Holbach

The true answer to Holbach is to be found in a different order of ideas from any that Voltaire was prepared to accept.

The Eve of the French Revolution 1869

"Baron d'Holbach's Campaign for German (and Swedish) Science."

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Houston emigrated from England in the 1820s after serving two and a half years in Newgate prison for publishing the first English translation of Baron d'Holbach's L'Histoire de Jésus Christ (republished by Houston as Ecce Homo; Or a Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth).

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

Voltaire was quite right in saying that there are four times too many words in the one volume of d'Holbach's "System of Nature."

Voltaire 2007

The discussion of whether Hume was an atheist would have been improved by considering the external evidence or two we have that Hume might have considered himself a theist e.g., Diderot's summary of Hume's remarks at d'Holbach's party, but that, like the other things I've mentioned, is a minor issue.

Russell on Hume on Religion 2005

The discussion of whether Hume was an atheist would have been improved by considering the external evidence or two we have that Hume might have considered himself a theist e.g., Diderot's summary of Hume's remarks at d'Holbach's party, but that, like the other things I've mentioned, is a minor issue.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

"He is a bigot and a deist," exclaimed a feminine disciple of d'Holbach's atheism.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

"Apologie de la religion chrétienne" — against d'Holbach's

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

I sometimes go to Baron d'Holbach's, but I have left off his dinners, as there was no bearing the authors and philosophers and savants of which he has a pigeon-house full.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

His theory of life took no account of the future and concerned itself little with social conditions outside his own class; but he was acquainted with the classical schools of thought, and, having once acted as the late Duke's envoy to the French court, had frequented the Baron d'Holbach's drawing-room and familiarised himself with the views of the Encyclopaedists; though it was clear that he valued their teachings chiefly as an argument against asceticism.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899