The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa: Comprising a Period of Eighty-four Years from 1079 to 1163, Volume 1J. J. Tourneisen., 1793 |
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Page 42 - Guibertus, archbifhop of Ravenna, whom he had chofen anti-pope, and laid fiege to the caftle of St. Angelo. The tiara trembled on the head of Gregory; and he was on the point of falling into the hands of his enemy, when the renowned Robert Guifcard, who was become the faft friend of the pontiff, marched from the Eafi to his deliverance.
Page 29 - ... zeal could fuggeft. Hildebrand, with the keen fenfibility of a virtuous mind, had long viewed the fallen ftate of religion, and he afcended the Papal throne, with the unanimous approbation of all orders of the Roman church, big with vaft defigns of reformation.
Page 38 - Thou canft wit" nefs, and with thee can witnefs the holy mother of Chrift, " and thy brother Paul, that unwillingly I was compelled " to mount this holy throne. Rather would I have worn ** out my life in exile, than have ufurped thy feat to gain ** glory and the praife of mortals. By thy favour has the " care of the chriftian world been committed to me ; from *' thee I have the power of binding and of loofening. Reft...
Page 213 - ... them how thefe fages lived ; he recounted the purity of their manners , and the eminence of their virtues : he turned to the facred volumes , which relate the lives of the fons of the prophets ; and here he found men who , near the waters of Jordan , had emulated the perfection of angels. With rapture he dwelt on the more than mortal virtues of the Baptift , and he followed the firfl converts to chriftianity through their exemplary courfe of felf-abafement , of prayer , of recollection , and...
Page 30 - . " The fource of the evils, he lamented, lay, it was evident , in the general corruption of manners , in the unbounded fway of paffion , and in. the abufe of power. With an intrepidity of foul , that perhaps was never equalled , he dared fingly to oppofe this multitudinous enemy, and he called the fovereigns of Europe to his tribunal. ' The motives which led him on, and the habits of ftern virtue, which had fteeled his...
Page 215 - ... this defart, funk down with care, where the goodnefs of heaven had watched over him, and he had found comfort, could he more emphatically exprefs his gratitude, than by confecrating this more auguft temple to that perfon of the holy triad, which more peculiarly is ftiled the Comforter? " We will dedicate it, faid he, to the Paradet*
Page 207 - This likewife was granted. — Without lofs of time, Abeillard then and his companion, planned the new building, and with the fame hands began to ered it.
Page 30 - ... of fufpicion , that he himfelf perhaps was arrogating a power, which belonged not to him , and from the abufe of which even greater evils might enfue , than thofe he aimed to fupprefs.