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'Vanity of vanities! All is vanity! such is the perpetual burden of La Rochefoucauld's doctrine: but it is vanity, not in the generalized sense of the Preacher, but in the ordinary personal sense of empty egotism and petty self-love which, in the eyes of this bitter moralist, is the ultimate essence of the human spirit and the secret spring of the world.
Two treatises, in the form of maxims, on the education of children and on friendship, respectively, are supposed to have come from her pen; from them La Rochefoucauld conceived the ideas he utilized in his famous Maxims. La Rochefoucauld's maxims were composed according to the chance of conversation, which gave rise to various subjects and led to his serious reflection upon them.
I found, too, the hideous profundity of Rochefoucauld's maxim that a woman I speak of French women may live without a lover; but, a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted; she cannot bear the anguish and the solitude; she fills up the void with a second idol.
Continuation from July 1789 to July 1790 Author travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France attends the committees of the Friends of the Negros Counter attempts of the committee of White Colonists An account of the deputies of Colour Meeting at the Duke de la Rochefoucauld's Mirabeau espouses the cause canvasses the National Assembly Distribution of the section of the slave-ship there Character of Brissot Author leaves Paris and returns to England Examination of merchants' and planters' evidence resumed in the House of Commons Author travels in search of evidence in favour of the abolition Opposition to the hearing of it This evidence is at length introduced Renewal of Sir William Dolben's bill Distribution of the section of the slave-ship in England and of Cowper's Negro's Complaint and of Wedgewood's Cameos.
Inside were wax portrait-figures of living celebrities, the Duke du Maine in one arm-chair; in another La Rochefoucauld, who was handing him some manuscript. By the arm-chairs were standing Bossuet, then Bishop of Condom, and La Rochefoucauld's eldest son, M. de Marcillac. At the other end of the alcove Mme de La Fayette and Mme de Thiange were reading verses together.
It is generally agreed that Rochefoucauld's views of human nature were perverted by the specimens of it which he had known in the wars of the Fronde, which were stimulated by vice, folly, and a restless desire of power. His "Memoirs of the Reign of Anne of Austria" embody the story of the Fronde, and his "Maxims" the moral philosophy he deduced from it.
It had been very much diminished by extravagance and speculation, but as she had in mind de la Rochefoucauld's maxim: "There are some good marriages, but no delicious ones," and did not contemplate ever wearing the chains of matrimony, she deposited her fortune in the sinking funds, reserving an income of about eight thousand livres per annum as sufficient to maintain her beyond the reach of want.
It is so wonderful to me that he should care for me he who could have half the women in London at his feet." "Yes, he's the type that would attract them, I daresay," agreed Susan Fossett. "But are you quite sure that he does? care for you, I mean." "My dear," returned Miss Ramsbotham, "you remember Rochefoucauld's definition.
There is little here which betrays the future moralist, except the simplicity and almost colourless transparency of the style. As containing nearly the sole certain evidence of La Rochefoucauld's state of mind at the time of transition, it is well, perhaps, to speak at this moment of his letters, which were first brought together in 1881.
Author travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France; attends the committees of the Friends of the Negroes. Counter-attempts of the committee of White Colonists. An account of the deputies of Colour. Meeting at the Duke de la Rochefoucauld's. Mirabeau espouses the cause; canvasses the National Assembly. Distribution of the section of the slave-ship there. Character of Brissot.
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