text:  Since the days of Smith and Montesquieu no more valuable addition has been made to moral science; and though the good taste and modesty of its author has induced her to put in the least obtrusive form the wisdom and erudition--the least fragment of which would have furnished forth a host of modern Sciolists with the most ostentatious paragraphs--the deep thought and nervous eloquence by which almost every page of the volume before us is illustrated sufficiently establish her title to rank among the most distinguished writers of this age and country