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 the better, let me tell you, for your clients, as they will lose no more causes by its blunders. But if it is myself only that has escaped your remembrance, I must endeavour to refresh it by a visit, before I am worn out of your memory, beyond all power of recollection."

French language admits of a brevity of expression more corresponding to that of the Latin: and of this D'Alembert has given many happy examples in his translations from Tacitus.

, Præf. ad Hist."