Excerpt from The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends Her passionate love for her daughter was always made to yield to the dictates of a wise prudence and just propriety. Thonga born with excessive sensibility, great vivacity, amiable instincts, and warm imagination, that is to say, with the qualities and feel ings most likely to lead their possessor astray or into indiscre tions, yet this youthful widow managed her estate and her children with admirable wisdom, and so regulated her own con duct as to ...
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Excerpt from The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends Her passionate love for her daughter was always made to yield to the dictates of a wise prudence and just propriety. Thonga born with excessive sensibility, great vivacity, amiable instincts, and warm imagination, that is to say, with the qualities and feel ings most likely to lead their possessor astray or into indiscre tions, yet this youthful widow managed her estate and her children with admirable wisdom, and so regulated her own con duct as to be above the slightest censure in a court of relaxed morals and of many temptations. This was accomplished because her brilliant qualities rested on the solid basis of serious and valuable acquirements, a practical knowledge of business, and a trusting and sincere piety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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