Bishop Burnet's Travels Through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: Describing Their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade, &c., and Illustrated with Curious Observations on the Buildings, Paintings, Antiquities and Other Curiosities in Art and Nature. With a Detection of Frauds and Folly of Popery and Superstition in Some Flagrant Instances, Also Characters of Several Eminent Persons, and Many Other Memorable Things Worthy the Attention of the Curious |
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Page 162 - I walked indeed a great way, and found galleries going off in all hands without end ; and, whereas, in the Roman catacombs there are not above three or four rows of niches that are cut out in the rock, one over another, into which the dead bodies were laid ; here there are generally six or seven rows of those niches, and they are both larger and higher. Some...
Page 25 - Dominicans were the most learned, they were the eminentest preachers of those times, and had the conduct of the courts of Inquisition, and the other chief offices in the Church, in their hands. But on the other hand, the Franciscans had an outward appearance of more...
Page 29 - ... heaven he must receive the sacrament, having died without it ; and after that he would say mass for those who had by their great charities rescued him out of his pains. The friar fancied the voice...
Page 25 - ... other honours of the Dominican order. In short the two orders were engaged in a high rivalry, but the devotion towards the Virgin being the prevailing passion of those times, the Franciscans upon this had great advantages. The Dominicans, that are all engaged in the defence of Thomas...
Page 95 - The preceptor, that ner f<uher kept in the houfe with her, hath likewife a wonderful faculty of acquiring tongues. When he came firft to Geneva, (for he is of Zurich), he fpoke not a word of French, and within thirteen months he preached in French correftly, and with a good accent.
Page 82 - Islands, that are certainly the loveliest spots of ground in the World, there is nothing in all Italy that can be compared to them, they have the full view of the Lake, and the ground rises so sweetly in them that nothing can be imagined like the Terraces here, they belong to two Counts of the Borromean family.
Page 231 - There is a wind-mill ; and the virgin throws Chrift into the hopper, and he comes out at the eye of the mill all in wafers, which fome priefts take up to give to the people.
Page 222 - This feems to have been made in hatred of the monks, whom the fecular clergy abhorred at that time ; becaufe they had drawn the wealth and the following of the world after them ; and they had expofed the fecular...
Page 79 - ... of the religion had there, and warned them often of the terrible judgments of God which were hanging over their heads, and that he believed would suddenly break out upon them. On the 25th of...
Page 197 - Garnet ; for perhaps that name is fo well known, that they would not expofe a pifture with fuch a name on it to all ftrangers : yet Oldcorn, being a name lefs known, is hung there among their martyrs, though he was as clearly convifted of the gunpowder-treafon as the other was.