"Implacability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... did himself an injustice: he was a man of shrewdness and sagacity, he lacked only courage and strength to have made a great Pope. His whole reign was a tacit reproach against the turbulence, implacability and avarice of his predecessor. The court of Avignon was crowded with fawning courtier bishops seeking promotion: he sent them flying back to their sees. He discouraged the Papal reserves, the iniquitous system whereby Pope John ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould |
