This pontiff honoured and revered Ximenes, and still more he loved the fine arts.
The lofty part of his predecessor Ximenes was out of the range, not more of his intellectual, than his moral capacity.
Who can but feel shame when the religion of Ximenes, Borromeo, and Pascal, is so overlaid?
There was in that day no dearth of imitators of Cardinal Ximenes.
Ximenes had established the library of Alcala; and that of Salamanca is likewise more ancient than this of the Escurial.
