It also used to designate of the action of flicking with the finger ( Molière, Le malade imaginaire ; or Voltaire, Lettre à Frédéric II Roi de Prusse ; etc.

The French philosopher Voltaire was also influenced by Confucius, seeing the concept of Confucian rationalism as an alternative to Christian dogma.

It was also used by Robert Hooke and Voltaire, the latter of whom remarked: " L ' univers m ' embarrasse, et je ne puis songer Que cette horloge existe, et n ' ait point d ' horloger "; " I'm puzzled by the world ; I cannot dream The timepiece real, its maker but a dream ".

The related concept of political exile also has a long history: Ovid was sent to Tomis ; Voltaire was sent to England.

Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ) also fiercely condemned torture in some of his essays.

The total number of captures by French and Spanish corsairs was in all probability larger than the list of British – as the French wit Voltaire drolly put it upon hearing his government's boast, namely, that more British merchants were taken because there were many more British merchant ships to take ; but partly also because the British government had not yet begun to enforce the use of convoy so strictly as it did in later times.

Daneel also comes into conflict with a robot known as R. Lodovic Trema whose positronic brain was infected by a rogue AI — specifically, a simulation of the long-dead Voltaire — which consequently frees Trema from the Three Laws.

The 1718 Oedipus was also the first play written by Voltaire.

Absurdism is also frequently compared to Surrealism's predecessor, Dadaism ( for example, the Dadaist plays by Tristan Tzara performed at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich ).

Philidor, both in England and France, was largely recognized in each of his fields and got a lot of admirers, protectors and also friends, like were the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and the famous English actor David Garrick ( 1717 – 1779 ).

Cabaret Voltaire also recorded pieces reminiscent of musique concrète and composers such as Morton Subotnick.

The late 18th century was a period of political, economic, intellectual, and cultural reforms, the Enlightenment ( represented by figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Adam Smith ), but also involving early Romanticism, and climaxing with the French Revolution, where freedom of the individual and nation was asserted against privilege and custom.

It also gives an interesting account of some conversations of the author with Voltaire and Rousseau.

Eliade also read with interest the prose of Romain Rolland, Henrik Ibsen, and the Enlightenment thinkers Voltaire and Denis Diderot.

The Durutti Column played at the Factory club ( organised by their managers ), and cut 2 numbers for the first Factory Records release A Factory Sample, a double 7 " compilation also featuring Joy Division, John Dowie and Cabaret Voltaire.

Voltaire hastily seized his pen to refute the philosophy of the Système in the article " Dieu " in his Dictionnaire philosophique, while Frederick the Great also drew up an answer to it.

He fell, however, into some of the most serious errors of the mercantilists — holding, as indeed did also Voltaire and even Pietro Verri, that one country cannot gain without another losing, and in his earlier treatise going so far as to defend the action of governments in debasing the currency.

" Voltaire, fifteen years older than Lefranc, attended this school from 1704 to 1711, and was also influenced by Pere Poré.

Jourgensen and Barker also formed Lard with Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra, Acid Horse with Cabaret Voltaire, 1000 Homo DJs ( which featured Nine Inch Nails ' Trent Reznor doing vocals on a cover of Black Sabbath's Supernaut ), PTP with Chris Connelly and Pailhead with Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi.

It has since been covered by several notable texts, including Diderot's Encyclopédie, Voltaire and the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, and also by the 2004 book The Last Duel by Eric Jager.

Miller also secured the rights to the back catalogue of the experimental bands Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and Richard H. Kirk

Voltaire supported him for a time and enabled him to act in his private theatre and also before the duchess of Maine.

In France, Voltaire wrote L ' Ingénu, the tale of a Huron who visits France and also Chateaubriand, a French noble exiled in America, wrote Atala and René.

Prince Teimuraz also authored several poems, and a memoir of his European travels as well as the Georgian translations of Tacitus, Voltaire, and Pushkin.

When they testify, they all give oddly relevant quotations of theirs, such as when Voltaire states that " liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

When Rousseau subsequently became celebrated as a theorist of education and child-rearing, his abandonment of his children was used by his critics, including Voltaire and Edmund Burke, as the basis for ad hominem attacks.

When industrial music developed in England in the mid-1970s with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, these groups used electronic instruments, percussion with found objects, and looped samples of " found " soundbites, elements later taken up by Front 242.

By this period the Massacre was being widely used by Voltaire ( in his Henriade ) and other Enlightenment writers in polemics against organized religion in general.

Since the mid-1980s, the term " Industrial dance " has been used to describe the music of Cabaret Voltaire ( early 80s ), early Die Krupps, Portion Control, The Neon Judgement, Clock DVA, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Ministry ( mid-80s era ), KMFDM, Yeht Mae, Leæther Strip, Combichrist or early Spahn Ranch.

The Factory name was first used for a club in May of that year, which featured local bands including The Durutti Column ( managed at the time by Erasmus and Wilson ), Cabaret Voltaire from Sheffield and Joy Division.

His earliest dramatic essays were translations from Molière, Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas, père ; he then turned to adapting old Spanish plays, and in 1837 produced his first original play, Los Amantes de Teruel, the subject of which had previously been used by Andrés Rey de Artieda, Tirso de Molina and Juan Pérez de Montalbán.

He used the tuba curva in music that he composed for the funeral of Voltaire.

It acquired widespread currency after Voltaire accepted the practice as historically authentic in his Dictionnaire philosophique ; soon it became used frequently, especially in satire.

The noted writer-philosopher Voltaire used the earthquake in Candide and in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (" Poem on the Lisbon disaster ").

The case raised questions about England's status as an " enlightened " nation — Voltaire used the case in his brief essay Singularités de la nature to describe how the Protestant English were still influenced by an ignorant Church.

The historian Thomas Carlyle referred to him as a " poor idle creature, of purely egoistical, ornamental, dilettante nature ; sunk in theatricals, bastard children and the like ; much praised by Voltaire, who sometimes used to visit him ; and Collini, to whom he Theodore is a kind master.

The term is sometimes used more broadly and considered to have begun in the 1500s with Niccolò Machiavelli, Martin Luther and John Calvin ; to have also included Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Giambattista Vico, Voltaire and Thomas Paine ; and to have ended at the latest in 1804 with the death of Immanuel Kant.

The aristocratic Rohan family obtained a lettre de cachet from French King Louis XV and used this warrant to force Voltaire first into imprisonment in the Bastille and then into exile in Great Britain.

In the 1740s, the Marquise du Châtelet and Voltaire, her lover, used the Hôtel Lambert as their Paris residence when not at her country estate in Cirey.

Philosophes such as Voltaire depicted organized Christianity as a tool of tyrants and oppressors and as being used to defend monarchism, it was seen as hostile to the development of reason and the progress of science and incapable of verification.

Having witnessed first-hand the popularity and many advantages of this form, Voltaire used this information while preparing the Philosophical Dictionary in 1752, although it wasn't completed until 1764.

Voltaire used this theme in the Philosophical Dictionary to fight against the Catholic Church.

Early in his career, Ruiz had used pen names, such as Cándido ( in honor of Voltaire ) and Ahrimán ( the Persian god of destruction ), and in 1904 he discarded his own name and began to use the surname of one of his characters, " Azorín ".

Later, Voltaire and Oliver Goldsmith ( in his History of Literature in 1764 ) used the term " Augustan " to refer to the literature of the 1720s and ' 30s.

Fizeau's father-in-law's friend, Prosper Mérimée, who wrote " Carmen "... his friend, Anthony Panizzi, who works at the British Museum, opened to house the collection of Dr. Hans Sloane, who treats Lady Montague's smallpox before she sees Turkish tulips, first drawn by Gesner, whose godfather eats sausages and cancels the military contract with France, which was the first to develop military music and choreography, used in a London show by John Gay, whose friend Arbuthnot does statistics that impress the Dutch mathematician who knows Voltaire, who hears from the worm-slicing Lazzaro Spallanzani, who stars in the story by Judge Hoffman, who tries German nationalists who start gymnastics, adopted by the YMCA and the guy who kicks off the Red Cross, who need a way to figure out blood types, surgical stitching, and the perfusion pump invented by Charles Lindbergh, whose father-in-law's disarmament treaty leads to " Graf Spee ," " Altmark, " and the German invasion of Norway and the Allied commandos whose mission was to " Hit the Water.

The pochette sleeve was most expensive and elaborate in the label's history ( designed by Peter Saville ) utilising an exclusive ' marble ' effect design printed on the inner jacket and a fold-out cover that resembled a match-book similar to the cover used by Cabaret Voltaire for their 2x45 album.

The tuba curva was first used in music that André Grétry composed for the funeral of Voltaire.