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    Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (French: [bɔsɥɛ]; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses...
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  • Bossuet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), French bishop and theologian, uncle of Louis...
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    used in a sermon by 17th-century French bishop and theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: The coinage of the phrase in its current form, however, is conventionally...
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    Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the famous preacher who had been instrumental in his conversion, and changed his first name to that of Bossuet. Winsløw...
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  • Hautoy. Bossuet's brother was Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1664–1743), abbot of Savigny, and he was nephew by his father to another Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the...
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    Phillip 1911, p. 806. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1845). Sermons choisis de Bossuet. Sur le devoir des rois. Firmin-Didot. p. 219. bossuet sermons royalty. Romans...
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    governor and was tutored by the great French preacher and orator Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the Bishop of Meaux, seemingly without acceptable results. Philippe...
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    sister, Vera Oumançoff, lived with Jacques and Raïssa for almost all their married life. At the Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa soon became disenchanted...
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  • Segneri (1624–1694), Italian Jesuit Junípero Serra, (1713–1784) Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704), Jesuit Tobia Lionelli...
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  • weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak." — Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet "Do not listen to the reasoners; there has been too much reasoning...
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    occurred in the seventeenth year of "Nebuchadnezzar's" reign. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet expressed a similar view regarding this. The scholars used specific...
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  • Speech of Universal History (category Works by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet)
    work of theology and philosophy from French Roman Catholic bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. It is regarded by many Catholics as a continuation or actualization...
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    with viols, and hymns, and songs." 17th-century French bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet called this episode the "humble entry … into Jerusalem". Life of...
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    (1305–1314): Bertrand de Got Pope John XXII (1316–1334): Jacques d'Euse Pope Benedict XII (1334–1342): Jacques Fournier Pope Clement VI (1342–1352): Pierre Roger...
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    palace, it takes its name from the famous orator and theologian, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux from 1681 to 1704. Built in the twelfth century...
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    Descartes Mary of Jesus of Ágreda António Vieira Jean-Jacques Olier Louis Thomassin Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet François Fénelon Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism) Blaise...
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  • (1623–1673). Materialist, feminist. Robert Boyle (1627–1691). Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627 – 1704). Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677). Rationalism. Samuel...
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    his reasoning. Voltaire said that his sermons surpassed those of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (whose retirement in 1669, however, practically coincided with...
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    Bishop Newton, John Cunninghame, and Edward Bishop Elliott (1837). Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (17th Century), even marks the fall of Paganism to the death of...
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  • Christianity in the 17th century. Le Brun's first works were related to Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. He was Director of Honorary Studies at the École pratique des...
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    secularization of history, the polemic against the Christian position of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was of interest. The humanists of the fifteenth century ignored...
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  • (1583–1645) Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) James Harrington (1611–1677) Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) John Locke (1632–1704) Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Montesquieu...
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  • Rudjer Boscovich (1711–1787)[1][2] Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)[4] Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704)[2] Christopher Jacob Boström (1797–1866)[2] Henri de...
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    be reconciled "Thy will be done.": 95  ("Fiat voluntas tua.") — Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (12 April 1704) "...in perfect charity...
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    Descartes Mary of Jesus of Ágreda António Vieira Jean-Jacques Olier Louis Thomassin Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet François Fénelon Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism) Blaise...
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    Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange G. K. Chesterton Étienne Gilson Alasdair MacIntyre Jacques Maritain Ralph McInerny Josef Pieper Santiago María Ramírez Ruíz de Dulanto...
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    the royal court, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, who persuaded him to study theology and receive holy orders. Under Bossuet's patronage, he attracted...
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    occidentale. pp. 47–65. hdl:10197/7383. ISBN 9791092331219. Fontaine, Jacques, ed. (1986). Grégoire le Grand: Chantilly, Centre culturel Les Fontaines...
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    clergy, including celebrated orator and future Bishop of Meaux, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, as well as many religiously devoted people in the court. It also...
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    Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (category Works by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet)
    Words of Holy Scripture) is a work of political theory composed by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet as part of his duties as tutor for Louis XIV's heir apparent, Louis...
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