They observed the motions of Jupiter's satellites.
They published whole libraries, controversy, casuistry, history, treatises on optics, Alcaic odes, editions of the fathers, madrigals, catechisms, and lampoons.

The liberal education of youth passed almost entirely into their hands, and was conducted by them with conspicuous ability.

They appear to have discovered the precise point to which intellectual culture can be carried without risk of intellectual emancipation.

Enmity itself was compelled to own that, in the art of managing and forming the tender mind, they had no equals.

Meanwhile they assiduously and successfully cultivated the eloquence of the pulpit.
With still greater assiduity and still greater success they applied themselves to the ministry of the confessional.