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admirable Balzac beautiful Bél Béranger Bossuet Bourdaloue character charming Chateaubriand Christian comedy conscience Corneille criticism death effect eloquence Encyclopædists English eternity expression eyes fame father feel Fénelon Fontaine France French literature Froissart genius George Sand Gil Blas give glory heart heaven honor Hôtel de Rambouillet human imagination king Lamartine less letters literary living Louis XIV Madame de Sévigné Madame de Stael Massillon maxim mind Molière Montaigne Montesquieu moral Napoleon nation nature never noble Orgon Pascal passion perhaps Phil play poet poetry Polyeuctes praise preacher present prince produced prose pulpit Rabelais Racine readers religion Roman Rousseau Sainte-Beuve seems sentiment sermon Severus soul speak spirit style Tartuffe taste Telemachus thee thing thou thought tion tragedy translation Triss truth verse Victor Hugo virtue Voltaire Voltaire's whate'er men say whole woman word writer wrote young
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Page 228 - The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers to the morality, contained in the gospel, the marks of whose truth are so striking and inimitable, that the inventor would be a more astonishing character than the hero.
Page 227 - Yes, if the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus are those of a God.
Page 36 - ... the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us. By this liberty they entered into a very laudable emulation, to do all of them what they saw did please one. If any of the gallants or ladies should say, Let us drink, they would all drink. If any one of them said, Let us play, they all played.
Page 173 - To me remains nor place nor time ; My country is in every clime ; I can be calm and free from care On any shore, since God is there. While place we seek, or place we shun, The soul finds happiness in none ; But with a God to guide our way, 'Tis equal joy to go or stay.
Page 36 - So nobly were they taught, that there was neither he nor she amongst them, but could read, write, sing, play upon several musical instruments, speak five or six several languages, and compose in them all very quaintly, both in verse and prose.
Page 102 - Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Page 26 - ... henceforward always remain friends. In my opinion, you have cause to be glad that the success of this battle did not turn out as you desired ; for you have this day acquired such high renown, for prowess, that you have surpassed all the best knights on your side. I do not, dear sir, say this to flatter you ; for all those of our side who have seen and observed the actions of each party have unanimously allowed this to be your due, and decree you the prize and garland for it.
Page 25 - The prince then, addressing the earl of Warwick and lord Cobham, said ; " I beg of you to mount your horses, and ride over the field, so that on your return you may bring me some certain intelligence of him.
Page 226 - I will confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction ; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the...
Page 227 - How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation ? When Plato described his imaginary good man...