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It was tranilated into all the languages of Europe. 

 It was not in France that it excited the higheft ad- 

 miration : there are whole Provinces in England, 

 where it is ftill one of the books in which children 

 are taught to read. When the Englilh entered 

 the Cambraifis, with the allied army, they wifl-ied 

 to carry the Author, who was living there in a ftate 

 of retirement from "the Court, into their camp, to 

 do him the honours of a military feftival ; but his 

 modefty declined that triumph : he concealed him- 

 felf. I fhall add but one trait to his elogium : he 

 was the only man living of whom Louis XIV, was 

 jealous : and he had reafon to be fo ; for while he 

 was exerting himfelf to excite the terror, and pur- 

 chafe the admiration of Europe, by his armies, his 

 conquefts, his banquets, his buildings, and his 

 magnificence, Fenelon was commanding the ado- 

 ration of the whole World by a Book *. 



Many 



* It is abfurd to inftitute a comparifon between BoJJuet and 

 Fenelon : I am Hot capable of appraifing their feveral merits, 

 but I cannot help confidering the lecond as highly preferable to 

 his rival. He fulfilled, in my apprehenfion, the two great pre- 

 cepts of the Law .• He loved God and Men. 



The Reader will, perhaps, not be difpleafed at being told what 

 J. J. Roujfeau thought of this great man. Having, one day, fet 

 out with him on a walking excurfion to Mount Valerien, when 

 we had reached the fummit of the mountain, it was refolved to 

 alk a dinner of it's hermits, for payment. We arrived at their 

 habitation a little before they fat down to tablcj and while they 



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