Capitolo 94
principles, so Your heart is but ecclesiastical!
It is not not finally common to find among the prelates some soldiers,
of the fortune, adventurers of the Church from what you/he/she has been attracted
their native earth from the ambition of the ecclesiastical greatness. This
body of volunteers receives contingents from the whole Catholic
world. These gentlemen furnish some strange examples to the Roman
people; and I know more than one about them to who mothers of families
for any motive you confide the education of their children. It has
happened to me to have described in a novel[8] a prelate that richly
deserved a failure; the good people in Rome have called to me three or
four who they imagined them they recognized in the portrait. But it has
never is still known that some prelate, however vicious, you/he/she has given
expression to the liberal ideas. An only word from the lips of a Roman prelate
in account of the nation it would ruin him/it.
The de of Account Rayneval has worked very hard to try that prelates that
you/he/she has not received the sacrament of Ordination part of form of the disposition,
element. To this percentage, a province should consider himself/herself/themselves fortunate, and
you think priestly government you/he/she has escaped, if his/her prefect has simply been
tonsured. I am not able for the life of me sees in that prelates of tonsured
it is more laymen that they is priests. I admit that them neither
follows the to shout neither possesses the virtues of the priesthood; but me
maintains that they has the ideas, the affairs the passions of the
ecclesiastical caste. They aims to the Cardinal hat, when them
ambition doesn't fly aloft to the tiara. Secular unusual, really and well
been all right for inhaling the trust in a secular people! 'Twere improves them
it would owe becoming Cardinals; for then them it would have more them
the fortunes to do, and they would not have called above for signalling them
zeal against the nation.
For that it is, unhappily, the state which things have reached. This