The History of Henri de la Tour D'Auvergne: Authorities: Memoirs of the Viscount de Turenne. Relation of the campaign of Fribourg, by the Marquis de la Moussaye. Letters, memorials, political instructions, &c. Memoirs of the Duke of York, afterwards King James II. of Great Britain

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J. Bettenham, and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1735 - France
 

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Page 250 - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting.
Page 338 - ... where he told me he would now perform the promise he had made me the preceding year, and at the same time he put into my hand the sheets hereto annexed, into which, he assured me, he had transferred everything that he had found in his Memoirs concerning the late M. de Turenne, from the year 1652 inclusive, to the year 1660 ; adding, that he gave it me with gladness, not only on account of M. de Turenne, whose memory, he said, would be all his life long most dear and precious to him, as taking...
Page 309 - Ifraël plandhi magno, &' lugebant dies multos , & dixerunt : Quomodo cecidit potens , qui falvum faciebat populum Ifraël ? 1. Mac/tc 9. Tout le peuple le pleura amèrement , 6...
Page 261 - You two who exclaim fo much how hard it is to win upon a young woman, do you take the proper methods ? Lee me tell you that roughnefs and feverity beget averlion in young people.
Page 252 - Given at Paris, in the month of March, in the year of our Lord 1663, and of our reign the twentieth.
Page 293 - ... in a good state, proceeds from the perfect esteem every person felt for him ; it is not possible to comprehend that sin or guilt could find a place in his heart; his conversion*, so sincere, appeared to us like a baptism. Every one speaks of the innocence of his manners, the purity of his intentions, his unaffected humility, the solid glory that filled his heart, without haughtiness or ostentation, his love of virtue for its own sake, without regarding the approbation of men, and, to crown all,...
Page 262 - ... and that whoever reads the word of God, and will explain it after his own fancy, goes greater lengths in folly than is eafily imagined.
Page 289 - I tell you that, were it not for these affairs, which perhaps may require my assistance, I would retire as you do ; and I give you my word that, if I return, I will not die in a trench but, in imitation of your good example, I will put a period of religious retirement between my life in the world and my death ". Always, before starting on a campaign, Turenne carefully examined his accounts and scrupulously paid his debts.
Page 264 - The paflages are there entire, with the context before and after them, and nothing of the author's own. If the quotations are not fairly made, 'tis eafy to fhew it ; but I aflure you, that thefe paflages do not fquare with what we fay.
Page 263 - I don't look upon the trouble you are in with the fame eye as if I had found you candid enough to acknowledge certain truths, which feem to me clear as the day.

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