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peace, and many others. To them we owe the re- 

 turn of the taftes, and of the duties, of Nviture, or, 



then placed it in an angle of my cabinet, about fix feet from the 

 floor, and clofe by it, the following infcription- 



D. M. 



A la gloire durable & pure 

 De ceux dont le génie éclaira les vertus. 

 Combattit à la tois l'erreur & les abus, 

 Et tenta d'amener le ficcle à la Nature. 

 Aux Jean-Jacques Rousseaux, aux François FiiNELONS 



J'ai dédié ce monument d'argile 



Que j'ai coniacré par leur noms 

 Plus auguftes que ceux de César & d'AcHiLLE, 

 Ils ne font point fameux par nos malheurs : 



Ils n'ont point, pauvres laboureurs 



Ravi vos bœufs, ni vos javelles ; 

 Bergères, vos amans ; nouriifons, vos mamelles ; 



Rois, les états où vous régnex : 



Mais vous les comblerez de gloire. 



Si vous donnez a leur mémoire 



Les pleurs qu'ils vous ont épargnés. 



Tp the pure and untading gloiy. 

 Of the men whofe virtues were illumined by genius j 

 Who fet their faces againft error and depravity. 

 And laboured to bring Mankind back to Nature : 

 To the RoussEAUS and the Fenelons of the Human Race, 



I dedicate this humble monument of clay. 



And infcribe it with their names. 

 Far more auguft than thofe of Cesar and Achilles. 

 TThey purchafed not fame by fpreadingdevattationj 



They did not, O ye poor hufbandmen. 



Seize your oxen, and plunder your bams ; 

 Nor, fliepherdefTes, carry off your lovers, nor, fucklings, your teats ; 



Nor, Kings, did they ravage your domains ; 



But their glory will be complete. 



If on their memory you beftow 



Tlie tears which they have fpared you, 



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