 | Joseph Townsend - France - 1791 - 444 pages
...to reft ; for the duke of Alba finding all other expedients vain, made application to the pope, and obtained an order for its return. The life of S. Terefa,...interefting. Her frame was naturally delicate, her imagina-. tion lively, and her mind, incapable of being fixed by trivial objects, turned with avidity... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...to the Pope, and obtained an order for its return. The life of S. Teresa is peculiarly interesting. Her frame was naturally delicate, her imagination...and her mind, incapable of being fixed by trivial objects, turned with avidity to those which religion offered, the moment they were presented to her... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Apparitions - 1825 - 514 pages
...Insanity. Trans, by Dr Davis, p. 4&. has given an abstract of her life, " was naturally de" licate, her imagination lively, and her mind incapable of being fixed by trivial objects, turned with avidity to those which religion offered, the moment they were presented to her... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Dreams - 1852 - 248 pages
...female convents, and fifteen male, all owning her rule. Now read what her biographer says of her. " Her frame was naturally delicate, her imagination...lively, and her mind incapable of being fixed by trivial objects, turned with avidity to those which religion offered the moment they were presented to her... | |
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Her frame was naturally delicate, her imagination lively, and her mind, incapable of being fixed by trivial objects, turned with avidity to those which religion offered, the moment they were presented to her view. But, unfortunately, meeting with the... 