Voltaire,
Alzire
A play staged with great success. The action takes place in Lima, Peru, during the Spanish conquest and displays the moral superiority of civilized behaviour over acts of brute force. Despite its conventional portrayal of ‘noble savages’, the tragedy remained part of the repertoire of the Comédie Française for almost a century.
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Voltaire,
A M. d' Arnaud
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Voltaire,
A M. de la Bruère
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Voltaire,
Utile examen des trois dernières épîtres du sieur Rousseau
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William
Warburton,
The Alliance Between Church and State, or The Necessity and Equity of an Established Religion and a Test Law Demonstrated . . .
A defence of the existing establishment. “It offered a realistic defence of the position of the Church, one which abandoned all pretensions to an independent authority, and yet laid on the State a clear duty of protection. . . . In time it came to be seen as the classic statement of complacent Georgian Erastianism and a mark of the stable relationship between religion and politics in mid-eighteenth-century England.” (Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783, p.43-4.)
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Christian
Wolf,
Theologia naturalis methodo scientifica pertractata
Published in 2 volumes in 1736?1737.
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1737
Francesco
Algarotti,
Il Newtonianismo per le dame
Written in 1773, Algarotti’s popularization of Newtonian optics was translated into English in 1739 and was highly praised by Voltaire.
Born in Venice on 11 December 1712, Algarotti was educated in Rome, Bologna and Florence. Aged 20 he went to Paris and soon made himself known in intellectual circles. After a visit to England in 1739, Algarotti went to Russia and then returned to England via Saxony. In 1740 he accepted an invitation from Frederick the Great and stayed in Germany for more than nine years. Ill health forced him to return to Italy, where in Pisa he died of consumption on 3 May 1764. Frederick commissioned a monument to be set up on his tomb with the famous epitaph “Algarottus non omnis” (“[Here lies] Algarotti [but] not all”).
Algarotti’s numerous writings include studies on classical themes, architecture, opera and painting.
Lord Chesterfield, Lord Hervey, Thomas Grey, Metastasio, Voltaire, Maupertuis and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents.
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Jean Baptiste de Boyer
Argens,
Mémoires secrètes de la république des lettres
Published between 1737 and 1739
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Jean Baptiste de Boyer
Argens,
Philosophie du bon sens
Owing much to Bayle and Fontenelle, the Philosophie was a popular work which did much to arouse French interest in Locke. Argens, who from 1744 was chamberlain in service of Frederick the Great, helped to disseminate the ideas of the philosophes and was a friend of Voltaire and D’Alembert. During the 25 years he spent at Frederick’s Court he produced 18 volumes of letters, the Correspondance philosophique
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Jean Baptiste de Boyer
Argens,
Lettres cabalistiques
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Bernard le Bovier
Fontenelle,
A Week’s Conversation on the Plurality of Worlds
Translated by Wm. Gardiner, third edition, London.
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Joseph
Hallet,
The Immorality of the Moral Philosopher: Being an Answer to a Book lately published, intitled The Moral Philosopher
An answer to Thomas Morgan’s deistical work published in the same year. Leland also published a reply.
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Pierre
Marivaux,
Les fausses confidences (False Secrets)
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Mary Wortley
Montagu,
The Nonsense of Common Sense
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Johann Jakob
Moser,
Teutsches Staatsrecht
Fifty volumes appeared between 1737 and 1754.
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Jan
Swammerdam,
The Book of Nature
Swammerdam's work was unknown until his descriptions and drawings were published after his death by the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave. The Book of Nature appeared in translation in 1758.
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Voltaire,
Le Songe de Platon
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Voltaire,
A M. le comte de Tressan
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Voltaire,
A Mme d' Argental
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Voltaire,
A M. de La Condamine
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Voltaire,
Essai sur la nature du feu et sur sa propagation
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Voltaire,
Madrigal ['On disoit que l' himen a l' intérest pour père' ]
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Voltaire,
Discours en vers sur l' homme
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William
Warburton,
The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, On the Principles of a Religious Deist, From the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Reward and Punishment in the Jewish Dispensation
Published in 2 vols. in 1737-1741, Warburton’s best known work, demonstrating, on deist principles, the divine authority of Mosaic writings, which deist’s denied.
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1738
Andrew
Baxter,
Matho, sive cosmotheoria puerilis
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Henry St. John
Bolingbroke,
The Idea of a Patriot King
An argument to the effect that the role of a King should be as a national leader, above the corrupt world of politics. Bolingbroke was a friend of Pope’s to whom Pope addressed his Essay on Man.
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Elizabeth
Carter,
Poems upon Particular Occasions
Carter contributed verse to the Gentleman' s Magazine. She was an expert linguist and translated works from French and Italian. In 1758 she translated Epictetus. Johnson who praised her Greek scholarship.
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Samuel
Clarke,
The Works
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Jean Pierre de
Crousaz,
Publication of Crousaz's critique of Pope’s Essay on Man
Crousaz was a Swiss theologian and philosopher whose letters to correspondants reveal much about the intellectual climate of his age. His refutation of Pope’s Essay was translated into English in 1742 by Samuel Johnson. Crousaz also published refutations of Leibniz and Pierre Bayle.
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Frederick II,
Considérations sur l’état présent du corps politique en Europe
Frederick’s first political essay, revealing his disappointment with the weak position of Prussia, which had recently been forced to abandon the Hohenzollern claims to the duchies of Jülich and Berg on the lower Rhine in the face of the united opposition of the great powers.
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Marie
Huber,
Lettres sur la religion essentielle (Letters on Essential Religion)
Translated into English and published in London in the same year 1738.
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Samuel
Johnson,
London
Pope was so impressed by Johnson's first poem, which was published in May, that he induced Lord Gower to write to a friend to ask Swift to obtain a degree for Johnson from the University of Dublin. The object of the degree was to obtain for Johnson £60 a year. According to Gower, Johnson would rather die on the road to Dublin if an examination were necessary, "than to be starved to death translating for booksellers, which has been his only substance for some time past". The application for the degree failed, however.
Pope sent a copy of the poem to a friend with a note describing Johnson as "a man afflicted with an infirmity of the convulsive kind, that attacks him sometimes so as to make him a sad spectacle". The poem appeared in a second edition in a week and attracted various patrons, including General Oglethorpe, who was celebrated by Pope, and who became a lifelong friend to Johnson.
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Alexis
Piron,
La Metromanie
One of the great comedies of the eighteenth century.
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Jonathan
Swift,
A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversations. . . . in three Dialogues
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Voltaire,
Conseils … M. Helv‚tius
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Voltaire,
Les Originaux ou M. du Cap-Vert
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Voltaire,
De la gloire, ou entretien avec un Chinois
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Voltaire,
A M. de Pleen
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Voltaire,
Ode à MM. de l' Académie des sciences
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Voltaire,
Le Préservatif [1738]
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Voltaire,
Lettre à M. Rameau
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Voltaire,
Lettre sur Roger Bacon
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre au prince royal de Prusse. Au nom de Mme la marquise Du Chƒtelet
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Voltaire,
Micromégas
The first of twenty-six contes philosophiques Voltaire wrote between 1738 and 1773, the last being The White Bull
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Voltaire,
A M. Jordan
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Voltaire,
Zulime
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Voltaire,
Vie de M. J.-B. Rousseau
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … M. Helv‚tius
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre au prince royal de Prusse
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Voltaire,
A Mme de Boufflers
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Voltaire,
Observations sur MM. Jean Lass, Melon et Dutot
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Voltaire,
Pour le portrait de Mme la princesse de Talmont
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Voltaire,
El‚ments de la philosophie de Newton
Written in collaboration with Châtelet-Lomont, Voltaire’s long-term lover, and containing the famous story of Newton and the falling apple, which ‘demonstrated’ the universal law of gravity.
In his dedication to Madame du Châtelet, Voltaire wrote, “this philosopher gathered in during his lifetime all the glory he deserved; he aroused no envy because he could have no rival. The learned world were his disciples, the rest admired him without daring to claim that they understood him”.
The book consists of three sections: beginning with Newton’s religion, continuing with his optics and concluding with his physics. Without using mathematics Voltaire seeks to explain the nature of perception, the character of colours, the orbits of the planets, and the laws of gravitation. A year after the book appeared Voltaire wrote in his Réponse, “the author of the Eléménts tried to make these new truths available to minds with little practice in these matters.” An English translation appeared in the same year 1738.
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Voltaire,
L' Envieux
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Voltaire,
EpŒtre … un ministre d' Etat
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Christian
Wolf,
Philosophia practica universalis, methodo scientifica pertractata
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1739
Jean le Rond d'
Alembert,
M‚moire sur le calcul int‚gral (Report on Integral Calculus)
Alembert's first published work, written when he was 22.
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Jean Baptiste de Boyer
Argens,
Lettres chinoises
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Alexander Gottlieb
Baumgarten,
Metaphysica
The Metaphysica was repeatedly reissued and was used for a time by Kant as a text-book for his lectures. Baumgarten was a pupil and disciple of Christian Wolff (1679-1754), the founder of the “the Leibniz-Wolffian philosophy”.
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Henry
Brooke,
Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country
Celebrated drama the performance of which was banned under the new Licensing act because of the supposition that Sir Robert Walpole was portrayed in the part of the villian Trollio. The play was printed and later performed in Dublin as The Patriot. Following the ban Brooke return to Ireland.
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Thomas
Chubb,
True Gospel of Jesus Christ Vindicated
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Antonio
Conti,
Prose e poesie
A selection of Conti's work; a second edition was published in 1756.
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Jacques-Joseph
Duguet,
Institution d'un prince (Education of a Prince)
Begun in 1712 and intended for use by the duke of Savoy for the education of his eldest son. A political treatise in which Duguet outline measures for social and economic improvement.
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Henry
Fielding,
Tom Thumb
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Stephen
Hales,
Philosophical Experiments
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David
Hume,
A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. Book 1, Of the Understanding and Book 2, Of the Passions
Hume wrote the three-volume Treatise of Human Nature in La FlŠche, France. The first two volumes appeared together in late January 1739, and the third in the summer of 1740. All three volumes were published anonymously. Hume did not republish the work during his lifetime.
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Longinus,
On the Sublime
The standard English translation to appear in the eighteenth century. It was made by the Revd William Smith and reached a fifth edition in 1800. It has always been believed that Longinus was the author of this work. Although evidence suggest that it was written in the first century AD its actual date and authorship are unkown. The oldest surviving MS (10th century Paris) attributes it to ‘Dionysius or Longinus’. Boileau made his famous translation of the treatise in 1674.
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John
Mottley,
Joe Miller’s Jest-book, or The Wit’s Vade Mecum
Collection of coarse jests, only three of which are attributable to Joe Miller (1684-1738). Miller was an English comedian and member of the Drury Lane company from 1709. His roles included Trinculo in The Tempest, First Gravedigger in Hamlet, and Marplot in The Busybody. There is a reference to Miller in Beckett’s Murphy
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Noel Antoine
Pluche,
L'histoire du ciel, consid‚r‚e selon les id‚es des poŠtes, des philosophes et de Mo‹se (The History of Heaven, According to the Ideas of the Poets, the Philosophers, and Moses)
A work heavily indebted to William Warburton's writings on Greek mythology. Voltaire called it a ?bad novel?.
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Antoine François
Prévost,
Doyen de Killerine
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Sophia,
Women Not Inferior to Man
Sophia was the name attached to two out of three essays on the relative merits of the sexes, the second, published in 1740 entitled Women’s Superior Excellence Over Man, or a Reply to the Author of a Late Treatise entitled ‘Men Superior to Woman’. This latter essay was a response to the anonymously published essay which appeared in 1739, entitled Man Superior to Woman, or, a Vindication of Man's Natural Right of Sovereign Authority over the Woman. Containing a plain confutation of the fallacious arguments of Sophia. All three appeared together in print in 1751 under the heading Beauty’s Triumph, or the Superiority of the Fair Sex Invincibly Prove and with authorship ascribed to Sophia and ‘a gentleman’.
Sophia’s two essays were adaptations of publications by the French ex-Catholic cleric, François Poulain de la Barre, first translated into English in 1677. Sophia wrote, “surely the Women were created by Heaven for some better end than to labour in vain their whole life long.” The whole exchange took the same shape as the French when a reply to the first appeared, purporting to be by a man. Sophia refers to her attacker in Man Superior to Woman as “one of those amphibious things between both, which I think they call a Wit”.
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Alexandrine Claude de Guérin de
Tencin,
Le SiŠge de Calais
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Voltaire,
Mémoire sur la satire
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Voltaire,
Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prophŠte
Performances of the play, in which the founder of Islam is portrayed as an imposter, were forbidden afters its first successful production in 1742.
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Voltaire,
La Prude
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Voltaire,
Mémoire du sieur de Voltaire
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Voltaire,
Mémoire sur un ouvrage de physique de Mme la marquise Du Châtelet
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Voltaire,
Exposition du livre des Institutions physiques
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Voltaire,
Conseils … un journaliste
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Voltaire,
L' Anti-Machiavel
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Voltaire,
Réponse aux objections principales qu’on a faites en France contre la philosophie de Newton
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Voltaire,
A M***, sur le m‚moire de Desfontaines
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Paul
Whitehead,
Manners
Published by Dodsley, who served a short time in prison after Manners was voted scandalous by the House of Lords.
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