"St. Simon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all around her, save Madlle. de Montpensier, 105; her dying declaration that she was poisoned, 105; Bossuet consoles her in her last moments, 106; the cause of her death falsely attributed to cholera-morbus, 106; St. Simon's statement of the poison being sent from Italy by the Chevalier de Lorraine, 107; the intrigues which led to the murder present a scene of accumulated horrors and iniquity, 107; the last political act of ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... language.[11] The instances that seem to make against this remark will be found to confirm it. They consist of memoirs, contemporary documents, in short materials for history, but not history itself. From Froissart and De Comines, or even from the earlier monastic writers to St. Simon (who was just finishing his incomparable Memoirs), history with wide outlook and the conception of social progress and interconnection of events did not exist. Yet history in its simple forms is one of the most spontaneous of human achievements. ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison
... trying to find a new way of doing my hair that will show my little neck to better advantage, or over other work of that kind, sometimes it amuses me intensely to trace out the resemblance between one man and another: to see how Tant Sannie and I, you and Bonaparte, St. Simon on his pillow, and the emperor dining off larks' tongues, are one and the same compound, merely mixed in ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
... you are amazed by their number, and you feel as if every one at the Court of the Roi Soleil had done what he (or she) could to give away their neighbours. Just to take the more obvious, there are St. Simon's Memoirs—those in themselves give us a more comprehensive and intimate view of the age than anything I know of which treats of the times of Queen Victoria. Then there is St. Evremond, who is nearly as complete. Do you want the view of a woman of quality? There are the letters of Madame ...
— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle |
