66 Ah, I have guessed Right. I will give you and never tells us any thing." it! It is the newspaper. another. Who is the most interesting lady, the most beautiful and noble"-" It is mamma," said the Dauphin, embracing the queen.-" But I have not finished--who is seldom followed, and often hated." "Ah, this is difficult," said the Prince, and he continued musing. "I know it, papa," said he; "it is the goddess Truth; but to tell you the truth, my sister whispered the answer to me." THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, GRANDSON OF L OUIS, Duke of Burgundy, was no less the enemy of falsehood, than of flattery. He owned his faults candidly, and would not allow them to be palliated through indulgence, or a weak desire to please him. Once, when he had been inattentive at his lessons, and repeated badly the tasks that had been set him, a lady happened to enter from the queen, to enquire whether the preceptor was satisfied with his pupil. "Entirely so," was the complaisant reply. As soon as the lady had left the room, "What, sir," said the Prince," do you exhort me never to tell a lie, and do you lie for me, and in my presence!" JOHN, KING OF FRANCE. T was a beautiful saying of John, King of France, IT that if Justice and Good Faith were banished from the earth, they ought still to find a dwelling-place in the hearts of kings. And he proved that this was not merely a sentiment accidentally uttered, but a principle of action with him; for Edward the Third, whose prisoner he was, having allowed him to return to France, to endeavour to raise the stipulated sum for his ransom, John, finding this impossible, owing to the impoverished state of his kingdom, returned to England, and gave himself up to his former captivity. વાટ કે ડીપોટ સા FLATTERY. HOW Oh, that men's ears should be, SHAKSPEARE. young WEVER careful the parents of Princes may be, to surround them with persons of integrity, the voice of flattery will notwithstanding reach them, and no faculty is more important to them, than the power of discriminating between praise duly earned, and the adulation of selfish and interested persons. We have several examples of Princes, whose innate singleness of heart, and love of what is exact and true, have enabled them to detect and despise flattery. THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, GRANDSON OF LOUIS, Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis the Fifteenth, was a prince of great promise, but died at the age of nine years, from the effects of a fall. He had a great aversion to all who flattered him, or concealed the truth from him. He took a great affection for one of his valets de chambre, named Tourol. "How happy is Tourol!" said some one to him: "you always seem delighted to see him, and allow him to be continually with you.' "It is true;" replied the Prince, "I love him, because he does not spare me, but always reminds me when I am going to do any thing wrong." CAN CANUTE THE GREAT. ANUTE, the greatest and most powerful monarch of his time, King of Denmark and Norway, as well as of England, could not fail of meeting with adulation from his courtiers; and some of them, breaking out one day in admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed, that his power was more than human, and that every thing was possible to him. Upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was coming in; and as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who was lord of all. He feigned to sit some time in expectation of their submission, but the sea rolling on, not only wetted the skirts of his robe, but likewise splashed his limbs: he then turned to his courtiers, and remarked to them, that he, like every creature in the universe, was feeble and impotent, and that power resided with one Being only, in whose hands were all the elements, and who alone could say to the ocean, Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther. |