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Article THE INFLUENCE OF POWER OVER FRIENDSHIP. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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The Influence Of Power Over Friendship.
cisms , nor ever interfered in literary cabals , but had obliged all who needed his services , and endeavoured to gain their affections by praising them , and taking every opportunity of winning the friendship of those , whom self-love had rendered unjust . In the palace of the King of Prussia he found peace , and even the semblance of freedom ; feeling at first no kind of subjection , except that of passing some hours with the King to correct his works
and to teach him the art of writing ; he usuall y supped with his Majesty ; and these suppers , at which there was freedom in excess , where every question of metaphysics and morals was discussed without restraint , where the . most unbounded pleasantry enlivened or cut serious arguments short ; and where the King generally disappeared to give lace to tlie man of wit moments
p , were of agreeable relaxation to Voltaire ; the remainder of his time wai consecrated to study . Llere he improved some of his tragedies , finished his age of Louis XIV , corrected his Poem of the Maid of Orleans , wrote part of his Essay on the Maimer and Spirit of Nations , and composed ' the Poem on Natural Law : while Frederic governed his states without minister
a , inspected and improved his army , composed poetry and music , and wrote philosopl ty and history . The royal family encouraged Voltaire in his pursuits , he addressed verses to the princesses , acted tragedy with the brother and sisters of the King , and while he taught them to declaim , led them to feel the beauties of French poetry : for poetry ought to lie spoken aloud , nor can it be understood in a foreign tongue by , those , who are not in the habit of hearing it recited by speakers who can give it that accent , and force , which are it ' s charac
tenstics . This Voltaire called the Palace of Alcina ; but the enchantment was of too short duration , he was a perfect example of the truth of the above motto . The men of literature who had been longer at Berlin than himself , were jealous of preference , which was too conspicuous , especially of that kind of independence which he preservedthat familiarity which the charm s and brilliancy of his
, wit gave him , and that art of mingling truth with panegyric , and of imparting to flattery the tone of jocular ease . Le Metrie told Voltaire , that the King , to whom fie was one day mentioning those marks of kindness he discovered for his Chamberlain , replied , "I want him at present to revise my works ; but having sucked the orange we throw away ' the rind . " When Voltaire heard thisthe incantation
, was over , and his mind felt that kind of suspicion which never suffered him to lose sight of his project for escaping . Surrounded by discontented academicians , and diffident of the continuance of royal friendship , Voltaire secretly regretted , and endeavoured to recover his lost independence ; he thought proper to employ a Jew to transfer a part of his property out of Prussia : 2
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The Influence Of Power Over Friendship.
cisms , nor ever interfered in literary cabals , but had obliged all who needed his services , and endeavoured to gain their affections by praising them , and taking every opportunity of winning the friendship of those , whom self-love had rendered unjust . In the palace of the King of Prussia he found peace , and even the semblance of freedom ; feeling at first no kind of subjection , except that of passing some hours with the King to correct his works
and to teach him the art of writing ; he usuall y supped with his Majesty ; and these suppers , at which there was freedom in excess , where every question of metaphysics and morals was discussed without restraint , where the . most unbounded pleasantry enlivened or cut serious arguments short ; and where the King generally disappeared to give lace to tlie man of wit moments
p , were of agreeable relaxation to Voltaire ; the remainder of his time wai consecrated to study . Llere he improved some of his tragedies , finished his age of Louis XIV , corrected his Poem of the Maid of Orleans , wrote part of his Essay on the Maimer and Spirit of Nations , and composed ' the Poem on Natural Law : while Frederic governed his states without minister
a , inspected and improved his army , composed poetry and music , and wrote philosopl ty and history . The royal family encouraged Voltaire in his pursuits , he addressed verses to the princesses , acted tragedy with the brother and sisters of the King , and while he taught them to declaim , led them to feel the beauties of French poetry : for poetry ought to lie spoken aloud , nor can it be understood in a foreign tongue by , those , who are not in the habit of hearing it recited by speakers who can give it that accent , and force , which are it ' s charac
tenstics . This Voltaire called the Palace of Alcina ; but the enchantment was of too short duration , he was a perfect example of the truth of the above motto . The men of literature who had been longer at Berlin than himself , were jealous of preference , which was too conspicuous , especially of that kind of independence which he preservedthat familiarity which the charm s and brilliancy of his
, wit gave him , and that art of mingling truth with panegyric , and of imparting to flattery the tone of jocular ease . Le Metrie told Voltaire , that the King , to whom fie was one day mentioning those marks of kindness he discovered for his Chamberlain , replied , "I want him at present to revise my works ; but having sucked the orange we throw away ' the rind . " When Voltaire heard thisthe incantation
, was over , and his mind felt that kind of suspicion which never suffered him to lose sight of his project for escaping . Surrounded by discontented academicians , and diffident of the continuance of royal friendship , Voltaire secretly regretted , and endeavoured to recover his lost independence ; he thought proper to employ a Jew to transfer a part of his property out of Prussia : 2