Thus in painting we are better pleased with a rural landskip, than with the most beautiful garden upon earth; because painting chuses nature only where she is most beautiful, where the eye can extend its view as far as it can reach, and where she may be seen with most pleasure.
They may dispense with giving reasons, because the reason is supposed to exist in the mind of the legislator; but when they give reasons, they ought to be built upon evident principles: they ought not to resemble that law which, prohibiting blind people to plead, gives this as a reason, because they cannot see the ornaments of magistracy.
The intendant may say what he pleases, but he can never justify the having broken his word to the academy, and having led its members into an error through his false promises. Blind mortal! If you pass through Turin, you know my illustrious friends there, to whom pray speak of me, as I embrace you with all my heart.
2 The Spirit of Laws Complete Works, vol. In short, it is never an affair of calculation, when we examine the end of marriage; and it is much less so, when we consider marriage as established, or confirmed, by Jesus Christ.
The Law which in Europe allows only one wife, and that in Asia Edition: current; Page: [250] which permits many, have then a certain relation to the climate. Will America follow other presidential regimes down the road to one-man rule, or will it return to the imagined country of the past? They at a distance address their vows to the Goddess, and beg to be delivered from that liberty which is nothing more than the incapacity of forming desires. I FEEL the cogency of your reasons, my dear Count, for not engaging yourself too hastily, but upon mature deliberation in this affair; yet I fancy that the contrary reasons for detaining you may preponderate, and that your patriotic spirit will yield to them. He has furnished more articles to the Encyclopedy, than any other author. My point in part. I write however to the gentlemen of the academy, about removing this impediment, and that you deserve, if the door be shut, to favour your entrance, a breach should be made.
I have no way contributed towards its good fortune in the city of Bourdeaux, so far on the contrary, that I had dispatched thither Abbé de Guasco to malignly criticise it. If you should return by the southern provinces of France, you will find your old laboratory; and in return will give me some new hints about improving my woods, and my meadows. Our commerce notwithstanding cannot be thoroughly established, but through the means of the American isles, because our dealing with them is its principal branch. O Camilla, take care of the deceits of lovers. Ye Gods! This little romance is a kind of picture in which are selected the most agreeable objects. There are numbers of people who pay for posthorses and run through provinces; there are but few travellers, and scarcely one such as you.
for the month. I find you are bent upon going to Flanders. Behold Voltaire unhous’d, and seeming not to know where he may rest his head*, ut eadem tellus quæ modo victori defuerat, deesset ad sepulturam. But as one of your letters marked August 13, I. The public will here find smiling images, magnificent descriptions, and ingenuous sentiments. Sometimes, when I would steal from her one favour, she refuses me, and instantly grants me another. My son is at Clerac, which I have ceded to him for his domaine, and added Montesquieu. Lexicon J. Calvini. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. The shepherd comes to gather them, with his shepherdess; but that which she finds is always the most beautiful, and it is believed that this happens by the express design of Flora. Sunt mihi cœlicolæ, sunt cætera numina fauni. Boudri bien que M. l’Abbé Guasco his aco. This will consist of ten books, and the following of seven.
M. de Rastignac, one of the most illustrious prelates of his time in France. The Dutchess of Aiguillon who returned immediately after dinner, on seeing the secretary in the antichamber, asked what was the meaning of his being there. said I with a loud voice, I abandon thy temple, but not thy worship; in what part of the earth soever I am, I will offer incense to thee; but it shall be purer than that offered at Sybaris.
I compliment you sincerely on your being invested with the title of Count, and it would add much to my satisfaction on this occasion, were I to hear also of your being invested with an Abbotship, which would be no more than a proper reparation for the Edition: current; Page: [67] injuries which you have received. It is according to Nature, that a whole be compleat, and the Mind, which sees this whole, wishes that it may have no part imperfect. But one must calculate for futurity, as well as for the present. All these little attentions are necessary, in order to recover you from your late fatigue. We divided the empire; and each of us believed that he had shared the price of his fatigues. I embrace you, my dear friend, with all my heart. I thought I had already informed you of my having sent your second medal to the care of Mr. Dalnet at Bourdeaux, and he being worth two or three millions of currency in our French livres, I thought I could not have made a better choice to deposit your treasure with.
[6] See Montesquieu, My Thoughts, edited by Henry C. Clark (Liberty Fund, 2012), pensée 1302, pp. The ancient city of Industria, whose rains were discovered near the banks of the Po, in Piedmont. I am, said she, one of the Graces: Venus, who sent me, would render thee happy; but thou must go, and adore her in the Temple of Gnidus. It is prudent to shun every woman, who is nothing but a coquette, because she practically deceives by giving false hopes.
I cannot hope for such high and mighty suffrages; and of all mankind, kings are perhaps the last that will read, and what is not improbable, perhaps they will not even look into the book.
The attitudes must then be contrasted, especially in works of sculpture, which, naturally languid, cannot be animated but by the force of contrast and situation.
The soul understands by its ideas, and by its sensations; it receives pleasure by those ideas and those sensations: for though we oppose idea to sensation, yet while it sees a thing, it feels it; and there are no objects so intellectual, that it does not see, or believs it sees, and consequently that are not felt. What came more clearly into view was the careful organization, the close reasoning, the thorough engagement with a now-abundant specialist literature (thankfully relegated to back notes), and the intimate knowledge of one of the most complex texts in the history of political thought.
While acknowledging that the Baron of La Brède calls his Italian counterpart a “great man,”[5] she concludes that he was referring only to the “impact” of the latter’s theory, not to the “character of that impact.”. I shall be highly pleased to begin an acquaintance with the Count de Sartiranne*.
I have sent my romance* to M. le Nain, and I think it is not a little extraordinary to have a theologist to be the chief panegyrist of so frivolous a work. “It is astonishing that this great man should not be able to distinguish between the orders for the establishment of Christianity, and Christianity Edition: current; Page: [247] itself: and that he should be liable to be charged with not knowing the spirit of his own religion.
Mean while joy took possession of our hearts; we felt a divine emotion: when being seized with the extravagance of old Silenus, and by the transports of the Bacchanals, we each took a thyrses, and mingled in the dances and concerts. I could scarce contain myself; and was in such agitations, that I seemed tormented by the whips of the Furies. But it happens in the moral, as in the physical equilibrium; it is seldom perfect and durable, and the treaties of mankind are, like treaties among our princes, a perpetual source of disputes.
Adieu! SOME persons have made this objection: In The Spirit of Laws, honour or fear, and not virtue, is represented as the principle upon which certain governments are founded, and virtue is represented as the principle of only a few others: whence it follows, that the christian virtues are not required in most governments.
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