This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 edition. Excerpt: ... A COLLECTION Of the best PIECES Attributed to M. DE ST. EVREMOND. To which are prefix the MEMOIRS OF THE DUTCHESS OF MAZARIN. G 4 MEMOIRS OF THE DUTCHESS OF MAZARIN'. IN C E the obligations I owe you are of that nature, that I ought to conceal nothing from you, wherein I can testify my acknowledgments of them ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 edition. Excerpt: ... A COLLECTION Of the best PIECES Attributed to M. DE ST. EVREMOND. To which are prefix the MEMOIRS OF THE DUTCHESS OF MAZARIN. G 4 MEMOIRS OF THE DUTCHESS OF MAZARIN'. IN C E the obligations I owe you are of that nature, that I ought to conceal nothing from you, wherein I can testify my acknowledgments of them, I am willing to gratify you with the true Relation of my Life, being you desire it. Not that I am ignorant, how hard it is to speak discreetly of one's self: and you know how averse I am in my nature, from explaining to the world, matters wherein I am so nearly concerned: yet it is very natural to defend one's self from Calumny, and to make appear to those, of whom we have received considerable services, that we are not so unworthy of their favours, as the traducing world would make us appear to be: nor can I spend the time of myRetreat with more innocence. But if what I am going to acquaint you with, seem to savour much of the Romance, impute it rather to my destiny, than to my inclination. I know the chief These Memoirs were written in the Name es the Dutches: ef idnxMrin, by the Abbet of St. Real. See the Life of M. dc St. Eviemond under the year 1676. chief glory of a woman ought to consist, in not making her self to be publickly talked of; and those that know me, know likewise that I never took much pleasure in things that make too much noise: but it is not always in our choice to live our own way; and there is a kind of fatality, even in those things that seem to depend upon the wisest conduct. I would not trouble you with the account of my Birth, if those that envied my Uncle's 1 There being several Passages in these Memoirs, which cannot be well understood without some previous Knowledge of the family of the But chefs of Mazarin, ...
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