The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Volume 4T. Cadell, 1827 |
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... frequent exhortations addressed to him to keep up his courage , to act like a man , accompanied with passages from scripture , Not to fear those who can kill the body only , but to fear him who can cast both body and soul into hell ...
... frequent exhortations addressed to him to keep up his courage , to act like a man , accompanied with passages from scripture , Not to fear those who can kill the body only , but to fear him who can cast both body and soul into hell ...
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... frequently erred , and contradicted each other , ) and unless my conscience be subdued by the word of God , I neither can nor will retract any thing ; seeing that to act against my own conscience is neither safe nor honest . " XIX ...
... frequently erred , and contradicted each other , ) and unless my conscience be subdued by the word of God , I neither can nor will retract any thing ; seeing that to act against my own conscience is neither safe nor honest . " XIX ...
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... frequently employed on subjects of real utility , as in the investigation of the most difficult or unintelligible propositions . The writings of Aristotle , which had first been introduced through the medium of the Arabians , afforded ...
... frequently employed on subjects of real utility , as in the investigation of the most difficult or unintelligible propositions . The writings of Aristotle , which had first been introduced through the medium of the Arabians , afforded ...
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... frequently endangered from the per- secuting spirit of the times . This , however , can occasion no surprise , when we find him asserting , in some of his works , that all miracles are merely the effect of imagination , and that the ...
... frequently endangered from the per- secuting spirit of the times . This , however , can occasion no surprise , when we find him asserting , in some of his works , that all miracles are merely the effect of imagination , and that the ...
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... frequent remarks of count Bossi , that I ought to have introduced other persons ( with whom it does not appear that Leo X. had any intercourse ) . v . Ital . ed . vol . ix . p . 139. Much less can I conceive that it was incumbent on me ...
... frequent remarks of count Bossi , that I ought to have introduced other persons ( with whom it does not appear that Leo X. had any intercourse ) . v . Ital . ed . vol . ix . p . 139. Much less can I conceive that it was incumbent on me ...
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Page 9 - Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love, Where only what they needs must do appear'd, Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Page 60 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 60 - So that these four causes concurring, the admiration of ancient authors, the hate of the schoolmen, the exact study of languages, and the...
Page 111 - LeoX., cannot be uninteresting. He was born at his family villa of Casatico, in the territory of Mantua, in the year 1478, and was the son of the Count Cristoforo Castiglione, by his wife Louisa Gonzaga, a near relation of the sovereign family of that name. In his early years he was sent to Milan, where he was instructed in the Latin language by Giorgio Merula, and in Greek by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Having there distinguished himself by his personal accomplishments, and particularly by his skill...
Page 229 - Mosè quando scendea dal monte , E gran parte del Nume avea nel volto. Tal era allor che le sonanti e vaste Acque ei sospese a se d' intorno/, e tale Quando il mar chiuse e ne fé
Page 416 - Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae absolutionis, approbationis, confirmationis, suppletionis, constitutionis, mandati, voluntatis et derogationis infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit, indignationem omnipotentis Dei, ac beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum eius se noverit incursurum.
Page 70 - ... it. Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, Knox, the founders of the reformed church in their respective countries, inflicted, as far as they had power and opportunity, the same punishments, which were denounced against their own disciples by the church of Rome, upon such as called in question any article of their creed.
Page 185 - J'ay aussi remerqué cecy, que de tant d'âmes et effects qu'il juge, de tant de mouvemens et conseils, il n'en rapporte jamais un seul à la vertu, religion et conscience, comme si ces parties là estoyent du tout esteintes au monde...
Page 60 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure *' all young men that were studious unto that delicate anpolished kind of learning.
Page 16 - God, and can command and require whatever you please. This, I assure you, will be of no avail. You are the servant of servants, and of all mankind, are seated in the most deplorable and perilous place. Be not deceived by those who pretend that you are lord of the earth, that there can be no Christian without your authority, and that you have any power in heaven, in hell, or in purgatory.