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Miscellanies for the Dauphin and Plan of a Treatise on Theology

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

Exercises and instructions by Bossuet for the Dauphin: the instruction for his first communion, the proofs of God’s existence from creatures, the exhortation to the love of virtue (in French and Latin), extracts from Aristotle’s Ethics, selected sentences, a Latin grammar and the maxims of Caesar; with the Plan of a Treatise on Theology as an appendix. Lachat edition (1865).

Contents

Source: Typed transcription of volume XXVI, pages 001-004, and volume III, page 015. The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.