1 Martainville had more wit than Voltaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 2 The city of Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 3 Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW 4 The name of Voltaire is known, but not the name of Cesar de Bus.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 5 In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine is.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE ... 6 Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Cafe Voltaire on the following morning.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER 7 Homer repeats himself eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL 8 Nevertheless, Cesar de Bus is a man of blessed memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 9 Voltaire made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that God is useless.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 10 Jean-Jacques a declaimer; Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT 11 Diderot towards the beautiful, Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards the just.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 12 The Liberal, Pelicier, published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: Works of Voltaire, of the French Academy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 13 I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 14 de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always had good health.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 15 We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 16 Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 17 When Zoilus insults Homer, when Maevius insults Virgil, when Vise insults Moliere, when Pope insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, great men are always more or less barked at.
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