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Prince Charles Contradictions in his character Extremes of bad and good Evolution of character The Prince's personal advantages Common mistake as to the colour of his eyes His portraits from youth to age Descriptions of Charles by the Duc de Liria; the President de Brosses; Gray; Charles's courage The siege of Gaeta Story of Lord Elcho The real facts The Prince's horse shot at Culloden Foolish fables of David Hume confuted Charles's literary tastes His clemency His honourable conduct Contrast with Cumberland His graciousness His faults Charge of avarice Love of wine Religious levity James on Charles's faults An unpleasant discovery Influence of Murray of Broughton Rapid decline of character after 1746 Temper, wine, and women Deep distrust of James's Court Rupture with James Divisions among Jacobites King's men and Prince's men Marischal, Kelly, Lismore, Clancarty Anecdote of Clancarty and Braddock Clancarty and d'Argenson Balhaldie Lally Tollendal The Duke of York His secret flight from Paris 'Insigne Fourberie' Anxiety of Charles The fatal cardinal's hat Madame de Pompadour Charles rejects her advances His love affairs Madame de Talmond Voltaire's verses on her Her scepticism in religion Her husband Correspondence with Montesquieu The Duchesse d'Aiguillon Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle Charles refuses to retire to Fribourg The gold plate Scenes with Madame de Talmond Bulkeley's interference Arrest of Charles The compasses Charles goes to Avignon His desperate condition His policy Based on a scheme of d'Argenson He leaves Avignon He is lost to sight and hearing.
Thus the very name of Druidism is a proof of the Celtic addiction to tree-worship, and De Brosses, as a further evidence that this was so, would derive the word kirk, now softened into church, from quercus, an oak; that species having been peculiarly sacred.
These letters by the celebrated De Brosses, author of L'Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, and other works, hardly are equal to the literary reputation of the author; they paint with considerable force, though sometimes in too strong colours, the imperfections, follies, and vices of the Italians; and display good taste and judgment respecting the fine arts. Voyage en Italie.
Muller says that De Brosses 'holds that all nations had to begin with fetichism, to be followed afterwards by polytheism and monotheism. This sentence would lead some readers to suppose that De Brosses, in his speculations, was looking for the origin of religion; but, in reality, his work is a mere attempt to explain a certain element in ancient religion and mythology.
"But, admitting that it obtain all the pay and all the consideration that you claim for it, still it will remain open to the remark of the President de Brosses, 'What are warriors who have never in their lives made war?" "I admit it. The consideration accorded by all Frenchmen to the soldier, takes its source in the idea of the dangers he has encountered or may encounter.
De Brosses did more: for he wrote two solid quarto volumes, published at Paris in 1756 "avec approbation et privilege du Roy," as the title page says in which he related all that he could learn about previous voyages to the south, and pointed out, with generous amplitude, in limpid, fluent French, the desirableness of pursuing further discoveries there.
He smirks, bends double, pockets his money and laughs at us in his sleeve. Verily, friend Lasagni, you are quite right! But I regret the eighteenth century there were then such things as canes. The Counsellor de Brosses, who wished no harm to the Pope, wrote in 1740: "The Papal Government, although in fact the worst in Europe, is at the same time the mildest."
We now hear that the worst and last penalty paid for De Brosses' audacious comparison of savage with civilised superstitions is the postulate that Aryan and Semitic peoples have passed through a stage of savagery.
De Brosses discussed the probably most advantageous situation for settlement in the South Seas, though in doing so he was hampered by insufficient knowledge.
This magnificent hall, as well as great part of the palace, being reduced to ashes in 1618, it was rebuilt, in its present state, under the direction of that skilful architect, JACQUES DE BROSSES. It is both spacious and majestic, and is the only hall of the kind in France: the arches and arcades which support it are of hewn stone.
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