# Letters on England

Author: Voltaire, 1694-1778; Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 [Editor]

Genre: Harvard Classics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2445

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Letters+on+England+Voltaire&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I was of opinion that the doctrine and history of so extraordinary a people were worthy the attention of the curious. To acquaint myself with them I made a visit to one of the most eminent Quakers in England, who, after having traded thirty years, had the wisdom to prescribe limits to his fortune and to his desires, and was settled in a little solitude not far from London. Being come into it, I perceived a small but regularly built house, vastly neat, but without the least pomp of furniture. The Quaker who owned it was a hale, ruddy-complexioned old man, who had never been afflicted with sickness because he had always been insensible to passions, and a perfect stranger to intemperance. I...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-on-england-2445/chapters/20/index.md)