Voltaire

It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging...

A monthly magazine comprising articles by journalists from The New York Times during World War I.

Saguaro National Monument is one of more than 175 units administered by the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior. They include such outstanding scenic areas as Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Parks and other Parks and Monuments set aside for their scenic, scientific, historic or archeologic values. These superb areas are yours and are a part of your heritage as American citizens. This guidebook includes photographs.

The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and other institutions. The first edition, released in June 1764, went by the name of Dictionnaire philosophique portatif.  [Wikipedia]

A monthly magazine comprising articles by journalists from The New York Times during World War I.

A monthly magazine comprising articles by journalists from The New York Times during World War I.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is an English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)....

This is a 10-volume set of children's literature, intended as a young person's counterpart to the Harvard Classics series. The first edition was published in 1912 by P. F. Collier and Son. Another edition was published in 1918. Both editions were edited by William Patten, who was also the editor of the Harvard Classics.

Contents: IMPRISONMENT AND TRANSPORTATION, NO. 1. THE INCREASE OF CRIME RHINE AND RHINELANDERS THE MONSTER-MISERY OF LITERATURE. BY A MOUSE BORN OF THE MOUNTAIN MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART XI INDIAN AFFAIRS--GWALIOR THE FREETHINKER THE SNOW. BY DELTA LOVE IN THE WILDERNESS IRELAND--THE LANDLORD AND TENANT QUESTION

A monthly magazine comprising articles by journalists from The New York Times during World War I.