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Excerpt from Literary and Social Judgments But it is not of the period In which she lived that we think first or most naturally when we hear the name of Madame de Sta'el: it is of the writer whose wondrous gen ins and glowing eloquence held captive our souls in the season of susceptive youth, of the author of the Lettres sur Rousseau, who sanctioned and justified our early par tiality for that fascinating rhapsodist, -of l'allomoguo, from whose pages we first imbibed a longing to make the riches of that mighty literature our own, - of Corinne, over whose woes and sorrows SO many eyes have wept delicious tears; of that dazzling admixture of deep thought, tender sentiment, and brilliant fancy, which give to her writings a charm possessed by the produc tions of no other woman, - and in truth of but few men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.