SIGHTS AND THOUGHTS

IN

FOREIGN CHURCHES

AND

AMONG FOREIGN PEOPLES.

BY

FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER, M.A.

FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.

"Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching."-HEB. X. 24, 25.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

то

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, ESQ.

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE

OF MUCH PERSONAL KINDNESS,

AND MANY THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATIONS

ON THE RITES,

PREROGATIVES, AND DOCTRINES,

OF

THE HOLY CHURCH.

AMBLESIDE,

THE FEAST OF ST. MATTHIAS,

MDCCCXLII.

ROMA! ROMA! ROMA!

ROMA! NON È PIU COME ERA PRIMA!

SHEPHERD-SONG OF THE CAMPAGNA.

The Schism of Avignon

Reflections on the Pontificate of Boniface VIII.

Vaucluse

The Loves of Petrarch and Laura

Provençal Scenery a type of the modern temper

. 101

DIALOGUE I.-Dark notions of Clerical Celibacy, by the Man of

the Middle Ages

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