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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 683 — XII. OF OPINIONS.

Henri Van Laun translation

William III. became the adopted son of the Dutch republic on the death of his father in 1666, and on the proposal of John de Witt. Frenchmen pretend he was far more dictatorial in Holland than in England, and accuse him of having behaved ungratefully towards de Witt, his so-called “nurse.”

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