Duchess du Maine. Mme. de Staal. Le Sage. Montesquieu. Adrienne Le Couvreur. Voltaire. Mme. Du Deffand. Chesterfield. Mme. Geoffrin. Franklin. Louis XV. Abbé BarthélemyG.P. Putnam's sons, 1905 |
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Страница 334 - When we next met in the House, he spoke to me (which he had never done before), and with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Страница 94 - Few have ever read this charming book without remembering', as one of the most delightful occupations of their life, the time which they first employed in the perusal ; and there are few also who do not occasionally turn back to its pages with all the vivacity which attends the recollection of early love.
Страница 381 - She talked so agreeably of things she knew nothing about, that no one wished her to know more; and when her ignorance became too visible, she got away from it by jests that disconcerted the pedants who had tried to humiliate her. She was so content with her lot that she considered knowledge a very useless thing for a woman. She used to say: ' I have done so well without it, that I have never felt the need of it. If my grand-daughter is stupid knowledge will make her self-conceited and intolerable...
Страница 301 - But these guides, excellent as they are, have no other use by themselves than that of a map. Without personal observation and experience, they would be useless, and would even be conducive to error, as a map might be if one thought to get from it a complete knowledge of towns and provinces. Better read one man than ten books. "The world is a country that no one has ever known by means of descriptions; each of us must traverse it in person to be thoroughly initiated into its ways.
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Страница 297 - ... soil. Not that this son, the object of so much culture and zeal, was in any way unworthy of his father. It has been ! pretended that there could be no one duller or more sullen than he was, and Johnson is quoted in support of the statement. There are caricatures which surpass the truth. It appears from the best authorities, that Mr. Stanhope, without being a model of...
Страница 293 - ... especially charms me, with the exception of his impiety, with which he cannot help seasoning all that he writes, and which he would do better carefully to suppress, for one ought not to disturb established order. Let every one think as he will, or rather as he can, but let him not communicate his ideas if they are of a nature to trouble the peace of society.
Страница 331 - ... second, so I should have, I hoped, the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book, after a thirteen weeks