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Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Duke Philip II. of Orleans.From a copper-plate engraving by Nicolas Edelinck (1680-1768).History oj AU Nations, Vul. XIV., page !5. CHARACTER OF THE REGENT OF FRANCE. 25 teachers, and especially of the Ahhe Duljois, to dangerous societ\-and every kind of sensual pleasure. He cherished a profound con-tempt for men. He held all indiscriminately to be rascals, only thatsome possessed spirit, gayety, and wit, and others did not. Theformer he desired to have about liim, however worthless they mightchoose to be. Perhaps after the death of Louis XIV. he might have submittedfrom indolence and indecision to the restrictive clauses contained inthe royal will. But it was represeuted to him that such a coursewould be considered as cowardice, and that reproach was the onlyone he feared. Moreover, he hated the bastards, who sought to thrustthemselves into the ranks of the royal princes, and particularly thehypocritical and malignant Duke of Maine, to whom Louis, at theexpense of the nominal regent,historyofallnati14wrig

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