Word: helvetius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edition, says that the quotation was first attributed to Voltaire by S. G. Tallentyre (E. Beatrice Hall), an English writer, in her book The Friends of Voltaire (p. 199), published in England in 1906, where it was quoted as having been written in a letter to Claude Adrien Helvetius, with reference to his book, De l'Esprit. When Miss Hall was asked m 1935 for the source of the quotation, she wrote, quite naïvely, "I did not intend to imply that Voltaire used these words verbatim and should be surprised if they are found...
...tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists, owned 18 ships bearing such names as Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Helvetius. One morning in 1830, when he was 80 and half blind, he came in from the country with his eggs, was knocked down by a wagon. Year later he died...
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