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Discourse on Universal History

Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne

History

Univ of Chicago Pr

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Excerpt from Oeuvres de Bossuet, v que de Meaux, Vol. 16: Revues sur les Manuscrits Originaux, Et les ditions les Plus Correctes Voil donc trois gr ces qui sont dans l'eglise pour surmonter le monde et ses vanit s la premi re de s'en s parer tout - 'a - fait, et de s' loigner de son commerce; la seconde, de s'y conserver sans cor ruption, et de r sister ses attraits; la troisi me, plus minente est d'en imprimer le d go t aux autres, et d'en emp cher la contagion. Ces trois gr ces sont dans l'eglise; mais il est rare de les voir umes dans une m me personn'e, et c'est ce qui me fait admirer la vie du grand saint Sulpice. Il l'a commenc e la Cour, il l'a finie dans la solitude le milieu en a t occup dans les fonctions eccl sias tiques. Courtisan il a v cu dans le monde sans tre pris de ses charmes: v que, il en a d tach ses fr res solitaire, il a d sir de finir ses jours dans une enti re retraite. Ainsi successivement, dans les trois tats de sa vie nous lui verrons surmonter le monde de toutes les mani res dont on le peut vaincre car il s'est oppos g n reusement ses fa veurs dans la Cour, au cours de sa malignit dans l' piscopat la douceur de son commerce dans la solitude troes pomtsde ce discours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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