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Article CHARACTERS IN HARRY THE EIGHTH's TIME. ← Page 3 of 3 Article LA FAYETTE's STATEMENT OF HIS OWN CONDUCT. Page 1 of 4 →
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Characters In Harry The Eighth's Time.
in favour : eighthly , His devotion to the sacred name-of friendship ; that bliss on this side Heaven , made up of peace and love . He chose maity acquaintances , but few friends : lastly , To sum up all his good qualities at once ; his good use of time was remarkable . A certain Emperor used to say , when a day passed wherein he' did not do some charitable action , I have not reigned to-day The same with Sir Johnwhen he had done nothing
. ; worth notice , he said , I have not lived to-day . T ^ ime was the only thing he could be said to be covetous of . We should not , said he , complain that we have but little time , but that we spend much of it , either in doing nothing , or in doing evil , or iis doing nothing to the purpose . s ^ O "" " ^ \ iyA \
La Fayette's Statement Of His Own Conduct.
LA FAYETTE's STATEMENT OF HIS OWN CONDUCT .
_ \ i £ N 3 ^ j A FAYETTE is represented as indifferent about his rateTSnd [ A being now entirety detached from the ' soliciting . interests and prejudices of the passions , ' his mind is said to have resumed the serene dignity of its native independence , and thus being enabled to take an impartial review of his former conduct , he has determined to judge how far that has corresponded withor deviated from the
, rules of integrity and justice . " My character , saj ^ s be , is become a feathered shuttlecock , " which both parties beat to each other , in the wantonness of play , " deeming that side disgraced on which it should happen to fall . " A strange combination of unfortunate circumstances not only " overpowered my most spirited and well meaning efforts in
resist" ing the horrid despotism of licentiousness , but also drew upon " me the vengeance of a societ 3 , whose principles , like those of re" ligion , are degenerated from their primitive purity , to the species " of despotism they affect to detest , but yet exercise in the humour " of every whim , to those degrees that exalt capriciousness from a " state of ridiculous insignificance , to the serious importance of
" criminality . " The institutors of this society were men of unblemished in-C £ tegrity , and formed it upon principles so noble , in an hour of cc such imminent danger , that the genius of France seemed to have ' - ' taken its residence with them , and consequently the confidence " of the people , who considered it as the idol of political principles . " The apprehensions of danger abatingthe gross and
weakin-, , " dulging the variety natural to them , picked up principles for " fashion sake , though ignorant of their nature . Pleased with the " novelty , they strutted into view , in all the coxcomb fopperies " that the extravagance of whim and colours could afford , display" ing themselves with the anxious ambition of deformed people , " seemingly regardless in what sense you noticed them provided
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Characters In Harry The Eighth's Time.
in favour : eighthly , His devotion to the sacred name-of friendship ; that bliss on this side Heaven , made up of peace and love . He chose maity acquaintances , but few friends : lastly , To sum up all his good qualities at once ; his good use of time was remarkable . A certain Emperor used to say , when a day passed wherein he' did not do some charitable action , I have not reigned to-day The same with Sir Johnwhen he had done nothing
. ; worth notice , he said , I have not lived to-day . T ^ ime was the only thing he could be said to be covetous of . We should not , said he , complain that we have but little time , but that we spend much of it , either in doing nothing , or in doing evil , or iis doing nothing to the purpose . s ^ O "" " ^ \ iyA \
La Fayette's Statement Of His Own Conduct.
LA FAYETTE's STATEMENT OF HIS OWN CONDUCT .
_ \ i £ N 3 ^ j A FAYETTE is represented as indifferent about his rateTSnd [ A being now entirety detached from the ' soliciting . interests and prejudices of the passions , ' his mind is said to have resumed the serene dignity of its native independence , and thus being enabled to take an impartial review of his former conduct , he has determined to judge how far that has corresponded withor deviated from the
, rules of integrity and justice . " My character , saj ^ s be , is become a feathered shuttlecock , " which both parties beat to each other , in the wantonness of play , " deeming that side disgraced on which it should happen to fall . " A strange combination of unfortunate circumstances not only " overpowered my most spirited and well meaning efforts in
resist" ing the horrid despotism of licentiousness , but also drew upon " me the vengeance of a societ 3 , whose principles , like those of re" ligion , are degenerated from their primitive purity , to the species " of despotism they affect to detest , but yet exercise in the humour " of every whim , to those degrees that exalt capriciousness from a " state of ridiculous insignificance , to the serious importance of
" criminality . " The institutors of this society were men of unblemished in-C £ tegrity , and formed it upon principles so noble , in an hour of cc such imminent danger , that the genius of France seemed to have ' - ' taken its residence with them , and consequently the confidence " of the people , who considered it as the idol of political principles . " The apprehensions of danger abatingthe gross and
weakin-, , " dulging the variety natural to them , picked up principles for " fashion sake , though ignorant of their nature . Pleased with the " novelty , they strutted into view , in all the coxcomb fopperies " that the extravagance of whim and colours could afford , display" ing themselves with the anxious ambition of deformed people , " seemingly regardless in what sense you noticed them provided