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comparison. According to Döllinger, the suppresseù papers told against Trent.

'Venn wir nicht alIen unseren henotischen Hoffnungen entsagen und uns nicht in schweren Konflikt Init der alten (vormittel- alterigen) Kirche bringen wollen, werden wir doch auch da das l{orrektiv des Vincentianischen Prinzips (sel1lþer, ubique, ab oll2nibus) zur Anwendung bringen müssen.

After his last visit to the Marciana he thought more favourably of Father Paul, sharing the admiration which Venetians feel for the greatest \vriter of the Republic, and falling little short of the judgments \vhich Macaulay in- scribed, after each perusal, in the copy at Inveraray. Apart from his chief work he thought him a great historian, and he rejected the suspicion that he professed a religion which he did not believe. He even fancied that the manuscript, which in fact was forwarded with much secrecy to Archbishop Abbot, 'v s published against his will. The intermediate seekers, who seem to skirt the border J such as Grotius, U ssher, Praetorius, and the other celebrated Venetian, De Dominis, interested him deeply, in connection with the subject of Irenics, and the religious problem was part motive of his incessant study of Shakespeare, both in eàrly life, and when he meditated joining in the debate between Simpson, Rio, Bernays, and the Edinburgh Review. His estimate of his own work was low. He wished to be remembered as a man who had written certain books, but who had not written many more. His collections constantly prompted new and attractive schemes, but his way was strewn with promise unperformed, and abandoned from \vant of concentration. He would not write with imperfect materials, and to him the materials were ahvays imperfect. Perpetually engaged în going over his o\vn life and reconsidering his conclusions, he was not depressed by unfinished work. When a sanguine friend hoped that all the contents of his hundred note-books would CaIne into use, he answered that perhaps they might, if he lived for a hundred and fifty years. He seldom wrote a book without compulsion, or the aid of energetic assistants.