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CHAP. IX.
Endure and conquer: Jove will soon dispose
To future good your past and present woes.
Resume your courage, and dismiss your care;
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past; as benefits of fate
Endure the hardships of your present state;
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.
The elder D'Alembert was son to the Marquis of Montmorenci's sister, and heir to his titles and fortunes if he died without children. He was brought up with a taste for pleasure and extravagance—a taste which, on becoming his own master, a circumstance that took place at a very early period in life,
