: The True Travels Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe Asia Africa and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629 by Smith John - Voyages and travels; Smith John 1580-1631

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PREFACES.

Editor's Preface

Author's Preface

Memoir

ON DIRECTION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

Religious Re-action in 1600--Influence of the Jesuits over Women and Children--Savoy; the Vaudois; Violence and Gentleness--St. Fran?ois de Sales

St. Fran?ois de Sales and Madame de Chantal--Visitation--Quietism--Results of Religious Direction

Loneliness of Woman--Easy Devotion--Worldly Theology of the Jesuits--Women and Children advantageously made use of--Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--Gallant Devotion--Religious Novels--Casuists

Convents--Convents in Paris--Convents contrasted; the Director--Dispute about the Direction of the Nuns--The Jesuits Triumph through Calumny

Re-action of Morality--Arnaud, 1643; Pascal, 1657--The Jesuits lose Ground--They gain over the King and the Pope--Discouragement of the Jesuits; their Corruption--They Protect the Quietists--Desmarets--Morin burnt, 1663--Immorality of Quietism

Apparition of Molinos, 1675--His Success at Rome--French Quietists--Madame Guyon and her Director--"The Torrents"--Mystic Death--Do we return from it?

Fenelon as Director--His Quietism--"Maxims of Saints," 1697--Fenelon and Madame de la Maisonfort

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