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5050. MARIE ANTOINETTE, Character.—

This angel, as gaudily painted in the
rhapsodies of the Rhetor Burke, with some
smartness of fancy, but no good sense, was
proud, disdainful of restraint, indignant at all
obstacles to her will, eager in the pursuit of
pleasure, and firm enough to hold to her desires,
or perish in their wreck.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 101. Ford ed., i, 140.
(1821)