os pera 
ible integrity, softened id t den 
ced by attractive manners: this is more like a charac- 
A goats ape 
of these combined attractions, that, in the words of the 
Duke de St Simon, « il falloit faire effort pour cesser de 
more o! 
hed as much by the charms of his conversation, as 
the superiority of his talents. He always brought 
to the level of his company. He never dispu- 
to yield to others at the very time 
ae ret oot ae? 
greatest subjects with facility, 
t trifling were ermobled b is ~ 
bei esg ity gervehel Ma ORs pores 
singulari who # 
in un fe bad sublime simplicity, gave 
the air of a prophet. The peculiar 
of expression which he adopted, 
believe that he possessed universal 
inspiration : it might indeed have 
creep 
Te 
i 
sat 
H 
(i 
H 
al 
fy] 
i 
i The same 
pulpit of opgeieatd church, 
in a language suit- 
een aad de weak~ 
ings, and afterwards descend to 
of contacting te concer ofa gion." When 
i concerns of a king en 
the affairs of Louis XIV. were in a state of derange- 
ment ing to ruin, the Archbishop of Cambrai 
generously rendered him the most valuable political as- 
sistance. Amidst the labours of his diocese, he applied 
himself to.devise measures for re-organizing the cabi- 
net, and repairing the resources of France, and display- 
ed all the promptitude and sagacity of the most experi- 
enced statesman. He even controuled in some 
ili pel A oe of Burgundy, w 
_ made un 5 i 
ved himself fi neat 
presented itself to his con« 
_ Of his writings we have left ourselves little room to 
give a detailed account ; but they are such as must ren- 
destined yet with a 
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consumed his palace at Cambrai in 1697, destroyed 
many of his most valuable manuscripts, especially those 
which were corinected with the education of his royal 
by pupil, and upon which he had employed the best years 
life—an event which scarcely disturbed for a 
moment the habitual serenity of his mind, but which 
the friends of religion and of literature can never cease 
to deplore.* His Treatise on the Education of aDaugh- 
ter, published in 1687, thougt not originally intended 
for the public, may be considered as a compendium of 
~ most useful r ts Be the subject, sees with 
greatest simplicity and precision. His Treatise on 
the Ministry 0, Past SO a in 1688, is intended 
to vindicate the spiri authority of the church of 
Rome, and is at least written with a degree of candour 
and temper seldom found in ecclesiastical controversies. 
His various replies to his assailants on the subject of 
Quietism, were composed with astonishing rapidity, 
icuity and precision which seemed to 
Initiate the into the most difficult points in theo- 
logy, and with a subtilty of genius which confounded 
the talents of Bossuet himself. He wrote many pieces 
against the Jansenists, ially Four Pastoral Letters, 
printed in 1704; and his share in this contest is cer- 
tainly the least amiable part of his conduct. The Dia- 
of the Dead were composed for the use of his pu 
pil, and intended to fix upon his memory the real me« 
rits of the most distinguished characters recorded in his. 
tory. They were first published in 1712, after the 
Duke of Burgandy’e death, and without the author's 
hame or consent ; and it was not till 1730 that a com- 
edition was given to the world, The Adventures - 
of Telemachus, which was not originally desgons for 
publication, but entirely for the instruction of the Duke 
of Burgundy, seems to have been composed between : 
Lo bes ei and 1697; and as it appears to have - 
to remain a secret er david aia 
no 
tor and his pupil, this admirable ormance, 
the lucky treachery of a eenaciher” prevailed, might 
have shared the fate of the other papers in the young 
‘ agate cabinet, which Louis committed to the es, 
Demonstration of the Being of a God, which he pub- 
lished in 1713, is, to say the least, the best book en the, 
subject in the French . His Letters on Reli- 
gion and Metaphysics, written to the Duke of Orleans, 
were published after his death, and are chiefly suited 
toa member of the church of Rome, His Dialogues 
on the Eloquence of the Pulpit, were com in his 
youth, but never made known during his life, and not 
published till the year 1718. This production may be 
ey with Cardizial Maury, to be the best di- 
tic work for preachers, and to be founded upon the 
principles of nature and good sense, His-Lives of the 
Ancient Philosophers is an excellent elementary worl. 
for youth ; and a very neat translation, recently pub- 
lished by the Rev. Jolin Cormack, has made it accessi~ 
ble to the E reader. His Quvres Spirituelles, a 
collection of to his friends, also published after 
his death, contain many maxims of the most,sublime 
piety, and many excellent rules of conduct in the vari- 
ous circumstances of life. The few sermons which 
have been printed from the pen of Fenelon, were com- 
aide ing his youth for particular occasions, and 
urnish no idea of his usual pulpit addresses. The dis- 
* Louis XIV. is said to have committed to the flames, with his own hand, all the letters of Fenelon to the Duke of Burgundy, with 
only one exception, which Madame de Maintenon preserved, and sent to the Duke de Beauvilliers, : 
der his name immortal, and contribute essentially to Feneloa. 
the improvement of the human race. A fire, which “Vv 
