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" Few perceived the importance ^° Sarpi, viii. 8i6, is not very distinct was not customary, opinions changed, on this subject. The authentic explana- and the contrary prevailed; at length the tion of Morone is extremely valuable. decrees were issued as they exist, lay The affair of the canons and their ex- means of Lorraine, who had returned emptions was at first carried in favor from Rome, full of devotion to his holi- of the ultramontane party, but the votes ness and to the purposes of the co...uncil, being afterward taken in writing, which 238 RANKE of this proceeding," as he remarks himself, " and so the rocks and shoals were all avoided. Pius IV having thus successfully accomplished the preser- vation of the Roman Court in the form it had hitherto main- tained, did not evince any great rigor as regarded the proposed reformation of the temporal sovereigns ; he permitted this sub- ject to drop, in compliance with the suggestions of Ferdinand.^ The proceedings were in fact such as those of a mere friendly conference might have been, while questions of subordinate in- terest were left to be formed into general decrees by the divines ; the more important affairs were discussed by the courts.
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