Chapter 59

"Permit me to participate in the universal admiration: I have too long entertained this sentiment to resist the need of expressing it to you. "You unite the loftiness of Bossuet with the profundity of Montesquieu: you have revived their pen and their genius. Your articles are a great education to any statesman. "In the new method of warfare which you have created, you recall the mighty hand of him who, in other fights, also filled the world with his glory. May your successes prove more e…