About this title: Volume 4 of the Philosophical Dictionary with
entries from “Joseph” to the “Privileges.” The Philosophical
Dictionary first appeared in 1764 in a “pocket edition” designed
to be carried about one’s person. It consists of a series of
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together as examples of Voltaire’s withering criticism of “the
infamous thing” - examples of tyranny and persecution by a
privileged orthodoxy in Church and State of those individuals
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