Patronage
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1814. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... played by his art to secure at once the purposes of his interest and hatred. He thought he foresaw, that Count Albert would never yield his intended bride peaceably to his Prince; he knew nothing ...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1814. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... played by his art to secure at once the purposes of his interest and hatred. He thought he foresaw, that Count Albert would never yield his intended bride peaceably to his Prince; he knew nothing of the Count's attachment in England, -- the Lady Christina was charming, -- the alliance highly advantageous to the house of Altenberg, the breaking off such a marriage, and the disappointment of a passion, which he thought the young Countess could not fail to inspire, would, as M. de Tourville hoped, produce an irreparable breach between the Prince and his favorite. On Count Albert's return from England, symptoms of alarm and jealousy had appeared in the Prince, unmarked by all, but by the Countess Christina, and by the confidant, who was in the secret of his passion. y So far M. de Tourville's scheme had prospered, and from the character of the hereditary Prince, it was likely to succeed in it's ultimate view. He was a Prince of good dispositions, but wanting in resolujtion and civil courage. Capable of resisting the allurements of pleasure for a certain time, but soon weary of painful endurance in any cause ; with a taste for virtue, but destitute of that power to bear and forbear, without which there Is no virtue.--A hero when supported by a stronger mind, such as that of his friend, Count Albert; but relaxing and sinking at once, when exposed to the influenee of. a flatterer, such as M. de Tourville. -- Subject to exquisite shame and self-reproach, when he had acted contrary to his own idea of right; yet, from the very same weakness that made him err, disposed to be obstinate in error. M. de Tourville argued well from his knowledge of his character, that the Prince, enamored as he was with the charms of the fair Christina, would not long be able to resist his pass...
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