Voltaire
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages · author page
Mons. de Voltaire · the peculiarity of his manner
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Philosopher used as a comparison for the way Bentham's long life extended his influence.
Bentham, like Voltaire, ultimately owed much of his authority to the many years for which he was able to press his doctrines upon the world.
it was held by the benevolent despots of the eighteenth century, and would have commended itself to so acute a thinker as Voltaire, for we may assume with confidence that he would not have condemned a ruler who by severe legislation overthrew the reign of superstition or intolerance.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
French philosopher to whom the translator attributes an accompanying Commentary on Beccaria's work.
With regard to the Commentary, attributed to Mons.
Ancient Law
Eighteenth-century writer credited with consummating the iconoclastic critique of prior belief before Rousseau.
One of the few characteristics which the school of Rousseau had in common with the school of Voltaire was an utter disdain of all religious antiquities;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Writer who repeatedly jested at the legendary account of the Salic law's angelic origin.
and Voltaire is never tired of jesting at the Salic law, which he had always supposed, he says, to have been dictated by an angel to Pharamond, the first Frankish king, and to have been written with a quill from the angelic wing.