The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Volume 4

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J. M'Creery, 1806 - 507 pages
 

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Page 11 - of the human mind to all good purposes. " 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,
Page 78 - 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, be" sides his own books of periods, and imitation, " and the like< Then did Car of Cambridge,
Page 78 - with their lectures and writ" ings almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, " and allure all young men that were studious " unto that delicate and polished kind of " learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion " to make the scoffing echo, Decent annos con
Page 365 - corpus medica sanaverit arte, Hippolytum stygiis et revocarit aquis, Ad Stygias ipse est raptus Epidaurius undas ; Sic pretium vitae mors fuit Artifici. Tu quoque dum toto laniatam corpore Romam Componis, miro, Raphael, ingenio, Atque urbis lacerum ferro, igni, annisque cadaver Ad vitam, antiquum jam revocasque decus, Movisti superum invidiam, indignataque Mors est, Te
Page 58 - Anglorum Rex Henricus, Leo Decime, mittit " Hoc opus, et fidei testem et Amicitiae." It was presented to the pontiff in full consistory, by the ambassador of the king, who made a long and pompous oration; to which the pope replied in a concise and suitable manner.^ The satisfaction which Leo derived
Page 78 - grew the learning of the schoolmen to be " utterly despised as barbarous. In sum, the " whole inclination and bent of those times " was rather towards copia than weight.
Page 242 - that ever was composed. I believe *' it, because the historian was an actor in his terrible drama, " and personally knew the principal performers in it: and " I fear it, because it exhibits the woeful picture of society " in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." Sir W. Jones, in Lord Teignmouth's Life of that great and good man, P. 325.
Page 501 - I observe," says another^ eminent literary historian, " that these times " are generally distinguished as THE AGE OF " LEO THE TENTH; but I cannot perceive " why the Italians have agreed to restrict ** to the court of this pontiff, that literary " glory which was common to all Italy." " It is not my intention," adds he,
Page 16 - prophets and apostles, he thus proceeds : " I " must, however, acknowledge my total abhor" rence of your see, the Roman court, which " neither you nor any man can deny is more " corrupt than either Babylon or Sodom, and " according to the best of my information, is " sunk in the most deplorable and notorious
Page 244 - pour belles par apparence qu'elles soient d'elles " mesmes, il en rejecte la cause à quelque occasion vitieuse, *' ou à quelque profit. Il est impossible d'imaginer, que " parmi cet infini nombre d'actions, dequoy il juge, il n'y " en ait eu quelque une produite par la voye de la raison. " Nulle corruption peut avoir saisi les hommes si univer

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