The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-12-26
PRETTY COMPLIMENTS.
PRAISES suHo RY SOME GRACE
Full TONGUES.
One o, til" Grniest Comptmcn's Ever
Paid--Aa Amcrissn LID Rni Oas
ofNsisoa's sailors--Pralss
for Preachs..

OF happy compliments says an OK
change. some OF which may be called
historical though perhaps they are
not so widely known as they ought TO
be. IT Is relat,d OF DIR. Balguy. GEL
!, ebrated preacher that after having
preached an excellent sermon In Win
hester cathedral on the text In much
wisdom Is much grief he received the
following extempore compliment from
DIR. Watson. then at Winchester schools
II what you advance, dear Doctor, DO true,
That wisdom Is sorrow, how wretched are
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The following compliment though
delivered In plain prose- must have
been quite AZ acceptable to the brave
soldier TO whom It was addressed as
the above coupled was to the learned
preacher When Frederick the
Great OF Prussia dined with the empe-
ror Of Germany on the occasion OF their
meeting ut Nciss. General Laudohn.
who with other officers had been invi-
ted to join the party. was about to
place himself on the side OF the table
opposite the king; but Frederick pre-
vented his doing So and pointing to a
seat beside himself exclaimed:
Come and sit here. general for
have always wished to see you ut my
side. rather than facing me-"
With all his faults Louis XIV. knew
how to conduct himself as great
king; among his other qualities he
was master OF the art OF paying noble
compliments. On one occasion he
stood ut the top OF the grand staircase
to receive the heroic Condo after the
battle OF Seneff Q674.)
The prince, then in his fifty-fourth
year. was troubled with govt and as
cended the stairs slowly. When he
had reached the top he apologized for
keeping his majesty waiting so long.
my cousin" replied the monarch.
make no apologies; one who is so
laden with laurels as you are cannot
move quickly."-In an interview with
the celebrated preacher Massillon.
Louis remarked: II have heard
many great preachers and the effect
they produced on me was that l felt
thoroughly satisfied with them.
Every time have heard you have
been dissatisfied with myself"
] Perhaps one OF the grandest compli-
ments ever paid by one human being
to another was that rendered by Mich
olas the emperor OF all the Russias
to Mademoiselle Rachel, the celebrated
French actress Whom she WAS intro
duced to him she knelt; but the en-
peror raised her. and himself falling
on one knee. said: Thus should the
royalty Of rank pay homage to the
royalty OF genius"
Some time ago we were in Green
wich park with very beautiful Amer
lean lady. 1t was the time when there
were still many Greenwich pensioners
to be seen lounging ABOUT old men
who remembered Nelson and talked of
Trafalgar. Mutilated heroes they
often were, who richly deserved the
repose they had found. They always
loved talking. and appreciated good
listeners. and with one of them the
fair American got into animated con.
versation. She listened well. but
spoke well also telling the pensioner
what she was and many things about
America After the gooo- bye had
been said. no looked at her so exam
iningly that she could not but pause a
moment by the gate.
Then the old sailor said, as II he
had just made a discovery: They've
sent you over for the show; they are
not Gil like you" At which we
laughed and hurried of.
Not long ago. when brief matri-
monial engagement was broken of. a
near relation OF the gentleman, one
who fully appreciated the high quail
ties of her from whom the sometime
lover was sundered. said to the young
lady; You have only lost an ideal;
he has lost reality" A very sweet
compliment this, under the circum-
stances, it seems to us.
One more litHe anecdote we will
give. and 1t is a husbands compliment
to his wife. They were visitors few
days at n country-house. and on being
shown into their room. the lady who
was nearer forty years OF age than
thirty. prepared TO take of her bon
net. Now. be it observed that look
ing glasses vary very much in quality;
some distort and some fatter tho
countenance. These different quail
ties in glassmaking are no new things
for we may remember that when
Queen Elizabeth was dying she nsked
for q true glass. into which she had
not allowed herself 10 look for twenty
years. The glass that Was on the
dressine-table on the occasion to
which we refer was delightful one
that is to say. ''iiattering" one. and
as the lady saw herself re ected II Il
sho merrily exclaimed: .'Oh. what a
charming glass! lcok about eighteen
in it." 1T Is just like my eyes, then. y
the husband promptly replied.
On the whole we think that we'll,
| expressed. well-applied compliments
have their uses and that society
would be very dull and life very bleak
without them. NJ
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