Knowing this he feels that the moment he puts on his violet stockings, he may order his scarlet ones.
In the meanwhile he takes his degrees, and profits by the occasion to sow his wild oats.

The Cardinals shut their eyes to his conduct, so he does but profess wholesome ideas.

Do what you please, child of princes, so your heart be but clerical! Finally, it is not uncommon to find among the prelates some soldiers of fortune, adventurers of the Church, who have been attracted from their native land by the ambition of ecclesiastical greatness.

This corps of volunteers receives contingents from the whole Catholic world.

These gentlemen furnish some strange examples to the Roman people; and I know more than one of them to whom mothers of families would on no account confide the education of their children.