Voltaire

by John Morley

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Genres: Nonfiction, Classics

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1872

About the author

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was an English Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his hero, William Gladstone. Morley is best known for his writings and for his "reputation as the last of the great nineteenth-century Liberals". He opposed imperialism, the Boer War, and British entry into the First World War in 1914.

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Reviews

[Sleepydrummer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five Stars

I highly recommend. Available via gutenberg.

"The worst of the worthy sort of people [...] is that they are such cowards. A man groans over wrong, he shuts his lips, he takes his supper, he forgets."

Voltaire

[Robert Denecker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great reprint of this historical philosopher cultural character and France history about what we think of Catholicism , Renaissance or calvinisme.