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volt of Brescia against her bishop was the firstfruits of his dangerous lessons. But the favourof the people is less permanent than the resent-ment of the priest; and after the heresy of Ar-nold had been condemned by Innocent the se-cond/ in the general council of the Lateran , themagistrates themselves were urged by prejudiceand fear to execute the sentence of the church.Italy could no longer afford a refuge, and the dis-ciple of Abelard escaped beyond the Alps, tillhe found a safe and hospitable shelter in Zurich ,now the first of the Swiss cantons. From a Ro-man station/ a royal villa, a chapter of noblevirgins, Zurich had gradually increased to a freeand flourishing city; where the appeals of theMilanese were sometimes tried by the imperialcommissaries.* In an age less ripe for reforma-tion, the precursor of Zuinglius was heard withapplause: a brave and simple people imbibed

J -Damnatus ab illo

Praesule, qui numeros vetitum contingere nostrosNomen ah innocua dlicit laudabile vita.

We may applaud the dexterity and correctness of Ligurinus, who turnsthe unpoetical name oflnnocent II. into a compliment.

* A Roman inscription ofStatio Turicensis has been found at Zu-rich (d’Anville, Notice dc l'ancicnne Gaule, p. 642-644); but it iswithout sufficient warrant, that the city and canton have usurped, andeven monopolised, the names of Tigurum and Pagus Tigurinus.

* Guilliman (de Rebus Helveticis, 1. iii, c. 6, p. 106) recapitulatesthe donation (a.d 833) of the emperor Lewis the pious to his daugh-ter the abbess Hildegardis . Curtim nostram Turegum in ducato Ala-manniae in pago Durgaugensi, with villages, woods, meadows, waters,slaves, churches, &c. a noble gift. Charles the bold gave the jus mo-netee ; the city was wal'td under Otho I. and the line of the bishopof Erisingen,

Nobile Turegum mnltarum ropia rerum,is repeated with pleasure by the antiquaries of Zuricli.