by Richard Grigonis

COMPUTER TELEPHONY ENCYCLOPEDIA
copyright JULY 2000
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le but d une Encyclop die est de rassembler les connaissances parses sur la surface de la terre; d en exposer le syst me g n ral aux hommes avec qui nous vivons, & de le transmettre aux hommes qui viendront apres nous; afin que les travaux des si cles pass s n aient pas t des travaux inutiles pour les si cles qui succ deront; que nos neveux, devenant plus instruits, deviennent en meme temps plus vertueux & plus heureux, & que nous ne mourions pas sans avoir bien m rit du genre humain

Translation:

the purpose [or goal, aim] of an Encyclopedia is to assemble the knowledge [facts] scattered on the surface of the earth; to exposit its general system to the men with whom we live, & to transmit it to men who will come after us; in order that the labors of past centuries should...