The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Volume 2Henry G. Bohn, 1853 |
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The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth: Volume II, Volume 2 William Roscoe,Thomas Roscoe No preview available - 2000 |
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Page 457 - 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 239 - 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 and polished kind of learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo, "Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone"; and the echo answered in Greek One, Asine.
Page 224 - Christ, Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Page 291 - Machiavel, who was born under a republic, who was employed as one of its secretaries, who performed so many important embassies, and who in his conversation always dwelt on the glorious actions of Brutus and Cassius, should have formed such a system against the liberty and happiness of mankind. Hence it has frequently been urged on his behalf, that it was not his intention to suggest wise and faithful counsels, but to represent in the darkest colours the schemes of a tyrant, and thereby excite odium...
Page 465 - ... called on the civil power to repel the impious and heretical innovators who had risen up against it. The protestants, no less confident that their doctrine was well founded, required, with equal ardour, the princes of their party to check such as presumed to impugn it.
Page 432 - Luther in the dispute respecting indulgences, maintained that, " one drop of Christ's blood being sufficient to redeem the whole human race, the remaining quantity, that was shed in the garden and upon the cross, was left as a legacy to the church; to be A TREASURE FROM WHENCE INDULGENCES were to be drawn and administered by the Roman pontiffs...
Page 442 - And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Page 271 - In point of composition, these novels, although much inferior to those of Boccaccio, are written with a degree of vivacity and nature, which seldom fails to interest the reader, and which, combined with the singularity of the incidents, will probably secure a durable, although not a very honourable reputation, to the author.
Page 482 - 1 doppio raggio in fronte : Questi e Mose, quando scendea dal monte, E gran parte del Nume avea nel volto. Tal era allor, che le sonante e vaste Acque ei sospese a se d' intorno ; e tale Quando il mar chiuse, e ne fe tomba altrui.