ISBN: 1230315179

[EAN: 9781230315171], Neubuch, [PU: TheClassics.us], HENRY MORLEY,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 84 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may ha… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781230315171], Neubuch, [PU: TheClassics.us], HENRY MORLEY,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 84 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: . . . AN AUSTERE POPE. 293 CHAPTER XII. THE END AT HOME. He cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. --Ecclesiastes vi. 4. This mournful story of the vanity of wisdom draws now to a close. Cardans imprisonment at Bologna had taken place under the pontificate of Pius V. , a pope of pure but austere life, who had caused the strenuous enforcement of laws against heresy and blasphemy, and who combined with many noble qualities the character of a most stringent persecutor. He forbad physicians to attend patients who had passed three days without confession of their sins; he expressed disapprobation with his officials in any town that did not yield yearly a large crop of penal sentences. The imprisonment of Jerome at Bologna was a result, I believe, of this activity, and yet it was from Pius V. that Cardan received a pension, and under his wing that he spent his last years safely in Rome as a private person. M. De Thou relates, in the history of his own times1, that he saw at Rome the great Cardan, walking about the streets, not dressed like any other person, had often wondered at him and had spoken with him. He records at the same time the character he bore: that he was a madman of impious audacity, who had attempted to subject to the stars the Lord of the stars, and cast our Saviours horoscope. Immediately after Cardans death, and during the succeeding century, this charge of impiety attached to him, and he who had taken so much pains to remain on good terms with the Church, was known traditionally as a man who had blasphemously calculated the nativity of Christ (Naudseus shows that he was not the first astrologer who did so), and was occasionally named as a rank atheist. Now it appears. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2013, ISBN: 1230315179

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2013, ISBN: 1230315179

[EAN: 9781230315171], Neubuch, [PU: TheClassics.us], Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in Brand New condition., Books

2013, ISBN: 1230315179

[EAN: 9781230315171], Neubuch, [PU: TheClassics.us], Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in Brand New condition.