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Gibbon's first volume was published in 1776, and Voltaire's _Ingenii_
in 1767. In the latter we find--
"En effet, l'historie n'est que le tableau des crimes
et des malheurs."--_Oeuvres de Voltaire_ (ed. Beuchot.
Paris, 1884. 8vo.), tom. xxxiii. p. 427.
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Gibbon, vol. ix. p. 94.:--
"In every deed of mischief, he (Andronicus Comnenus) had a
heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
Cf. Voltaire, "Siecle de Louis XV." (_Oeuvres_, xxi. p. 67.):--
"Il (le Chevalier de Belle-Isle) etait capable de tout
imaginer, de tout arranger, et de tout faire."
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"Guerre aux chateaux, paix a la chaumiere,"
ascribed to Condorcet, in _Edin. Rev._ April, 1800. p. 240. (_note_*)
By Thiers (_Hist. de la Rev. Franc._ Par. 1846. 8vo. ii. 283.), these
words are attributed to Cambon; while, in Lamartine's _Hist. des
Girondins_ (Par. 1847. 8vo.), Merlin is represented to have exclaimed
in the Assembly, "Declarez la guerre aux rois et la paix aux nations.
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