 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 páginas
...thirteen years. For, as it has been justly enough observed, his piety, which was that of an anchoret, did not deprive him of any of the virtues of a king, could he but have been persuaded to stay more at home. But the same phrenzy again assailing him, he... | |
 | 1887 - 832 páginas
...thirteen years. For, as it has been justly enough observed, his piety, which was that of an anchoret, did not deprive him of any of the virtues of a king, could he but have been persuaded to stay more at home. But the same frenzy again assailing him, he... | |
 | Voltaire - 1901 - 664 páginas
...to be in every respect a model for the rest of mankind. His piety, which was that of an anchorite, did not deprive him of any of the virtues of a king;...his liberality break in upon the bounds of a prudent economy. He knew how to reconcile the profoundest politics with the strictest justice, and perhaps... | |
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Louis IX seemed a prince destined to reform Europe, had it been capable of being reformed, to render France triumphant and civilized, and to be in every respect a model for the rest of mankind. His piety, which was that of an anchorite, did not deprive... 