Bossuet

• “As an orator he was not infrequently called the Bossuet of Switzerland.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “Father Goyer, of the Recollets, delivered a eulogy which in fervour recalls Bossuet's funeral orations over members of the royal family.”

  The Fighting Governer : A Chronicle of Frontenac

• “Well has Burke been called the Bossuet of politics.”

  Burke

• “Evêché itself; but the acmé of quiet and solitude was only to be found in the avenue of yews, called Bossuet's Walk.”

  Holidays in Eastern France

• “And we will add, moreover, that as the Dauphin never reigned, no one can really say how much he did, or did not, profit by a preceptor such as Bossuet was.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne

• “The more famous Gallicans, such as Bossuet, Dupin, Richer, and later ones as Cardinal de la Luzerne and (at the time of the Vatican”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “Roman Catholic expositors, such as Bossuet and Ribera, tempted to this interpretation by their zeal for the worshipping of Angels; but others with no such temptations, as Beza, Hammond, Mede (in a sermon on Zech. iv.”

  Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.

• “Aquinas was to give much the same translation of it when he said that the soul is in the world continens magis quam contenta — containing it rather than contained by it — and it found fresh utterance through the lips of Bossuet.”

  Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:

• “She affirms that Bossuet, with his famed, mighty theological intellect, was a complete ignoramus as far the Church's mystic tradition was concerned: it appeared that he had never read a word of Saint François de Sales or even of the great mystic theologian, Saint John of the Cross.”

  The Huffington Post: Louis XIV's Secret Wife

• “As for Saint John of the Cross, a rapid check reveals that Bossuet cites him frequently -- and always approvingly -- in his "Instruction sur les états d'oraison" (Book VII) and in his Latin treatise "Mystici in tuto.”

  The Huffington Post: Louis XIV's Secret Wife

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