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Updated: May 11, 2025
Previous to the erection of efficient lighthouses, it was frequently strewed with wrecks, and proved how inadequate to the protection of the mariner were the few feeble lights which were then under the controul of private or local trusts.
The manners too of these easy people multiplied embarrassments, of a particular kind, which it required no ordinary authority and self-denial to controul. In one instance, however, it is said, the presence of an Otaheitan Venus, in any thing else than a repulsive attitude, had the effect of expediting the necessary work.
The lower class have here, as well as on your side of the water, the custom of attributing to Ministers and Governments some connection with, or controul over, the operations of nature. I remarked to a woman who brings me fruit, that the grapes were bad and dear this year "Ah! mon Dieu, oui, ils ne murrissent pas. Lord, they don't ripen now.
Tumultuous thoughts, hopes that vanish, and fears that distract, are ill fitted for such a talk. Governed by feelings which will admit of no controul, I can only claim your pardon on the plea of inability to preserve that silence which it is temerity, or something worse, to break.
And at another time, twitting me with my phrases, that the man was above controul, who wanted not either to borrow or flatter.
Divert thyself with eating and drinking and put away cark and care from thy heart, and I will bring thee an hundred maids of the daughters of Kings; for thou hast no need to the daughters of the Jann, over whom we lack controul and of kind other than ours." But he said, "I cannot renounce her nor will I seek other than her."
I soon became hardened, and set all controul at defiance; and, instead of my pride being hurt, or being ashamed of punishment, it became a boast and a pride to brave it, and to bear it with indifference and contempt.
In the mean while it was openly proposed to concentrate still more the functions of government. The circulation of newspapers was insinuated to be useless; and Robespierre gave some hints of suppressing all but one, which should be under particular and official controul.*
This apprehension, at first, a little startled her, or at least she imagined it did so, and she said to herself, 'If he should really harbour any inclinations for me of that sort, how unhappy should I be in being obliged to break off my acquaintance with a person so every way agreeable to me; and to continue it, would be to countenance a passion I have determined never to give the least attention to. 'Yet wherefore did I determine? pursued she, with a sigh, 'but because I found the generality of men mere wandering, vague, inconstant creatures; were guided only by fancy; never consulted their judgment, whether the object they pretended to admire, had any real merit or not, and often too treated those worst who had the best claim to their esteem; besides, one seldom finds a man whose person and qualifications are every way suited to one's liking: Natura is certainly such as I should wish a husband to be, if I were inclined to marry again; I have not taken a vow of celibacy, and have nobody to controul my actions': 'then, said she again, 'what foolish imaginations comes into my head; perhaps he has not the least thought of me in the way I am dreaming of; no, no, he has suffered too much by the imprudence of one woman, to put it in the power of another to treat him in the same manner; be trembles at marriage; I have heard him declare it, and I am deviating into a vanity I never before was guilty of.
The charms of liberty, against his will, rushed on his mind; and he could not avoid suggesting to himself how much more happy was the poorest wretch who, without controul, could repair to his homely habitation and to his family, compared to him, who was thus violently, and yet lawfully, torn away from the company of his wife and children.
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