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 THE BEE, 



OR 



.LITER JRT WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 



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 Wednesday, March 7. 1792 



MEMOIRS OF ABBE BLANCHET * 



TjlOM THE FRENCH OF M. DUSAUX, OF THE ROYAL ACAPEMY OF 

 INSCRIPTIONS AND BELLES LETTRES, SELECTJED AND TRANSLA- 

 7TED BY THE OBLIGING FAVOUR OF A FRIEND. 



■With a portrait. 



But how sadly will the scene be reversed, if the first thoughts which oc- 

 . cur to a man, concerning himself, be of the gloomy and threatening kind ; 

 ifhistemfer, instead of calmnefs and self enjoyment, fliall yield him 

 nothing but disquiet and- painful agitation? blair's sermons. 



1 HE Abbe Blanchet was born the 26th January" 

 1707, at the town of Anguville in the district of 

 Chartres, from parents little blefsed by fortune ; but 

 independent and honest. He may be said to have 

 erected himself. He came to the college of Lewis xiv. 

 at Paris to finifli his studies. The Jesuits were not 

 VOL. viii. A t 



• Author of several elegant miscellaneous tales, two of which our 

 readers have lately seen, the dean of Badaji^z, and the Wiil- Ail of th < 

 author's- works display a i\mAu tle^ifit t«rn of humour, and Ji-^vc a h:.? 

 moral tendency. 



