The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . urth, to divide all Christendom into a certain numberof Powers, as equal as might be. The fifth, to reduce all thevarious religions in it under those three which should appearto be most numerous and considerable in Europe. Our conference was very long ; I cannot bestow praisesupon the Queen of England that would be equal to the meritwhich I discovered in her in this short time, both as to thequalities of the heart and the understanding. I gave an exactrelation of everything that passed between us to the king,wh
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . urth, to divide all Christendom into a certain numberof Powers, as equal as might be. The fifth, to reduce all thevarious religions in it under those three which should appearto be most numerous and considerable in Europe. Our conference was very long ; I cannot bestow praisesupon the Queen of England that would be equal to the meritwhich I discovered in her in this short time, both as to thequalities of the heart and the understanding. I gave an exactrelation of everything that passed between us to the king,who very highly approved of all she had said to me. Theirmajesties corresponded by letters during the rest of the timethey stayed at Dover and Calais. All preliminaries wereagreed on; measures were taken even on the grand object ofthe design, but with such secrecy, that the whole of this affairremained to the death of the king, and even much longer,among the number of those on which only various anduncertain conjectures are formed.—From Sully s Memoirs,translated by Mrs.
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