The American Universal Geography Or a View of the Present State of All the Emp
The American Universal Geography Or a View of the Present State of All the Emp
Jedidiah Morse
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The cardinals, who are next in digni- ty to his holinefs, are feventy : But that number is feldom or never complete : They are appointed by the pope, who takes care to have % majority of Italian cardinals, that the chair may not be removed from Rome, as it v/as once to Avignon in France, the then pope being a Frenchman. In promoting foreign prelates to the cardinalfhip, the pope regulates liimfelf according to the nomination of the princes who profefs that religion. His chief minlfter is the ca...rdinal patron, gene- rally his nephew, or near relation, who improves the time of the pope's reign by amafTing what he can. When met in a confiftory, the car- dinals pretend to control the pope, in matters both fpiritual and tem- poral, and have been fometimes known to prevail. The reign of a pope is feldom of long duration, being generally old men at the time of their eleflion. The conclave is a fcene where the cardinals princi- pally endeavour to difpUy their parts, and where many tranfaftions pafs, which hardly fhew their infpiratlon to be from the Holy Ghoft^ During the eleftion of a pope in 1721, the animofities ran fo high, that they came to blows with both tKcir hands and feet, and threw the inkftandiihes at each other.
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