To subvert the authority of the Pope is to shake the church to her foundations.

But nothing I say can make Clarke understand this.

It is the one point upon which he is obstinately heretical." "But you still have hopes of inducing him to submit ?" "I shall not cease my efforts, or cease to hope," answered Dr.
Higdon earnestly, "for in truth I know not what will be the end if he remain obstinate or, rather, I fear too much what that end will be.

If it lay with the cardinal, there would be hope; but the bishop is obdurate.

He is resolved to proceed to the uttermost lengths.