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Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) are a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in Great Britain between 1726 and 1729.
- Lettres philosophiques
- Basile
- 1734
- Voltaire
22. Apr. 2005 · LETTER XVIII.—ON TRAGEDY. The English as well as the Spaniards were possessed of theatres at a time when the French had no more than moving, itinerant stages. Shakspeare, who was considered as the Corneille of the first-mentioned nation, was pretty nearly contemporary with Lopez de Vega, and he created, as it were, the English theatre ...
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Voltaire’s Lettres sur les Anglais, otherwise known as Lettres philosophiques, is one of the greatest and most influential works of the eighteenth century and beyond, and this is the most complete edition ever undertaken of the work.
The English alphabet has 26 letters. In "alphabetical order", they are: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z. Five of the letters are "vowels": a e i o u. The remaining twenty-one letters are "consonants". We can write each letter as a "large letter" (capital) or "small letter". More about the English alphabet.
Voltaire’s Letters on the English were immensely influential and essential to the French Enlightenment. In twenty-four letters, Voltaire wrote on religion, politics, culture, and science in England, drawing on his experience of living there between 1726 and 1729.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century.
