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Excerpt from Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole, Afterwards Earl of Orford, From the Year 1766 to the Year 1780, Vol. 1: To Which Are Added Letters of Madame Du Deffand to Voltaire, From the Year 1759 to the Year 1775 It is in such letters alone, that both the writer and the person addressed are seen (if the expression be allowable) unmade-up for the public eye, and that the characters and events mentioned in them are repre sented, not always as they really are, but always as they really appeared to their co temporaries; affording often a curious and useful lesson to posterity, from the very different aspect such characters and events assume, when removed from the temporary circumstances which exalted or abased then. 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.