The Huguenot; A Tale of the French Protestants Volume 2 - Brossura

James, George Payne Rainsford

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1230243089 ISBN 13: 9781230243085

Casa editrice: TheClassics.us, 2013

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... ecclesiastical authority; however, we have some belonging to the church, whom you will be glad to meet, if you do not know them already. The Abbe Renaudot will be here, who has a peculiar faculty for acquiring languages, such as I never knew in any one but himself. He understands no less than seventeen foreign languages, and twelve of these he speaks with the greatest facility. That, however, is one of his least qualities, as you may yourself judge when I tell you, that in this age, where interest and ambition swallow up everything, he is the most disinterested man that perhaps ever lived. Possessed of one very small, poor benefice, which gives him a scanty subsistence, he has constantly refused every other preferment; and no persuasion will induce him to do what he terms,' encumber himself with wealth.' We shall also have La Broue, with whose virtues and good qualities you are already acquainted. D'Herbelot also wrote yesterday to invite himself. He has just returned from Italy, where that reverence was shown to him which generous and expansive minds are always ready to display towards men of genius and of learning. He was received by the Grand Duke at Florence, and treated like a sovereign prince, though merely a poor French scholar. A house was prepared for him, the secretary of state met him, and, as a parting present, a valuable library of oriental manuscripts was bestowed upon him by the duke himself. To these grave people we have joined our lively friend Pelisson, and one whom doubtless you know, Boileau Despreaux. One cannot help loving him and being amused with him, although we are forced to acknowledge that his sarcasm and his bitterness go a good deal too far. When he was a youth, they tell me he was the best-tempered boy in...

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• Editore: TheClassics.us
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230243089
• ISBN 13: 9781230243085
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 100