"Conceited in their shallow ignorance the generality of mankind scorn the gifts and turn away from the givers. Some fe…"

"The time is fast approaching when imprudent France, Surrounded by misfortune she might have spared herself, Will call…"

"All is lost, Countess! This sun is the last which will set on the monarchy; tomorrow it will exist no more, chaos wil…"

"The ignorant assert that We provoke revolutions and sedition, but actually We have tried many times to prevent murder…"

"Here is another missive from my unknown. Have you not heard people talking again of the Comte de St.--Germain?... Thi…"

"During the last quarter of every hundred years an attempt is made by those Masters, of whom I have spoken, to help on…"

"Some encyclopædists (see New American Cyclopædia xiv. 266) say: "He is supposed to have been employed during the grea…"

"Is it not absurd to suppose that if he really died at the time and place mentioned, he would have been laid in the gr…"

"Among the strange mysterious beings, with which the eighteenth century was so richly dowered, no one has commanded mo…"

"Some of the assemblies in which the Comte de St. Germain taught his philosophy were held in the Rue Platrière; other …"