174 "^^^^ RUR^L SOCRATES. 



^ his countenance the moft h^rmcrnizing exprefiion ef 

 ^ gravity, temperance^firninefs, and inward tranquillity. 



* His car, ftronjrly marked, with it«' roundings and out- 



* lines, finQ-ularly ?r^'<'C5 with thr reft.'* 



[The author here introduces iome obfcrvatlons on 

 the defe^fls in the print of Kliyoj^jr, which he prefents to 

 his readers ; bat which h different from that given in 

 the French edition of the Rural Socrates. Unfortunate- 

 ly the prcfent compila-tioa lias no print to accompanv 

 it.l 



S E C T X O N 11. 



J^re//i 7^e/7imof2ies concerning Kliyoj^^, Dijcufjions re-- 

 fpeClin^ his preference of Oxen to Hor/es^ and his pa^ 

 trial chal Plans* 



The Marquis d^ Mir ah eau"^^ to the French Ti an/later. 



Paris, Noveoiiber 8, 1762, 

 * ^ I HAVE been charmed with the Rural SocrAtes^ 

 The reputation of this work is cflablilhed at Paris : but I 

 have -only my own lenliments to relate at prefent. Let 

 ine thi^i kfTure you, that I confider it as one of the mofi: 

 tifeful books which has ever been piiblidied ; a fuhlimc 



pre-eminence, 



* Tl.is noHerran is ih? celebrated author of that excellent work Vamz 

 iti Hotttmfs^ OH H'raUe de la ptpulation ; [The fiiend of men, or a treaiiff 

 on popubtioc] ; which has btea read vviih amazing avidity in n.any pirrsr 

 of Europe, h is an aimirablc ^f)rmance, and greatly defervcs tlie ar- 

 leniion of this country. How it>dlt:h roore deferring a tratiilatioi), ihaa 

 llic frippery works we are fot'itj>?r to copy ! Y, 



TIjc Ma'O'Jis de iVJiribepn ucs f aher of the famous Cont^re t^e Mira- 

 Kau, arid likewife ot ihe Viconrire de Mird^ea^ ; who were ftrenuouc 

 aftors 00 dift'ercnt fides in the French rcvoluiion. The Mirqnis was one 

 of ihe principal fupportcfs of the E^hemeriitt du Citi^tn ;. a Frensb pc- 

 sjodicaj work on political ec-'^nor;!^, £. 



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