CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS ORATORY. 



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can always hear muttering, behind the long-drawn sighs of asceticism, the 

 internal convulsions of the human soul. Metaphysics, psychology, a profound 

 sentiment of the realities of earthly life, fiery denunciations of the indolence 



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Fig. 399. The Glories of the Order of St. Dominic. Fac-simile of a Wood Engraving of the 

 Fifteenth Century, from the " Meditationes," by Turrecremata (Rome, M. Oallu*. 1478, in 

 folio). In the Library of M. Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



of the monks, and theological arguments, all are to be found in the magnificent 

 sermons of St. Bernard. The sermons of Hugues and Richard de St. Victor, like 

 those of Isaac, Abbot of St. fitoile, reflect in a more chaste style the warm aspira- 

 tions of the piety of the cloister and the purest ecstasies of a contemplative life. 



