Excerpt from La Bruyere the Less, or Characters and Manners of the Children of the Present Age: Written for the Use of Children of Twelve or Thirteen Years of Age, With the Exception of the Ten Last Chapters, Which Apply to Persons of More Advanced YearsWhich had thrown him into convul fions. Men the mofi healthy and robufi, may become viétims to a contagion, and die of the plague, when it is epidemical. La Roche foucault, in an agreeable but fu'per ficial work, has been guilty of a 'fault of the fame nature, he was a witn'efs of petty factions he faw courtiers agitated by the fpirit of party, and he has unjufily attributed to the whole human fpecies the er rors of the moment, and the vices of a fingle olafs of individuals. He has degraded and calumniated man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.