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This will diffuse your glory as a writer farther than any other work. All nations will have an equal interest in it ; and feel a gratitude to the stranger who takes pains to immortalize the virtues of those to whom he is only related by the general sympathy of sentiment and esteem. Plutarch was a Greek, which made him less impartial between his countrymen and the Romans in weighing their comparative merit, than you would be in contrasting a Frenchman with a OF WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D. D. 143 Germa...n, or an Italian with a Spaniard, or a Dutchman with a Swede. Select, therefore, those great men out of different countries, whose characters and actions may be best compared together, and present them to our view, without that disguise which the partiality of their countrymen or the malice of their enemies may have thrown upon them. If I can animate you to this, posterity will owe me a very great obligation. " I shall close these extracts with a short letter from Voltaire, dated 2Gth February 1778, from the Ch&teau de Ferney.
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