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  • Psychologists should bethink themselves before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being.

  • It has had famous occupants besides the prelates: such were Simon de Montfort and his wife; and James Stuart, king of Scotland, who was married here to the niece of Cardinal Beaufort in 1424.

  • The great entrance gateway was built by Cardinal Morton (1486), the two northern towers by Cranmer, and the long corridor by Cardinal Pole.

  • Some say that Robert of Anjou removed it, in 1326, for security to the Castel Nuovo, others that it was given by the Government to a cardinal from Mantua, who died at Genoa on his way home.

  • Observers stationed there would have the cardinal points and the points midway between them defined by the edges and angles of the square platform, which would not be the case if they were displaced from the centre.

  • Shall we cite an example of the way in which Cardinal de Bausset transposes the descriptions of Abbe Le Dieu?

  • She treated him," said Lamartine, "with a marked favor which promised a royal friendship, if the future cardinal had seen in the most beautiful of women anything else than the delight of the eye.

  • The Cardinal came to see him, and found him without speech or knowledge.

  • They could then," said Cardinal Perraud, "place a living model under their eyes in order, to imitate it.

  • He was made cardinal in the month of July, 1830.

  • Here, in the chapel, is the image of Cardinal de Berulle.

  • Friendship and love were cardinal points in the doctrine of ethical life.

  • He was induced to send a certain cardinal legate, Cajetan, to Augsburg to bring this heretic into submission, but the legate failed to bring Luther into subjection.

  • To this the Greek mind answers, "Nothing"; it reaches no definite conclusion, and this is the cardinal weakness of the philosophy.

  • The Germanic, like the Grecian, tribe is founded upon two cardinal principles, and is a natural and not an artificial assemblage of people.

  • Cardinal Richelieu saw the danger of allowing Austria to aggrandize itself at the expense of all Germany, and now took the field in earnest.

  • Before the Swedes had fully recovered themselves the Spanish cavalry, which at the first sound of the conflict the cardinal had ordered to the spot, charged them in flank and forced them to a precipitate retreat down the hillside.

  • It was not for slavery that she deliberately resolved to draw the sword, cardinal as she knew circumstances rendered slavery at this time; but for this corner-stone of all constitutional liberty, North and South.

  • It has undertaken to illustrate its cardinal doctrine in works of fiction; and then, to sustain the creation of its fancy, has attempted to underpin it with an accumulation of facts.

  • They replied that they could say nothing for certain, but that assuredly the Cardinal had not two hours to live if he did not instantly agree to it.

  • At first nothing passed but reciprocal compliments and observations from Cardinal Bissy, appropriate to the subject.

  • Cardinal Dubois, every day more and more firmly established in the favour of M.

  • The Cardinal asked him if it was not a terrible thing to be so ill-served, considering the expense he was put to; then broke out again, and pressed him to reply.

  • We have many examples of prodigious fortune acquired by insignificant people, but there is no example of a person so destitute of all talent (excepting that of low intrigue), as was Cardinal Dubois, being thus fortunate.

  • The Cardinal still insisting that the Regent must choose which of the two be sent away, M.

  • The King held at Meudon a review of his household, which in his pride the Cardinal must needs attend.

  • Duc d'Orleans that the Cardinal Dubois had dismissed him in the most filthy terms.

  • The other famous Certosa tomb is that of Cardinal Angelo Acciaioli, which, once given to Donatello, is now sometimes attributed to Giuliano di Sangallo and sometimes to his son Francesco.

  • The conspirators' first idea was to kill the brothers at a banquet which Lorenzo was to give to the great-nephew of the Pope, the youthful Cardinal Raffaello Riario, who promised to be an amenable catspaw.

  • Luca della Robbia's doors to the new sacristy, which gave the young cardinal his safety, had been finished only eleven years.

  • His position in the Uffizi is due rather to the circumstance that he was a protégé of the Cardinal della Rovere at Rome, whose collection came here, than to his genius.

  • But the Cardinal Cesar becomes Duke of Valentinois; the family of Borgia triumphs over its enemies, and enriches itself with their spoils; in fine, Alexander VI.

  • The pope having been desirous, in contempt of the canons and the laws, to dispose of the see of Canterbury in favour of cardinal Langton, John opposed himself to it only by fits of rage which exposed his weakness.

  • Venetians: this very Cardinal Pellagrue led an army against them; they were defeated, driven from Ferrara, and absolved.

  • Then the Holy See prudently humbled itself, and the cardinal Chigi, nephew of the pope, came to make to Louis all the reparation which this monarch required.

  • John Gaetan, a Roman, of the Orsini family, cardinal deacon, elected pope at Viterbo, 25th Nov.

  • In May or June 1307 the same cardinal collected the Whites at Arezzo and tried to induce the Florentines to recall them.

  • He showed great zeal in preparing accusations against his former friend, Cardinal Wolsey; however, after the cardinal's fall his words and actions caused him to be suspected by Henry VIII.

  • Foiled by the calumnies and machinations of the one party, the cardinal gave his countenance to the other.

  • March the cardinal da Prato came to Florence, sent by the new pope to make peace.

  • Cardinal Napoleon Orsini, the legate of the French pope Clement V.

  • The cardinal effected nothing, but Dante and his colleagues banished the heads of the rival parties in different directions to a distance from the capital.

  • No church or sect has raged so fiercely against the cardinal sin of dancing as the Albigenses of Languedoc and the Waldenses, who agreed in calling it the devil's procession.

  • Pope Boniface was asked to mediate, and sent Cardinal Matteo d'Acquasparta to maintain peace.

  • When they at last came to it, there was a natural disposition to represent it as one of the cardinal principles of the party.

  • The Convention thus re-affirmed the cardinal doctrine of district representation.

  • For not only is the necessity of certain sacramental usages to which Wyclif strongly objected insisted upon, but the spoliation of Church property is unctuously inveighed against as a species of one of the cardinal sins.

  • The "Host" is, so to speak, charged with the constant injunction of this cardinal principle of popularity as to both theme and style.

  • Cotoner had gone to Rivoli in the train of a cardinal and the married couple lived in the country accompanied only by a couple of maids and a manservant, who took care of Renovales' painting kit.

  • On the contrary, the only one of them who is occupied in that larger field is Cardinal Rampolla, the Secretary of State.

  • High up in the Borgia Tower, above the Stanze of Raphael, is a suite of rooms once inhabited by Cardinal Bibbiena, of the Chigi family, and used since then by more than one Assistant Secretary of State.

  • Every day at about ten he receives the Secretary of State, Cardinal Rampolla, and converses with him for a good hour or more upon current affairs.

  • For her sake he refused to marry the great Cardinal Bibbiena's well-dowered niece, Maria, and the world has not ceased to believe that for too much love of the Fornarina he died.

  • Yet the Pope was merciful, and when the case had been tried, the rebel was sent to Bologna, to live there in peace, provided that he should present himself daily before the Cardinal Legate of the City.

  • The same cannot be said of Cardinal Antonelli, his prime minister, who was the best hated man of his day, not only in Europe and Italy, but by a large proportion of Churchmen.

  • The floor above it is inhabited by Cardinal Rampolla, the Secretary of State.

  • The king shewed me several of that minister’s letters to Cardinal Fleury.

  • These virtues, so much countenanced by Cardinal Fleury, were greatly in vogue at Versailles.

  • Cardinal Fleury, having not one great principle in himself, trained this Prince to nothing but trifles: yet this unequal education did not extinguish in him the most amiable qualities which can adorn a Sovereign.

  • His resentment chiefly aimed at the cardinal de Noailles, and he had the confidence to move his penitent to depose him judicially.

  • Cardinal Fleury, though he had avoided war, had not studied peace so much as he ought.

  • Cardinal Tencin bore a great sway at court; the King confided in him very much; so that they often used to be busy together.

  • In Cardinal de Fleury’s indolent ministry, and the subsequent wars, the government had not been able to take into consideration an abuse which manifestly tended to dispeople the monarchy.

  • Cardinal Fleury succeeded him; and things went still worse: he alone did more harm to France than all those before him, who had like to have ruined this realm.

  • The villa of the Cardinal Borghese, Casa Baldi, near Olevano, in the Sabine country, is still in existence, and is now an inn much frequented by artists.

  • Said the Cardinal Albani: "I well-nigh may answer for this.

  • E'en before was served the coffee (At that time this was a novel Beverage and rarely taken, Only on the highest feast-days) Had the Cardinal already Learnt the facts.

  • Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni of Venice, who in 1689 became the successor of Innocent XI.

  • But they can run the seven cardinal virtues, and the seven other virtues, off by rote.

  • She therefore waited, hoping, sustained and directed meanwhile by Cardinal Guerillot, who later on was to baptize her and to obtain for her the favor of approaching the holy table for the first time at the Pope's mass.

  • She felt that the charity of judgment recommended by the pious Cardinal was a difficult virtue.

  • When Fanny, already devoted to her charities, confided in him the serious troubles of her mind and the discord which had arisen between her and her father on the so essential point of her baptism, the Cardinal replied: "Have faith in God.

  • And that poor, dear man was about to count them when the coffer slipped from his hand, and there was the entire treasure on the floor, and the Pope and a cardinal on all fours were scrambling for the napoleons, when a servant entered.

  • Cardinal Gibbons (Roman Catholic): "You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday.

  • The Faith of Our Fathers," by James Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, John Murphy & Co.

  • A French and English army of pillaging riders were on the other side of the Alps,-- six thousand strong; the Pope sent for it; Robert Cardinal of Geneva brought it into Italy.


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