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Then vict'ry must now be certain...
...thousand men of Harvard want vict'ry today...
This was an age of letter-writing among the ladies of the period. Most of them wrote about the trivialities of Court life and paid floods of compliments to the King and the "reigning mistress ;" few ventured upon criticisms. Those letters of de Scudéry, de Sévigné, de Grignan or de Maintenon were obsequious in character, unless they engaged in abstract discussion of the Arts or turned to the contemplation of Nature, which was the rarest of expedients. The letters of de Maintenon (widow of the poet Scrarron) were naturally centred upon the King...
Kossuth, a Protestant, was educated at the Calvinist college of Sarospatlak and at the Budapest University. Aged 19, he became steward to the Countess Sapáry, a position which he subsequently lost owing to a quarrel with that good lady, who vindictively charged him with stealing money to pay his gambling debts. Soon after this he became the representative of Count Hungárdy at the National Diet in Pressburg (dissolved...
...thousand men of Harvard gained vict'ry today...