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Letters on England

by Voltaire (1694–1778)

26 chapters, about 37,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION 800 words
2. LETTER I.--ON THE QUAKERS 1,700 words
3. LETTER II.--ON THE QUAKERS 800 words
4. LETTER III.--ON THE QUAKERS 1,300 words
5. LETTER IV.--ON THE QUAKERS 1,600 words
6. LETTER V.--ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 1,100 words
7. LETTER VI.--ON THE PRESBYTERIANS 600 words
8. LETTER VII.--ON THE SOCINIANS, OR ARIANS, OR ANTITRINITARIANS 700 words
9. LETTER VIII.--ON THE PARLIAMENT 1,100 words
10. LETTER IX.--ON THE GOVERNMENT 1,600 words
11. LETTER X.--ON TRADE 600 words
12. LETTER XI.--ON INOCULATION 1,600 words
13. LETTER XII.--ON THE LORD BACON 1,700 words
14. LETTER XIII.--ON MR. LOCKE 2,500 words
15. LETTER XIV.--ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON 2,000 words
16. LETTER XV.--ON ATTRACTION 3,200 words
17. LETTER XVI.--ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S OPTICS 1,400 words
18. LETTER XVII.--ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S CHRONOLOGY 2,300 words
19. LETTER XVIII.--ON TRAGEDY 1,700 words
20. LETTER XIX.--ON COMEDY 1,500 words
21. LETTER XX.--ON SUCH OF THE NOBILITY AS CULTIVATE THE BELLES LETTRES 300 words
22. LETTER XXI.--ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER AND MR. WALLER 1,400 words
23. WALLER. 300 words
24. LETTER XXII.--ON MR. POPE AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS POETS 1,400 words
25. LETTER XXIII.--ON THE REGARD THAT OUGHT TO BE SHOWN TO MEN OF LETTERS 1,300 words
26. LETTER XXIV.--ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIES 1,900 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Clergy
• Isaac
• Quakers
• Royal Society
• The Spectator

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