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Pray indulge me with a short pause here to consider the scandalous
arts which ministers palliate with the name and sacred word of a
great King, and with which the most august Parliament of the
kingdom--the Court of Peers--expose themselves to ridicule by such
manifest inconsistencies as are more becoming the levity of a
college than the majesty of a senate.
I found the archbishopric sunk both in its temporals and spirituals
by the sordidness, negligence, and incapacity of my uncle. I
foresaw infinite obstacles to its reestablishment, but perceived
that the greatest and most insuperable difficulty lay in myself. I
considered that the strictest morals are necessarily required in a
bishop. I felt myself the more obliged to be strictly circumspect
as my uncle had been very disorderly and scandalous.
I found the archbishopric sunk both in its temporals and spirituals
by the sordidness, negligence, and incapacity of my uncle. I
foresaw infinite obstacles to its reestablishment, but perceived
that the greatest and most insuperable difficulty lay in myself. I
considered that the strictest morals are necessarily required in a
bishop. I felt myself the more obliged to be strictly circumspect
as my uncle had been very disorderly and scandalous.
By the caprice of fortune many mistakes of mine have turned to my
credit, and I very much doubt whether it would be prudent in me to
remove the veil with which some of them are covered. But as I am
resolved to give you a naked, impartial account of even the most
minute passages of my life ever since I have been capable of
reflection, so I most humbly beg you not to be surprised at the
little art, or, rather, great disorder, with which I write my
narrative
One of the greatest mischiefs which the despotic authority of
ministers has occasioned in the world in these later times is a
practice, occasioned by their own private mistaken interests, of
always supporting superiors against their inferiors. It is a maxim
borrowed from Machiavelli, whom few understand, and whom too many
cry up for an able man because he was always wicked.
Had I been wise I should have stopped there, because a man ought in
prudence to make his peace with the Court upon any terms consistent
with honour. But I was young, and the more provoked because I
perceived that all the fair words given me at Fontainebleau were
but a feint to gain time to write about the affair to my uncle,
then at Angers.
Had I been wise I should have stopped there, because a man ought in
prudence to make his peace with the Court upon any terms consistent
with honour. But I was young, and the more provoked because I
perceived that all the fair words given me at Fontainebleau were
but a feint to gain time to write about the affair to my uncle,
then at Angers.
One of the greatest mischiefs which the despotic authority of
ministers has occasioned in the world in these later times is a
practice, occasioned by their own private mistaken interests, of
always supporting superiors against their inferiors. It is a maxim
borrowed from Machiavelli, whom few understand, and whom too many
cry up for an able man because he was always wicked.
Pray indulge me with a short pause here to consider the scandalous
arts which ministers palliate with the name and sacred word of a
great King, and with which the most august Parliament of the
kingdom--the Court of Peers--expose themselves to ridicule by such
manifest inconsistencies as are more becoming the levity of a
college than the majesty of a senate.
I found the archbishopric sunk both in its temporals and spirituals
by the sordidness, negligence, and incapacity of my uncle. I
foresaw infinite obstacles to its reestablishment, but perceived
that the greatest and most insuperable difficulty lay in myself. I
considered that the strictest morals are necessarily required in a
bishop. I felt myself the more obliged to be strictly circumspect
as my uncle had been very disorderly and scandalous.
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