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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 29th Aug. 1740. needed This scraggy Piece, which is better than the things people often talk to one another, was evidently written as fast as the pen could go.?' It is done, if such a Hand could have done it, in the manner of Bachaumont and La Chapelle, ' says Voltaire scornfully, in that scandalous Vie Privee;?of which phrase this is the commentary, if readers need one: ' Some seventy or eighty years before that date, a M. Bachaumont ' and a M. la Chapelle, his intimate, published, in Prose skipping-off into 'dancings of Verse every now and then, a charming Relation of a ' certain Voyage or Home Tour' (whence or whither, or correctly when, this Editor forgets),1s which they had made in partnership. ' Relation ' capable still of being read, if one were tolerably idle;?it was found ' then to be charming, by all the world; and gave rise to a new fashion ' in writing; which Voltaire often adopts, and is supremely good at; ' and in which Friedrich, who is also fond of it, by no means succeeds so 'well.' Enough, Friedrich got to Wesel, back to his business, in a day or two; and had done, as we forever have, with the Strasburg Escapade and its Doggerel. Friedrich finds M. de Maupertuis; not yet M. de Voltaire. Friedrich got to Wesel on the 29th; found Maupertuis waiting there, according to appointment: an elaborately polite, somewhat sublime scientific gentleman; ready to 'engraft on the Berlin crabtree, ' and produce real apples and Academics there, so soon as the King, the proprietor, may have leisure for such a thing. Algarotti has already the honour of some acquaintance with Maupertuis. Maupertuis has been at Brussels, on the road hither; saw Voltaire and even Madame, ?which latter was rather a ticklish operation, owing to grudges and tiffs of quarrel that ha...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217954976 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217954979 |
| Weight | 1.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.03 In |
| List Price | $30.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 462 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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