What a Minister ought to do upon his Arrival in a Foreign Court (1738) [ Practices ]
… he becomes the Cement of their Friendship, and Union; and he gains most assuredly their Esteem and Confidence, by making their common Interests to flourish and prosper. He may likewise sometimes take Advantage of the Passions of a … qualifications necessary for succeeding in those imployments. By Monsieur de Callieres, Counsellor in Ordinary to the King, Secretary of the Cabinet to His Majesty, heretofore Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the late King for the Treaties of Peace concluded at Ryswick, and one of the forty Members of the French Academy. Translated from …
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