d, 792
Brutes, no mutual admiration among the, 401
Caesar, compared with Alexander and Augustus, 132
Calling, chance decides the choice of a, 97
Calvinism, error of, 776
Canonical, the heretical books prove the, 568
Carthusian monk, difference between a soldier and a, 538
Casuists,
true believers have no pretext for following their laxity, 888;
submit the decision to a corrupted reason, 906;
cannot give assurance to a conscience in error, 908;
allow lust to act, 913
Causes, seen by the intellect and not by the senses, 234
Catholic, the, doctrine, of the Holy Sacrament, 861
Ceremonies, ordained in the Old Testament, are types, 679
Certain, nothing is, 234
Chance,
according to the doctrine of chance, one should believe in God, 233;
and work for an uncertainty, 234;
and seek the truth, 236;
gives rise to thoughts, 370
Chancellor, the position of the, uneral, 307
Character, the Christian, the human, and the inhuman, 532
Charity,
nothing so like it as covetousness, 662;
not a figurative precept, 664;
the sole aim of the Scripture, 669
Charron, the divisions of, 62
Children,
frightened at the face they have blackened, 88;
of Port-Royal, 151;
illustration of usurpation from, 295
China, History of, 592, 593
Christianity,
alone cures pride and sloth, 435;
is strange, 536;
consists in two points, 555;
evidence for, 563;
is wise and foolish, 587
Christians,
few true, 256;
without the knowledge of the prophecies and evidences, 287;
comply with folly, 338;
humility of, 537;
their hope, 539;
their happiness, 540;
the God of, 543
Church,
history of the, 857;
the, in persecution, like a ship in a storm, 858;
when in a good state, 860;
has always been attacked by opposite errors, 861;
the, and tradition, 866;
absolution and the, 869;
the Pope and the, 870;
the, and infallibility, 875;
true justice in the, 877;
the work of the, 880;
the discipline of the, 884;
the anathemas of the, 895
Cicero, false beauties in, 31
Cipher,
a, has a double meaning, 676, 677;
key of, 680;
the, given by St. Paul, 682
Circumcision,
only a sign, 609;
the apostles and, 671
Clearness,
sufficient, for the elect, 577;
and obscurity, 856
Cleobuline, the passion of, 13
Cleopatra,
the nose of, 162;
and love, 163
Compliments, 57
Conditions, the easiest, to live in, according to
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