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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians
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xliii.
p.

201--205.

The Lutrin of Boileau exhibits the inside, the soul and manners of the _Sainte Chapelle_; and many facts relative to the institution are collected and explained by his commentators, Brosset and De St.Marc.] [Footnote 53: It was performed A.D.1656, March 24, on the niece of Pascal; and that superior genius, with Arnauld, Nicole, &c., were on the spot, to believe and attest a miracle which confounded the Jesuits, and saved Port Royal, (uvres de Racine, tom.vi.p.

176--187, in his eloquent History of Port Royal.)] [Footnote 54: Voltaire (Siecle de Louis XIV.c.37, uvres, tom.ix.

p.
178, 179) strives to invalidate the fact: but Hume, (Essays, vol.ii.
p.


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