Crossword-Solution: BOSSUET 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The Senate steadfastly opposed those laws which were damaging to the State, and wanted the price of lands to be awarded to the public treasury." Thus, according to Bossuet, the first and greatest wrong of civil wars was inflicted upon the people, who, dying of hunger, demanded that the lands, which they had shed their blood to conquer, should be given to them for cultivation.

Even after the beginning of the eighteenth century--long after the demonstrations of Sir Isaac Newton--Bossuet, the great Bishop of Meaux, the foremost theologian that France has ever produced, declared it contrary to Scripture.

The revolutions of the last age appeared to justify the image of the sublime Bossuet, “sette ile, plus orageuse que les mers qui l’environment.”] 9 (return) [ Zosimus says of the British soldiers.] 10 (return) [ Helena, the daughter of Eudda.

Probably the most finished talking and writing of modern times has been done in and about the French court in the seventeenth century; and it is accordingly there that we find men like Pascal and Bossuet writing a prose which for precision, purity, and dignity has never since been surpassed.

The great Catholic preachers of the eighteenth century--like Bossuet and Bourdaloue and Massillon-- surpassed the Protestants as rhetoricians.