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The Iron Mask.
soner s confinement in the Isle St . Marguerite , fixed by M . de Voltaire in i 66 r , by M . de la Grange-Chancel in 166 9 , and by the author of Memoires Secrets towards the end of 168 3 . M . de Saintfoy asserts , that this unknown personage was no other than the Duke of Monmouth , son of King Charles II . by Lucy Walters ; that he had headed a party in the county of Dorset , where he was proclaimed king ; and that encountered the
having royal army , he was defeated , taken prisoner , and conducted to London , where he was shut up in the Tower , and condemned to lose his head on the 15 th July 16 S 5 . M . de Saintfoy adds , that a report was spread about this time , that there was an officer in the army of the Duke of Monmouth , whose features and person bore a singular resemblance to the Duke ' s ; that this man had been made
prisoner at the same time with his royal commander , and had the heroism to suffer death in his stead . He quotes Mr . Hume , and a book entitled " Amours de Charles II . and James II . Kings of England ; " and observes , to confirm his opinion , that James II . apprehensive that some unforeseen revolution might set Monmouth at liberty , thought proper , for the peace of his own mind , to grant him his life condition of his
on immediately passing over to France . The Jesuit Henry Griffet , who had long been confessor to the prisoners in the Bastille , having gained access to the secret papers and archives of the castle , and without doubt seen the register of , deaths which was placed in the Depot , composed a very masterly dissertation on this historical problem . The Jesuit does not positively assert , that the Man in tbe Iron Mask was the Duke de Vermandois , but he adduces many probable reasons to favour that opinion .
Vices And Virtues. From The French.
VICES AND VIRTUES . FROM THE FRENCH .
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ONE day Apelles said to Megabyses , a Persian lord , who had made him a visit in his work-room , and pretended to be a connoisseur in painting , " While you were silent you appeared a person of con" sequence , on account of your order , your chains of gold , and your " purple robe ; but since you have opened your mouth you become " the ridicule of all who hear you , even to the very boys who grind f colours to know what
f my ; pretending you do not understand . " PtuTABCH , in his Treatise of the Flatterer and his Friend . Leosthenes endeavouring by a pompous and audacious harangue to persuade the Athenians , to war , was answered by Phocion in this manner : "Thy words , young man , resemble the cypress-tree ; they ' _ ' are mighty , and carry their heads high ,-but bear no fruit . " PLUTARCH in his Life
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The Iron Mask.
soner s confinement in the Isle St . Marguerite , fixed by M . de Voltaire in i 66 r , by M . de la Grange-Chancel in 166 9 , and by the author of Memoires Secrets towards the end of 168 3 . M . de Saintfoy asserts , that this unknown personage was no other than the Duke of Monmouth , son of King Charles II . by Lucy Walters ; that he had headed a party in the county of Dorset , where he was proclaimed king ; and that encountered the
having royal army , he was defeated , taken prisoner , and conducted to London , where he was shut up in the Tower , and condemned to lose his head on the 15 th July 16 S 5 . M . de Saintfoy adds , that a report was spread about this time , that there was an officer in the army of the Duke of Monmouth , whose features and person bore a singular resemblance to the Duke ' s ; that this man had been made
prisoner at the same time with his royal commander , and had the heroism to suffer death in his stead . He quotes Mr . Hume , and a book entitled " Amours de Charles II . and James II . Kings of England ; " and observes , to confirm his opinion , that James II . apprehensive that some unforeseen revolution might set Monmouth at liberty , thought proper , for the peace of his own mind , to grant him his life condition of his
on immediately passing over to France . The Jesuit Henry Griffet , who had long been confessor to the prisoners in the Bastille , having gained access to the secret papers and archives of the castle , and without doubt seen the register of , deaths which was placed in the Depot , composed a very masterly dissertation on this historical problem . The Jesuit does not positively assert , that the Man in tbe Iron Mask was the Duke de Vermandois , but he adduces many probable reasons to favour that opinion .
Vices And Virtues. From The French.
VICES AND VIRTUES . FROM THE FRENCH .
TATLERS
ONE day Apelles said to Megabyses , a Persian lord , who had made him a visit in his work-room , and pretended to be a connoisseur in painting , " While you were silent you appeared a person of con" sequence , on account of your order , your chains of gold , and your " purple robe ; but since you have opened your mouth you become " the ridicule of all who hear you , even to the very boys who grind f colours to know what
f my ; pretending you do not understand . " PtuTABCH , in his Treatise of the Flatterer and his Friend . Leosthenes endeavouring by a pompous and audacious harangue to persuade the Athenians , to war , was answered by Phocion in this manner : "Thy words , young man , resemble the cypress-tree ; they ' _ ' are mighty , and carry their heads high ,-but bear no fruit . " PLUTARCH in his Life