Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography, Volumen1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 |
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amidst Angelique antagonist Antoine Arnauld apostolic appeared Archbishop arms Arnauld Assisi authority Benedictine Bishop bosom brethren Canossa Cardinal century Christ Christian Church Church of Rome command crown Cyran death devoted dignity divine dominion Don Francis Duchesse de Longueville earth ecclesiastical eloquence eminent Emperor enemies exercise faith Father favour Francis Gallican Church genius Germany glory grace Gregory habitual heart heaven Henry Hildebrand holy honour human Ignatius Ignatius Loyola illustrious Imperial indignation Jesuits King labours ladies Laynez learned less lived Luther Mabillon mankind ment mind minister miracles monastery monastic monk nature never obedience once Otho Papacy papal passed penitence Peter Peter Faber Pontiff Pope Port-Royal prayer princes Reformation religious rendered repose reverence Rome royal sacred saint Saxon secular society solemn soul sovereign spirit Synod Synod of Worms Thomas à Kempis throne tion Tribur triumph truth voice vows words worship Xavier
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Página 376 - Its topmost round ; when it appear'd to him With Angels laden. But to mount it now None lifts his foot from earth : and hence my rule Is left a profitless stain upon the leaves ; The walls, for abbey rear'd, turn'd into dens; The cowls, to sacks choak'd up with musty meal.
Página 222 - ... patron ; made and executed his own testamentary dispositions, delivered his last parental charge to his eldest son, and bade a final adieu to his weeping family. The gates of the castle of Gandia closed on their self-banished lord. He "went forth, like Francis Xavier, chanting the song of David — ' When Israel went out of Egypt, ' and the house of Jacob from a strange people,' — adding from another strain of the royal minstrel, ' Our bonds are broken and
Página 74 - GOD standeth in the congregation of princes : he is a Judge among gods. 2 How long will ye give wrong judgement : and accept the persons of the ungodly? 3 Defend the poor and fatherless : see that such as are in need and necessity have right.
Página 188 - Ignatius, as leader of the small band of missionaries who sailed for Goa : and, adds his biographer, a happier selection could not have been. " Never was a summons to toil, to suffering, and to death so joyously received. In the visions of the night, he had often groaned beneath the incumbent weight of a wild Indian, of ebon hue and gigantic stature, seated on his shoulders. In those dreams he had often traversed tempestuous seas, enduring shipwreck, famine, and persecution in their most ghastly...
Página 300 - That little fellow,' he said of a bird going to roost, ' has chosen his shelter, and is quietly rocking himself to sleep without a care for to-morrow's lodging, calmly holding by his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.
Página 457 - Communion, was the commencement of the seventy years' religious war which ended in the destruction of Port-Royal. To restore the severe maxims of Christian antiquity respecting the spiritual qualification of communicants, and thus to raise a standard of church membership incomparably more exalted than that which prevailed in his own generation, was the avowed object of Arnauld. His scarcely concealed purpose was to chastise the lax morality to which the Jesuits had lent their sanction; and to repel...
Página 61 - Hunger, cold, nakedness, and shame had, for the moment, crushed the gallant spirit of the sufferer. He wept and cried for mercy, again and again renewing his entreaties, until he had reached the lowest level of abasement to which his own enfeebled heart, or the haughtiness of his great antagonist, could depress him. Then, and not till then, did the Pope condescend to revoke the anathema of the Vatican.
Página 461 - Port-Royal des Champs ; in the serene majesty of which the worshipper might discern an appropriate vestibule to the temple made without hands, towards which his adoration was directed. Wealth was never permitted to introduce, nor poverty to exclude any candidate for admission as a novice or a pupil. On one occasion twenty thousand francs were given as a relief to a distressed community; on another, four times that sum were restored to a benefactress, whose heart repented a bounty which she had no...
Página 60 - Lamentations and reproaches rang through the castle of Canossa. Murmurs from Henry's inveterate enemies and his own zealous adherents, upbraided Gregory as exhibiting rather the cruelty of a tyrant, than the rigour of an apostle. But the endurance of the sufferer was the only...
Página 323 - World (Ilerr omnes). To keep that formidable person quiet, God has established lawful authority. It is his pleasure that there should be order amongst us here.' ' They cry out, the Bible! the Bible!— Bibel! Bubel! Babel!