Count Cagliostro: Or, The Charlatan. A Tale of the Reign of Louis XVIE. Bull, 1838 - Freemasonry |
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acquaintance admiration affection amusement answered appearance asked Baron Bastille Beaumarchais beauty better Cagli Cardinal character charlatan château circumstances Cleve Comte de Cagliostro conversation Count Cagliostro Count D'Ostalis cried Crosne crowd dear doubt drawbridge Duke de Fronsac Duke's Eminence Erminia excited exclaimed eyes fate feelings felt fiacre France gazed girl happiness hear heart honour imagination King La Rosière lady lettre de cachet looked Louis louis-d'or Madame de Montolieu Mademoiselle manner Marchioness de Montolieu Marie Antoinette Maroncelli matter ment mind miserable Monsieur Cleveland Monsieur le Comte moral nature Necker never niece object Paris passion person pleasure police possess present Queen racter replied Antonia replied Brisseau replied Cagliostro replied Cleveland replied the Duke returned Rosière secret seemed sentiment smile society strange stranger tell Théâtre Français thought thousand tion tone took true truth voice Volterra wish woman words young
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Page 220 - For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours...
Page xiii - ... necessary to use interest to be admitted to the Count. " If M. le Cardinal is sick," said he, " let him come to me and I will cure him : if he be well, he has no business with me, nor have I with him.
Page xii - Strasburgh, spread the name of Cagliostro far and wide, and raised his renown to that of a truly miraculous physician. His attention towards the poor and his contempt for the rich, gave his character an air of superiority and interest which excited the greatest enthusiasm. Those whom he chose to honour with his familiarity, left his society in ecstacy at his transcendant qualities.
Page 234 - d throw away myself. Apem. Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself; A madman so long, now a fool. What, think'st That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, Will put thy shirt on warm ? Will these mossed trees, That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels, And skip when thou point'stout?
Page xii - I do not know what monster, envious of the tranquillity of honest men, had vomited forth upon our country an enthusiastic empiric, a new apostle of the religion of nature, who created converts in the most despotic manner, and subjected them entirely to his influence. Some speedy cures...
Page 176 - Really, Mr. Carlyle,' replied my friend, 'you are the last man in the world from whom I should have expected such an observation. Look at your own book on Cromwell...
Page xiii - ... religious awe, and that his first words were inspired by reverence. This interview, which was very short, excited more strongly than ever the desire of a more intimate acquaintance. At length it was obtained, and the crafty empiric timed his conduct and his advances so well, that at length, without seeming to desire it, he gained the entire confidence of the Cardinal, and possessed the greatest ascendency over him.
Page xiii - Those whom he chose to honour with his familiarity, left his society in ecstacies at his transcendant qualities. The cardinal de Rohan was at his residence at Saverne, when the count de Cagliostro astonished Strasburg and all Switzerland with his conduct, and the extraordinary cures he had performed. Curious to behold so remarkable a personage, the cardinal went to Strasburg : it was found necessary to use interest to be admitted to the count.
Page x - He opened a fmall prefs in an angle between the fire-place and the window, and, taking out a. handful of letters, read me one of them, about a page and a half long. It was an inexplicable piece of ambiguity, which I had no...
Page xi - I do promife you, and fo you may be eafy ; indeed you wotvld be perfc&ly fo, if you knew the name of the perfon ; all I can tell you is, that there is not a...