[180]. He refused the chancellorship when Boucherat gave up the seals, but did his work effectually as commissioner of finance and overseer of public work in the south and west of France between 1650 and 1690.
[181]. Dixit etiam Deus: Producant aquæ reptile anima viventis, et volatile super terram.... Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo ... et factum est ita.—Gen. i. 20, 24.
[182]. The translation is from the graceful pen of Lady Georgiana Fullerton.
[183]. As for “gall,” there is, according to the writer’s own showing, more of fallen than regenerate humanity in it. The less gall, then, the better. The Holy Father has recently favored the Catholic press by selecting St. Francis de Sales as its patron saint. The more closely writers adhere to the saint’s spirit the nearer they will approach their divine model, and the more abundant will their labors be in good fruits.—Ed. C. W.
[184]. Marchetti, Critica al Fleury, vol. ii. p. 193.
[185]. Ad auctorem opusc. Quid est Papa? vol. ii. p. 112.
[186]. Du Cange, Gloss., ad verb.
[187]. Macri, Hierolexicon, ad verb. Conclave.
[188]. Biondo da Forlì, lib. vii. decad. 2.
[189]. Cap. Ubi periculum. 3 de Elect. in 6.