Voltaire's Candide
In Our Time: Culture
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The Influence of the English Experience on Condid
He was in England for three years. He sort of fell in love with it. Newton became his great man. When it was buried in Westminster Abbey he wrote, this is the way that emperors treated everyone else. And he met John and Swift and maybe Gulliver travelled at a bit of an impact on Condid. But I also think he used it in certain ways. So he said, I write and think like an Englishman,. which went down very well with the English. Maybe he might have been saying it in order to make the English love him. In order to gain certain ends. We're going to come to the writing of Condid now.
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