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^ b ^ ne 4 c 0 f > ce ) i adding , it were proper that he should be the inve ntor of the term who so well practised the virtue it expresses . He goes on to describe him as , in all his writings , opposing without
reserve , though without rancour , every thing subversive of the public goqd , the sole object of his cares and wishes , boldly declaring himself against war , excessive taxation ? and the assumption of the powerful over the weak , above
a | l 9 c exhorting princes to prefer to tjie vain eclat of conquests , the tfUe honour which only virtues , useful to men , can attain , and ^ y blch to the wretched glory of arms , is as sound uniform health to ., the destructive inebriation of
• excessive pleasures . D'Alembert fields , that when once it was assorted i % SuPierre ' s presence that KiDg % ai ^ e 4 jfpds upon earth , he repfa ^ L ; I k now not whether Ca . l ^ g ula Domujan , and those who iraitated them wereQods , -I only were not
£$£$ tl ^^ hey men . «« Je ^ sais ^) as . si , Caligula , Doraitien ejUpurs ^ repls etojent des dieux , j ^ y ^ s ^ iijeijient que ce n ' etojt j ^ il ^ s hoowp % es . " , P ^ t tfedea th of Louis XIV , in | he Duke
jl ^ l ^ . of Orleans , to Mtlipi ^ Ducbess St » Pierre was 1 ^ m 9 ner 7- became Regent . His Jkd ^^ of ^( ivprnnaent appear to have bee | i liberal , and were preferred J&y QUr ^ philosopher tp the despotic jnaKims ot . Louis U graiid * i his work
-He ,. freely ^ xpres ^ ed in a en-^ titled Kfi lisynadie ^ . published in | 7 p ^^^ fi ^ en ^ iag ; tbe Rege nts ^ ¥ ^¦ 515 fe 4 ? fe ?> g ccj l ^ - cils , and censuring th ( £ Arbitrary % \ vay , of , th ^ 1 vd | ece ^ ed monarch .
j ^ y ^ iif trqjji ^ r pa , ' this , occasioo , * fiiM ^ J ?? : i ^^ ^ 'M " iered by a member of an academy
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so much indfebted to royal mumficence , as the world denominnt ? s a prince ' s distribution of what a pea * plec ontribute . St , Pierre ' s , former
patron , Cardinal de PoligpaCf though he had been disgraced arid exiled by Louis * yet on this occasion determined to avenge his memory . He carried the unfortunate Polisynodie to the academy *
read in a tremulous voice , ( Ititea fremissant ) the passage in which the philosopher , not indeed witU malignity , of which he was in capable , but with too little conaplair sance , hacj attacked the government of the deceased monarch .
The Cardinal communicated his tremulous propensities to his brethren ( communiqua ce fremissemeat a ses confreres ) and demanded the punishment of the
author . St . Pierre requested a hearing , which was refused , only Cpur academicians voting for it . These were Sacy , La Motte , Fleury afl ( i Fontenelle . The latter alone
batlotted against the expulsion , and had the courage to express Jhis surprize that on that occasion he had not a single accomplice . The
Regent so much respected St . Pierre as not to suffer his place j ' n the academy to be declared va * cant , and it was unpecupied till his dcHtli .
Si . Pierre was such a free-thinking Roman . Catholic as to declare a ^ aUist the enforced celibacy of priests , and so much of a philanthropist as to deem it the duty of those who chose a single life to
educate and support , according to their means , a number of pr-£ han children . ^^ at he taught e exemplifi ed for ^ as hi ^ ep logijt obsevvei , Tie w ^ s not oi ^ e olt ^ ho §» e W JitM ' MmM ^^ practising it , and # ho , according
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SooH-H ^ ortn . JSTo . XV . 297
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/41/
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