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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.)

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Hallami Introd. to the Heating of
Literaturs. Vol. II. p. 337.

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My favonte Nicole

American Edition
NewYok 1841.

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

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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

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