Les Miserables

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862 Les Miserables CHAPTER XI END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus was i ...

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864 Les Miserables tions, what does the crucifix represent? The assassinated sage. In this nineteenth century, the religious ide ...

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866 Les Miserables CHAPTER I THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the In- finite. Ma ...

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868 Les Miserables CHAPTER II THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, mona ...

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870 Les Miserables their iron-tipped scourges, their breasts crushed with wick- er hurdles, their knees excoriated with prayer; ...

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874 Les Miserables the midst of the nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this moment, astonishing the ...

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Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 877 CHAPTER IV THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES Men unite themselves and dwell i ...

878 Les Miserables the equal of him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the same tonsure, wear the sam ...

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880 Les Miserables CHAPTER V PRAYER They pray. To whom? To God. To pray to God,—what is the meaning of these words? Is there an ...