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Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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advanced age of sixty-seven ;and the other, a report of the weakness anddecay of his constitution, which he is said tohave countenanced with considerable art. Athis coronation the new pope assumed the nameof Paul III. The first objects to which he di-rected his attention, were the progress of theReformation, and the means of crushing a re-volution pregnant with ruin to the authorityand interests of the papal see. He was noless enraged than his predecessor Clement atthe innovations in Germany, and no less averseto any scheme for reforming either the doc-trines of the church, or the abuses in the courtof Rome. But, having been a witness of theuniversal censure which Clement had incurredby his obstinacy on those points, and knowinghow much the meeting of a general councilwas desired by all Christendom, he hoped toavoid all reproach by a seeming a^crity in PAVLVS TERTIVS, IN ORDINE CCXXIV. PONTIFEX MAX: NOBILIS ROMANVS. 7)auhw t)er ^titt/in t)cr O^^nung Dcr ^ft)ct)^^n^ertcftc/ mti vicx m^
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