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Montesquieu enjoys , perhaps , a wider celebrity than any political writer of modern Europe . Something he doubtless owes to his merit , but much more to his fortune . He had the good luck of a valentine .
Montesquieu enjoys , perhaps , a wider celebrity than any political writer of modern Europe . Something he doubtless owes to his merit , but much more to his fortune . He had the good luck of a valentine .
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Some writers still affect to regret the age of patronage . None but bad writers have reason to regret it . ... The writer , accustomed to find exaggeration acceptable and necessary on one subject , uses it on all .
Some writers still affect to regret the age of patronage . None but bad writers have reason to regret it . ... The writer , accustomed to find exaggeration acceptable and necessary on one subject , uses it on all .
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But , per haps , the writer on whom they produced the greatest effect , as Vittorio Alfieri . ... which had long passed away , or rather of a world which had never existed except in the description of a fantastic school of writers .
But , per haps , the writer on whom they produced the greatest effect , as Vittorio Alfieri . ... which had long passed away , or rather of a world which had never existed except in the description of a fantastic school of writers .
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