This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... ami, society offers me now but two interests: I must love, or I must be enlightened. Intelligence is not enough, I want much intellect; that is saying that I now listen to five or six persons only, and that I read but six or seven books. Yet there are many more persons than that who have claims upon me; but they are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... ami, society offers me now but two interests: I must love, or I must be enlightened. Intelligence is not enough, I want much intellect; that is saying that I now listen to five or six persons only, and that I read but six or seven books. Yet there are many more persons than that who have claims upon me; but they are claims of feeling and confidence, and do not alter my condition of mind in general. Here is the result: what is less than myself smuthers me and crushes me; what is at my level dulls me and fatigues me. It is only that which is above me that sustains me and tears me from myself; I shall ever say with the old classic, " Friends! save me from myself." All this proves that vanity, extinct within me, is replaced by universal and deadly disgust. The Comtesse de Boufflers has not reached that point, therefore she is very agreeable. I have seen her often this week; she came to dine with Mine. Geoffrin on Wednesday and was charming; she did not say a word that was not a paradox. She was attacked, and defended herself so wittily that her fallacies were almost as good as truth. For instance: she said it was a great misfortune to be an ambassador, it mattered not from what country or to what nation; it was dreadful exile, etc. Then she told us that, in the days when she liked England best, she would never have consented to live there permanently unless she could have taken with her twenty-four or five of her intimate friends, and sixty to eighty other persons who were absolutely necessary to her; and it was with much seriousness and especially with much feeling that she thus informed us of the needs of her soul. What I wish you could have seen was the astonishment she caused in Lord Shelburne. He is simple, natural; he has soul and strength; he ...
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Very Good. Boston, Hardy, Pratt & Co., 1902. No. 457 of 1250. Quarter bound in contemporary dark green calf skin leather. Corners bound. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Gilt lettering and decorative borders along spine. Marbled boards. Tight binding and solid boards. Minor shelf wear. Rubbing to boards. Slight scuffing to edges. Bumping to corners. Marbled endpapers. Clean, unmarked pages with minimal toning. Illustrated.
