 | Voltaire - 1761 - 330 sidor
...underftand Latm, and ftill more fo to convince us that the age he lived in was an age of ignorance. [ "0 ] fo many grofs faults, with what rapture did I behold Brutus, holding in his hand a dagger, Hill wet with the blood of Caefar, aflemble the Roman people, and thus harangue them from the Tribunal... | |
 | Voltaire - 1901 - 614 sidor
...not even understand Latin, and had no instructor but his own genius : and yet, among so many gross faults, with what rapture did I behold Brutus, holding in his hand a dagger, still wet with the blood of Caesar, assemble the Roman people, and thus harangue them from the tribunal... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - 328 sidor
...not even understand Latin, and had no instructor but his own genius : and yet, among so many gross faults, with what rapture did I behold Brutus, holding in his hand a dagger, still wet with the blood of Caesar, assemble the Roman people, and thus harangue them from the tribunal:... | |
 | 1920 - 678 sidor
...Voltaire, "Julius Caesar, which for these hundred and fifty years past has been the delight of your nation! With what rapture did I behold Brutus, holding in his hand a dagger still wet with the blood of Caesar, assemble the Roman people and thus harangue them from the tribunal:... | |
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... of your nation ! not that I approve the barbarous irregularities which it abounds with; it only astonishes me, that there are not many more in a work written in an age of ignorance, by a man who did not even understand Latin, and had no instructor... 