Voltaire Six

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Lieutenant Winston Clark was a helicopter pilot. He is just what he wanted to be and where he wanted to be. When he arrived in Vietnam, he was fresh from the hills of Old Catawba and fully prepared to "bear any burden," as the handsome young president had said.But was he prepared for what awaited him at Les Trungs rubber plantation? Was he prepared for his encounter with the mysterious Frenchman, "Voltaire Six"? Was he prepared for the girl named Genevieve, the girl with the honey-colored hair? And was he prepared for the "68th Buddha" and the climactic and explosive battles of the Tet offensive?Prepared or not, the Top Tigers and the Viet Cong were on a violent collision course and this tour of duty would haunt Lieutenant Clark forever. Voltaire Six is the story of fighting men and women on both sides of the ideological lines rushing down a stormy wind-tunnel of passion, history, and destiny. John Cooke writes with a marvelous sense of character, time, and place. You are there-and you will not forget it.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : John R. Cooke
Publisher : iUniverse
Release : 2002-08-18
File : 365 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780595232758


The Philosophy Of Voltaire Collected Works Treatise On Tolerance Philosophical Dictionary Candide Letters On England Plato S Dream Dialogues The Study Of Nature Ancient Faith And Fable

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This unique collection of Voltaire's most renowned philosophical books has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. He was an outspoken advocate of several liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. Table of Contents: A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY LETTERS ON ENGLAND TREATISE ON TOLERANCE CANDIDE ZADIG (The Book of Faith) MICROMEGAS THE HURON (Pupil of Nature) THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON MEMNON THE PHILOSOPHER THE BLACK AND THE WHITE THE WORLD AS IT GOES ANDRÉ DES TOUCHES AT SIAM BABABEC PLATO'S DREAM PLEASURE IN HAVING NO PLEASURE THE GOOD BRAHMIN THE TWO COMFORTERS ANCIENT FAITH AND FABLE THE STUDY OF NATURE A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MARCUS AURELIUS AND A RECOLLET FRIAR DIALOGUE BETWEEN A BRAHMIN AND A JESUIT DIALOGUES BETWEEN LUCRETIUS AND POSIDONIUS DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CLIENT AND HIS LAWYER DIALOGUE BETWEEN MADAME DE MAINTENON AND MADEMOISELLE DE L'ENCLOS DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SAVAGE AND A BACHELOR OF ARTS

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : e-artnow
Release : 2017-06-28
File : 2945 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9788075835697


Voltaire Against The Jews Or The Limits Of Toleration

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This book challenges Voltaire’s doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaire’s attitude towards Jews, problematising the issue against the background of his theory of toleration. To date, no monograph entirely dedicated to this theme has been written. This book attempts to provide an answer to the crucial questions that have emerged in the past fifty years through a process of reading and analysis that starts with the publication of Des Juifs (1756), and ends with the posthumous publication of the apocryphal article ‘Juifs’ in the Kehl edition of the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1784).

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Genre : History
Author : Marco Piazza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2023-01-01
File : 185 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783031187124


The Memoirs Of Casanova The Complete Six Volume Edition

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A series of adventures wilder and more fantastic than the wildest of romances, written down with the exactitude of a business diary; a view of men and cities from Naples to Berlin, from Madrid and London to Constantinople and St. Petersburg; the 'vie intime' of the eighteenth century depicted by a man, who to-day sat with cardinals and saluted crowned heads, and tomorrow lurked in dens of profligacy and crime; a book of confessions penned without reticence and without penitence; a record of forty years of "occult" charlatanism; a collection of tales of successful imposture, of 'bonnes fortunes', of marvellous escapes, of transcendent audacity, told with the humour of Smollett and the delicate wit of Voltaire. Who is there interested in men and letters, and in the life of the past, who would not cry, "Where can such a book as this be found?" Yet the above catalogue is but a brief outline, a bare and meager summary, of the book known as "THE MEMOIRS OF CASANOVA"; a work absolutely unique in literature. He who opens these wonderful pages is as one who sits in a theatre and looks across the gloom, not on a stage-play, but on another and a vanished world. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. He often signed his works Jacques Casanova de Seingalt after he began writing in French following his second exile from Venice. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Goethe, and Mozart.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher : DigiCat
Release : 2022-11-13
File : 2936 Pages
ISBN-13 : EAN:8596547390350


Baily S Racing Register From The Earliest Records To The Close Of The Year 1842

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Release : 1845
File : 824 Pages
ISBN-13 : BL:A0024359245


The History Of The Jews All Six Volumes

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History of the Jews is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish people, written by Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz. This universal history offers an insight in Jewish history, covering the period from the early days to modern times. The work is divided in six volumes: Vol. I: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Simon the Maccabee (135 B. C. E.) Vol. II: From the Reign of Hyrcanus (135 B. C. E.) to the Completion of the Babylonian Talmud (500 C. E.) Vol. III: From the Revolt against the Zendik (511 C. E.) to the Capture of St. Jean d'Acre by the Mahometans (1291 C. E.) Vol. IV: From the Rise of the Kabbala (1270 C. E.) to the Permanent Settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C. E.) Vol. V: From the Chmielnicki Persecution of the Jews in Poland (1648 C. E.) to the Period of Emancipation in Central Europe (c. 1870 C. E.) Vol. VI: Chronological Table of Jewish History.

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Genre : History
Author : Heinrich Graetz
Publisher : DigiCat
Release : 2023-11-22
File : 1645 Pages
ISBN-13 : EAN:8596547729907


The Portable Voltaire

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Includes Part One of Candide; three stories; selections from The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake, and other works; and thirty-five letters.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Penguin
Release : 1977-07-28
File : 577 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781101128121


Natural History General And Particular Illustrated With Above Six Hundred Copper Plates The History Of Man And Quadrupeds Translated With Notes And Observations By William Smellie A New Edition Corrected And Enlarged By Many Additional Articles Notes And Plates And Some Account Of The Life Of M De Buffon By William Wood

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Author : George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.)
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Release : 1812
File : 568 Pages
ISBN-13 : BL:A0026529093


The Life Of Voltaire

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The life of Voltaire" by Evelyn Beatrice Hall. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Publisher : DigiCat
Release : 2022-09-16
File : 569 Pages
ISBN-13 : EAN:8596547339168


Classification Of Operating Expenses Of Express Companies As Prescribed By The Interstate Commerce Commission In Accordance With Section 20 Of The Act To Regulate Commerce

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Genre : Express service
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Release : 1970
File : 530 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3592177