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[A] But a copy fell into the hands of a French bookseller, who published a wretched translation, and Jefferson authorized an edition in London in 1787.
[B] A statue was erected to Buffon with the inscription:
Naturam amplectitur omnem.
Some sceptic wrote underneath:
Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint;
a saying which we do not care to translate, but which is too good a description of Jefferson's scientific acquirements to be omitted.
[C] I am told that there was no resisting her smile; and that she had at her command, in moments of grief, a certain look of despair which filled even the roughest hearts with sympathy, and won over the kindest to the cruel cause.