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He was walking in the street when one woman elbowed another in trying to get near the statue. "If you want to pray," said the woman who had been pushed, "go on your knees where you are; the Holy Virgin is everywhere." Du Marsais was so indiscreet as to interfere. Being a grammarian, he was probably of a disputatious turn of mind. "My good woman," said he, "you have spoken heresy.
Johnson as 'Virtue founded upon reverence of the unknown, and expectation of future rewards and punishments. Rivarol as 'the science of serving the unknown. La Bruyere as 'the respectful fear of the unknown. Du Marsais, as 'the worship of the unknown, and the practice of all the virtues. Walker as 'Virtue founded upon reverence of the unknown, and expectation of rewards or punishments; a system of divine faith and worship as opposed to other systems. De Bonald as 'social intercourse between man and the unknown. Rees as 'the worship or homage that is due to the unknown as creator, preserver, and, with Christians, as redeemer of the world, Lord Brougham as 'the subject of the science called Theology: a science he defines as 'the knowledge and attributes of the unknown' which definitions agree in making the essential principle of religion a principle of ignorance.
Originally it had been dressed like a Swiss, but the people of Switzerland, who were numerous and useful in Paris, remonstrated at a custom likely to bring them into contempt; and the grotesque giant was thereupon arrayed in a wig and a long coat, with a wooden dagger painted red in his hand. The grammarian Du Marsais once got into trouble on the occasion of this procession.
We need not linger over the names of other writers, who indeed are now little more than mere shadows of names, such as La Condamine, a scientific traveller of fame and merit in his day and generation; of Du Marsais, the poverty-stricken and unlucky scholar who wrote articles on grammar; of the President Des Brosses, who was unfortunate enough to be in the right in a quarrel about money with Voltaire, and who has since been better known to readers through the fury of the provoked patriarch, than through his own meritorious contributions to the early history of civilisation.
Johnson as 'Virtue founded upon reverence of the unknown, and expectation of future rewards and punishments. Rivarol as 'the science of serving the unknown. La Bruyere as 'the respectful fear of the unknown. Du Marsais, as 'the worship of the unknown, and the practice of all the virtues. Walker as 'Virtue founded upon reverence of the unknown, and expectation of rewards or punishments: a system of divine faith and worship as opposed to other systems. De Bonald as 'Social intercourse between man and the unknown. Rees as 'the worship or homage that is due to the unknown as creator, preserver, and with Christians as redeemer of the world. Lord Brougham as 'the subject of the science called Theology: a science he defines as 'the knowledge and attributes of the unknown; which definitions agree in making the essential principle of religion a principle of ignorance.
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