Guy'on, Madame

JEANNE MARIA ROUVIERS DE LA MOTTE -a French lady of good family, B. at Montargis, 1642, where she was married at the age of 15. On being left a widow 13 years afterwards, she sequestered the greater part of her fortune as a provision for the education of her children, and completely abandoned herself to the life of mystic piety, or "perfect contemplation," generally known as QUIETISM, (q. v.) Her experiences are related with extraordinary candor and graphic simplicity in her Autobiography, and are further illustrated in the Torrents, written at Annecy, and contained in the 2 vols. of her Opuscules. She was at Grenoble, on her way to Paris, when she found herself "suddenly invested," as she expre ed herself, "with the apostolic state," and able to discern the condition of those who spake with her, so that, one sending another, she was occupied from six in the morning till eight at night speaking of divine things. "There came," she says, "great numbers from all parts, far and near, friars, priests, men of all sorts, young women, married women, and widows; they all came one after the other, and God gave me that which satisfied them in a wonderful manner, without my thinking or caring at all about it. Nothing was hidden from me of their inward state and condition.....I perceived and felt that what I spake came from the fountain-head, and that I was only the instrument of Him who made me speak." On reaching Paris she was thrown into prison, loaded with the vilest calumnies, by the connivance of some members of the clergy, and endured altogether not le than 20 years of persecution, confinement, and exile. The great enemy of Madame G. and the system of Quietism was Bo uet, while for her champion she had the noble hearted, eloquent, and illustrious Fénélon. She was liberated from her last confinement, in the Bastile, in 1702, and pa ed the remainder of her life at Blois, where she died 1717. Her complete works were published by Poiret in 39 vols. 8vo., and they comprise, besides those mentioned above, The Song of Songs, interpreted Accord ing to its Mystical Sense, and several volumes of hymns remarkable for their graceful composition and exquisite sensibility. Some of these were translated by Cowper.The life of Madame G. is not only a religious study, but a psychological one of very considerable interest. It is the history of a soul, humbled and polluted in its own sight, journeying through the gates of the mystic world, hating its own freedom and its own intelligence, struggling through the unclean places through which it is forced to pa , and at last arriving in the presence of its Divine lover-stripped of all, even its virtues - as serene, as motionle as the eye of eternity. Though the system of Quietism is a protest against visions, revelations, ecstasies, and transports of all kinds, whether sensual or spiritual, yet the experiences of Madame G. are really a love story, and one which she pursues in her writings with a fearle ne as remarkable in such a woman as the purity of her imagination. Guys'borough, in Nova Scotia, an extreme E. co., bordering on the Atlantic. Area , abt. 1,500 sq. m. Rivers. Middle and St. Mary's rivers, besides numerous bays and inlets. Surface, broken; soil , in some places fertile. Cap . Guys borough. Pop . abt. 16,600. Its cap., of same name, is a seaport-town on Chedabucto Bay, opposite Manchester. Guy's Mills, in Pennsylvania , a P. O. of Crawford co. Guys'ville, in Ohio , a post-village of Athens co., on the Hocking River, abt. 82 m. S.E. of Columbus. Gu'zes, n . pl. ( Her .) Roundlets of a sanguine color, supposed to represent wounds. Guz'zle, v. n . [It. gozzovigliare , from gozzo , the throat.] To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. "Who, while she guzzles , cheats the doctor's praise." Roscommon. (Gram.) A sound formed in the throat or back -v. a. To swallow with immoderate gust. "Still guzzling must of wine." -Dryden. part of the mouth. In English there are, properly speaking, no gutturals; but the palatals gand kare Guz'zle, n. Any thing or person that is insatiable. nearly allied to them. In the Spanish language alone, of those derived from the Latin, are gutturals common. In German, the guttural ch is very common, as it was also in Greek; and it occurs in Scotch in such words as Loch. The Arabian language is full of gutturals. Gutturality, n. The quality of being guttural. Gutturalize, v . a . To speak from the throat; to pronounce deeply and from the depth of the lungs. Gut'turally, adv . In a guttural manner. Gutturalne , n. The quality of being guttural. Gut'turize, v. a. To make in the throat; as, the Germans gutturize a sound.