The Astrologer's Daughter: An Historical Novel, Volume 1T.C. Newby, 1845 |
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Admiral Coligny Astrologer Astrologer's beauty believe bosom bright brow Cardinal Catherine de Médicis Catherine's cheek chevalier Clemen cold Coligny Condé Court cried Clementina dare dark daughter death dreadful Duc d'Anjou Duc de Guise Duke of Anjou Duke of Guise Duke's eyes fair father feel felt flowers forgive France gaze grace grief guerite hand happy hear heard heart Henri of Guise hope Huguenots Jeanne d'Albret kiss laugh length lips little Princess look Lorraine maiden Majesty Mariot marry the Duke mentina methinks mother murderer never pale party passion Pettura Poltrot de Méré poor Clementina pride Prince de Béarn Princess Marguerite Queen of Navarre Queen-Mother Queen-Mother's reign replied Clementina replied Loretta Royal mistress sigh smile sorrow soul speak sweet tears tell thee thou thought tina unhappy uttered voice weep whilst wish words young girl young King young Prince youth
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Page 14 - Pope performs the ceremony of shutting and opening his mouth, which is done in a private consistory. The shutting his mouth, implies the depriving him of the liberty of giving his opinion in congregations ; and the opening his mouth, which is performed fifteen days after, signifies the taking off this restraint. However, if the Pope happens to die during the time a cardinal's mouth is shut, he can neither give his voice in the election of a new Pope, nor be himself advanced to that dignity. The privileges...
Page 11 - Gregory, cardinal priests, and cardinal deacons, were only such priests and deacons as bad a church or chapel under their particular care : and this was the original use of the word. Leo IV. in the council of Rome, held in 853, calls them presbyteros tuicardtnis ; and their churches, parochias cardinales.
Page 11 - Moses, so the cardinals represent the seventy elders, who, under the pontifical authority, decide private and particular differences. Cardinals, In their first institution, were only the principal priests, or incumbents, of the parishes of Rome.
Page 14 - The drefs of a cardinal is a red foutanne, a rocket, a fhort purple mantle, and a red hat. The cardinals began to wear the red hat at the council of Lyons, in 1243. The decree of Pope Urban VIII. whereby it is appointed, that the cardinals be addrefled under the title of eminence, is of the year 1630 ; till then, they were called illußrißimi.
Page 274 - GONE from her cheek is the summer bloom, And her lip has lost all its faint perfume : And the gloss has dropped from her golden hair, And her cheek is pale, but no longer fair.
Page 140 - ... I must eat something. I am exhausted." He staggered against Dr. Cutter's strong arm, and caught himself by it. The professor held him firmly on his feet, and looked at him curiously. " You are worn out," he said. " Come with me." He led him through the corridor to the restaurant of the hotel, and poured out a glass of wine from a bottle which stood on a table set ready for dinner. Paul drank it slowly, stopping twice to look at his companion, who watched him with the eye of a physician. "Have...
Page 12 - The cardinals continued on this footing till the eleventh century ; but as the grandeur and state of his holiness became then exceedingly augmented, he would have his council of cardinals make a better figure than the ancient priests had done. It is true, they still preserved their ancient title ; but the thing expressed by it was no more. It was a...
Page 12 - It was a good while, however, before they had the precedence over the bishops, or got the election of the pope into their hands : but when they were once possessed of those privileges, they soon had the red hat and purple ; and growing still In authority, they became at length superior to the bishops, by the sute quality of being cardinals.
Page 11 - Bishops, their cardinalate became vacant, they being then supposed to be raised to a higher dignity. Under Pope Gregory, Cardinal priests and Cardinal deacons were only such priests...