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Life Of Philip Egalite, Late Duke Of Orleans.
_ Education , ' which is meant to rectify natural defects , or at least to tender them harmless , and to give a proper force and direction to good qualities , did not produce this happy effect on him : k was found utterly impossible to alter his primitive character . Education , however , added one more to the catalogue of his crimes , by teaching him the perfidious art of disguising his natural disposition , whenever interest made this
sacrifice necessary . ' Our early years usually glide away in a happy apathy ; infancy resembles a polished g lass , which every where presents an uniform surface . It is only necessary to observe here , that the vicious character of our hero resisted all the efforts of his instructors , who endeavoured in vain to in a soil calculated onlto produce tares .
sow corn y The first developement of the passions generally takes place in an inordinate attachment to the sex , but this discovery of a new sense , which often becomes the source of a virtue , became in the person of Philip an active princip le of vices and- disorders . He never felt the sweet workines of that sensibility , which exalts and purifies the
soul ! The first exploits of this prince , then known by the title of the Duke of Chartres , were disfigured by the most disgusting debauchery , and he soon became one of the most notorious libertines about the court . . .... After having enjoyed every celebrated Lais in the capital , his hig hness became acquainted with one of those women vvhose fall is child which this lad
occasioned rather by credulity than depravity . A y bore him , in spite of all the tears and entreaties of the mother , was sent by the unnatural father to the foundling hospital , and the mother herself abandoned to misery and want a short time afterwards 1 It is generally in -the bosom of voluptuousness that debauchery " its first It lhappened that his
experiences . punishment . accordingy . indelicacy and love of , variety exposed him to a loathsome and odious ¦ disease . In addition to this , he contracted , from an „ early . period ot ' his life , the horrid and contemptible vice of drunkenness . His love of wine augmented with his years , and the pimples with which his face was
studded , sufficiently attested his excesses . Such were the conduct and the , morals of Philip ,- when his father , hearing ' of his debaucheries , and hoping to put an end to them , endeavoured to unite him to the-daughter of the grand admiral of Trance . . ' , To pronounce the name of Mademoiselle' de Pcnthievre , is to pronounce that of virtue . I will not here make her eulogium : is there a Frenchmanto whom the beauty and the good qualities of this
single , , adorable princess are unknown ¦ She was an angel in a human shape , sent by heaven upon earth , on purpose to complete the happiness of any , other mortal than him of whom we are now treating . ^ Lewis XV . solicited the consent of the grand admiral to this marriage , and the ceremony took p lace under the auspices of that monarch ! The bride was all obedience ; she accepted willingly of a husband
Whom her father had honoured with his approbation . The nuptial knot , which often becomes a check upon the passions , did not in the least change the disposition of ths Duke de Chartres
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Life Of Philip Egalite, Late Duke Of Orleans.
_ Education , ' which is meant to rectify natural defects , or at least to tender them harmless , and to give a proper force and direction to good qualities , did not produce this happy effect on him : k was found utterly impossible to alter his primitive character . Education , however , added one more to the catalogue of his crimes , by teaching him the perfidious art of disguising his natural disposition , whenever interest made this
sacrifice necessary . ' Our early years usually glide away in a happy apathy ; infancy resembles a polished g lass , which every where presents an uniform surface . It is only necessary to observe here , that the vicious character of our hero resisted all the efforts of his instructors , who endeavoured in vain to in a soil calculated onlto produce tares .
sow corn y The first developement of the passions generally takes place in an inordinate attachment to the sex , but this discovery of a new sense , which often becomes the source of a virtue , became in the person of Philip an active princip le of vices and- disorders . He never felt the sweet workines of that sensibility , which exalts and purifies the
soul ! The first exploits of this prince , then known by the title of the Duke of Chartres , were disfigured by the most disgusting debauchery , and he soon became one of the most notorious libertines about the court . . .... After having enjoyed every celebrated Lais in the capital , his hig hness became acquainted with one of those women vvhose fall is child which this lad
occasioned rather by credulity than depravity . A y bore him , in spite of all the tears and entreaties of the mother , was sent by the unnatural father to the foundling hospital , and the mother herself abandoned to misery and want a short time afterwards 1 It is generally in -the bosom of voluptuousness that debauchery " its first It lhappened that his
experiences . punishment . accordingy . indelicacy and love of , variety exposed him to a loathsome and odious ¦ disease . In addition to this , he contracted , from an „ early . period ot ' his life , the horrid and contemptible vice of drunkenness . His love of wine augmented with his years , and the pimples with which his face was
studded , sufficiently attested his excesses . Such were the conduct and the , morals of Philip ,- when his father , hearing ' of his debaucheries , and hoping to put an end to them , endeavoured to unite him to the-daughter of the grand admiral of Trance . . ' , To pronounce the name of Mademoiselle' de Pcnthievre , is to pronounce that of virtue . I will not here make her eulogium : is there a Frenchmanto whom the beauty and the good qualities of this
single , , adorable princess are unknown ¦ She was an angel in a human shape , sent by heaven upon earth , on purpose to complete the happiness of any , other mortal than him of whom we are now treating . ^ Lewis XV . solicited the consent of the grand admiral to this marriage , and the ceremony took p lace under the auspices of that monarch ! The bride was all obedience ; she accepted willingly of a husband
Whom her father had honoured with his approbation . The nuptial knot , which often becomes a check upon the passions , did not in the least change the disposition of ths Duke de Chartres