294 FENELON. 
the maxims and manners of that unpri | aang oe 
ame Guy 
and that, sooner or later, though M on had 
never existed, he must have been to with- 
draw from the scenes of public intrigue, But the per- 
uniform in a remarkable \ 
pongo g 2m ton - at 0 Pema 
mass every in hi roe # e noon, ac- 
— to the practice of those times, and partook 
only of the simplest food. All the ecclesiastics of his 
household were admitted to his table, where he promo- 
ted chearful conversation, while he preserved the most 
decorous behaviour. After dinner, he 
more formal business of his diocese ; and unless he was 
induced by the weather, or called in duty, to go abroad, 
generally retired till half past eight o'clock, About 
nine, he appeared at supper, where he ate nothing but an 
or pulse ; and about ten, his domestics were assem~- 
bled in the principal room, where an almoner read the 
evening prayers, and the archbishop pronounced the 
benediction. The only recreation in which he indul- 
ged, was walking; and he took great delight in the 
placid views of nature, the pious meditations when 
alone, and the pleasing conversations with his friends, 
which he enjoyed amidst these rural scenes. In the 
course of his walks, he would sit down upon the grass 
to converse with the peasants whom he met, or would 
visit them in their cottages, to offer the consolations 
which they required, and would often ber pare a 
vitation to porega their table, —- 
their m e preached regularly during 
Lent in md of the churches of Cambrai ;.and there 
parish or town in his diocese where he 
Socity wae Sr tnale pulghhontheal, top se 
of his was in their nei F p 
ced a guard for its preservation ; and the towns and 
pie pare his jurisdiction, became asylums to the 
i i of the surrounding country. In 1711, 
when the allied armies within sight of Cam- 
brai, the little town of i principal 
domain of the Archbishop, 
bourmg 
tection of Fenelon’s name, he informed him of the neces- 
sity forremoving it, and escorted thecarriages which con+ 
veyed it to the outposts ofthe oe The 
ey prelate availed himself e mer or 
ed to his p ,and the safe conduct provided for his 
person, to furnish relief and consolation to the suffer- 
ing people under his care. His was attended 
with a temporary suspension of the horrors of war, and 
the season of his pastoral visits, observes one of his bi- 
to write to him, dated in 1701, strongly expressed 
suslonenao,of bie enanas sud the digas One Ta 
the he had regarded the treatment to which he had been 
When ing through Cambrai in 1708, to take the — 
of the army along with Marshal de Boufilers, 
he obtained penntiesian to visit the i but on- 
the only words which 
i atered were these," Etery te Sted d asunder ; 
nothing now holds me to the earth.” Yet 
In the beginning of the year 1715, he was seized with 
an inflammation in his lungs, accompanied with conti- 
nued fever. He yo re the event, and appeared 
of the sacred scriptures; 
interest Se eae 
verses of the , and the first nine of the fifth chap- 
ters of the second epistle to the Corinthians. He 
in the 64th year of his age, on the 7th of January 1715, 
In the character of Fenelon, there appears an extra- 
i union of intellectual greatness and of moral 
excellence. The governing principle of his whole mind 
and conduct was the spirit of Christianity. 
z 
tions undebased the ny pews of a corrupted 
church. But his plety, while I : re 
most conciliating and attractive nature ; and his talents, 
scarcely less unrivalled, were exerted with a degree of 
modesty and affability, which are not often found to 
