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He was a much more considerable thinker than posterity for a long time was willing to believe. It is easy to ridicule some of his projets, and dismiss him as a crank who was also somewhat of a bore. The truth, however, is that many of his schemes were sound and valuable.
There were few departments of public affairs in which he did not point out the deficiencies and devise ingenious plans for improvement. Most of his numerous writings are projets schemes of reform in government, economics, finance, education, all worked out in detail, and all aiming at the increase of pleasure and the diminution of pain.
The demi-philosophe-moderne-politico-legislativo-metaphysico-non-logico-grand philanthrope still scribbles, by the ream, pieces justificatives, projets de loi, and volumes of metaphysical sentiment, to be seen at the fair of Leipzig, or on ladies' tables.
Among biographies: Mahan's and Laughton's lives of Nelson, Anson's LIFE OF JERVIS , Clark Russell's LIFE OF COLLINGWOOD , and briefer sketches in FROM HOWARD TO NELSON, ed. Laughton . Desbrière's PROJETS ET TENTATIVES DE DéBARQUEMENT AUX ILES BRITANNIQUES and CAMPAGNE MARITIME DE TRAFALGAR . See also Col.
On one evening there will be sketching from the cast, and on another an impromptu sketch projet, to be completed in an hour. In addition to these there will be competed for three of the larger and more important regular projets, such as were made last season by the Club, and for which two prizes are offered to those obtaining the first and second place in point of general merit.
"I ever looked on Lord Keppell," Burke said, "as one of the greatest and best men of his age." I wrote to you this morning, as I hope that you will know. This afternoon I find tous mes projets pour le present sont suspendus. I am obliged to set out to-morrow for Lyons. It is so unexpected, that it is by much the greatest embarras I ever felt, and a monstrous exercise of expense to me.
"The English do not know what calamity awaits them," wrote Napoleon on the 4th of August to the Admiral Decres. "If we are masters of the passage for twelve hours, England's day is done." Racine has said by the mouth of Mithridates, "Mais, pour etre approuves, De semblables projets veulent etre acheves."
But his significance in the development of the revolutionary ideas which were to gain control in the second half of the eighteenth century has hardly been appreciated yet, and it was imperfectly appreciated by his contemporaries. It is easy to see why. His theories are buried in his multitudinous projets.
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