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No stingy cramped head, stepping after the old, and selfish governments, will ever do any thing good to himself, nor to the race of man, and of this country. But, the Sun will shine cheerfully for all the world in spite of puerility. He who preaches liberty only for himself, is a little tyrant: and a little tyrant is more despicable, than a big one. He is the venomous viper biting its own tail.
But he said that the "conspiracy merited no special attention, being about an equal mixture of puerility and malice."
The analyst might well be tempted to smile at the puerility of this logic. If Astor was entitled to one-half of the value created by the collective industry of the community, why was he not entitled to all? Why make the artificial division of one-half? Either he had the right to all or to none.
But I have rested too long on a doctrine which can be of no use to a Christian writer; for as he cannot introduce into his works any of that heavenly host which make a part of his creed, so it is horrid puerility to search the heathen theology for any of those deities who have been long since dethroned from their immortality.
And why can they not manage to forget a few of them, more particularly when they are of that unaesthetic, earthly, and ephemeral order to which the scholarly thoughts of Gervinus belong, and when they so obviously bear the stamp of puerility?
It is about a century and a half since attention began to be paid to the observance of costume on the European stage; what with this view has been accomplished has always appeared excellent to the multitude, and yet, to judge from the engravings which sometimes accompany the printed plays, and from every other evidence, it is plain that it was always characterized by puerility and mannerism, and that in none the endeavours to assume a foreign or antique appearance, could shake themselves free of the fashions of the time.
And here, lest critics should condemn the puerility of the opening of the forthcoming scene, it is perhaps as well to remind the reader that Locke, once happening to be in the company of several great lords, renowned no less for their wit than for their breeding and political consistency, wickedly amused himself by taking down their conversation by some shorthand process of his own; and afterwards, when he read it over to them to see what they could make of it, they all burst out laughing.
In the season of harvest or vintage, nothing can be more charming than these walks; the French gaiety and simplicity, not to say puerility, is then seen in all its perfection; it is then a common sport amongst the ladies and the gallants of the town to chase each other amongst the standing corn, and as they endeavour to keep to the furrows, which are too narrow for their feet, the chace is generally terminated by the fall of the runners, the one over the other.
Jean-d'Angély Anger of the Queen Conflicting manifestoes M. de Rohan prepares to resist the royal troops The ministers advise a negotiation, which prove successful Departure of the Duc de Mayenne for Madrid Arrival of the Duque de Pastrano His brilliant reception in France His magnificent retinue His first audience of Louis XIII The Cardinals Puerility of the Princes Reception of the Spanish Ambassador by Madame The year of magnificence Splendour of the Court of Spain Signature of the marriage articles Honours shown to M. de Mayenne at Madrid The Spanish Princess and her Duenna The Duke of Savoy demands the hand of Madame Christine for his son Marie desires to unite her to the Prince of Wales Death of Prince Henry of England Death of the Comte de Soissons The Prince de Conti claims the government of Dauphiny The Comte d'Auvergne is released from the Bastille, and resigns his government of Auvergne to M. de Conti The Prince de Condé organizes a new faction The Regent espouses his views Alarm of the Guises Recall of the Duc de Bellegarde He refuses to appear at Court The Baron de Luz is restored to favour The Guises prepare to revenge his defection from their cause.
The duchesse d'Aiguillon, who must have pitied the puerility of such a remark, gently endeavoured to reconcile me to it by reminding me that both the marquise de Pompadour and the cardinal de Richelieu had reposed upon that very couch. I endeavoured to return some sportive reply, but my thoughts had flown back to Versailles, and my momentary exhilaration was at an end.
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