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xii PREFACE.
one, without passing a similar judgment on the other: yet Tacitus is universally admired, Machiavelli invariably condemned,—a striking proof of the fallibility of general opinion.
To remove these errors, and by unfolding the political system of Buonaparte to enable us with more successful effect to resist him, have been the objects sought to be obtained: whether the endeavour has succeeded, the intelligent and candid reader must determine.
London, March 15, 1810.
