The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . of those persons who make a parade of their un-belief, wished to hear, or rather to brave him. Tooproud to confess himself conquered, but too just to re-fuse the homage due to a great man, he exclaimed, onleaving the place, This man to me is the first ofpreachers ; for I feel it is by him I should be converted,if I were ever to be so. He one day presented to Louis XIV. Father Mabil-lon, as the most learned Religeuse of his Kingdom.—And the humblest too, said le Tellier, A
The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . of those persons who make a parade of their un-belief, wished to hear, or rather to brave him. Tooproud to confess himself conquered, but too just to re-fuse the homage due to a great man, he exclaimed, onleaving the place, This man to me is the first ofpreachers ; for I feel it is by him I should be converted,if I were ever to be so. He one day presented to Louis XIV. Father Mabil-lon, as the most learned Religeuse of his Kingdom.—And the humblest too, said le Tellier, Archbishopof Rheims, who thereby thought to epigrammatiseadroitly the modesty of the prelate. The famed Arch-bishop, however, humiliated as he felt himself by theelevated genius of Bossuet, was too just to suffer it tobe slighted. Some young court chaplains, one of whomhas since occupied high stations, talking one day inhis presence, with French levity, of the works andabilities of the Bishop of Meaux, whom they venturedto ridicule ; Be silent, said le Tellier, respect yourmaster and ours.—Translated by John ALEXANDER, Archibald, , an Ameri-can clergyman and scholar, born in RockbridgeCounty, Va., April 17, 1772; died at Princeton,N. J., October 22, 1851. He w^s educated atHampden-Sidney College ; studied theology, andwas licensed to preach in 1791. He was chosenPresident of Hampden-Sidney College in 1796;became pastor of a Presbyterian church in Phila-delphia in 1807; and in 1812, upon the organiza-tion of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary atPrinceton, was appointed Professor of Theologyin that institution, retaining that position until hisdeath. He wrote Outlines of the Evidences ofCJiristianity, Treatise on the Canon of the Old andNezv Testaments, History of the Patriarchs, Historyof the Israelites, Annals of the Jezvish Nation, Ad-vice to a Young Christian, Bible Dictionary, Counselsfrom the Aged to the Young, Thoughts on ReligiousExperience, African Colo
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