philosopher of much wit, and full of contempt besides for all
theological quarrels, thought of this charming doctrine. “Can it be
possible to give to the word _freedom_ a meaning so forced as that
which the Jansenists give it? We are now, according to them, like a
ball on a billiard-table, indifferent whether it move to the right or
to the left; but at the very time that it moves to the right, it is
maintained to be still indifferent as to its moving to that side; for
this reason, that it might have been driven to the left. Such is what
they have the presumption to call in us _freedom_; a freedom purely
passive, which signifies only the different use which the Creator may
make of our wills, and not the use which we can make of them ourselves
without his help. What fantastic and fallacious language!” _Lettre de
Mr. de la Motte, à Mr. de Fenelon._
[10] Lib. vii. Fabl. 16.
[11] Mr. de la Chalotais, in his _Essay on Education_, presented to
the parliament of Bretagne.
[12] The late cardinal de Tencin.
[13] _Le Dépit amoureux_, Act first, Scene last.
[14] It is said that the Jesuits, out of respect to the Queen and
Dauphin, refused to undertake the spiritual guidance of La Pompadour.
_Appendix_ to the XXXII. Vol. of the _Monthly Review_. p. 499.
[15] _Fontaine_, Lib. VII. Fable iii.
[16] Æneid I.
[17] Mélanges de littérature, d’histoire & de philosophie, par M.
D.... Tom. IV. p. 364.
[18] _And thou too, my dear Brutus!_ It is assured that this satyrist
gave to the word _Brutus_ a more malicious interpretation than we
pretend to approve of.
[19] The reader knows that _hegira_ signifies _flight_, or _expulsion_.
[20] This is what a thousand French have heard said in England, in
Germany, and even at Rome.
[21] It is assured, that the day after the expulsion of the Jesuits,
the Convulsionaries began to foretell it. It is thus that they have
always prophesied; and what is very surprising, they have never been
mistaken.
[22] These queries appear to have been written in the interval between
the arrêt, which ordains the Jesuits to take the oath, and the arrêt
which banished them. It was thought they might be useful, if any
unforeseen circumstance should seem one day to require the Jesuits to
be forced to renounce expressly the institution.
[23] As the Jesuits of Versailles, and some others of the principal
have done.
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│ p. 27: “Richlieu” → “Richelieu.” (Henry IV. or rather cardinal │
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│ p. 78: “repuputation” → “reputation” ( … the greatest merit and │
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│ p. 86: “co-temporaries” → “contemporaries (… admired by his │
│ contemporaries.) │
│ p. 110: “expresly” → “expressly.” (… without having been │
│ condemned expressly.) │
│ p. 110: “partiticular” → “particular.” (… one proposition of │
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│ p. 126: “ n” → “in.” (… whose crime in their eyes….) │
│ p. 156: “expresly” → “expressly.” (… whom he points out │
│ expressly….) │
│ p. 160” “powerfull” → “powerful.” (… a society, lately so │
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│ p. 201: “pitifull” → “pitiful.” (… fathers of so pitiful a │
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│ Dogmatises (p. 55) and dogmatizes (p. 206). │
│ Expense (p. 72) and expence (p. 124). │
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