Thomas Vincent IN FOUR VOLUMES. Selected and Translated from the French BY MARY JULIA YOUNG, Author of Donalda, or The Witches of Glenshiel; VOLUME I. - Les hommes avaient tort de juger d'un tout, VOLTAIRE. LONDON: Printed by D. N. SHURY, No. 7, Berwick Street, Soho; FOR J. F. HUGHES, WIGMORE STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. PREFACE. THEY Who can revel in the immense literary garden of Voltaire, will of course disdain the trifling store which I have gathered from it; many who find beauties in the physical herbs, or, perhaps, even in the weeds which too frequently spring up among the flowers, may feel themselves disappointed in not finding a few of them in this selection; others, who have a peculiar taste for thorns and nettles, will sneer at me for discarding all the stinging nettles and thorny shrubs, except the rose and sweet |