1765 Voltaire Treatise on Toleration English Smollet Jesuit Religion Superstition

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
– Voltaire

Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

“Works of M. de Voltaire”, translated by Tobias Smollet, features a stunning, engraved frontispiece. It also features some of the finest works of prose produced by Voltaire and was published during his lifetime!

“Treatise upon Toleration” was published in 1763. Voltaire calls for tolerance between religious and target religious fanaticism, especially that of the Jesuits indicting all superstitions surrounding religions.

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VOLTAIRE

The Works of M. de Voltaire. Translated from the French, with notes, historical and critical. By T. Smollet, M.D. T Francklin, M.A. and Others. Volume the Twenty-Fifth.

London, Printed for J. Newbery [and others] at Salisbury, MDCCLXV [1765]

Details:
•Collation complete with all pages: [8], 264
•Provenance: Armorial Bookplate – Dr. James Musgrave
oRector of Chinnor in Oxfordshire.
oDr. Musgrave is famous as the owner of Isaac Newton's book collection. 
•Language: English
•Binding: Leather; tight & secure
•Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)

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