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xxiv P.S. I had intended to offer some remarks as to the credibility of Buonarroti as a historian, but the following extracts are, I think, considering the quarter from whence they come, sufficiently decisive on that point. A good word from the Quarterly is—in Buonarroti's case at least (to use his own words)—omni exceptione major.