 | John Aikin - Biography - 1803 - 646 pages
...nominated by Lewis XIV. to the bishopric of Lavaur •, on whicl* occasion that monarch said to him, " 1 have made you wait some time for a place which you...to deprive myself of the pleasure of hearing you." In the year 1687 he was translated from the see of Lavaur to that of Nismes. To this exchange, notwithstanding... | |
 | John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...nominated by Lewis XIV. to the bishopric of Lavaur ; on which occasion that monarch saiil to him, " 1 have made you wait some time for a place which you have long deserved, but I WP.S unwilling sooner to deprive myself of the pleasure of hearing you." In the year 1687 he was translated... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...Lavaur ; on which occasion, Louis XIV. paid him the following handsome compliment. " 1 have," said he, " made you wait some time for a place which you have...to deprive myself of the pleasure of hearing you." EXCOMMUNICATION. When the court of Rome, under the pontificates of Gregory IX. and Innocent IV., set... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 354 pages
...Lavaur ; on which occasion, Louis XIV. paid him the following handsome compliment. " I have," said he, "made you wait some time " for a place which you have...deprive myself " of the pleasure of hearing you.'' CHARITY. A poor widow, encouraged by the famed generosity of a French ecclesiastic of great eminence,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 324 pages
...on which occasion, Louis XIV. paid him the following handsome compliment. " I have," said he, "mada you wait some time " for a place which you have long...deprive myself " of the pleasure of hearing you.'' CHARITY. A poor widow, encouraged by the famed generosity of a French ecclesiastic of great eminence,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...Lavaur ; on which occasion, Louis XIV. paid him the following handsome compliment. " I have," said he, " made you wait some time for a place which you have...to deprive myself of the pleasure of hearing you." EXCOMUN1CATION. When the court of Rome, under the pontificates of Gregory IX. and Innocent IV., set... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...In 1673, Flechier was elected a member of the French academy. In 1679, he published his History of the Emperor Theodosius the Great, which was followed by his Life of Cardinal Ximcnes. Louis XIV, in 1685, raised him to the bishopric of Lavaur, on which occasion that prince said... | |
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XIV, in 1685, raised him to the bishopric of Lavaur, on which occasion that prince said to him — " I have made you wait some time for a place which you have long deserved, but I was unwilling sooner to deprive myself of the pleasure of hearing you preach. 
