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LETTER
, FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS . IN FRENCH . WROTE BY HER SECRETARY . MS . . MA COUSINS ,
CE GENTILHOMME , le Sieur Nevil , jiotre Ambassadeur , nous a confhme particulierement le temoignage , que plusieurs autres nops avoit deja . rendu de la bonne affection que vous demoutrez en ¦ toutes les occasions ou vous avez le moyen den faire preuv-e , dout ne pouvant faire le ressentiment que nous y avons , nous avons voulu temoigner par celle ci , notre recognaissance en attendant qu'il se
presente occasion de nous y revenger par ses effects , nous A'ous prions de vous assurer de notre amitie , & du desir que nous avons , de demeurer . toujpurs . Ma Cousine , votres tres affectionee Cqusine , : ' ELIZABETH , J ? , * * * A translation of the above in the next Magazine .
On Man.
ON MAN .
msEnrtjraiesnaZinrT ?* r ^ j ^ -r r ~~ FROM THE FRENCH . MAN was created of God , in the fulness of his . image , just , hoiy , good , and uprig ht by nature , composed of soul and body ; a soul inspired of God with sense and life , and a perfect body formed of the earth by the same divine powerto render him participant ( b
, y his incomprehensible goodness ) of his immortality , and his permanent felicity . Homer has said , " That among all creatures nourished b y the-earth , Man is the v / eakest . " The Royal Prophet , speaking of the life of Man , says , " His day will flourish and fade like the floAver of the field , making a very just comparison from human life to such , a floAver , since our frail existence is subject to an infinite number of
chances , the least of which has the poAver to extinguish it , or to lower it in an instant , ivhen it appears in the happiest point of its course ; for the flower of the . field is burnt by the mid-day sun , faded by the wind , trod itpon by the traveller , drowned by the rain , or spoiled by the dust . His cnes when neAvly born are signals of the miseries he must experience ¦ during the courfe of his life : He seems as if complaining to Heaven , that the li g ht of the day must be so spon followed by long eternal nig hts . " _ The peacock displaying its beauties , throAVS back his head in the half circle of his tail , enamelled with' the most lovely colours , but when he
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Letter
LETTER
, FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS . IN FRENCH . WROTE BY HER SECRETARY . MS . . MA COUSINS ,
CE GENTILHOMME , le Sieur Nevil , jiotre Ambassadeur , nous a confhme particulierement le temoignage , que plusieurs autres nops avoit deja . rendu de la bonne affection que vous demoutrez en ¦ toutes les occasions ou vous avez le moyen den faire preuv-e , dout ne pouvant faire le ressentiment que nous y avons , nous avons voulu temoigner par celle ci , notre recognaissance en attendant qu'il se
presente occasion de nous y revenger par ses effects , nous A'ous prions de vous assurer de notre amitie , & du desir que nous avons , de demeurer . toujpurs . Ma Cousine , votres tres affectionee Cqusine , : ' ELIZABETH , J ? , * * * A translation of the above in the next Magazine .
On Man.
ON MAN .
msEnrtjraiesnaZinrT ?* r ^ j ^ -r r ~~ FROM THE FRENCH . MAN was created of God , in the fulness of his . image , just , hoiy , good , and uprig ht by nature , composed of soul and body ; a soul inspired of God with sense and life , and a perfect body formed of the earth by the same divine powerto render him participant ( b
, y his incomprehensible goodness ) of his immortality , and his permanent felicity . Homer has said , " That among all creatures nourished b y the-earth , Man is the v / eakest . " The Royal Prophet , speaking of the life of Man , says , " His day will flourish and fade like the floAver of the field , making a very just comparison from human life to such , a floAver , since our frail existence is subject to an infinite number of
chances , the least of which has the poAver to extinguish it , or to lower it in an instant , ivhen it appears in the happiest point of its course ; for the flower of the . field is burnt by the mid-day sun , faded by the wind , trod itpon by the traveller , drowned by the rain , or spoiled by the dust . His cnes when neAvly born are signals of the miseries he must experience ¦ during the courfe of his life : He seems as if complaining to Heaven , that the li g ht of the day must be so spon followed by long eternal nig hts . " _ The peacock displaying its beauties , throAVS back his head in the half circle of his tail , enamelled with' the most lovely colours , but when he