In his Autobiography he alleges that he learned from the Provincial Letters of Pascal to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.
It may simply be said that the general tendency was on the one hand toward the elaboration and growing magnificence of the services, especially after the Church had become a state institution and had taken the place of the older pagan cults, and on the other hand toward the increasing solemnity and
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