Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the Times of Louis XIV, and the Regency, Volume 4Hardy, Pratt & Company, 1899 - France |
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Page 359 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 113 - He wore only a linen collar, a round brown peruke without powder, which did not touch his shoulders ; a brown, tight-fitting coat, plain, with gold buttons ; a waistcoat, breeches, stockings, no gloves nor cuffs ; the star of his order on his coat, and the ribbon underneath, his coat often quite unbuttoned ; his hat on a table, and never on his head even out of doors. With all this simplicity, and whatever bad carriage or company he might be, one could not fail to perceive the air of greatness that...
Page 115 - Some time after, the Czar asked if there was no beer to be had ? Immediately a large goblet of it was brought to him, on a salver. The Regent rose, took it, and presented it to the Czar, who with a smile and an inclination of politeness, received the goblet without any ceremony, drank, and put it back on the salver which the Regent still held. In handing it back, the Regent took a plate, in which was a napkin, presented it to the Czar, who without rising made use of it, at which the house appeared...
Page 359 - superexaltatum et elevatum sicut cedros Libani : « et transivi, et ecce non erat; et quaesivi eum, et
Page 19 - ... not know a soul in Paris, not even a single street, or a person, in all France ; that his relatives in Italy had, doubtless, died since he left ; that his property, doubtless, had been divided, so many years having elapsed during which no news had been received from him ; that he knew not what to do. He asked to be allowed to remain in the Bastille for the rest of his days, with food and lodging. This was granted, with as much liberty as he wished. As for those who were taken from the dungeons...
Page 70 - ... ten o'clock, and that my door should be closed to everybody while he remained. This first visit was not given to business. On the following Tuesday morning he came to keep his appointment, and punctually came until his discomfiture. An hour-and-a-half, very often two hours, was the ordinary time for our conversations. He always took care to inform me of the favour his bank was obtaining in France and foreign countries, of its products, of his views, of his conduct, of the opposition he met with...
Page 205 - Monsieur," replied the Regent, in a loud and animated tone, " M. du Maine is my brother-in-law, but I prefer an open enemy to a hidden one." At this great declaration several lowered their heads. The Marechal de Villeroy nearly swooned; sighs began to make themselves heard near me, as though by stealth; everybody felt by this that the scabbard was thrown away. The Keeper of the Seals, to make a diversion, proposed to read the...
Page 218 - ... scandal of the cap (bonnet) under the despotism of his father. My eyes witnessed at last the effect and the accomplishment of this measure. I felt indebted to myself ; I thanked myself that it was by me it was brought about. I considered the radiant splendour in the presence of the king and so august an assembly. I triumphed ; I was avenged ; I swam in my vengeance. I enjoyed the full accomplishment of the most vehement and the most sustained desires of my life. I was tempted never to care for...
Page 70 - ... that he was more than in a condition to meet all holders of bills, no matter what sums they might demand. I soon knew that if Law desired these regular interviews it was not that he expected to make me an able financier ; but as a man of intelligence, and he had plenty of it, he wanted access to a servitor of the regent who was more than all others truly in his confidence...
Page 198 - ... so perseveringly and so immoderately hoped for, I sweated with agony at the captivity of my transport, and this agony was of a voluptuousness such as I had never felt before, — such as I have never felt since. How inferior are the pleasures of the senses to those of the mind!