. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . was dead;an immeasurable misfortune to such a son, who, for so manyyears, had thought only as she wished, and who had left her,contrary to her wishes, on this disastrous expedition, whichwas to end in his leaving in infidel ground one of his brothers,so many loyal followers, and the bones of so many sight of France itself could not console him. HadI alone to endure the disgrace and the misfortune, heexclaimed to a bishop, and had not my sins turned to theprejudice of the Church Universal, I should
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . was dead;an immeasurable misfortune to such a son, who, for so manyyears, had thought only as she wished, and who had left her,contrary to her wishes, on this disastrous expedition, whichwas to end in his leaving in infidel ground one of his brothers,so many loyal followers, and the bones of so many sight of France itself could not console him. HadI alone to endure the disgrace and the misfortune, heexclaimed to a bishop, and had not my sins turned to theprejudice of the Church Universal, I should be , alas! all Christendom has fallen through me into dis-grace and confusion. The state in which he found Europe was not calculated togive him comfort. Long after his return, St. Louis seemedto reject every foreign thought and ambition. He confinedhimself, with uneasy scrupulosity, to his duty as a Christian,considering all the duties of royalty comprised in the practicesof devotion, and imputing to himself, as a sin, every disorderof the common weal.—M.
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