Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . number, it is never from them that the nation is judged. We look upon that special interest which M. de Montesquieutook in the * Encyclopedic * as one of the most honorable rewardsof our labor. Perhaps the opposition which the work has metwith, reminding him of his own experience, interested him themore in our favor. Perhaps he was sensible, without perceivingit, of that justice which we dared to do him in the first volumeof the Encyclopedic,* when nobody as yet had ventured to say aword in his defense. He prepared for us an article
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . number, it is never from them that the nation is judged. We look upon that special interest which M. de Montesquieutook in the * Encyclopedic * as one of the most honorable rewardsof our labor. Perhaps the opposition which the work has metwith, reminding him of his own experience, interested him themore in our favor. Perhaps he was sensible, without perceivingit, of that justice which we dared to do him in the first volumeof the Encyclopedic,* when nobody as yet had ventured to say aword in his defense. He prepared for us an article upon <Taste,*which has been found unfinished among his papers. We shallgive it to the public in that condition, and treat it with the samerespect that antiquity formerly showed to the last words ofSeneca. Death prevented his giving us any further marks of hisapproval; and joining our own griefs with those of all Europe,we might write on his tomb: — ?^ Finis vita; ejus nobis luduosus, patrice tristis, extraneis etiam ignotisque non sine cur a fuit?*. VITTORIO ALFIERI.
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