 ... drawn by our popular novelist, and who was an instrument destined to realize the ideas and to satisfy the anticipations of the burgesses. Philip de Comines has left us an impartial picture of the character of that master whom he regarded with a mixture...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 11edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 606 pages
...character of that master whom he regarded with a mixture of admiration and fear, of affection and defiance. He gives us the most exact idea of this singular man,...hand had ceased to stifle it. Comines praises the skillfulness, the address, and what he calls the " wisdom" of Louis XL, which was only the cunning... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...character of that master whom he regarded with a mixture of admiration and fear, of affection and defiance. He gives us the most exact idea of this singular man,...hand had ceased to stifle it. Comines praises the skilfulness, the address, and what he calls the ' wisdom ' of Louis XL ; which was only the cunning... | |
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