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His monarchy, which had inherited his spirit, had become an argument against Providence. To-day that argument has been converted into a tangible proof of eternal justice. This famous structure built with blood and mud, with debased coin and base libels, has crumbled in the twinkle of an eye.” De Maistre, “Lettres et Opuscules.”
"It has been customary," says he, "of late years for the purveyors of amusing literature to put forth certain opuscules, denominated Christmas books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old or the inauguration of the new year."
Jerome Cardan: De Subtilitate, Liber Decimusseptimus: De artibus, artificiosisque rebus. Edward Winslow: Hypocrisie Unmasked, p. 97. Ibid. Blaise Pascal: Opuscules, Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum, in The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal, Translated by O. W. Wight, p. 550. Alfred Tennyson: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After.
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