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At first he tried to prejudice the king against him; he betrayed to him that the marquis had privately married the actress Barbe Cochois. The king was at the moment very angry, but the prayers of Algarotti, and the regret of the poor marquis, reconciled him at last; he not only forgave, but he allowed the marquise to dwell at Sans-Souci with her husband.
Reading a history is the easier way." "Yes, if history did not lie. One is not sure of the truth of the facts. It is tiring, while the study of the world is amusing. Horace, whom I know by heart, is my guide-book." "Algarotti, too, is very fond of Horace. Of course you are fond of poetry?" "It is my passion." "Have you made many sonnets?"
A moment after, Voltaire turned to me again and said that as I was a Venetian I must know Count Algarotti. "I know him, but not because I am a Venetian, as seven-eights of my dear countrymen are not even aware of his existence." "I should have said, as a man of letters."
Reading a history is the easier way." "Yes, if history did not lie. One is not sure of the truth of the facts. It is tiring, while the study of the world is amusing. Horace, whom I know by heart, is my guide-book." "Algarotti, too, is very fond of Horace. Of course you are fond of poetry?" "It is my passion." "Have you made many sonnets?"
Do not the names of Algarotti, Bettinelli, Beccaria, Filengieri, almost belong to France? What shall I say of the famous Gottschedt? Shall I recall the fact that in his victorious struggle against Voltaire, Lessing had to call in Diderot's assistance?
A shower which had fallen in the night rendered the air so cool and grateful, that Mad. de R. and myself determined to seize the opportunity and go to Mirabello, a country house, which Algarotti had inhabited, situate amongst the Euganean hills, eight or nine miles from Padua. Our road lay between poplar alleys and fields of yellow corn, overhung by garlands of vine, most beautifully green.
"At the end of the first stage, he had always privately forgiven the King, and determined that the pretended visit should really be a visit only." Algarotti is too prudent, politely egoistic and self-contained, to take the trouble of hurting anybody, or get himself into trouble for love or hatred.
Friedrich got to Wesel on the 29th; found Maupertuis waiting there, according to appointment: an elaborately polite, somewhat sublime scientific gentleman; ready to "engraft on the Berlin crab-tree," and produce real apples and Academics there, so soon as the King, the proprietor, may have leisure for such a thing. Algarotti has already the honor of some acquaintance with Maupertuis.
Count Algarotti invited all the guests to sleep at a house he had in Treviso, and to partake there of the dinner usually given the day after the wedding. The uncle alone excused himself, and the mother could not come, owing to her disease which prevented her from moving. The good woman died three months after Christine's marriage.
M. Daridolo and M. Barbaro having been also invited by Charles, I went with them to P . We found the dinner-table laid out in the rector's house by the servants of Count Algarotti, who was acting as Charles's father, and having taken upon himself all the expense of the wedding, had sent his cook and his major-domo to P . When I saw Christine, the tears filled my eyes, and I had to leave the room.
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