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As we can judge by an empty bed of the height and attitude of him who has slept in it, so the abode of every man discovers to a close observer the extent of his intelligence and the feelings of his heart. Bernardin de St.-Pierre has related the story of a young girl who refused a suitor because he would never have flowers or domestic animals in his house.
The Bernardin, being tutored by us beforehand what to say when he came before the Parliament, behaved like a man of good sense.
Bernardin de St. Pierre observes of Pantomime, "That it was the first language of man; it is known to all nations; and is so natural and so expressive that the children of white parents learn it rapidly when they see it used by the negroes."
His purity of feeling, almost ascetic, led him to reject Boccaccio, but he admitted Chaucer and some of Balzac's, and Smollett, Goldsmith, and De Foe, and Walter Scott's best, Irving's Rip Van Winkle, Bernardin St. Pierre's "Paul and Virginia," and "Three Months under the Snow," and Charles Lamb's generally overlooked "Rosamund Gray."
Presentation of Prince Borghese to Bonaparte Departure for Belgium Revival of a royal custom The swans of Amiens Change of formula in the acts of Government Company of performers in Bonaparte's suite Revival of old customs Division of the institute into four classes Science and literature Bonaparte's hatred of literary men Ducis Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Chenier and Lemercier Explanation of Bonaparte's aversion to literature Lalande and his dictionary Education in the hands of Government M. de Roquelaure, Archbishop of Malines.
"I don't know; unless it be its extreme quiet, or some early association." "And who is your nearest neighbour?" "Mr. Aubrey, the curate. It is so unlucky, he is gone from home for a short time. You can't think how kind and pleasant he is, the most amiable old man in the world; just such a man as Bernardin St. Pierre would have loved to describe."
Francois de Sales, Bacon, and Fenelon, as to Shakespeare, Racine, Calderon, or Burns; for from no really philosophic or religious doctrine can the love of the works of Nature be excluded. But before the days of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Buffon, and Bernardin de St. Pierre, this love of Nature had not been expressed in all its intensity. Until their day, it had not been written on exclusively.
Cesarine flung all her girlish savings upon the counter of a bookseller's shop, and obtained in return, Bossuet, Racine, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Moliere, Buffon, Fenelon, Delille, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, La Fontaine, Corneille, Pascal, La Harpe, in short, the whole array of matter-of-course libraries to be found everywhere and which assuredly her father would never read.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau herborized with the bunch of chick-weed whereon he fed his Canary; Bernardin de Saint-Pierre discovered a world on a strawberry-plant that grew by accident in a corner of his window; Xavier de Maistre, using an arm-chair by way of post-chaise, made one of the most famous of journeys around his room.
People of talent, nevertheless, thronged about M. and Madame Necker. Diderot often went to see them; Galiani, Raynal, Abbe Morellet, M. Suard, quite young yet, were frequenters of the house; Condorcet did not set foot in it, passionately enlisted as he was amongst the disciples of M. Turgot, who were hostile to his successor; Bernardin de St.
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