His judgment is exquisite, his images noble,his morality sensible and beautiful. Louis sent to pope Alexander IV. nd to neglect any of these, uponpretence of giving the preference to prayer, would be a false devotionand dangerous illusion. In the first book he justifies Moses's history of the world,and proves with great erudition from profane history that its event
ript actsof Saints, honored by the Greeks in the month of February in the king'slibrary at Paris, Cod. John the Baptist. The ten last emperors, during twenty years, were rathershadows of power than sovereigns, and in the eighth year of thepontificate of Simplicius, Rome itself fell a prey to foreigners. She never took more than one repastin the day, and read with wonderful delight the lives of the fathers ofthe desert.
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