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Voltaire.
VOLTAIRE .
WHEN the discip les of the celebrated Voltaire proposed some years ago to set on foot a subscription for ending a statue to his memory , some person of genius took the hint , and prepared the following inscription for it : ' En tibi laf . ide dignutn Voltarium . Qui
In Poesi , magnus ; , j . in Historia , parvus ; In Philosophia , minimus , In Religione , nullus 1 Hujus Ingenium acre , Judicium prssceps ,
Iraprobitas siimma . Cui Arrisere muliercuto , Piausere scioli , Favere profani . Quern , Dei homimimque irrisorem , Senatns Physico-, atheus , Collefto are , hac statua donavit . '
THUS ' -TRANSLATED BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF OXFORD . Behold Voltaire ! who well deserves this stone , To make his various talents better known ; Great was the Poet , the Historian small , The Reasoner least , the Christian none at all . Poor trifling women thought his writings fine , Pert coxcombs calld them really divine
' , Blind Infidels approv'd his impious plan , And as they lov'd the cause , upheld the man . Such was Voltaire \ Mi merits such , whose name , The Atheist Senate consecrates to fame , That men may think , from this mistaken zeal , The foe to God a friend to public weal ,
Singular Will.
SINGULAR WILL .
THE following singular extraft is from the Will of a gentleman , who died a few years ago , in the county of Lamm , Ireland ' Finding the vital springs of my mortal machinery relaxed almost to dissolution , and apprehensive that my intelkaual organs will , m consequence thereof , be shortly impaired , I have , for three whole days , consulted with Reason and Humanity , respeftmg the division ana with which Heaven hatfc
distribution of those worldly -advantages rewarded a life of unremitting industry . I have derived wisdom from disease ; and passion having entirely subsided , strong reason has directed me to soar above the usual prejudices of . mortality ; therefore * ™ the name of that sublime Omnipotence , whodwelleth m the minutest particle of nature , and whose essence none can presume
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Voltaire.
VOLTAIRE .
WHEN the discip les of the celebrated Voltaire proposed some years ago to set on foot a subscription for ending a statue to his memory , some person of genius took the hint , and prepared the following inscription for it : ' En tibi laf . ide dignutn Voltarium . Qui
In Poesi , magnus ; , j . in Historia , parvus ; In Philosophia , minimus , In Religione , nullus 1 Hujus Ingenium acre , Judicium prssceps ,
Iraprobitas siimma . Cui Arrisere muliercuto , Piausere scioli , Favere profani . Quern , Dei homimimque irrisorem , Senatns Physico-, atheus , Collefto are , hac statua donavit . '
THUS ' -TRANSLATED BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF OXFORD . Behold Voltaire ! who well deserves this stone , To make his various talents better known ; Great was the Poet , the Historian small , The Reasoner least , the Christian none at all . Poor trifling women thought his writings fine , Pert coxcombs calld them really divine
' , Blind Infidels approv'd his impious plan , And as they lov'd the cause , upheld the man . Such was Voltaire \ Mi merits such , whose name , The Atheist Senate consecrates to fame , That men may think , from this mistaken zeal , The foe to God a friend to public weal ,
Singular Will.
SINGULAR WILL .
THE following singular extraft is from the Will of a gentleman , who died a few years ago , in the county of Lamm , Ireland ' Finding the vital springs of my mortal machinery relaxed almost to dissolution , and apprehensive that my intelkaual organs will , m consequence thereof , be shortly impaired , I have , for three whole days , consulted with Reason and Humanity , respeftmg the division ana with which Heaven hatfc
distribution of those worldly -advantages rewarded a life of unremitting industry . I have derived wisdom from disease ; and passion having entirely subsided , strong reason has directed me to soar above the usual prejudices of . mortality ; therefore * ™ the name of that sublime Omnipotence , whodwelleth m the minutest particle of nature , and whose essence none can presume