Although no man had a better right to have an opinion, no one was more tolerant for the opinions of others. In State assemblies as well as in Academical meetings, the man whose counsels were so wise, voted according to his conscience, which nothing could bias; but the philosopher forgot his superiority to hear, to oppose with moderation, and sometimes to doubt. The extent and variety of his information, the force of his reason, the austerity of his manners, and the noble simplicity of his character, had procured him illustrious friends in both hemispheres; and now that this erudition is extinct in the tomb,* we may be allowed at least to predict that he was one of the very few whose memory shall never die. * He died in Paris on the 20th of April, 1820. A list of the Works Published by Count Volney. TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND SYRIA during the years 1783, 1784, and 1785: 2 vols. 8vo.--1787. CHRONOLOGY OF THE TWELVE CENTURIES that preceded the entrance of Xerxes into Greece. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE TURKISH WAR, in 1788. THE RUINS, or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires--1791. ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF CORSICA--1793. THE LAW OF NATURE, or Physical Principles of Morality--1793. ON THE SIMPLIFICATION OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES--1795. A LETTER TO DR. PRIESTLEY--1797. LECTURES ON HISTORY, delivered at the Normal School in the year 3--1800. ON THE CLIMATE AND SOIL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, to which is added an account of Florida, of the French colony of Scioto, of some Canadian Colonies, and of the Savages--1803. REPORT MADE TO THE CELTIC ACADEMY ON THE RUSSIAN WORK OF PROFESSOR PALLAS, entitled "A Comparative Vocabulary of all the Languages in the World." THE CHRONOLOGY OF HERODOTUS conformable with his Text--1808 and 1809. NEW RESEARCHES ON ANCIENT HISTORY, 3 vols. 8vo.--1814 THE EUROPEAN ALPHABET Applied to the Languages of Asia--1819. A HISTORY OF SAMUEL--1819. HEBREW SIMPLIFIED--1820. INVOCATION. Hail solitary ruins, holy sepulchres and silent walls! you I invoke; to you I address my prayer. While your aspect averts, with secret terror, the vulgar regard, it excites in my heart the charm of delicious sentiments--sublime contemplations. What useful lessons, what affecting and profound reflections you suggest to him who knows how to consult you! When the whole earth, in chains and silence bowed the neck before its tyrants, you had already proclaimed the truths which they abhor; and confounding the dust of the king with that of the meanest slave, had announced to man the sacred dogma of Equality. Within your pale, in solitary adoration of Liberty, I saw her Genius arise from the mansions of the dead; not such as she is painted by the impassioned multitude, armed with fire and sword, but under the august aspect of Justice, poising in her hand the sacred balance wherein are weighed the actions of men at the gates of eternity!