Studies in Statecraft; Being Chapters, Biographical And Bibliographical, Mainly On the Sixteenth Century
The book Studies in Statecraft; Being Chapters, Biographical And Bibliographical, Mainly On the Sixteenth Century was written by author Butler, Geoffrey G. (Geoffrey Gilbert), Sir, 1887-1929 Here you can read free online of Studies in Statecraft; Being Chapters, Biographical And Bibliographical, Mainly On the Sixteenth Century book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Studies in Statecraft; Being Chapters, Biographical And Bibliographical, Mainly On the Sixteenth Century a good or bad book?
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The second part consisting of the third and fourth volumes were published twenty-one years after Sully's death in 1662 at Paris under the supervision of Le Laboureur. It is difficult without prolonged quotation to explain to how great an extent a work, written in the second person, is the despair of modern readers. The form in which it was cast made niceties of composition difficult, though it was a form convenient for covering up the author's traces and for throwing dust in the eyes of his rea...ders. Mr Tilley bears witness to two sentences, one of six hundred, the other of nine hundred words in length. Apart from this however he must be an intrepid reader whose faculty of apprehension does not boggle at summaries of Sully's virtues in the fawning elaboration of an eternal vocative; while as a specimen of the process reduced to an absurdity taken from the more private passages of Sully's life, Sainte-Beuve very aptly quotes the following: De ce pas vous en allastes voir Mademoiselle de Courtenay, envers laquelle vous et vos gentils hommes fistes si bien valoir ce que c'estoit pass^, que cette belle et sage fille vous fait en affection, et peu apres vous I'espousastes : I'amour et gentilesse de laquelle vous retint toute I'annee 1584 en vostre nouveau mesnage, ou vous commengastes a tesmoigner, comme vous avez desja bien fait auparavant en toute vostre vie, en la conduite de vostre maison, une oeconomie, un ordre et un mesnage merveilleux.
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