Letters of Pope Clement XIV (Ganganelli).: To which are Prefixed Anecdotes of His Life, Volumen 1T. Plummer, 1809 |
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Página 105 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Página 230 - Be yourfelves think in your own way." It is a melancholy thing to employ young people, for whole years in learning nothing but the art of repeating. When your children have acquired the age of maturity , then...
Página 9 - Vatican, which was erefted on the ruins of falfe oracles, beauties of every kind that will tire your eyes, while they at the fame time charm you. Here Raphael and Michael Angelo, fometimes in a fublime, fometimes in a pathetic manner, have difplayed the...
Página 231 - ... in preference to another. The good education they will have received, the knowledge they will have acquired, will naturally lead them to a happy...
Página 233 - ... their inclination, that they cannot reply. Leave them a liberal freedom, so that their father's house may not be their last choice; it is necessary that they should be happier there than elsewhere, and find those pleasures which may reasonably be expected from a parent, who though a friend to order, is indulgent from affection.
Página 44 - Kempis and Gerson." This was pointed out by Father Ganganelli, who died as Pope Clement XIV.* " What has made," wrote Ganganelli to his friend, a Canon of Orsino, " the Imitation of Jesus Christ so valuable and affecting is, that the author (Gersen, Abbe of Verceil, in Italy) has transfused into it all that holy charity with which he himself was divinely animated. " Gerson is commonly confounded with Gersen ; nevertheless it is easy to prove that neither Gerson nor Thomas a Kempis were the authors...
Página 223 - Let them be read lefs with an intention to fix them in the memory, than to grave them on the heart. It is not...
Página 15 - Ifles will next attract your curiofity, from the accounts you muft have had of them. Placed in the middle of a delightful lake, they prefent to your view whatever is magnificent or gay in gardens. Genoa will appear to you truly fuperb in its churches and palaces.
Página 104 - I hope God will reward me for it. You are always repeating, Madam, that he has lost a great deal of money, and that he is a bad man. But what is even the loss of gold, that you should so much regret it.' You ought only to be grieved at the abuse of so many good qualities as he possesses ; and think, if he is really a bad man, that he has more need than ever of advice, and the example of the truly good. It is having a very bad idea of religion, to forsake a young man, because he has committed some...
Página 231 - It will then be necessary to speak frequently to them of the advantages and disadvantages of the different conditions of life, and to let them know how much their temporal and eternal interest is concerned in the faithful discharge of their duty. , After these precautions, and after having often implored the assistance of heaven, your sons will enter steadily upon the plan...