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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER II. Paris, Feb. 5th, 1820. My Dear Sir, There are but few periods in the history of mankind that open themselves with more imposing grandeur on the imagination than the reign of Louis XIV. and not one perhaps better calculated to delude the opinions of superficial observers. The spectacle of a monarch, endowed by nature with the charms of an elegant figure and some of the powers of a subduing mind, naturally carries in itself something imposing along with it. But when in addition to these adventitious advantages we recollect that Louis was called by the accidents of birth at an early age to reign over a large and compact territory, inhabited by a brave and loyal people, pushed up in the scale of civilization by the energy of new institutions; when we remember the brilliancy of his court, the fame of his victories in the field, and of his conquests in the drawing room, we may easily imagine that such a prince should give the utmost illusion to the splendour of absolute power, and become the admiration of those who contemplate government more as a thing of show than of use. Hence, among violent royalists the reign of Louis XIV. is considered the ne- plus ultra of every thing that is excellent in government. Without treating those gentlemen however with the harshness of the author of the Essay on Despotism, who declares que tout fau- teur du despotisme est un lache que la terreur ou 1'interet con- duisent, let us test the truth of their opinions by inquiring into what that government was in reality as well as in appearance. We may thus discover whether he found the materials of a brilliant empire prepared at his hands or created them?and whether the men of genius who flourished in the course of the seventy- three years that he swayed the sceptre of France owed their ex...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217009942
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217009948
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr


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