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Chap. III.
TRANSLATION.
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discourse should seem to proceed from modesty; but he did not talk to them about his modesty. D'Alembert saw this impropriety, and he has therefore well translated the passage "Il répondit par des discours généraux sur son peu de talent, et sur la grandeur de l'empire."

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