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On The Profligate Manners Of The City Of Avignon,
to catch the innocent and unwary , whom they fleece and burn to satisfy their gluttony . To the most simple repasts have succeeded the most sumptuous feasts ; and where the apostles went on foot , shod only with sandals , are now seen ins . ilent Satraps , mounted on horses ornamented with gold , and champing golden bits . They appear like the kings of Persiaor the Parthian princesto whom all must pay
, , adoration . —Poor old fishermen ! For whom have you laboured ? For whom have you cultivated the Lord ' s vineyard ? For whom was so much of your blood shed ? Neither piety , charity , nor truth , is here : God is despised , the laws trampled upon , and wickedness is esteemed wisdom . '
Original Letter Of Petrarch To A Friend,
ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETRARCH TO A FRIEND ,
WHO PRESSED'HIM TO COME TO TUB POPE ' S COURT , WHERE HE MIGHT HAVE GREAT PREFFRMCNT .
' T AM content;—I have enough for life;—I have put a rem on my - " - desires ' , and I will have no morel Cincinnatus , Cari ' us , Fabricius , Regultts , after having subdued whole nations , and led kings in triumph ., were not so rich as I am . If I open the door to the passions , I shall always be poor . Avarice , luxury , and ambition , know no bounds ; but avarice , above all , is an unfathomable abyss . I have clothes to defend me from the coldfood to nourish me , horses to carry me , a
, clod of earth to sleep on , to walk on , and to cover me when I die : what more had the emperor of Rome ? My body is healthy : subdued by labour , it is the less rebellious to my soul . I have books of all kinds : they are my wealth ; they feast my mind with pleasure not followed by disgust . I have friends , whom I consider as principal treasures . lam rich enough for content ancl quiet : must more he
done to appear rich for the satisfaction of others , or rather to more envy ? I should prefer the honour of being conspicuous among persons of merit to that of being Pope . - '
Of The Destruction Made By Duelling In France, In The Last Century.
OF THE DESTRUCTION MADE BY DUELLING IN FRANCE , IN THE LAST CENTURY .
A French historian , speaking of the state of his country in the last century , says , " almost all orders in the kingdom were in arms ; nay , almost every individual breathed nothing but the spirit of rage and duelling . " This Gothic barbarity , which had been formerly authorised by the kings themselves , and which was become the character of the nationcontributed , as much as the domestic and foreign wars
, , to depopulate the kingdom : and it will not be saying too much to . , affirm , that in the course of twenty years , of which ten were embroiled by wars , more Frenchmen were killed b y the hands of one another , than by their enemies .
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On The Profligate Manners Of The City Of Avignon,
to catch the innocent and unwary , whom they fleece and burn to satisfy their gluttony . To the most simple repasts have succeeded the most sumptuous feasts ; and where the apostles went on foot , shod only with sandals , are now seen ins . ilent Satraps , mounted on horses ornamented with gold , and champing golden bits . They appear like the kings of Persiaor the Parthian princesto whom all must pay
, , adoration . —Poor old fishermen ! For whom have you laboured ? For whom have you cultivated the Lord ' s vineyard ? For whom was so much of your blood shed ? Neither piety , charity , nor truth , is here : God is despised , the laws trampled upon , and wickedness is esteemed wisdom . '
Original Letter Of Petrarch To A Friend,
ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETRARCH TO A FRIEND ,
WHO PRESSED'HIM TO COME TO TUB POPE ' S COURT , WHERE HE MIGHT HAVE GREAT PREFFRMCNT .
' T AM content;—I have enough for life;—I have put a rem on my - " - desires ' , and I will have no morel Cincinnatus , Cari ' us , Fabricius , Regultts , after having subdued whole nations , and led kings in triumph ., were not so rich as I am . If I open the door to the passions , I shall always be poor . Avarice , luxury , and ambition , know no bounds ; but avarice , above all , is an unfathomable abyss . I have clothes to defend me from the coldfood to nourish me , horses to carry me , a
, clod of earth to sleep on , to walk on , and to cover me when I die : what more had the emperor of Rome ? My body is healthy : subdued by labour , it is the less rebellious to my soul . I have books of all kinds : they are my wealth ; they feast my mind with pleasure not followed by disgust . I have friends , whom I consider as principal treasures . lam rich enough for content ancl quiet : must more he
done to appear rich for the satisfaction of others , or rather to more envy ? I should prefer the honour of being conspicuous among persons of merit to that of being Pope . - '
Of The Destruction Made By Duelling In France, In The Last Century.
OF THE DESTRUCTION MADE BY DUELLING IN FRANCE , IN THE LAST CENTURY .
A French historian , speaking of the state of his country in the last century , says , " almost all orders in the kingdom were in arms ; nay , almost every individual breathed nothing but the spirit of rage and duelling . " This Gothic barbarity , which had been formerly authorised by the kings themselves , and which was become the character of the nationcontributed , as much as the domestic and foreign wars
, , to depopulate the kingdom : and it will not be saying too much to . , affirm , that in the course of twenty years , of which ten were embroiled by wars , more Frenchmen were killed b y the hands of one another , than by their enemies .