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" With respect to the Commentaries by me 

 about which you write, they are not yet finished. 

 However, such as they are, I have sent them to 

 you. As to guardianship, we both accord in our 

 sentiments, so that in this particular there is no 

 need of exhortation." 



" In the Preface to the Marquis d'Argens' 

 French translation of this Tract, he says : ' I have 

 often thought that it would be much more advan- 

 tageous to read what some of the Greek authors 

 have said of the philosophy of the ancients, in 

 order to obtain a knowledge of it, than to consult 

 modern writers, who, though they may perhaps 

 write well, are in general too prolix*.' 



" In 1762 the Marquis d'Argens published 

 Ocellus Lucanus, and afterwards Thnaeus Locrus, 

 both writers, who according to Chalmers' Bio- 

 graphy had been neglected by universal consent. 

 To show, however, the glaring absurdity and out- 

 rageous injustice of what Chalmers says of this 

 Tract of Ocellus, it is necessary to observe, that 

 independently of the approbation of this work by 

 those two great luminaries of philosophy, Plato 

 and Aristotle, an enumeration of the various 



* Of the Philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, very 

 few of the moderns have any accurate knowledge, and therefore 

 on this subject they may be prolix, but they cannot write well. 

 See this largely and incontrovertibly proved in the Third and 

 Fourth Books of my Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle. 



