embarasments

Updated: May 23, 2025

But a clearer Insight into human Nature, made him conclude, that tho' their Wishes were answered, it would be so far from producing the desired Effect, that he laid it down as a Certainty, that a new Amour would more and more indispose Zeokinizul to State Affairs, and he would quickly lay them aside as Embarasments, in order the more freely to indulge his Passion.

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans: Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol