Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., Vol. 4 of 4

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Excerpt from Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., Vol. 4 of 4: Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden, Together With Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects It is to be presumed, nay, indeed, it is plain by that 185th letter, that Madame Maintenon had hinted to her directeur some scruples of conscience, with relation to her commerce with the King, and which I humbly apprehend to have been only some scruples of prudence, at once to flatter the bigot character, and increase the desires of the King. The pious Abbe, frightened out of his wits left the King mould impute to the directeur any scruples or difficulties which he might meet with on the part of the Lady, writes her the above-mentioned letter, in which he not only bids her, not teaze the King by advice and exhortations, but have the utmost submission to his will, and, that she may not mistake the nature of that submission, he tells her, it is the same that Sarah had for Abraham, to which submission Isaac perhaps was owing. No bawd could have written a more seducing letter to an innocent country girl, that the directeur did to his penitente, who, I dare say, had no occasion for his advice. Those who would justify the good directeur, alias the pimp, in this affair, must not attempt to do it, by sating, that the King and Madame Mainten on were at that this was the meaning of his enigme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.