 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 766 pages
...Gregory proposed to suppress all the congregations of hermits, but, at the instance of Cardinal Richard, the Carmelites and Augustinians were allowed to exist...acquiesced readily enough, but those who regarded the Rule as divine revelation, not to be tampered with by any earthly authority, declared that it would... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 746 pages
...Lateran were permitted to continue, but they were instructed to admit no new members, to acquire no4 new houses, and not to sell what they possessed without...acquiesced readily enough, but those who regarded the Rule as divine^ revelation, not to be tampered with by any earthly authority, de-i clared that it would... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 764 pages
...the time 1 had come for decisive measures to check the tide of saintly mendicancy.* Some vague and 1 incorrect rumors of this legislation penetrating to...acquiesced readily enough, but those who regarded the Eule as divine revelation, not to be tampered with by any earthly authority, declared that it would... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 690 pages
...of belief, is an atrocity," and speaks of a " fiendish legislation," " an infernal curiosity," a " seemingly causeless ferocity which appears to persecute for the mere pleasure of persecuting." The Inquisition is "energetic only in evil " ; it is " a standing mockery of justice,... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 696 pages
...of belief, is an atrocity," and speaks of a " fiendish legislation," " an infernal curiosity," a " seemingly causeless ferocity which appears to persecute for the mere pleasure of persecuting." The Inquisition is "energetic only in evil " ; it is " a standing mockery of justice,... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1922 - 758 pages
...Gregory proposed to suppress all the congregations of hermits, but, at the instance of Cardinal Richard, the Carmelites and Augustinians were allowed to exist...acquiesced readily enough, but those who regarded the Rule as divine revelation, not to be tampered with by any earthly authority, de• Condi. LugUuncns.... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 2005 - 749 pages
...persecutions which the history of human, perversity affords. On the one hand there is the marveHous constancy which endured lifelong martyrdom for an...had decreed that the Mendicants could hold property. Moat of the brethren acquiesced readily enough, but those who regarded the Rule as divine revelation,... | |
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Augustinians were allowed to exist on sufferance until further order, while the audacity of other associations, not as yet approved, was condemned, especially that of the mendicants, whose multitude was declared to exceed all bounds. Such mendicant Orders... 