Paul and Virginia . ough its pages, andit is delightful to reflect that the following beautiful andsolemn answer of the Pariah was, with St. Pierre, theresult of his own experience: Misfortune resembles theBlack Mountain of Bember, situated at the extremity ofthe burning kingdom of Lahore ; while you are climbingit you only see before you barren rocks, but when you 32 MEMOIR OF BERNARDIN BE ST. PIERRE. have reached its summit you see heaven above your headand at your feet the kingdom of Cashmere. When this passage was written the rugged and sterilerock had been climbed by its gifted author. He
Paul and Virginia . ough its pages, andit is delightful to reflect that the following beautiful andsolemn answer of the Pariah was, with St. Pierre, theresult of his own experience: Misfortune resembles theBlack Mountain of Bember, situated at the extremity ofthe burning kingdom of Lahore ; while you are climbingit you only see before you barren rocks, but when you 32 MEMOIR OF BERNARDIN BE ST. PIERRE. have reached its summit you see heaven above your headand at your feet the kingdom of Cashmere. When this passage was written the rugged and sterilerock had been climbed by its gifted author. He hadreached the summit—his genius had been rewarded, andhe himself saw the heaven he wished to point out toothers. For the facts contained in this brief memoir the writeris indebted to St. Pierres own works, to the BiographieUniverselle, to the Essai sur la Vie et les Ouvrages deBernardin de St. Pierre, by M. Aime Martin, and to thevery excellent and interesting Notice historique et litter air eof M. fefiflilJI Ha/ v PREFACE.
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