Rivet: the holy memory of great servants, praise without flattery, and nothing that requires them to hear
People illustrious for virtue, above all for piety toward God and service of the Church, have a holy and venerable memory.
They are spoken of reverently, their virtues are recalled, they are proposed for imitation, and they receive due praise.
Any further honor must be such as can be paid to people we do not see and who do not hear us.
That kind is worth more because it cannot be flattery or self-interest.
Latin
XXXIX. De hominibus vero loquens, Si qui fuerint, inquit, qui claruerint magnis virtutibus, maxime pietate in Deum, & meritis erga Ecclesiam, eorum memoria nobis sancta est & veneranda; de iis reverenter loquimur, eorum virtutes recolimus, nobis & aliis ad imitandum proponimus, eos prosequimur debitis laudibus. Et si quid aliud sit quod iis quos non videmus, & qui non audiunt nos, deferre possimus: quod genus honoris & cultus eo magis est aestimandum, quod ab omni adulatione alienum est, nec potest proficisci nisi ab ea mente, quae de eorum excellentia persuasa est, & eorum dignitatem magni facit, citra ullum propriae utilitatis respectum.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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