Alphonse de Mirecourt |
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Author:
| Mirecourt, Alphonse De |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-77190-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
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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: have read, who appears to you the most praiseworthy, and the one, for whose opinion you have the most respect, and I am ready to prove to you, that, independently of his positive untruths, of bis false quotations, of his absurd reasonings.andof his pernicious maxims.he does not really know what he says, or...
More DescriptionPurchase 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: have read, who appears to you the most praiseworthy, and the one, for whose opinion you have the most respect, and I am ready to prove to you, that, independently of his positive untruths, of bis false quotations, of his absurd reasonings.andof his pernicious maxims.he does not really know what he says, or what he thinks. If you wish a proof of my assertion, we have only to pass into my library, where I have some of their works, and I will there show you many, who come under my accusation. But I hear Jasmin coining to call me to break- fast, so I must bring my letter, already too long, to a close, and to-morrow I will continue the recital of our conversation. LETTER IV. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME. Survillt, Stpt. 7,1827. My uncle is most certainly a most worthy man I was not acquainted with half his worth, when I last wrote to you. Yesterday I took a walk in the village, and I profited of this occasion to converse with several peasants. The praises they lavished on him, the love they testified for him, and the blessings they invoked upon him, would be truly incredible to those unacquainted with his real character. They related to me circumstances, which certainly ought to be made public, for the instruction of those, who, like him, are destined to exercise a great influence in the districts in which they dwell. I can now easily conceive that he is happier than we are, and if I should live to his age, I certainly would lead the life he leads. Eut this cannot be interesting to you, so I will resume the narrative, which I left incomplete in my last. Having entered the library, my uncle showed me several shelves filled with the works of the most eminent philosophers: Choose, said he, the author you esteem most, and which ever it is, 1 will prove to you how v...