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- noun Plural form of
Port-Royalist .
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Examples
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Somebody, however, on their behalf, rejoined to Racine, whereupon the young author wrote a second letter to the Port-Royalists, which he showed to his friend Boileau.
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It pained the good Port-Royalists to see their late gifted pupil, now out of their hands, inclined to write plays.
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With the most loyal intentions, the Port-Royalists unwisely edited too much.
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Whereas the Port-Royalists had suppressed to placate the Jesuits, Condorcet suppressed to please the
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About 1670 he removed to Paris, became closely associated with the Port-Royalists, and began to cultivate
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Port-Royalists are represented under the figure of David, their antagonists as Saul.
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Saint Malc_, written on the suggestion of the Port-Royalists, the miscellaneous poems, though some of these are admirable, even the
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Like the Jesuits, but in a different spirit, the Port-Royalists devoted themselves much to the task of education.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Under the influence of St. Cyran, the Port-Royalists were in close sympathy with the teaching of Jansen, Bishop of Ypres; the writings of their great theologian Antoine Arnauld were vigorously anti-Jesuitical.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Whether or not, as a matter of fact, upon which, as distinct from matters of faith, an infallible pope can be mistaken, the dreary old Dutch bishop Jansenius had really taught Jansenism, the Port-Royalists had found in his "Augustinus" an incentive to devotion, and were avowedly his adherents.
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