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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: -?AH the illusions of life are over, and a dreary blank of future existence lies before me, terminated only by the grave. To-morrow I go to L Castle, with feelings, which I can compare only to those of the unfortunateia Valltere when she renounced her lover, and resolved to bury; herself in a cloister.?Alas why have. notiI the-resoarce. of devoti 011 ? Your unhappy .. ..' I'M .: . OtIVIA. . i. .. i . i -'- i)i: ' t --ui1. - ' LETTER X. to Mr. L . .... 180?. Publish my travels ?Not I, my dear friend. The world shall never have the pleasure of laughing at General trip to Paris. Before a man sets about to inform others, he should have seen, not only the surface, but the bottom of things; he should have had, not only a vue d'mseau, but (to use a celebrated naval commander's expression, ) a vue de poissonof his subject. By this time you must have heard enough of the Louvre and the Tuilleries, and Versailles, and le petit Trianon, and St. Cloud?and you have had enough of pictures and statues; and you know all that can be known of Bonaparte, by seeing him at a review or a levee; and the fashionablebeauties and celebrated characters of the hour have all passed and repassed through the magic lantern. A fresh showman might make his figures a little more correct, or a little more in laughable caricature, but he could produce nothing new. Alas there is nothing new under the sun. Nothing remains for the moderns, but to practise the oldest follies the newest ways. Would you, for the sake of your female friends, know the fashionable dress of a Parisian elegante, see Seneca on the transparent vestments of the Roman ladies, who, like these modern belles, were generous in the display of their charms to the public. No doubt these French republicanists act upon...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217502542 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217502547 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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