The WORKS of VOLTAIRE
EDITION DE LA PACIFICATION
Limited to one thousand sets
for America and Great Britain.
eighteen hundred years apart, there is a mysterious relation
* * * * Let us say it with a sentiment of
profound respect: JESUS WEPT: VOLTAIRE SMILED.
Of that divine tear and of that human smile is composed the
sweetness of the present civilization."
VICTOR HUGO.
"UNGRATEFUL SEID, THOU HAST SLAIN
ME; NOW THOU WEEPEST;
ALAS, TOO LATE"
edition de la pacification
the works of
v o l t a i r e
a contemporary version
With Notes by Tobias Smollett, Revised and Modernized
New Translation by William F. Fleming, and an
Introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh
a critique and biography
by
the rt. hon. john morley
forty-three volumes
one hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions
of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures,
and curious fac-similes
volume xvi
akron, ohio
the werner company
1906
Copyright 1901
By E. R. DuMont
Owned by
The Werner Company
Akron, Ohio
made by
THE WERNER COMPANY
akron, ohio
the dramatic works
of
voltaire
in five volumes
Vol. II
CONTENTS
PAGE
| 5 |
| 16 |
| 17 |
AMELIA: Dramatis Personæ |
88 |
Act I |
89 |
| 148 |
| 149 |
MARIAMNE: Dramatis Personæ |
210 |
Act I |
211 |
| 270 |
| 271 |
List of Plates
Vol. XVI
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Zopir Accuses Seid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Frontispiece | |
The Duke of Foix and Lisois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Œdipus and Jocaste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Herod and Nabal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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