Voltaire in the library

2 works in the library quote Voltaire — 2 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Cesare Beccaria 1 citation · Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation

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1. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Cesare Beccaria 1 neutral 1 citation

   preface of the translator.

   The translator merely identifies and reports the attribution of the Commentary to Voltaire without endorsing, refuting, or extending it.

   With regard to the Commentary, attributed to Mons.

2. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 6

   Named as source of the reported jesting commentary on the Salic law legend.

   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.