In this Fénelon defended himself with dignity and moderation, while the violence of Bossuet's attack sometimes bordered on truculence.
Fénelon was banished to his diocese of Cambrai and deprived of his position of preceptor to the royal children, showing that he was in complete disgrace and warning all time-servers to abandon him.
Fénelon followed his example and, on April 27th, sent the Maximes, stating that he submitted it to the judgement of the Holy See.
Fénelon avowed that he looked to her as the king’s conscience.
He should have been mindful of a great captain of loftier genius than his--Prince Eugene, whom history honors for honoring Fénelon at Cambrai.
Grace had read her Bible and Fénelon to such purpose, that she had accepted her cross with open arms.
Fénelon praises it as a Christian grace, under the name of simplicity; but we incline to consider it only as an advantage of natural organization.
Fénelon had written a treatise, Maxims of the Saints, which was said to favor Mme.
In fact, Fénelon became imbued with the doctrines of Mme.
It was as though marriages in Paris had an occult Providence in the person of this rare sort of man in whom were blended the priest and the lawyer, the apostle and the diplomatist--Fénelon and M.
When we turn to modern literature from the pages in which Fénelon speaks of the education of girls, who does not feel that the world has lost a sacred accent, as if some ineffable essence has passed out from our hearts?
I replied, "If Fénelon were alive, you would be a Catholic.
Back went Fénelon on the St. Lawrence on his snowshoes.
Fénelon retired to Lachine as a secular priest, and is reckoned one of the first curés of this place.
Fénelon and I have ordered him not to return to Canada.
Again the recalcitrant de Fénelon went back to his prison.
Fénelon was taken as prisoner to the brewery under the conduct of an usher.
Fénelon "as unworthy of a man of his character and birth.
Fénelon to go for a time to France by the last vessels sailing in November.
The governor reproved him, and Fénelon quoted his canonical privilege.
Fénelon fell an easier victim, and his action was not calculated to prejudice M.
Fénelon in a civil court, whereas they claimed the right of trying such a case in a prior ecclesiastical court, according to precedent.
For example, we suppose, that the most austere critics would not accuse Fénelon of impiety and immorality on account of his Telemachus and his Dialogues of the Dead.
The dead are judged by Minos, and rewarded with lasting happiness for actions which Fénelon would have been the first to pronounce splendid sins.
It is easy to see why the conventional worlds of Fénelon and Mr. Southey are unobjectionable.
But in one important respect the mind of Fénelon was not in accord with the lines on which French thought was to develop for the next eighty years.
Where the subtlety of Fénelon was not allowed to operate, the loud dialectic of Bossuet could not avail for faith as against rationalism, whatever it might do to upset the imperfect logic of Protestant sects.
Now remembered chiefly through the account of his intercourse with Fénelon (repr.
Fénelon seems to have been uncandid, while Bossuet, by common consent, was malevolent.
In 1687, after all the progress accomplished through the double influence of Port Royal and Madame de Maintenon, Fénelon wrote: Nothing is more neglected than the education of girls.
No better statement of his conduct was ever given than Fénelon gave his pupil, the Duc de Bourgogne, in his Dialogues des Morts.
He wrote a History of the Civil Wars in France which was highly esteemed, and which Fénelon recollected when writing his Letter on the Pursuits of the French Academy.
Fénelon to his grand-nephew whom he called Fanfan.
At that time I came across a passage dealing with the limits of the spiritual and temporal powers, which is to be found in the discourse delivered by Fénelon at the consecration of the Archbishop of Cologne.
I have begun the Dialogues of Fénelon on Jansenism, a book which is little known and almost forgotten, though admirably written, and sometimes as striking as the Provincial Letters.
I have a heavy scholar cloistered up, Close under lock and key, kept at his task Of letting Fénelon know the fool he is, In a book I promise Christendom next Spring.
To this point would Fénelon have carried the purity of love and the perfection of abandonment; and he did not lack plausible motives with which to support this doctrine.
When Racine spoke of Chartres Cathedral he made use of the term barbare; even to the churchman Fénelon the cathedrals of the Middle Ages appeared unreasoned and faulty.
I must really tell you what Fénelon thought of the author of the Précieuses ridicules.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nelon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
