 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 418 páginas
...questions about the late war, and the affairs of England. I have been with Voltaire at Ferney, and was charmed with the reception he gave me, and still...fine sense and exquisite wit of his conversation. I think him the most universal genius, the most amiable as well as the wittiest of our species. He... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 páginas
...questions about the late war, and the affairs of England. I have been with Voltaire at Ferney, and was charmed with the reception he gave me, and still...fine sense and exquisite wit of his conversation. I think him the most universal genius, the most amiable as well as the wittiest of our species. He... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1888 - 372 páginas
...Anglois.' At Geneva he paid his respects to a celebrated man : ' I found my good friend, Lord Abingdon, here ; and we went together to see Voltaire. I was...most generous offers he made me about his printers, etc. I do not know when I have been so highly entertained; but I know, after all, that I had rather... | |
 | Sir William Henry Gregory - 1888 - 170 páginas
...liveliest sense of their goodness. — JOHN WILKES (Anglois). I found my good friend Lord Abingdon here and we went together to see Voltaire. I was charmed...most generous offers he made me about his printers, <kc. I do not know when I was so highly entertained ; but I know after all, that I would rather be... | |
 | Horace Bleackley - 1917 - 548 páginas
...Voltaire. " I was charmed with the reception he gave me," Wilkes told his daughter in his next letter, " and still more with the fine sense and exquisite wit...me to the blush by the many compliments he paid me. ... I do not know when I have been so highly entertained." a In addition to the flattery of the sage... | |
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Abingdon, here ; and we went together to see Voltaire. I was charmed with the reception he gave me, and still more with the fine sense and exquisite wit of his conversation. He put me to the blush by the many compliments he paid me ; and the most generous... 