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Manoeuvrers in politics, they are paid from day to day they are urged onwards, compromised, and then disavowed, and sometimes even imprisoned. They suffer all, even captivity and dishonour, for money. Such men are things to buy and sell, and their talent and utility stamp their price. Of this class were Linguet, Brissot, even Mirabeau in his youth. Such at this period was one Favier.
John Fisher Reginald Pole "Martin Marprelate" Udal Penry Hacket Coppinger Arthington Cartwright Cowell Leighton John Stubbs Peter Wentworth R. Doleman J. Hales Reboul William Prynne Burton Bastwick John Selden John Tutchin Delaune Samuel Johnson Algernon Sidney Edmund Richer John de Falkemberg Jean Lenoir Simon Linguet Abbe Caveirac Darigrand Pietro Sarpi Jerome Maggi Theodore Reinking.
This book was at once suppressed, and its author was condemned to imprisonment in 1764, and then sent to the pillory, and afterwards doomed to perpetual exile. He was accused of having written an apology for the slaughter of the Protestants on the eve of St. Bartholomew's Day, but our last mentioned author, Linguet, endeavours to clear his memory from that charge.
Isolation, close confinement, silence, darkness, cold, "the amount of ennui which engenders madness," as Linguet has said when speaking of the Bastille. To remain seated on a chair all day long, with arms and legs crossed: such was the situation. But the bed! Could they lie down? No. There was no bed.
"If," says Linguet, "there existed an autograph journal, written by Columbus, descriptive of his first great voyage with what jealous care it would be preserved, with what confidence it would be quoted!
In France they have no other idea of the Spanish theatre, than what can be formed from the translations of Linguet. These again have been rendered into German, and their number has been increased by others, in no respect better, derived immediately from the originals.
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