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regard to the French Academy, how great a Service would they do to Literature, to the Language, and the Nation, if, intead of publihing a et of Compliments annually, they would give us new Editions of the valuable Works written in the Age of Lewis the Fourteenth, purged from the everal Errors of Diction which are crept into them. There are many of thee Errors in Corneille and Moliere, but thoe in La Fontaine are very numerous. Such as could not be corrected, might at leat be pointed out. By this Means, as all the Europeans read thoe Works, they would teach them our Language in its utmot Purity, which, by that Means, would be fix'd to a lating Standard; and valuable French Books being then printed at the King's Expence, would prove one of the mot glorious Monuments the Nation could boat. I have been told that Boileau formerly made this Propoal, and that it has ince been Rh