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... BosSUET , ordered , lucid , magnificent , reflect its literary ideals as clearly as the couplets of Racine . Un- fortunately , however , in the case of Bossuet , the splendour and perfection of the form is very nearly all that a modern ...
... BosSUET , ordered , lucid , magnificent , reflect its literary ideals as clearly as the couplets of Racine . Un- fortunately , however , in the case of Bossuet , the splendour and perfection of the form is very nearly all that a modern ...
Page 120
... Bossuet can hardly save from oblivion the theological controversies of two hundred years ago . The same failing mars his treatment of history . His Histoire Universelle was conceived on broad and sweeping lines , and contains some ...
... Bossuet can hardly save from oblivion the theological controversies of two hundred years ago . The same failing mars his treatment of history . His Histoire Universelle was conceived on broad and sweeping lines , and contains some ...
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... Bossuet unrolls the narratives of the Bible or meditates upon the mysteries of his religion , his language takes on the colours of poetry and soars on the steady wings of an exalted imagination . In his famous Oraisons Funèbres the ...
... Bossuet unrolls the narratives of the Bible or meditates upon the mysteries of his religion , his language takes on the colours of poetry and soars on the steady wings of an exalted imagination . In his famous Oraisons Funèbres the ...
Page 127
... Bossuet -a spirit not far removed from the under- mining criticism of the eighteenth century : itself . Yet La Bruyère was not a social reformer nor a political theorist : he was simply a moralist and an observer . He saw in a flash the ...
... Bossuet -a spirit not far removed from the under- mining criticism of the eighteenth century : itself . Yet La Bruyère was not a social reformer nor a political theorist : he was simply a moralist and an observer . He saw in a flash the ...
Page 138
... Bossuet , and considered the development of events from a purely secular point of view , as the result of natural causes . But his greatest work , over which he spent the greater part of his life , and on which his reputation must ...
... Bossuet , and considered the development of events from a purely secular point of view , as the result of natural causes . But his greatest work , over which he spent the greater part of his life , and on which his reputation must ...
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Page 126 - Dieu et la nature sont en tout cela ce qu'il n'admire point; il ne va pas plus loin que l'oignon de sa tulipe, qu'il ne livrerait pas pour mille écus, et qu'il donnera pour rien quand les tulipes seront négligées et que les œillets auront prévalu. Cet homme raisonnable, qui a une âme, qui a un culte et une religion, revient chez soi fatigué, affamé, mais fort content de sa journée : il a vu des tulipes.
Page 60 - Quelle chimère est-ce donc que l'homme ? Quelle nouveauté, quel monstre, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction, quel prodige ! Juge de toutes choses, imbécile ver de terre; dépositaire du vrai, cloaque d'incertitude et d'erreur ; gloire et rebut de l'univers.
Page 118 - Jupin pour chaque état mit deux tables au monde : L'adroit, le vigilant, et le fort, sont assis A la première ; et les petits Mangent leur reste à la seconde.