Ecclesiastical

She was cited to appear before the ecclesiastical court at Toul to answer for her perversity; when she declined to have counsel, and elected to conduct her case herself, her parents and all her ill-wishers rejoiced, and looked upon her as already defeated.

VII Elèn understood that the question was very simple and easy from the ecclesiastical point of view, and that her directors were making difficulties only because they were apprehensive as to how the matter would be regarded by the secular authorities.

and guarantee in a manner suiting us of the navy … as represented by our … priest-attendant, Theo Aporat … that such war will never in the future … be resumed, and that”- here a long pause, and then continuing -“and that the one-time prince regent, Wienis … be imprisoned … and tried before an ecclesiastical court … for his crimes.

Table of Contents Titlepage Imprint Introduction Youth Office Literature and Death The Man and His Works The Prince Dedication I: How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are, and by What Means They Are Acquired II: Concerning Hereditary Principalities III: Concerning Mixed Principalities IV: Why the Kingdom of Darius, Conquered by Alexander, Did Not Rebel Against the Successors of Alexander at His Death V: Concerning the Way to Govern Cities or Principalities Which Lived Under Their Own Laws Before They Were Annexed VI: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired by One’s Own Arms and Ability VII: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired Either by the Arms of Others or by Good Fortune VIII: Concerning Those Who Have Obtained a Principality by Wickedness IX: Concerning a Civil Principality X: Concerning the Way in Which the Strength of All Principalities Ought to Be Measured XI: Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities XII: How Many Kinds of Soldiery There Are, and Concerning Mercenaries XIII: Concerning Auxiliaries, Mixed Soldiery, and One’s Own XIV: That Which Concerns a Prince on the Subject of the Art of War XV: Concerning Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed XVI: Concerning Liberality and Meanness XVII: Concerning Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared XVIII: Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith XIX: That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated XX: Are Fortresses, and Many Other Things to Which Princes Often Resort, Advantageous or Hurtful?

Was Socrates after all a corrupter of youths, and deserved his hemlock?” But the struggle against Plato, or—to speak plainer, and for the “people”—the struggle against the ecclesiastical oppression of millenniums of Christianity (for Christianity is platonism for the “people”), produced in Europe a magnificent tension of soul, such as had not existed anywhere previously; with such a tensely strained bow one can now aim at the furthest goals.

Those who are not much acquainted with ecclesiastical history, may suppose that the book called the New Testament has existed ever since the time of Jesus Christ, as they suppose that the books ascribed to Moses have existed ever since the time of Moses.

He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, a whole ecclesiastical library to examine—prayer-books, diocesan catechisms, books of hours, etc.—charges to write, sermons to authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the Holy See; and a thousand matters of business.

A dressy garment, tailored by our own experienced ecclesiastical cutters.” Halftone illustrations represented young curates, some dapper, some Rugbeian and muscular, some with ascetic faces and large ecstatic eyes, dressed in jackets, in frock-coats, in surplices, in clerical evening dress, in black Norfolk suitings.

“The Pope is the successor of St. Peter, and represents the three divine powers; the rest—ordines inferiores—of the ecclesiastical hierarchy bless in the name of the holy archangels and angels.

Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glowlamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the presabbath, Stephen’s collapse.

As he said, it had the “most perdurable features of those noble ecclesiastical monuments of grand Old England which stand as symbols of the eternity of faith, religious and civil.” It was built of cheery iron-spot brick in an improved Gothic style, and the main auditorium had indirect lighting from electric globes in lavish alabaster bowls.

But I imagined that it was all meant seriously, and that the Church might be now going to try criminals, and sentence them to beating, prison, and even death.” “But if there were none but the ecclesiastical court, the Church would not even now sentence a criminal to prison or to death.

“Yet,” Homais went on, “one of two things; either she died in a state of grace (as the Church has it), and then she has no need of our prayers; or else she departed impertinent (that is, I believe, the ecclesiastical expression), and then—” Bournisien interrupted him, replying testily that it was none the less necessary to pray.

He was painfully aware that he lacked the ecclesiastical aplomb and savoir-faire that enabled so many of his colleagues in other faiths and sects to get ahead.

Such are the people who compose a numerous and splendid court, a great ecclesiastical establishment, great fleets and armies, who in time of peace produce nothing, and in time of war acquire nothing which can compensate the expense of maintaining them, even while the war lasts.