Excerpt from An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged From the Great Work of Peter Bayle, Vol. 1 of 4: With a Life of Bayle
Stimulated by their success with a genius like that of Bayle, the Catholics formed a design of bringing over the' whole family; and he was induced by the bishop of Rieux to write a letter of invitation to his elder brother. This epistle, which still exists, forms an admirable example of the texture and complexion of the, arguments in support of authority against innovation usually employed by the Catholics; but, as it may be supposed, it made no im pression upon aperson supported and fortified by the counsels of his father and family.
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