Synopsis
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. 1849. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. CARDINAL LAMBHUSCHINI.--CARDINAL MIKARA THE REGULAR CLERGY DOMINICANS AND JESUITS.--THEIR ACTIVITY AND ZEAL.--CAPUCHINS.--FRANCISCANS.--CONVENTS.--OTHER ORDERS.--NUNS AND NUNNERIES. Lambruschini was the Papal prime minister during the reign of the late Pope. Of the whole body of the cardinals he is the most remarkable and striking. There are many that exceed him in years, for his age is only between fifty and sixty, but none in personal appearance. His carriage is erect and manly; his head fine and intellectual; he possesses an eye, dark, but full of fire, bespeaking equally vigour and decision. The forehead is high and beautifully formed, indicating no want of mental faculty; his features are handsome, and lose none of their expression in the disfiguring dress he wears. In fact, every line of his face declares him a man to whom nature has given no ordinary ability, as it also tells that that endowment has been cultivated by study and education. He CARDINAL LAMBRUSCHINI. 63 looks like one who has the cares of a state upon him, and I should say he was not unequal to the task. I have only seen him at the Sistine Chapel or at St. Peter's, and though on these occasions he was not inattentive to devotion, if I might judge from the expression of the face, the duties of his station and the demands of the Church were endeavouring to intrude upon, and obtain some occupation of his mind. In fact I pitied him, when, during the ceremony, custom compelled him to kiss or embrace his neighbouring cardinals--whose looks were so devoid of intelligence, so diametrically opposite to his own. I can say with some confidence, from what I have seen of the man, that he discharged the various duties of his office, with no less humanity than zeal, and that, though the ...
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