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Voltaire is the bronze and plaster poet of France. Cheek by jowl with Rosseau, (their squabbles are forgotten in the roll of fame), you see him perched on mantel, bracket, _ecritoire_, and bookcase: in short, their effigies are as common as the plaster figures of Shakspeare an...
The astrologer on the morrow met the party who gathered around the breakfast-table with looks so grave and ominous, as to alarm the fears of the father, who had hitherto exulted...
1. Chapter 1Voltaire is the bronze and plaster poet of France. Cheek by jowl with Rosseau, (their squabbles are forgotten in the roll of fame), you see him perched on mantel, bracket, _ecri...
2. Chapter 2A picture of this unfortunate woman, the mistress of Henry II., and the victim of his queen's jealousy, supposed to have been painted in the time of Henry VII., was, at the comm...
4. Chapter 4When will the French nation be able to afford a Thurtell--a man who could turn his pistol round in his _friend's_ brains; not in any insane paroxysm of jealousy, or hatred, or r...