CONTENTS.
LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR
PREFACE.
I. OF WORKS OF THE MIND.
II. OF PERSONAL MERIT.
III. OF WOMEN.
IV. OF THE AFFECTIONS.
V. OF SOCIETY AND OF CONVERSATION.
VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.
VII. OF THE TOWN. 322
VIII. OF THE COURT.
IX. OF THE GREAT.
X. OF THE SOVEREIGN AND THE STATE. 487
XI. OF MANKIND.
XII. OF OPINIONS.
XIII. OF FASHION.
XIV. OF CERTAIN CUSTOMS.
XV. OF THE PULPIT. 831
XVI. OF FREETHINKERS. 853
FOOTNOTES:
Transcriberʼs note:
Due to the error in the numbering of the chapters in the original (no chapter number II and no chapter number for chapter “OF FASHION”), chapters have been renumbered as follows:
I->I, III->II, IV->III, V->IV, VI->V, VII->VI, VIII->VII, IX-VIII, X->IX, XI->X, XII->XI, XIII->XII, (OF FASHION)->XIII, XV->XIV, XVI->XV, XVII->XVI.
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
THE “CHARACTERS”
OF
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
PUBLISHERʼS NOTE.
Three hundred copies of this book printed for England, and two hundred, with an American imprint, for sale in that country. No more will be printed.
No. 13
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
THE “CHARACTERS”
OF
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
NEWLY RENDERED INTO ENGLISH
By HENRI VAN LAUN
With an Introduction, a Biographical Memoir and Notes
ILLUSTRATED WITH TWENTY-FOUR ETCHINGS
By B. DAMMAN and V. FOULQUIER
LONDON
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1885
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