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Excerpt from Religio Poetæ: Etc<br><br>Some of these Essays have already appeared in the Fortnightly Review or elsewhere. On going over them altogether, I find that thoughts have sometimes been repeated, almost in the same words; but, as these thoughts are mostly unfamiliar and significant, my readers will be none the worse for encountering them twice or even thrice. I have drawn the materials of the Essay on Madame de Hautefort mainly from her Life by Victor Cousin.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.