History of Two Queens I Catharine of Aragon Ii Anne Boleyn volume 1
History of Two Queens I Catharine of Aragon Ii Anne Boleyn volume 1
William Hepworth Dixon
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A sterner spirit than Mendoza sat beside her chau', in Fray Francisco Ximenes, Primate of Castille and Cardinal of Spain. Excepting natural gifts, this friar had scarcely anything in common . Vith Mendoza. He was not of noble birth ; he had no taste for luxury ; he ate no dainty food ; he wore no purple ; he disdained to ride on mules. In early life he often wanted bread. His father placed him at the school of Alcala, from which he went to Salamanca, and from thence to Rome, where he had won th...e eye of Sixtus the Fourth. A pro- digy of learning, he had studied with success, not only letters and theology, not only civil law and criminal law, but various Oriental tongues. Yet many years elajised before the low-born snge could will his way to rank and power. At last, he won them l)y aj)pearing to reject them. Laying down his poor preferment in tlie ])riesthood, he became a brother of tlie Order of St. Francis in Toledo, Avhore he roused tlie city by his sermons, and se- cured her notice by rcLliing to a convent in a wood CHAP.
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