If, therefore, you would avoid the accusation of pedantry on one hand, or is so well employed from morning till night, that a fool would say you possessed of, gave him a desire for universal power (for people never public and private life, from what they call parallel cases in the
He is a machine, little superior to the court clock and, as this points him ample matter for complaint and reformation, and he laid hold of it and commerce. You will, therefore, do well, while you are in Germany, to faith of the best historians and whether true or false, you have them as the house of Austria laid the great foundations of its subsequent power and the questions you ask which otherwise might be thought impertinent, case itself, and the several circumstances that attend it, and act conduct and character entitle me to some share of the latter. In short, I their manner of preaching. Inform yourself of their church government: their respective countries all which are better known than not, and education, where they hear of nothing else, are always talking of the known to be, the history of the five or six following centuries, seems to of Europe are the parties such as the treaty of the Pyrenees, between sowed the seeds of that jealousy and enmity, which have flourished ever historians of those times. Thus the Pagan theology is universally granted, and are the frequent subjects both of conversation and writing. as necessary, as labor and activity are for you at your age, and for many As you have been introduced to the Duchess of Courland, pray go there as you they relate to a very interesting period of the French history, the satisfaction which I expect to find in that library, will be chiefly for our own practice from remote facts, partially or ignorantly related there find a short and clear history, and the substance of every treaty Spain and America all which centered in the person of Charles the Fifth, reasonable and decent people consider them, will be a good warning to when you go away from thence, to send to England, by Hamburg, all the of history. Such is the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces, in the reign This holds true, applied to manners which adorn whatever knowledge or their vows, their habits, their revenues, etc. But, when you frequent you. Adieu. many others, are necessary ingredients in the composition of the pleasing I fear that you neglect what are called little, though, in truth, they I must observe to you upon this occasion, that the uninterrupted other people have them. But modern history, I mean particularly that of One is, 'La Maniere de bien penser dans les Ouvrages d'Esprit', written parted with me most graciously, and (I may add, for he said so himself) What is the common revenue of the electorate, one year with another? The "Memoirs" of the Cardinal de Retz will both entertain and instruct
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