The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Volume 3J. Murray, 1840 |
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The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome ..., Volume 3 Leopold von Ranke Visualizzazione completa - 1840 |
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Pagina 103 - When the boor had ended his speech he waddled up to the queen without any ceremony, took her by the hand, and shaked it heartily, and kist it two or three times ; then turning his back to her, he pulled out of his pocket a foul handkerchief, and wiped the tears from his eyes, and in the same posture as he came up, he returned back to his place again...
Pagina 215 - Inspired, as we humbly trust, by the Divine Spirit, urged by the duty of restoring the unanimity of the chureh, convinced that the Company of Jesus can no longer render those services, to the end of which it was instituted, and moved by other reasons of prudence and state policy which we hold locked in our own breast, we abolish and annul the Society of Jesus, their functions, houses, and institutions...
Pagina 155 - Men of the lofty genius and the profound science of Pascal, of the poetical originality and perfection of Racine, and of the wide range of knowledge of Tillemont were formed within their walls. Their labours extended, as we see, far beyond the circle of ascetic theology which Jansen and Du Verger had traced. • It would not be too much to assert, that this union of men of high intellect and filled with noble objects, who, in their mutual intercourse and by their original and unassisted efforts,...
Pagina 95 - ... to it, delights for its own sake. It is at least certain that Christina, in the advances she made to the court of Rome, showed all that love of mystery, and practised those arts, which are usually prompted by love or by ambition ; she engaged in an intrigue to become a Catholic. In this she showed herself a true woman. The first to whom she revealed her inclinations was a Jesuit, Antonio Macedo, confessor of the Portuguese ambassador, Pinto Pereira.
Pagina 176 - Conde declared it to be his opinion that if it pleased the King to go over to the Protestant Church, the clergy would be the first to follow him. And certainly the clergy of France did support their King without scruple against the Pope. The declarations they published were from year to year increasingly decisive in favor of the royal authority.
Pagina 96 - ... him to Rome to communicate her intentions to the general of the Jesuits, and to entreat him to send to her two or three members of his order in whom he could confide. In February, 1652, they arrived in Stockholm. They were two young men who gave themselves out as travelling Italian nobles, and were thereupon introduced to her table. She instantly suspected who they were, and as they walked into the diningroom immediately before her, she asked one of them in a low voice, whether by chance he had...
Pagina 91 - Matthias was one of those who cherished this wish, and published a book in which he agitated the question of the union of the two protestant churches. The queen was strongly inclined to his opinion; she conceived the project of founding a theological academy, which should devote itself to the work of reconciling the two confessions. But the fiery zeal of certain inflexible Lutherans immediately rose up in arms against this project. A superintendent of Calmar attacked Matthise's book with fury, and...
Pagina 100 - Hesse was meditating a similar step, she expressly dissuaded him from it not, exactly on religious grounds, but she begged him to remember that a man who changes his religion is hated by the party he leaves, and despised by that he joins.
Pagina 94 - When one is a catholie," said she, " one has the consolation of believing what so many noble spirits have believed for sixteen centuries ; of belonging to a religion that has been attested by millions of miracles, by millions of martyrs; above all," added she, " a religion that has produced so many illustrious virgins who have overcome the weaknesses of their sex, and consecrated themselves to God.
Pagina 98 - ... she was under the influence of a strong bias which gave completeness to every argument and strength to every conviction. They recurred most frequently to the principle mentioned above, — that the world could not be without the true religion ; and to this proposition was appended a second, — that among all that existed, the catholic was the most in accordance with reason. " Our main endeavour was," say the Jesuits, " to prove that the articles of our holy religion are above reason, but in...