[155]. Among the numerous errors in the few lines devoted to the Bollandists in the new Encyclopædia Britannica, not the worst is the statement that Père Bolland was only a short time engaged on the Acta. More than one-half of a life of sixty-nine years was spent in the production of five folio volumes for his own share, besides superintending the preparation of others.
[156]. Particulars may be found in the Bibliothèque des Ecrivains de la Comp. de Jésus, of the Pères de Backer, S.J. Liége, 1854. Also in Nicéron, Histoire des Hommes Illustres, II.
[157]. Costello’s translation.
[158]. The white cross of Savoy, won by a chivalric knight of the ages of faith, but which one now learns to loathe in Italy—the cross of torture: crux de cruce—for Pius IX. of blessed memory.
[159]. The more ancient writers use this expression in the sense of enjoying the pleasures of the country or making good cheer, without any invidious meaning. Voltaire is one of the first to imply by its use a life of luxurious and sensual indulgence.
[160]. Æneas Sylvius.
[161]. Renan. Vie de Saint Paul, chap. vii. p. 126.
[162]. Renan, Vie de Saint Paul, c. vii. p. 135.
[163]. Ecclesiasticus xxiv.
[164]. It was recently said that there were three kinds of dancing: the graceful, the ungraceful, and the disgraceful.