for your dice (as the Abbé Galiani said of Nature's) are always loaded, and you may make your book the heir of Memory in two ways,by contriving to get the fire of genius into it, or to get it into the fire by the hands of the hangman.

Diderot often went to see them; Galiani, Raynal, Abbe Morellet, M. Suard, quite young yet, were frequenters of the house; Condorcet did not set foot in it, passionately enlisted as he was amongst the disciples of M. Turgot, who were hostile to his successor; Bernardin de St. Pierre never went thither again from the day when the reading of Paul and Virginia had sent the company to sleep.

" In 1776, Galiani, a Neapolitan, predicted the gradual decay of European institutions, to renew themselves in America.