Gibbon's The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
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174, 175.) The long passage that relates to Arnold is produced by
Guilliman, (de Rebus Helveticis, l. iii. c. 5, p. 108.) *
- Note
- * Compare Franke, Arnold von Brescia und seine Zeit. Zurich, 1828.
-- M.]
[Footnote 21: The wicked wit of Bayle was amused in composing, with much
levity and learning, the articles of Abelard, Foulkes, Heloise, in his
Dictionnaire Critique. The dispute of Abelard and St. Bernard, of
scholastic and positive divinity, is well understood by Mosheim,
(Institut. Hist. Ecclés. p. 412--415.)]
[Footnote 22:
---- Damnatus ab illo
Præsule, qui numeros vetitum contingere nostros
Nomen ad innocuâ ducit laudabile vitâ.
We may applaud the dexterity and correctness of Ligurinus, who turns the
unpoetical name of Innocent II. into a compliment.]
[Footnote 23: A Roman inscription of Statio Turicensis has been found at
Zurich, (D'Anville, Notice de l'ancienne Gaul, p. 642--644;) but it is
without sufficient warrant, that the city and canton have usurped, and
even monopolized, the names of Tigurum and Pagus Tigurinus.]
[Footnote 24: Guilliman (de Rebus Helveticis, l. iii. c. 5, p. 106)
recapitulates the donation (A.D. 833) of the emperor Lewis the Pious to
his daughter the abbess Hildegardis. Curtim nostram Turegum in ducatû
Alamanniæ in pago Durgaugensi, with villages, woods, meadows, waters,
slaves, churches, &c.; a noble gift. Charles the Bald gave the jus
monetæ, the city was walled under Otho I., and the line of the bishop of
Frisingen,
Nobile Turegum multarum copia rerum,
is repeated with pleasure by the antiquaries of Zurich.]
[Footnote 25: Bernard, Epistol. cxcv. tom. i. p. 187--190. Amidst his
invectives he drops a precious acknowledgment, qui, utinam quam sanæ
esset doctrinæ quam districtæ est vitæ. He owns that Arnold would be a
valuable acquisition for the church.]
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