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Arsed, as most of my readers were likely to be prejudiced against it. What right had I then to suppose that any attention would be paid to the dictum of one who had no claims to public con fidence, and whose mind might be influenced by national vanity, influenced by national pre judices, or incapacitated by want of judgment and information 'l To have looked for materials smog French writers alone, would have proved a. Comparatively easy task, but to do this would have been to remove but half the difioulty. I therefore sought for critical remarks among English authors, and as their judgment was lilcely to be more sstoomd by my readers, I determined never to give the opinion of a French Critic, when that of an English one, of equal value, could be obtained.

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IT is now five or six years since a friend who was collecting a Library for his own use, re quested me to furnish him with a list of the best works written in French, in every branch of literature; a request with which I readily com plied. The repeated expressions of the advan tage and facility thus afforded him by guiding his choice, on a subject where it was natural to suppose I possessed the greater share 'of infor mation, led me to suppose that what had been advantageous to him, might prove so to others that in this country, where French is so much studied, many persons might, like him, wish to form a French Library, and like him be at a loss for information, and desirous of assistance on the subject. It was not assuming too much.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.