Word: bossuet
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...Significance. "What pleasure," asked "the last of the French giants," of his secretary, "can you find in picking up the careless words that trickle down my old beard?" The secretary knew what Florianet and the Abbé Ledieu (French Boswells) had done for their masters, Voltaire and Bossuet. The formal biographers, already marshaling facts, will come here to make their pictures mobile...
Moliere has had severe critics. Long after his deat Bossuet found fault with him; later still Rousseau discussed him. But this very discussion of Moliere, does him the highest honor. Moliere can never descend from his high position or lose his deserved reputation...
...gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts Weiss von der christlichen Lehre:"- no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic. Power of style, properly so called, as manifested in masters of style like Dante or Milton in poetry, Cicero, Bossuet, or Holingbroke in prose, is something quite different, and has, as I have said, for its characteristic effect, this: to add dignity and distinction...
FRENCH 6. - Bossuet's Oraison funebre de Louis de Conde will be begun on Friday...
French Readings. Bossuet, Oraison funebre de Henriette d'Angleterre. Professor Cohn. Sever...