S SAMOTHRACE. SAMSON. SATURN'S RING. SCANDAL. SCHISM. SCROFULA. SECT. SELF-LOVE. SENSATION. SENTENCES (REMARKABLE). SENTENCES OF DEATH. SERPENTS. SHEKEL. SIBYL. SINGING. SLAVES. SLEEPERS (THE SEVEN). SLOW BELLIES (VENTRES PARESSEUX). SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND ACADEMIES. SOCRATES. SOLOMON. SOMNAMBULISTS AND DREAMERS. SOPHIST. SOUL. SPACE. STAGE (POLICE OF THE). STATES—GOVERNMENTS. STATES-GENERAL. STYLE. SUPERSTITION. SYMBOL, OR CREDO. SYSTEM. T TABOR, OR THABOR. TALISMAN. TARTUFFE—TARTUFERIE. TASTE. TAUROBOLIUM. TAX—FEE. TEARS. TERELAS. TESTES. THEISM. THEIST. THEOCRACY. THEODOSIUS. THEOLOGIAN. THUNDER. TOLERATION. TOPHET. TORTURE. TRANSUBSTANTIATION. TRINITY. TRUTH. TYRANNY. TYRANT. U UNIVERSITY. USAGES. V VAMPIRES. VELETRI, VENALITY. VENICE. VERSE. VIANDS. VIRTUE. VISION. VISION OF CONSTANTINE. VOWS. VOYAGE OF ST. PETER TO ROME. W WALLER. WAR. WEAKNESS ON BOTH SIDES. WHYS (THE). WICKED. WILL. WIT, SPIRIT, INTELLECT. WOMEN. X, Y, Z XENOPHANES. XENOPHON, YVETOT. ZEAL. ZOROASTER. DECLARATION INQUIRERS, AND DOUBTERS, LIST OF PLATES VOLTAIRE AT THE AGE OF THIRTY—Frontispiece MAHOMET LOUIS AND MDLLE. DE LA VALLIÈRE ANCIENT GREECE THE BASTILLE—Frontispiece A TYPE OF BEAUTY AN ASTROLOGER ALEXANDER'S TRIUMPH VOLTAIRE'S RECEPTION OF MADAME D'ÉPINAY AT LES DÉLICES— THE DEATH OF COLIGNY CATHERINE II. OF RUSSIA THE ALMONER AND THE ANABAPTIST VOLTAIRE'S ARREST AT FRANKFORT Frontispiece OLIVER CROMWELL TIME MAKES TRUTH TRIUMPHANT FRANCIS I. AND HIS SISTER SANS SOUCI Frontispiece A LAND STORM THE TEMPTATION OF ADAM DESCARTES VOLTAIRE'S HOME IN GENEVA—Frontispiece THE ACROPOLIS AT ATHENS THE DUKE OF SULLY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INQUISITION IN PORTUGAL OLD ROUEN—frontispiece MONTESQUIEU THE DREAM OF HUMAN LIFE ANCIENT ROME ALLEGORICAL BUST OF VOLTAIRE—frontispiece THE INITIATE BANISHING THE PRIEST JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU JOHN CALVIN VOLTAIRE: THE HOUDON BUST—Frontispiece GENIUS INSPIRING THE MUSES SAMSON DESTROYING THE TEMPLE JOHN LOCKE VOLTAIRE'S REMAINS ON THE BASTILLE—Frontispiece THE DEATH OF SOCRATES THE VISION PIERRE CORNEILLE ZADIG; OR, THE Book of Fate. AN Oriental History, Translated from the French Original OF MR. VOLTAIRE. ——— Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum, Tendimus in Latium. ——— Virg. MDCCXLIX. THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. The blind Eye page 1 CHAP. II. The Nose 13 CHAP. III. The Dog and the Horse, &c. 20 CHAP. IV. The Envious Man 33 CHAP. V. The Force of Generosity 45 CHAP. VI. The Just Judge 53 CHAP. VII. The Force of Jealousy 63 [xii]CHAP. VIII. The Thresh’d Wife 79 CHAP. IX. The Captive 89 CHAP. X. The Funeral Pile 100 CHAP. XI. The Evening’s Entertainment 111 CHAP. XII. The Rendezvous 124 CHAP. XIII. The Free-booter 135 CHAP. XIV. The Fisherman 147 CHAP. XV. The Basilisk 159 CHAP. XVI. The Tournaments 187 CHAP. XVII. The Hermit 205 CHAP. XVIII. The Riddles, or Ænigmas 225