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<p>Life And Religious Experience Of The Celebrated Lady Guion: Translated From The French. Exhibiting, Her Eminent Piety, Travels, And Sufferings. To Which Are Annexed, Her Poems, Translated By William Cowper, Esq. And A Short Account Of The Lives Of Several Of Her Most Eminent Friends, Viz. Fenelon, Archbishop Of Cambray, Michael De Moljnos, And St. Teresa.
</p><p>TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 
THE reader will view, in the course of this translation, the progress of a holy pilgrim, not fictitious but real ; a life of no common sort ; from its birth upward attended with remarkable events, assaulted with troubles and inured to oppositions, a soul filled with the love of God ; from him deriving, and instrumentally diffusing, a happiness undefiled, incorruptible, unhurt by storms, and growing firmer in persecutions ; ensuring on high its everlasting duration, in a state of boundless perfection and purity. 
Of the sundry other species of biography, is there any worthy to be put in the balance against this ? What are all the adventures of the curious, or, acquisitions of the covetous, but the trivial blaze of a moment when compared with eternity? What the splendour of military achievements, but the detestable havock of the destroyers of mankind? What the dark intrigues of rivals, or profound politicks of statesmen, however successful? Are they not generally incompatible with our Lord's golden rule, of doing unto all men as we would desire them to do unto us? What the inventions of art, effusions of wit, or elaborate productions of human industry? They have their reward : But in a narrow limit. Their encomiums may spread around this globe, and that is their widest circle. What the highest elevations on earth, but tottering, or slippery, pinnacles?  
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<br>Subjects: Catholics -- France -- Biography; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717; Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582; Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe-, 1651-1715; Molinos, Miguel de, 1628-1696; Christian life</div>
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<dl><dd>Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717</dd>
<dd>Cowper, William, 1731-1800</dd></dl></div>
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