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However, Louis XV, who was extremely kind to all about him, especially those in his service, shortly after recompensed his simple-minded ambassador, by intrusting him with a commission at once profitable and honorable. Another event which took place at this period, caused no less noise than the death of madame Brillant.
Voltaire, among a thousand little delicate strokes of that kind, says of the Duke de la Feuillade, 'qu'il etoit l'homme le plus brillant et le plus aimable du royaume; et quoique gendre du General et Ministre, il avoit pour lui la faveur publique'. Various little circumstances of that sort will often make a man of great real merit be hated, if he hath not address and manners to make him be loved.
Now and always I quote the second edition, by Littré. "Philosophie Positive," ii. p. 440. "Le brillant mais superficiel Cuvier." Philosophie Positive, vi. p. 383. "Philosophie Positive," iii. p. 369. Ibid. p. 387. Hear the late Dr.
You still want a thousand of those little attentions that imply a desire of pleasing: you want a 'douceur' of air and expression that engages: you want an elegance and delicacy of expression, necessary to adorn the best sense and most solid matter: in short, you still want a great deal of the 'brillant' and the 'poli'. Get them at any rate: sacrifice hecatombs of books to them: seek for them in company, and renounce your closet till you have got them.
Besides, 'la belle danse donne du brillant a un jeune homme'. And you should endeavor to shine. A calm serenity, negative merit and graces, do not become your age. You should be 'alerte, adroit, vif'; be wanted, talked of, impatiently expected, and unwillingly parted with in company. I should be glad to hear half a dozen women of fashion say, 'Ou est donc le petit Stanhope? due ne vient-il?
"No, madam," replied the ambassador, gravely, "but I believe she was her aunt, for I heard one of the females in waiting say, that this poor madame Brillant was very old, and that she had lived with her mistress during the last fourteen years." Thus finished this little jest.
For I do not conceive that any man has a right to exhibit, in company, any one excrement more than another. Do you dress well, and think a little of the brillant in your person? That, too, is necessary, because it is 'prevenant'. Do you aim at easy, engaging, but, at the same time, civil or respectful manners, according to the company you are in?
The marechale de Luxembourg is well nigh distracted with grief." "Good heavens!" exclaimed I, "can the duchesse de Lauzun be dead?" "Alas! no." "Perhaps poor madame de Boufflers?" "No, my friend." "Who then is the object of so much regret? Speak; tell me." "Madame Brillant." "A friend of the old marechale 's?"
A prefatory remark Madame Brillant The marechale de Luxembourg's cat Despair of the marechale The ambassador, Beaumarchais, and the duc de Chaulnes the comte d'Aranda Louis XV and his relics The abbe de Beauvais His sermons He is appointed bishop
Cet article inspire par un bienveillant sentiment envers lui et ma famille en general, met dans un brillant relief les services que mon fils vient de rendre a son pays d'adoption. Cela a donc ete pour moi une extreme satisfaction que de le voir place en premiere ligne dans le journal le plus repandu du monde.
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