Excerpt from Lives of the Illustrious, 1855, Vol. 7: The Biographical Magazine
V of Bufl'on, Voltaire, and Rousseau, of Hume and Johnson, of Fox and Burke, and, to quote his own words, there were few persons in the literary or po litical world to whom he was a stranger. Our knowledge respecting the greatest of all historians is therefore not entirely limited to his own confessions.
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