Sethos: History or Life Taken from the Private Monuments of Ancient Egypt

[prides] The word "pique" (prides) completes the phrase "dont on se pique" (of which one prides oneself) from the previous page. oneself everywhere on showing at least the appearances; which banishes little by little those national animosities, which the mere distance from their old pretexts was beginning to render unjust & shameful; & for which one substitutes every day the reciprocal esteem of virtues, of talents, & of all the good qualities of one's neighbors.

Beyond the reformation of judgments and the softening of manners The original "mœurs" refers to the collective morals, customs, and social behaviors of a society., a natural consequence of the success of Telemachus Original: Telemaque. was to be the establishment of a new genre of Work. But whereas the first Poems of antiquity produced imitations of the same form and the same name, such as Epics, Tragedies, Idylls Short poems depicting rustic or pastoral life, often idealized., and the like; the Author of Telemachus has been imitated only in the essentials; that is to say, by the same intention, or by the zeal to produce the same fruits. Thus, while Telemachus is an epic Poem, the