The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature Volume 11; To Which Is Prefixed, a Short Review of the Principal Transactions of the Present Reign (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791 Excerpt: ...of the church, as if they had been instituted, for the common purposes of wayward caprice or resentful vengeance. To look into him for the amiable virtues' of life, or for those which should form the pastoral character, -would be loss of time. The prerogative of the holy scr, built up by adulation and misjudging zeal, filled his mind: its aggrandisement he sought, sometimes, perhaps, from motives which the cool reasoner may excuse: and the meteor of universal empire gleaming on his fenses, did not permit the operations of a dispassionate and ' unbiassed judgment. No tears werd slied when Innocent fell, but those which religion wept, too justlypained by the inordinate exertions and worldly views of her first minister. The maxims of the age, however, must not be forgotten. They will throw some veil over the failings of Innocent; will extenuate the intemperance of his measures; and blunt the edge of censure. He was succeeded by Honorius III." A 4 ACCOUNT t CISCAN ORDER. From the s; - T7-RANCIS named of Alfisium, J from the place of his birth, a town in the ecclesiastical states, about the year 1206 founded an order, the character and leading maxims of which, even in an age of prodigies, could excite amazement. He was the son of a merchant, and bred to, his father's trade. But particularly constituted, and listening, todreams and visions, his mind opened to other impressions: he despised the money-getting life, solaced the indigent by his charities, made himself x butt of ridicule to his fellow-citizens, and finally surrendered into his father's hands every prospect of future support, stripping off his garments before him, that he might be the better able to repeat, he said, Our father who art in heavien.K He' retired, indulging the warm suggestio...