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Yet, but for the accident of his having had Milton for his adversary, his name would now be as little remembered, even by the generality of the learned, as that of Peiresk. Du Bartas, in the reign of Henry the Fourth of France, was one of the most successful poets that ever existed.
The abstract philosophy of Cicero has lost its credit: the vehemence of his oratory is still the object of our admiration." Essays, Part 1, Essay xxiii. A few examples of the instability of fame will place this question in the clearest light. Nicholas Peiresk was born in the year 1580.
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