But there was another field of inquiry and discussion in which he was never tired of ranging. He had a strong and enduring predilection for religious speculation and controversy, and was widely and profoundly read in ecclesiastical history. His partiality... The Quarterly Review - Page 1411923Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 388 pages
...memory Voltaire's lively I account of Zadig's learning : " II savait de la me'taphysique ce qu'on en a su dans tous les ages, — c'est a dire, fort peu de chose," &c. mean to leave a Byronian prize at each of our ' Almae Matres ' for the first discovery, — though... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...their works. He was, in fact, very much inclined towards the opinion expressed by Voltaire in Zadig : " II savait de la me'taphysique ce qu'on a su dans tous les ages, — c'est a dire, fort peu de chose." But there was another field of inquiry and discussion in which he was never tired of ranging. He had... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - Authors, English - 1876 - 500 pages
...their works. He was, in fact, very much inclined towards the opinion expressed by Voltaire in Zadig : " II savait de la metaphysique ce qu'on a su dans tous les ages, — c'est a dire, fort peu de chose." But there was another field of inqxury and discussion in which he was never tired of ranging. He had... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - Fine bindings - 1876 - 500 pages
...their works. He was, in fact, very much inclined towards the opinion expressed by Voltaire in Zadig : " II savait de la metaphysique ce qu'on a su dans tous les ages,—c'est a dire, fort peu de chose." But there was another field of inquiry and discussion in... | |
| sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1881 - 732 pages
...their works. He was, in fact, very much inclined towards the opinion expressed by Voltaire in Zadig : " II savait de la metaphysique ce qu'on a su dans tous les ages, — c'est k dire, fort peu de chose." But there was another field of inquiry and discussion in which he was never... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1886 - 376 pages
...his memory Voltaire's lively account of Zadig's learning : "II savait de la me'taphysique ce qu'on en a su dans tous les ages, — c'est a dire, fort peu de chose," etc. " I once thought myself a philosopher, and talked nonsense with great decorum : I defied pain,... | |
| Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale - Missions - 1911 - 408 pages
...exactly where Voltaire's little metaphysician Zadig found himself in that fine phrase, " II en savait ce qu'on a su dans tous les ages, c'est a dire, fort peu de chose." It was, however, with no such obscure considerations that Paul Hancock busied himself at this crisis.... | |
| Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale - Missions - 1911 - 508 pages
...exactly where Voltaire's little metaphysician Zadig found himself in that fine phrase, " II en savait ce qu'on a su dans tous les ages, c'est a dire, fort peu de chose." It was, however, with no such obscure considerations that Paul Hancock busied himself at this crisis.... | |
| George Saintsbury - French fiction - 1917 - 522 pages
...The reader is caught at once by one of the most famous and one of the most Voltairian of phrases, " II savait de la me"taphysique ce qu'on a su dans tous les ages, c'est-a-dire fort peu de chose," a little more discussion of which saying, and of others like it, may... | |
| George Saintsbury - English literature - 1924 - 352 pages
...out second best. Zadig's experience with metaphysics is admittedly one of its author's pearls, " Il savait de la metaphysique ce qu'on a su dans tous...writes: "La metaphysique ou les metaphysiques — c'est a dire ce qui est joint aux physiques et qui n'a pas d'autre nom; tant il est impossible d6signer par... | |
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