"Cardinalship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first who disputed the privileges of the Cardinalship. Lord Scudamore, Ambassador in ordinary from England to France[274], would not see Cardinal Richelieu: he sent to tell him that he was expressly ordered to visit no one who assumed in his own house the precedency of the Ambassadors of Kings. The English had ...
— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny
... With the emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... some reluctance about accepting the cardinalship, which kept him fast at Rome, and would have preferred to be General of the Church, a position which would have allowed him more liberty for seeing his mistress and his family; but his uncle Calixtus made him reckon with ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
