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[ One of the causes of the fall and discredit of the Marquis d'Argenson in the eighteenth century, was his habit of using these.]
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[ Vaugelas, ibid.. "Although we may have eliminated one-half of his phrases and terms we nevertheless obtain in the other half all the riches of which we boast and of which we make a display."—Compare together a lexicon of two or three writers of the sixteenth century and one of two or three writers of the seventeenth. A brief statement of the results of the comparison is here given. Let any one, with pen in hand, note the differences on a hundred pages of any of these texts, and he will be surprised at it. Take, for examples, two writers of the same category, and of secondary grade, Charron and Nicole.]
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[ For instance, in the article "Ignorance," in the "Dict. Philosophique.">[
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[ La Harpe, "Cours de Littérature," ed. Didot. II. 142.]
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[ A battle-axe used by the Franks.—TR.]