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Zadig, by Voltaire
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Title: Zadig Or, The Book of Fate
Author: Voltaire
Release Date: August 3, 2006 [EBook #18972]
Language: English
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ZADIG;
OR, THE
Book of Fate.
AN
Oriental HISTORY,
Translated from the
French ORIGINAL
OF
Mr. VOLTAIRE.
----Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum, Tendimus in Latium.----VIRG.
LONDON:
Printed for IOHN BRINDLEY, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in New Bond-Street.
MDCCXLIX.
THE
DEDICATION
TO THE
SULTANA SHERAA,
BY
SADI.
The 18th of the Month Scheval, in the Year of the Hegira, 837.
Thou Joy of ev'ry Eye! Thou Torment of every Heart! Thou Intellectual Light! I do not kiss the Dust of thy Feet; because thou seldom art seen out of the Seraglio, and when thou art, thou walkest only on the Carpets of Iran, or on Beds of Roses.
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