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4661. LIBELS, Voltaire and.—

I send you
Voltaire's legacy to the King of Prussia,—a
libel which will do much more injury to Voltaire
than to the King. Many of the traits in the
character of the latter to which the former gives
a turn satirical and malicious, are real virtues.—
To James Monroe. Ford ed., iv, 44.
(P. 1785)