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A multitude ah say a multitude - a lot that is - of laws in Looneyburg is like a great number of physicians - a sign of weakness and malady.
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
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In the early 1700s, Voltaire, the French Enlightenment philosopher, fell in love with China. He extolled the virtues of the faraway land, calling it the “wisest and best-behaved nation” in the world.
In this, as in many things, he was a trendsetter — for a while, fashionable French people became enamored of Chinese goods, Chinese culture, and Chinese philosophy. Chinoiserie — European imitations of Chinese styles — became all the rage. You can see the French fascination with China in paintings like Francois Boucher’s 1742 The Chinese Garden:
Right around the same time, the Qianlong Emperor in China was building a new summer palace. He included in the grounds an elaborate area called the Xiyang Lou, or “Western Mansions” — an area full of buildings and gardens designed to mimic European palaces. He, like many wealthy and powerful Chinese people, had become fascinated by European culture. The complex looked something like this:
The mutual admiration between Enlightenment Europe and Qing Dynasty China was, in many ways, the product of Jesuit missionaries who had become very influential in China between the 1500s and the 1700s:
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On October 29th 1740 James Boswell, the biographer, diarist and travel writer was born in Edinburgh.
Boswell is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.
The son of Lord Auchinleck, Boswell matriculated in 1753 to study at the city’s University. In 1759 his father sent him to Glasgow, where he attended the classes of Adam Smith and others, but he tired of student life and fled to London on 1 March 1760. He became a lawyer, a writer and, and most famously the biographer of the aforementioned Samuel Johnson.
He first met Johnson on 16 May 1763 at Tom Davies Bookshop in Russell Street. It was the start of a lifelong friendship, with eventually Johnson calling him ‘Bozzy’.
By all accounts Bozzy was a handsome fellow, with an engaging character and great deal of charm evident in the portrait by George Willison attached to this post, painted during the early summer of 1765 when Boswell was in his mid twenties.
By outstandingly gatecrashing himself into literary circles James Boswell managed to introduce himself, during extended travels on the continent from 1763 – 1766, to two of the eighteenth centuries, and history’s most important civil liberty protagonists.
They were a dynamic duo, the self styled wit Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), and political philosopher, educationist and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
James Boswell returned to England from his Grand Tour in February 1766 accompanied by Rousseau’s mistress. Three years later he married his cousin Margaret Montgomerie with whom he had six children.
In 1773 Boswell and Johnson shared a tour of the Hebrides. Boswell published an account of their journey in 1785, including a description of Johnson merrily swinging a broadsword and wearing traditional Scottish garb. Boswell brought Corsican nationalist Pasquali Paoli and the Polish ambassador Count Burzynski to visit Glasgow University. They were greeted by several professors and a large crowd of spectators, and toured the printing works and the Academy of Art with the University printers Robert and Andrew Foulis. They stopped off in Glasgow on their return, and stayed at the Saracen’s Head Inn near the University, which is still trading to this day.
For much of James Boswell’s life his father despaired of him. He didn’t follow his father’s profession and practice law, preferring his writing above all. However he did became 9th Laird of Auchinleck, but in the end his years of enjoying the good life finally caught up with him.
Not many people have a word named after them, to be ‘Boswellian’ means to be a constant companion and observer. Another noted Scotsman, Arthur Conan Doyle honoured his fellow countryman and writer Boswell in his works. His celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes said ‘that talent instantly recognizes genius’ and referred to his own cherished companion and observer, Dr Watson, as ‘my Boswell’.
After Johnson’s death in 1784, Boswell moved to London to try his luck at the English Bar, which proved even less successful than his career in Scotland. In 1792 Boswell lobbied the Home Secretary to help gain royal pardons for four Botany Bay escapees including Mary Bryant. He also offered to stand for Parliament but failed to get the necessary support, and he spent the final years of his life writing his Life of Samuel Johnson. During this time his health began to fail due to venereal disease and his years of drinking. Boswell died in London in 1795.
Boswell’s remains were interred in the crypt of the Boswell family mausoleum in what is now the old Auchinleck Kirkyard in Ayrshire. The mausoleum is attached to the old Auchinleck Kirk.
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¿Que se puede añadir a la felicidad de un hombre que tiene buena salud, no tiene deudas y cuenta con la conciencia limpia?
Adam Smith
Fue un economista y filósofo escocés, nacido en Kirkcaldy en junio de 1723, considerado uno de los mayores exponentes de la economía clásica y de la filosofía de la economía.
Fue el único hijo del segundo matrimonio de Adam Smith oficial de aduanas y Margaret Douglas.
Poco se sabe de su infancia a excepción de que fue raptado por una banda de gitanos a la edad de 4 años y fue rescatado por su tío.
A la edad de 14 años, Smith ingresó a la Universidad de Glasgow en donde fue influenciado por el famoso profesor de filosofía moral Francis Hutcheson. Después de su graduación en 1740, obtuvo una beca para Oxford en donde estudió 6 años en el Balliol College.
De regreso a casa en 1748 a 1761 fue profesor ayudante de las cátedras de retórica y literatura en Edimburgo y fue durante esas fechas que estableció una estrecha amistad con el filósofo David Hume, quien influyó en muchas de sus teorías económicas y éticas de Smith.
A partir de 1751 Smith ocupó la cátedra de lógica y de filosofía moral cargo que ejerció durante 12 años.
Smith publicó su primera obra en 1759 bajo el título de “Teoría de los sentimientos morales” la cual era parte de la segunda parte de su curso y que le hizo ganar gran reputación.
En 1783, el aristócrata Charles TownShend, ofreció a Smith una pensión vitalicia a cambio de encargarse de la educación de su hijastro durante un viaje de tres años por Suiza y Francia.
Durante este viaje conoció al economista francés Francois Quesnay y al cofundador de la escuela conocida como fisiocracia Ann Robert Jacques Turcot, los cuales servirían para que Smith pudiera construir su propia teoría, con diferencias respecto a la de estos autores.
También durante este viaje conoció a pensadores ilustrados como Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Diderot, al filósofo y enciclopedista francés D’alembert y al banquero Necker entre otros.
Al finalizar su viaje Smith regresó con su madre para dedicar la mayor parte de su tiempo a la elaboración de su obra “La riqueza de las naciones”, obra que intenta diferenciar la economía política de la ciencia política.
La riqueza de las naciones le llevó mas de 10 años escribirla y es por tal razón es que para algunos especialista Smith es considerado el padre de la economía política.
En 1779 viajó a Londres en donde fue duramente criticado por sus elogios a Hume y sus criticas a la religión.
A su regreso de Londres fue nombrado director de Aduana de Edimburgo en 1778, puesto que desempeñó hasta su muerte en 1790 a la edad de 67 años.
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The adjective is the enemy of the noun.
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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Literary Canon (from kissgrammar)
The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version [At a minimum, the books of Genesis, Exodus, Job, Psalms, from the Old Testament; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Apocalypse from the New.] Whether or not you are Christian is irrelevant. The civilization in which we live is based on and permeated by the ideas and values expressed in this book. Understanding our civilization, the world in which we live, is probably impossible without having read -- and thought about -- at least the most famous books in the Bible. Historically, the King James Version is considered the most artistic, and thus has probably had the most literary influence.
Homer, The Iliad
Homer, The Odyssey
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, The Republic, especially "The Myth of the Cave"
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Saint Augustine, The Confessions
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Giambattista Vico, Principles of a New Science
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
John Donne, "Holy Sonnet XIV"
John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Michel de Montaigne, Essays, especially "Of Experience"
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Moliere, The Misanthrope
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Voltaire, Candide
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Parts One & Two
Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot (also translated as Pere Goriot)
Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Emile Zola, Germinal
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Lord Byron, Don Juan
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
A Tale Of Two Cities
Hard Times
A Christmas Carol
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
George Eliot- Silas Marner
Middlemarch
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
The Will To Power
The Birth of Tragedy
On the Genealogy of Morals
Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
The Bronze Horseman
Nikolai Gogol -The Overcoat
Dead Souls
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Fyodor Dostoevsky -Notes From the Underground
Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy -The Death of Ivan Ilych
War and Peace
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Emily Dickinson - "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
"The Tint I Cannot Take"
"There's a Certain Slant of Light"
Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
"The Sleepers"
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"As I Ebbed With The Ocean of Life"
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd"
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown
The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"
The Cask of Amontillado
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Kate Chopin -The Story of An Hour
The Awakening
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Henry James
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Luigi Pirandello
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Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. This line from Francis' suicide note probably refers to a paraphrase of Voltaire's quote: 'Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.'
Full quote: Un ministre est excusable du mal qu'il fait, lorsque le gouvernail de l'État est forcé dans sa main par les tempêtes; mais dans le calme il est coupable de tout le bien qu'il ne fait pas.
What exactly Francis implied for his own inaction remains unclear. Unless his inner Catholic recognised sloth in his idleness.
If we take a look back on events after the bacchanal, Francis comforted himself about killed farmer with a thought "this man was not Voltaire". I guess, he eventually came to understanding that he himself is not Voltaire either, as he failed to live up to that moral standard. Thus, the reference might be just a hint that he didn't felt worth living, nor grieving.
It's sad to think that Francois got used to peppering quotes now and then during his time with Henry, who always recognised them and answered accordingly.
~ The quote is from Voltaire's historical work The Age of Louis XIV. Francis must've been interested in this epoch, considering his intention to read full memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon about the court of same ruler.
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*insert random social media* Scharlatan: Die Epoche der Aufklärung zu mögen macht dich zu einem Freak!
Ich: *knurrt sehr hart*
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire: Es ist okay, sie sind nur neidisch babe..
Ich: Ich weiß Francois Maria Kretschmer de Voltaire, ich weiß..
Gotthold Eprahim Lessing: *schlägt meinen fetten saftigen Ass*
Ich: NICHT JETZT GOTTHOLD EPRAHIM LESSING FRANZL LANG DE VOLTAIRE UND ICH HABEN EINEN MOMENT !!!
Gotthold Eprahim Lessing: Ihr seid so langweillig *sprengt Europa*
Ich: *seufze*
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Voltaire
Do you know that the famous quote “Common sense is not so common” is attributed to Voltaire? Francois-Marie d’Arouet, better known by his pen name Voltaire, was known for his intelligence, wit and style is still commended by many making him one of France’s greatest writers and philosophers. Voltaire is a gender-neutral moniker of French origin. Most famously, Voltaire is the nom de plume, or pen…
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W-w-w-when its a question of m-m-m-m-mon-uh m-mon-uh cash, everybody is of the same r-religion.
Friar Porky to Robin Hood Daffy
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20+ Names That Mean Electric: Conveys Power and Energy – Impeccable Nest
Certain names have meaning that relate to electricity or energy. Here are a few names that mean electric in their origins:
Thomas means "twin" in Aramaic and Hebrew. It derives from the word "te'om," which is related to the Siamese twins who were joined at the hip. In some cultures, twins were seen as a sign of extra energy or a power doubled.
Voltaire is likely derived from the Italian word "volta," meaning "turn." It refers to electricity's ability to power machinery and cause things to spin or turn. The famous philosopher and writer Francois-Marie Arouet adopted this surname to suggest innovation and cutting-edge ideas.
Watt pays homage to the legendary Scottish engineer James Watt 🏴, who improved the steam engine in the late 1700s. His innovations helped drive the Industrial Revolution and massively increased factory outputs. The standard unit of power is named after him
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On May 19th 1795 James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, died.
Boswell is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.
The son of Lord Auchinleck, Boswell matriculated in 1753 to study at the city’s University. In 1759 his father sent him to Glasgow, where he attended the classes of Adam Smith and others, but he tired of student life and fled to London on 1 March 1760. He became a lawyer, a writer and, and most famously the biographer of the aforementioned Samuel Johnson.
He first met Johnson on 16 May 1763 at Tom Davies Bookshop in Russell Street. It was the start of a lifelong friendship, with eventually Johnson calling him ‘Bozzy’.
By all accounts Bozzy was a handsome fellow, with an engaging character and great deal of charm evident in the portrait by George Willison attached to this post, painted during the early summer of 1765 when Boswell was in his mid twenties.
By outstandingly gatecrashing himself into literary circles James Boswell managed to introduce himself, during extended travels on the continent from 1763 – 1766, to two of the eighteenth centuries, and history’s most important civil liberty protagonists.
They were a dynamic duo, the self styled wit Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), and political philosopher, educationist and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
James Boswell returned to England from his Grand Tour in February 1766 accompanied by Rousseau’s mistress. Three years later he married his cousin Margaret Montgomerie with whom he had six children.
In 1773 Boswell and Johnson shared a tour of the Hebrides. Boswell published an account of their journey in 1785, including a description of Johnson merrily swinging a broadsword and wearing traditional Scottish garb. Boswell brought Corsican nationalist Pasquali Paoli and the Polish ambassador Count Burzynski to visit Glasgow University. They were greeted by several professors and a large crowd of spectators, and toured the printing works and the Academy of Art with the University printers Robert and Andrew Foulis. They stopped off in Glasgow on their return, and stayed at the Saracen’s Head Inn near the University, which is still trading to this day.
For much of James Boswell’s life his father despaired of him. He didn’t follow his father’s profession and practice law, preferring his writing above all. However he did became 9th Laird of Auchinleck, but in the end his years of enjoying the good life finally caught up with him.
Not many people have a word named after them, to be ‘Boswellian’ means to be a constant companion and observer. Another noted Scotsman, Arthur Conan Doyle honoured his fellow countryman and writer Boswell in his works. His celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes said ‘that talent instantly recognizes genius’ and referred to his own cherished companion and observer, Dr Watson, as ‘my Boswell’.
After Johnson’s death in 1784, Boswell moved to London to try his luck at the English Bar, which proved even less successful than his career in Scotland. In 1792 Boswell lobbied the Home Secretary to help gain royal pardons for four Botany Bay escapees including Mary Bryant. He also offered to stand for Parliament but failed to get the necessary support, and he spent the final years of his life writing his Life of Samuel Johnson. During this time his health began to fail due to venereal disease and his years of drinking. Boswell died in London in 1795.
Boswell’s remains were interred in the crypt of the Boswell family mausoleum in what is now the old Auchinleck Kirkyard in Ayrshire. The mausoleum is attached to the old Auchinleck Kirk.
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“Todo para nosotros y nada para los demás”, parece haber sido la máxima abominable de los amos de la humanidad en todas las edades del mundo”
Adam Smith
Fue un economista y filósofo escocés, nacido en Kirkcaldy en junio de 1723, considerado uno de los mayores exponentes de la economía clásica y de la filosofía de la economía.
Fue el único hijo del segundo matrimonio de Adam Smith oficial de aduanas y Margaret Douglas.
Poco se sabe de su infancia a excepción de que fue raptado por una banda de gitanos a la edad de 4 años y fue rescatado por su tío.
A la edad de 14 años, Smith ingresó a la Universidad de Glasgow en donde fue influenciado por el famoso profesor de filosofía moral Francis Hutcheson. Después de su graduación en 1740, obtuvo una beca para Oxford en donde estudió 6 años en el Balliol College.
De regreso a casa en 1748 a 1761 fue profesor ayudante de las cátedras de retórica y literatura en Edimburgo y fue durante esas fechas que estableció una estrecha amistad con el filósofo David Hume, quien influyó en muchas de sus teorías económicas y éticas de Smith.
A partir de 1751 Smith ocupó la cátedra de lógica y de filosofía moral cargo que ejerció durante 12 años.
Smith publicó su primera obra en 1759 bajo el título de “Teoría de los sentimientos morales” la cual era parte de la segunda parte de su curso y que le hizo ganar gran reputación.
En 1783, el aristócrata Charles TownShend, ofreció a Smith una pensión vitalicia a cambio de encargarse de la educación de su hijastro durante un viaje de tres años por Suiza y Francia.
Durante este viaje conoció al economista francés Francois Quesnay y al cofundador de la escuela conocida como fisiocracia Ann Robert Jacques Turcot, los cuales servirían para que Smith pudiera construir su propia teoría, con diferencias respecto a la de estos autores.
También durante este viaje conoció a pensadores ilustrados como Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Diderot, al filósofo y enciclopedista francés D’alembert y al banquero Necker entre otros.
Al finalizar su viaje Smith regresó con su madre para dedicar la mayor parte de su tiempo a la elaboración de su obra “La riqueza de las naciones”, obra que intenta diferenciar la economía política de la ciencia política.
La riqueza de las naciones le llevó mas de 10 años escribirla y es por tal razón es que para algunos especialista Smith es considerado el padre de la economía política.
En 1779 viajó a Londres en donde fue duramente criticado por sus elogios a Hume y sus criticas a la religión.
A su regreso de Londres fue nombrado director de Aduana de Edimburgo en 1778, puesto que desempeñó hasta su muerte en 1790 a la edad de 67 años.
Fuente: Wikipedia
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The adjective is the enemy of the noun.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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Chi comanda?: Voltaire
Per capire chi vi comanda basta scoprire chi non vi è permesso criticare
Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
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