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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
e great would but favor men of letters. He it was, and not an English poet, that praised George the First of England as a sage and a hero who ruled the universe by his virtues; Au Roi d'angleterre, George ler, en lui envoyant la tragedie d'oedipe. he could address Louis the chap. II.} 1763. Fifteenth as a Trajan; and when the French king took a prostitute for his associate, it was the aged Voltaire who extolled the monarch's mistress as an adorable Egeria. Voltaire à Madame la Comtesse du Barri, 20 Juin, 1773. The populace which has its hands to live by, such are the words, and such the sentiments of Voltaire, and as he believed of every landholder, the people has neither time nor capacity for selfinstruc-tion; they would die of hunger before becoming philosophers. It seems to me essential that there should be ignorant poor. II me paralt essentiel qu'il y ait des gueux ignorans. Preach virtue to the lower classes; when the populace meddles with reasoning, all is lost. Quan