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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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May 15 report announces the sudden death of celebrated Voltaire in Geneva, quoting a character sketch of him written a few years prior by the King of Prussia, describing his politeness turning to coldness, inconstancy, clear head with corrupt heart, excessive vanity and avarice, superficiality, and ambition to be extraordinary.
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He is first polite, then cold. then disgusting, he is attached to nothing by Choice, but to every Thing by Inconstancy. He has a clear Head, and a corrupt Heart.: His Vanity is excessive, but his Avarice is yet greater than his Vanity. He is always superficial, because he is not able to be deep. He would fain be an extraordinary Man, and an extraordinary Man he most certainly is.
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Geneva
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Lately
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sudden death
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The celebrated Voltaire is said to have lately died very suddenly at Geneva. Included is part of a character sketch written by the King of Prussia a few years since, portraying Voltaire as first polite then cold and disgusting, attached to nothing by choice but everything by inconstancy, with a clear head and corrupt heart, excessive vanity surpassed by avarice, always superficial because unable to be deep, and desiring to be an extraordinary man, which he is.