The Philosophical Dictionary For The Pocket By F M A De Voltaire Translated From The Last Geneva Edition With Notes Containing A Refutation Of Such Passages As Are Any Way Exceptionable In Regard To Religion

Excerpt from The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket: Written in French by a Society of Men of Letters, and Translated Into English From the Last Geneva Edition, Corrected by the Authors; With Notes, Containing a Refutation of Such Passages as Are Any Way Exceptionable in Regard to Religion Sr. Thomas, queftion 1 x 8, article 2, fays, That the thrones are as near to God as the cherubim and feraphim, becaufe it is on them that God firs. Sco ms has computed the angels to amount to a thou fand millions. The antient mythology of good and bad genii having fpread itfelf into Greece, and to on to Rome, it has there been fanftified, and to every man has been aliigned a good and evil an gel;one aflifling him, and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin: but; whether thefe good and evil angels continually lhift ftations from one to another, or whether they are relieved by others of their order, is not yet known. Here upon St. Thomas's Summary of Divinity may be confulted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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First edition in English of Voltaire's 'Dictionnaire philosophique, portatif', which had originally appeared in Geneva under a false London imprint. The book was banned in France, and burned in Geneva.