Acting thus, it is easy to see that I was mixed up in nothing, and what I shall have to relate now will have less of the singularity and Instructiveness of good and faithful memoirs, than of the dryness and sterility of the gazettes.
"The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete"
Duc de Saint-Simon
But his selfishness, sensuality, recklessness, and degradation give, in one respect, a peculiar interest and Instructiveness to the enthusiastic friendship subsisting between him and his daughter.
"The Friendships of Women"
William Rounseville Alger