Bossuet

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakspeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important."

Here was something beyond the shallows of ladies' school literature: here was a living Bossuet, whose work would reconcile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint.

Henry IV of France, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Bossuet and Denis Diderot thought that national strength came from its population (ibid 40).

A final section surveys other metaphysical and moral proofs, such as On God, Creator of the Soul and the Body, and Author of Their Life by Jacque-Benigne Bossuet; and The Argument from Universal Aseity by Andre-Pierre Le Guay de Premontval.

absolutist theory propounded by Bishop Bossuet became ineffective.

A Jean Racine B Catherine de' Medici C Jacques Benigne Bossuet D Francoise Marquise de Maintenon

To the left is the west cellar, devoted to red wines maturing in barrels by Bossuet, Darnajou, Orion, Taransaud and Sylvain.

De um lado, a tentacao em interpretar a providencia vichiana em seu contexto aparentemente adequado, o da, 'grosso modo', filosofia crista da historia (de Agostinho e de Bossuet) mediante a suposicao da governanca divina e transcendental dos acontecimentos humanos temporais e 'contingentes'.