A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2: Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumesRobertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
Religion
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2: Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes
Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
Free thought -- History
1758. Helvétius. De l'Esprit. (Authorized. Then condemned.)
1759. [Voltaire.] Candide. ("Genève.")
1759. Translation of Hume's Natural History of Religion and
Philosophical Essays. (By Mérian.) Amsterdam.
1761. [N.-A. Boulanger. [1020]] Recherches sur l'origine du
despotisme oriental, et des superstitions. "Ouvrage posthume de
Mr. D. J. D. P. E. C."
1761. Rep. of De la Serre's La vraie religion as Examen de la
religion, etc.
1761. [D'Holbach.] Le Christianisme dévoilé. [Imprint: "Londres,
1756." Really printed at Nancy in 1761. Wrongly attributed to
Boulanger and to Damilaville.] Rep. 1767 and 1777.
Grimm (Corr. inédite, 1829, p. 194) speaks in 1763 of this book
in his notice of Boulanger, remarking that the title was apparently
meant to suggest the author of L'Antiquité dévoilée, but that it was
obviously by another hand. The Antiquité, in fact, was the concluding
section of Boulanger's posthumous Despotisme Oriental (1761), and
was not published till 1766. Grimm professed ignorance as to the
authorship, but must have known it, as did Voltaire, who by way of
mystification ascribed the book to Damilaville. See Barbier.
1762. Rousseau. Émile. [Publicly burned at Paris and at Geneva.
Condemned by the Sorbonne.]
1762. Robinet, J. B. De la nature. Vol. i. (Vol. ii in 1764; iii and
iv in 1766.)
1763. [Voltaire.] Saül. Genève.
1763. ---- Dialogue entre un Caloyer et un honnête homme.
1763. Rep. of De la Serres' Examen.
1764. Discours sur la liberté de penser. (Rep. of trans. of Collins.)
1764. [Voltaire.] Dictionnaire philosophique portatif. [1021] [First
form of the Dictionnaire philosophique. Burned in 1765.]
1764. Lettres secrètes de M. de Voltaire. [Holland. Collection of
tracts made by Robinet, against Voltaire's will.]
1764. [Voltaire.] Mélanges, 3 tom. Genève.
1764. [Dulaurens, Abbé H. J.] L'Arétin.
1764. L'Évangile de la Raison. Ouvrage posthume de M. D. M----y. [Ed.
by Abbé Dulaurens; containing the Testament de Jean Meslier
(greatly abridged and adapted by Voltaire); Voltaire's
Catéchisme de l'honnête homme, Sermon des cinquante, etc.; the
Examen de la religion, attribué à M. de St. Evremond;
Rousseau's Vicaire Savoyard, from Émile; Dumarsais's Analyse de
la religion chrétienne, etc. Rep. 1765 and 1766.]
1765. Recueil Nécessaire, avec L'Évangile de la Raison, 2 tom.
Rep. of parts of the Évangile. Rep. 1767, [1022] 1768, with
Voltaire's Examen important de Milord Bolingbroke substituted for that
of De la Serre (attribué a M. de St. Evremond), and with a revised
set of extracts from Meslier.
1765. Castillon, J. L. Essai de philosophic morale.
1766. Boulanger, N. A. L'Antiquité dévoilée. [1023] 3 tom. [Recast by
d'Holbach. Life of author by Diderot.]
1766. Voyage de Robertson aux terres australes. Traduit sur le
Manuscrit Anglois. Amsterdam.
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