Excerpt from Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., Late Envoy-Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden, Vol. 4 of 4: Together With Other Pieces on Various Subjects<br><br>Since my lafi to you, I have read Madame Maintenon's letters; I am fure they are genuine} and they both entertained and informed me. They have broughtme acquainted with the charaéter of that able and artful 'lgfly,5whom I am convinced that I now know much better, than her directeur the Abbe' de Fenelon (afterwards Archbilhop of Cambra'y) did, when he wrote her the 185th let ter and I know him the better too for that letter. The Abbi, though brimful of the divine love, had a great mind to be firfi Minifier, and Cardinal, in order, no doubt, to have an opportunity of doing the more good. His being dinfieur at that time to Madame Maintenon feemed to be a good fiep towards thofe views. She put herfelf upon him for a faint, and he was weak enough to believe it.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.