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They are spendthrifts in promises, niggards in the performance; the most crawling sycophants, and the most venomous slanderers; who feign the most honest simplicity, and are the most malicious of deceivers." Niccolini, Vita di Arnaldo da Brescia. De Consideratione, lib. iv. cap. 2.
I have more than once surprised her in tears occasioned by her obstinate struggles with some passage of the intensely idiomatic satirist, which she found it almost but eventually not quite impossible to render to her satisfaction. She published a translation of Niccolini's Arnaldo da Brescia, which won the cordial admiration and friendship of that great poet.
Besides, Giacopo," she added, turning again to the leader, "you may be at fault; you may be scared by a shadow; you may be wrong in accounting them our pursuers." The man shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, and grunted. "Arnaldo, there, made no mistake. He told us what he saw." "Now Heaven help a poor, deserted maid, who set her trust in curs!" she exclaimed, between grief and anger.
The Catholic dogma had hitherto triumphed over all outbreaks over Arnaldo of Brescia, the Waldenses, and Wickliffe. But Luther appeared, and the work was accomplished: Catholic unity was broken.
The Catholic dogma had hitherto triumphed over all outbreaks over Arnaldo of Brescia, the Waldenses, and Wickliffe. But Luther appeared, and the work was accomplished: Catholic unity was broken.
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