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Page vii
... Habit Power of Habit - 183 - 184 Its insensible Beginning ; its Progress Second Nature ; often fatal A Man taking advantage of this Power Can we get clear of it ? 3 - 185 · • 187 . 188 · 189 CHAPTER V. On Convents - 192 Omnipotence of ...
... Habit Power of Habit - 183 - 184 Its insensible Beginning ; its Progress Second Nature ; often fatal A Man taking advantage of this Power Can we get clear of it ? 3 - 185 · • 187 . 188 · 189 CHAPTER V. On Convents - 192 Omnipotence of ...
Page 121
... habit , taste , and power of acting . Is it not then an illusion , Bossuet ? if the soul still seems to act , when this activity is no longer its own , but yours . You show me a person who moves , and walks ; but I see well , that this ...
... habit , taste , and power of acting . Is it not then an illusion , Bossuet ? if the soul still seems to act , when this activity is no longer its own , but yours . You show me a person who moves , and walks ; but I see well , that this ...
Page 144
... habit , and manner of living , protestant to the core , and with English tenacity . See then these famous politicians , gliding as stealthily as wolves , and fancying they will carry every thing by surprise . An essential point for them ...
... habit , and manner of living , protestant to the core , and with English tenacity . See then these famous politicians , gliding as stealthily as wolves , and fancying they will carry every thing by surprise . An essential point for them ...
Page 169
... habits of analysing and developing , confession was naturally reduced to a simple declaration of sin , without any detail of cir- cumstances . Still less could they deduce the pheno- mena which accompany passion - the desires , doubts ...
... habits of analysing and developing , confession was naturally reduced to a simple declaration of sin , without any detail of cir- cumstances . Still less could they deduce the pheno- mena which accompany passion - the desires , doubts ...
Page 179
... habits , always for a good reason : " To - day is a fast - day " -and to- morrow ? " Is a holyday . " The husband respects this austerity ; he would consider it very wrong to trouble this exalted devotion ; he is sadly resigned : " this ...
... habits , always for a good reason : " To - day is a fast - day " -and to- morrow ? " Is a holyday . " The husband respects this austerity ; he would consider it very wrong to trouble this exalted devotion ; he is sadly resigned : " this ...
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2d Edition Archbishop of Bourges austere become bishop Bossuet Carmelites century character charming child Christian church cloth coloured confess confessor convents daughter death Desmarets devotion direction director doctrine Engravings ennui father Fcap fear Fenelon Foolscap 8vo France Francis de Sales François friars genius gentle give grace heart History holy husband intrigue J. C. Loudon Jansenists Jesuits Jesus king lady Lazarists less letters liberty living longer Madame de Chantal Madame de Maintenon Madame Guyon means middle ages mind Molière Molinos moral mother mystic nature never nuns passion penitent person Plates poor pope post 8vo practice priest Quietism religious Rome Saint Saint-Cyr Saulieu Savoy seventeenth soul speak spiritual Tartuffe taste thing thought Translated TREATISE Vignette Titles Visitandines vols weak wife wish woman women Woodcuts word young
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