with which Mr. Fontenelle hath complimented M. la Marquiese; I should indeed, said she, except those two, which I suppose, in Complaisance to our Sex, he makes the Foundation of Philosophy, viz. Ignorance and Inquisitiveness for those I'm sure, I have in Perfection, as you have long experienced.
I need not mention the Return I made, nor how prettily she changed the Discourse to something more general, when she found I was going to say just things of her; those that knew her, don't want to be reminded of the many Beauties, both of Mind and Body, which render'd Lady M. . . . . one of the most agreeable Persons of her Sex; which yet were she living, tho' a just Debt to her Merit, I must not have said, for fear of offending her Modesty.
All that is necessary to introduce what follows, is, to inform you, That some Years before her Death, when I went to visit that accomplish'd Lady at her Country Seat; I was a little surprised to find her, the next Morning after my Arrival, studiously viewing a pair of large Globes, Which stood in the Drawing-Room, looking into the Garden, and which I used to make my Place of Study.
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