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"» New Monthly Magazine, vol. 9, (January- June, 1818), p. 244. "» Murray, I, 318. '" Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (New York, 1818), vol. II, bk. Ill, chap. V, p. 263. »" The same, p. 264. 48 MADAME DE STAEL IN ENGLAND [48 the happiness and wisdom of private life. Jeffrey praises though he cannot share her poHtical optimism, and he approves the spirit and temper of impar- tiahty in her work on the Revolution, though he declares that she lacks the perspective n...ecessary for an historian to integrate historical facts. In her unfavorable criticism of the manners of English society, he can perceive traces rather of ingenious theory than of correct observation. After passing judge- ment upon the book in detail, Lord Jeffrey ends his essay with the assertion that of the merits of the book "the half would be sufficient to justify us in as- cribing to its lamented author that perfection of masculine understanding, and female grace and acuteness, which are so rarely to be met with apart, and never, we believe, were before united.
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