77/116 Published sometimes among _Faceties_, sometimes among _Melanges_.] [Footnote 155: See _Oeuv. Choisies de Jean Reynaud_, reprinted in 1866. The article on _Encyclopedie_ (vol.i.) is an interesting attempt to vindicate Cartesian principles of classification.] [Footnote 156: See fly-leaf of vol.xxviii.] [Footnote 157: _Mem._, ii.115.Grimm, vii. 145.] [Footnote 158: De Maistre says that the reputation of Bacon does not really go farther back than the Encyclopaedia, and that no true discoverer either knew him or leaned on him for support. |