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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...it was not yet time for those in Judaea to flee to the mountains.3 1 B. Wks., pp. 473, 483. 8 Wks. ix. p. 198.199. These are Fenelon's suggestions of arguments to be employed by his agents in Rome. B. Wks. xviii., pp. 633, 658. See PWlippeaux, pp. 287-288. The appeal once lodged, Fnelon's courage began to revive. At first he had bent before the storm of troubles that fell so thickly upon him, first, the icy reception of his book, next the burning of part of his palace at Cambrai (Feb. 1697) a few months afterwards, the expulsion by the King in person of Mme-de la Maisonfort from St Cyr--the prelude, as all the world suspected, to the dismissal of Beauvilliers and Burgundy's other tutors from their place.1 At Easter-time, he had moved even Bossuet's compassion, shut up, sick and dispirited, in a little cottage near Versailles and venturing neither to Cambrai nor to Court. But he was slowly gathering together his forces; soon Bossuet reports him full of pride and with no notion of surrender;2 his conduct becomes a map of trickery, artifice and mystification; he plays the part of the martyr with the most surpassing arrogance.3 His voice had lost those tones of strained, hysteric vehemence, of plaintive, regretful insincerity, which marred all his defences of Mmc" Guyon; now there was no more cause to think of her--the fight was all his own, and with the need of combat came the power. Bossuet, St Simon, all were startled by that Letter to a Friend, in which he bade the Court farewell. "Pray, my friend; there is nothing left but silence, obedience and prayer. Pray for me in my hour of need, for the Church afflicted by these troubles, for those who are warring against me, that they may correct me if I am astray and do me justice, if I walk aright; pray ...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123587625X
- ISBN 13 9781235876257
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages98
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