XXIII.

HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE CHURCH OF FRANCE IN THE REIGNS OF LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH, LEWIS THE FIFTEENTH, AND LEWIS THE SIXTEENTH; AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

page 254

BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF THE ABBOT DE RANCEST. VINCENT OF PAUL-HENRIE MARIE DE BOUDONAND THOMAS A KEMPIS

280

XXVII.

BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE REVEREND ALBAN BUTLER

287

XXVIII.

BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CHANCELLOR L'HÔPITAL

1. And of the Chancellor d'Aguesseau

2. And the Mississippi Scheme of Law

XXIX.

LETTER ON ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC

289

294

301

ib.

316

2. The Era of British Literature
3. Comparison of the Writers in British Era of
Literature with those of Lewis the Four.

teenth

318

4. The present general Diffusion of Learning among all Ranks of Persons

323

APPENDIX.

NOTE I. referred to in page 214.

Extract from Letters, with which Doctor Parr has honoured the Reminiscent:-On the high polish of Virgil's diction -the Character of Archbishop Cranmer-and Polemic Moderation in religious disputes

NOTE II. referred to in page 252.

The Inaugural Oration at laying the First Stone
London Institution

NOTE III. referred to in page 253.

Mr. Porson's Algebraic Problem, with its Solution

NOTE IV. referred to in page 331.

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Letter directing a course of Study of Modern History - 378

REMINISCENCES.

*

INTRODUCTION.

As the Writer's time of life admonishes him, that this may be the last occasion, on which any production of his pen will solicit the attention of the public, he avails himself of it to mention THE TITLES OF ALL HIS WORKS, and to state succinctly some circumstances and observations, which the present publication brings to his REMINISCENCE. Several works having been imputed to him, in which he has had no concern, and which he knows only by their titles, he takes this opportunity of disclaiming ALL, which he shall not mention.

M. Pellisson, in his account of M. Huét the celebrated bishop of Avranches, observes of him, that, "from his tenderest years, he gave himself "to study; that, at his rising, his going to bed, " and during his meals, he was reading, or had "others to read to him; that neither the fire of

* These reminiscences, in a contracted form, were prefixed to the writer's HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE ENGLISH, IRISH AND SCOTTISH CATHOLICs, the publication referred to in the text.

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