Author: ANNET, P]
Title: David, ou l'histoire de l'homme selon le coeur de Dieu. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois [par d'Holbach]. ET [VOLTAIRE, A.F.M.]: Saül et David. Tragédie en cinq actes.
Description: Londres [= Amsterdam], 1768. Petit-in-8. [ii], vi, 79, 56 pp. Cartonnage 19e siècle, avec pièce de titre maroquin. (coiffe supérieure un peu endomm.; Ex libris A. Debidour; non rogné; petit annot. sur titre) ¶ Weller II.179.Trad. par d'Holbach, imprimé à Amsterdam. ¶ Cushing, Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France, 1914: 'This work appeared in England in 1761 and is attributed to Peter Annet, also to John Noorthook. Some English eulogists of George II, Messrs. Chandler, Palmer and others, had likened their late King to David, "the man after God's own heart". The deists, struck by the absurdity of the comparison, proceeded to relate all the scandalous facts they could find recorded of David, and by clever distortions painted him as the most execrable of Kings, in a work entitled David or the man after God's own heart, which formed the basis of Holbach's translation.'

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