Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors, French -- Biography
Guyon, madame, enthusiasm or
mysticism of, I. 340. _et seq._ Her
fervour occasions the disgrace of
Fénélon, 342. He speaks in her
cause to Bossuet, 342. Her party
punished, 343.
H.
Hamilton, la belle, countess of
Grammont, I. 119.
Hardy, early French dramatic author,
I. 41.
Harlay de, archbishop of Paris, I.
140. 333.
Harpe, La, M., critical remarks of
I. 178. 258. II. 102.
Helvetius, M., II. 171. Madame
Roland's opinion as to, 263.
Henrietta of England, duchess of
Orléans, I. 58. 308. Her death,
164.
Henry, king of Navarre, I. 11.
Henry IV. king of France, I. 11.
Character of his court warlike and
unlettered, 41. The "Henriade"
a history of this great monarch
and his times, II. 12.
Herbault, Puits d', monk of Fontevrault,
I. 31.
Hippocrates, edited or translated by
Rabelais, I. 26. 28. 37. His system,
26.
Holland, lord, on the Spanish
Drama, &c., I. 45, n.
Houdetot, countess d', II. 128. Her
visit to J. J. Rousseau at the Hermitage,
141.
Huguenots, blame attached by
Montaigne to their party, I. 12.
Oppression of the, 257. Bourdaloue
sent into the south to
convert protestants, 257, n. Fénélon
commissioned to convert
the Huguenots, 333. Out of the
pale of the Romish church, 339.
II. 79. The _dragonnades_, 79. 87.
Hume, David, persuades Rousseau
to visit England, II. 159. Is indignant
at the folly and jealousies
of Jean Jacques, 162.
I.
Innocent X., condemns the five propositions
on grace and election,
said to be from the book on Augustin
by Jansenius, I. 200.
Intolerance, cases of, II. 79. 83. 85.
J.
James II., arrival of, in France, I.
251.
Jansenius, Cornelius, bishop of
Ypres, five propositions selected
by the Jesuits from his work on
St. Augustin, and condemned by
the Sorbonne, I. 200.
Jansenists, origin of the, I. 200.
Controversies respecting the abbé
Arnaud, 200.; and the Lettres
Provinciales, 207. Praise of
education by the Jansenists, 298.
Their spirit of controversy, 339.
Fénélon opposed to Jansenism,
362. Persecution of the, II. 87.
Jesuits, order of, I. 200. 207. They
employ themselves particularly in
education, 298. Polemical spirit
infused by the religious orders,
and an apathy for the affairs of
this world, 298. Banishment of
the, II. 87.
Jordan, Mrs., her excellent taste,
and vivacity in comedy, I. 117.
Jura Mountains, peasants of the,
II. 100.
K.
Keith, lord, his regard for Rousseau,
II. 157.
Kœnig, Prussian mathematician,
II. 65.
L.
La Beaumelle, his attack on Voltaire
in Prussia, II. 66.
La Bruyère, his critique on Rabelais,
I. 34. Describes Corneille's
conversation and manner, 55. His
portrait of La Fontaine, 181.
La Fare, anacreontic poet, I. 171.
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