read than estecmed, says a late bographer. (Biog Univers.) Voltaire, knows, prophered that they would not perish. "The chapter especially," ke proceeds, " on the means of preserving peace among men, is a masterfucce to which nothing equal has been left to us by antiquity" (Fracle de Louis XIV.) " Hallami Introd. to the Heating of " My favonte Nicole American Edition By the way are you mouk acquainted with Nicole ? I wish some of our high profe son would read him. There is a delicacy in his morals that I ne rarely met with; indeed I think in hair supreme Hannah More to Wilberforce Wilberf. Correspond. t. 28 Am. Ch. Thilas. 1841 morally supone in regard to les petites Ape of Alicolas Epays wire translated by Locke for the special benefit of his portion the Earl of Shaftesbury, I after long lying in Mr. wee printed in 1828 by Harvey London them I I On the Exist. of a god. I. On the Weakness of Man. II. On the Way of preserving Peace. Nicole . Essais de Morale. 802.5 vols. "These books, making an abatement for theman tholic error are the most extensive I valuable repositing with which I am acquainted of practical piety; mant Solid, scriptural, L'every where bottomed on a just know. ledge of theman nature" Forster, Life of Jett. 806. I. p. 144 Nicole was the instructor of the great French fact |