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A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany (v. 2)
A View of Society and Manners in France Switzerland and Germany - v. 2 Author:John Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: medic happ'mefs, yet if the fmalleft folici- tude about either fhould difturb my dying moments, it will be the ftrorlgeft proof that my own affairs, fpiritual an... more »d temporal, your concerns, as well as thofe of my other private friends, are in a moft comfortable lituatlon. Adieu. P. S. I have not feen the Marquis for feveral days. He had informed me, at our very firft meeting, that he was paying his court to a young lady of family, at his mother's defire, who was impatient to fee him married. He faid, he could refufe his mother nothing, parcequ'elle etoit le meilleur enfant du monde: Befides, he faid, the young lady was very pretty and agreeable, and he was over head and ears in love with her. He has told me fince, that every thing was arranged, and he expected to be in a fhort time the happiefl man in the world, and would have the honourhonour of prefenting me to his bride very foon. I fhall let you know my opinion of the lady when I fee her—But let her be what fhe will, I am forry that F thinks of marrying fo early in life; for a Frenchman of five-and-twenty, is not quite fo fedate an animal as an Englifhman of fifteen. Vol. I. E chapter{Section 4LETTER VIII. Paris. '"THERE is an abfolute penury of public news. I have noihing particular to inform you of concerning myfelf; but you hold me to my engagement: So here I am feated to write to you, and mall re- fume the fubjed of my laft letter, in hopes, however, that my pen may gather materials as it moves. In whatever light this prejudice in favour of monarchy may appear to the eye of philofophy; and though of all paffions the love of a King, merely becaufe he is a King, is perhaps the fillieft ; yet it furely ought to be confidered as meritorious by thofe who are the objects of it. No people exiffing, ...« less