It is by no means certain that he made the remark often
attributed to him, "Let us enjoy the papacy since God has given it to us," but there is little doubt that he was by nature devoid of moral earnestness or deep religious feeling.
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See The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell (1671),
attributed to Edward Bagshaw the younger; Vavasoris Examen et Purgamen (1654), by E.
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It may confidently be dated to a period not earlier than the 14th or 15th century A.D., and
attributed to the same Bantu people the remains of whose stone-fenced kraals are found at so many places between the Limpopo and the Zambezi.
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The northern portion of it consists of a lofty ridge with two summits, the westernmost of which is occupied by the modern town (985 ft.), while the easternmost, which is slightly higher, bears the name of Rock of Athena, owing to its identification in modern days with the acropolis of Acragas as described by Polybius, who places upon it the temple of Zeus Atabyrius (the erection of which was
attributed to the half mythical Phalaris) and that of Athena.'
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The collapse both of this temple and of that of Heracles must be
attributed to an earthquake; many fallen blocks of the former were removed in 1756 for the construction of the harbour of Porto Empedocle.
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For during the year that elapsed before he left Swabia (and whilst he sojourned at Neuburg and Ulm), and amidst his geometrical studies, he would fain have gathered some knowledge of the mystical wisdom
attributed to the Rosicrucians; but the Invisibles, as they called themselves, kept their secret.
When it began to have magistrates of its own is not known: nor indeed have we any inscriptions from Ostia that can be certainly
attributed to the Republican period.
The superiority which is claimed for Burton ales is
attributed to the use of well-water impregnated with sulphate of lime derived from the gypseous deposits of the district.
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Sir Michael Costa was the conductor 1846-1854, and from his acceptance of that high pitch the fork became known as Costa's, and its inception was
attributed to him, though on insufficient grounds.
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She became the great protectress of the Jansenists; it was in her house that Arnauld, Nicole and De Lane were protected; and to her influence must be in great part
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That he was capable of better work than is suggested by his average accomplishment is shown by two allegorical poems - the Complaint of the Black Knight and the Temple of Glass (once
attributed to Hawes).
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An old tower
attributed to them is to be seen in the village, and in the surrounding mountains are many remains of early monasticism.
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Christian Levantines were employed in its construction and it was decorated in part with Venetian mirrors, &c. In the same enclosure is a small castle
attributed to Yesu I.
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That spring a new disease broke out among the soldiers, a swelling of the arms, legs, and face, which the doctors
attributed to eating this root.
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But this genealogy, though it is
attributed to Hesiod, is apparently post-Homeric; and it is clear that the Ionian name had independent and varied uses and meanings in very early times.
He wrote at least one treatise on alchemy, but several others have been falsely
attributed to him.
This, of course, means that a new station, where clearing, digging, and building are in progress, is often unhealthy for a time, and to this must be
attributed the evil reputation which the peninsula formerly enjoyed.
On the one hand, there was no law except that of force by which an offence could be
attributed to the sovereign, the anointed king, the source of justice.
The authorship of an anonymous work, Squitinio della libertd Veneta, published at Mirandola in 1612, has been
attributed to him.
The relative backwardness of telegraphy in Great Britain was
attributed to high charges made by the companies and to restricted facilities.
Much of this lack of progress is
attributed to the heavy manual (especially agricultural) work undertaken by women and children.
To Heribert is
attributed the invention of the Carroccio, which played so singular and important a part in the warfare of Italian cities.
Royal honors were
attributed to the pope (Article 3), who was ftirther guaranteed the same precedence as that accorded to him by other Catholic sovereigns, and the right to maintain his Noble and Swiss guards.
In November Signor Gianturco died, and Signor Pietro Bertolini took his place as minister of public works; the latter proved perhaps the ablest member of the cabinet, but the acceptance of office under Giolitti of a man who had been one of the most trusted and valuable lieutenants of Signor Sonnino marked a further step in the dgringolade of that statesmans party, and was
attributed to the fact that Signor Bertolini resented not having had a place in the late Sonnino ministry.
Four of them are
attributed to the archbishop himself - those on Salvation, Faith, Good Works and the Reading of Scripture.
Later, the emergence of a great body of doctrine
attributed to ' Stated and criticized by Kant.
He soon began to give proofs of the violence for which he afterwards became notorious; when in 1497 his brother Giovanni, duke of Gandia, was murdered, the deed was
attributed, in all probability with reason, to Cesare.
The first, a religious romance of remarkable interest, may owe its preservation to the charm of its style, the others to the accident that they were
attributed by mistake to a famous apostle.
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At that date the science of chemistry was very imperfectly known, and the real constituents of ordinary remedies so little understood that different virtues were
attributed to different products containing the same constituents.
He paid especial attention to orthography, and sought to differentiate the meanings of cases of like ending by distinctive marks (the apex to indicate a long vowel is
attributed to him).
The western towers of Westminster Abbey are usually
attributed to Wren, but they were not carried out till 1735-1745, many years after Wren's death, and there is no reason to think that his design was used.
Jerome, Priscian and others
attributed the work to Cicero (whose De inventione was called Rhetorica prima, the Auctor ad Herennium, Rhetorica secunda), while the claims of L.
There is no need for cuticularization here, as the external dangerous influences do not reach the interior, and the processes of absorption which Boussingault
attributed to the external cuticularized cells can take place freely through the, delicate cell-walls of the interior, saturated as these are with water.
AdaptationThe morphological and physiological differentiation of the plant-body has, so far, been
attributed to (I) the nature of the organism, that is to its inherent tendency towards higher organization, and (2) to the indefinite results of the external conditions acting as a stimulus which excites the organism to variation, but does not direct the course of variation.
It results that besides a horizontal distribution of plants, there is also an altitudinal: a fact of cardinal importance, the first observation of which has been
attributed to Tournefort.
For a long time he had pondered over the confusion in which Spain was, which he
attributed to the intimate relations allowed between Christians and infidels for the sake of commerce.
There may be mentioned further the old buildings of the grammar school, founded in 1563, and of the charity called Christ's Hospital (1583); while the town-hall in the marketplace, dating from 1677, is
attributed to Inigo Jones.
The French
attributed the Fire of Moscow au patriotisme feroce de Rostopchine, * the Russians to the barbarity of the French.
Anticipation that the failure of the Petersburg Berezina plan would be
attributed to Kutuzov led to dissatisfaction, contempt, and ridicule, more and more strongly expressed.
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That could be
attributed greatly to the fact that she had avoided any relationships.
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Police called it the work of one person,
attributed to at least six earlier deaths.
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Klausen (Aeneas and die Penaten, 1839), the oldest collection of Sibylline oracles appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad; it was
attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.
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In 1870, by an arrangement which he
attributed to his friend Robert Lowe, afterwards Lord Sherbrooke (at that time a member of Gladstone's ministry), Scott was promoted to the deanery of Rochester and Jowett was elected to the vacant mastership by the fellows of Balliol.
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A good deal of what passes under his name has been wrongly
attributed to him.
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The report also cited a mid-1950s report that found 85 percent of economic growth was
attributed to technological change in the period 1890 to 1950.
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Plus, we have powers formerly
attributed to the ancient gods; we can fly, talk to people in other places, and see what is happening elsewhere.
She noticed this and
attributed it to his general kindness and shyness, which she imagined must be the same toward everyone as it was to her.
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That she had not heard from Prince Andrew himself, Princess Mary
attributed to his being too weak to write or to his considering the long journey too hard and too dangerous for her and his son.
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So one might have thought that regarding this period of the campaign the historians, who
attributed the actions of the mass to the will of one man, would have found it impossible to make the story of the retreat fit their theory.
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The source of this contradiction lies in the fact that the historians studying the events from the letters of the sovereigns and the generals, from memoirs, reports, projects, and so forth, have
attributed to this last period of the war of 1812 an aim that never existed, namely that of cutting off and capturing Napoleon with his marshals and his army.
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What did it matter to him--who then alone amid a senseless crowd understood the whole tremendous significance of what was happening--what did it matter to him whether Rostopchin
attributed the calamities of Moscow to him or to himself?
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Maybe the level of discomfort he experienced about having something in his life not fully under his influence was what Jenn
attributed as fear in hers.
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Romani" on a stone in the church Teampull Brecain on Inishmore,
attributed to disciples from Rome.
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