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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 6 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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He had taught them not to reprove a young seminarist whom they believed destined to a high position, who might become coadjutor at Rheims, perhaps a cardinal, perhaps minister, minister de la feuille--who knows ?"] [Footnote 5273: "Diary in France," by Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.

1845.
(Weakness of the course of study at Saint-Sulpice.) "There is no regular course of lectures on ecclesiastical history."-- There is still at the present day no special course of Greek for learning to read the New Testament in the original.--"Le clerge francais en 1890" (by an anonymous ecclesiastic), pp.24-38.

"High and substantial service is lacking with us....

For a long time, the candidates for the episcopacy are exempt by a papal bull from the title of doctor."-- In the seminary there are discussions in barbarous Latin, antiquated subjects, with the spouting of disjointed bits of text: "They have not learned how to think.

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