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Excerpt from Essays on Friendship and Old-Age: Translated From the French
He has told 'me, 'that as the Prince was, one day coming out of his chamber, where he had read yourtreatife on Friendfhip, he faid to him - I have jufl been reading a book, which has made me feel the misfortune of our rank. We cannot'hope to have friendsl We mull re'm trounce the moi't engaging fen 5' timent in life. He felt, my dear Sacy, the necefiity of friendfhip. The fentiments of nature had their full influence over his heart, and majef'ty difa appeared before them. He 'would have had friends, and he Would not have chofen them from the crowd of his flatter ers. 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.
