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Title: An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams

Author: Pierre Nicole

Translator: J V Cunningham

Release Date: May 22, 2009 [EBook #28921]

Language: English

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_An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which From Settled
Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting
Epigrams_

by Pierre Nicole

Translated by J. V. Cunningham

Publication Number 24
(Series IV, No. 5)

Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1950

GENERAL EDITORS

H. RICHARD ARCHER, _Clark Memorial Library_
RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_
EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_
H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_

_ASSISTANT EDITORS_

W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_
JOHN LOFTIS, _University of California, Los Angeles_

_ADVISORY EDITORS_

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_
BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_
LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_
CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_
JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_
SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_
ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_
JAMES SUTHERLAND, _Queen Mary College, London_

INTRODUCTION

The following essay forms the introduction to a famou