Note 070
From Chapter 66 of the Decline & Fall

From the original Lives of the Popes, in Muratori's Collection (tom. iii. p. ii. tom. xxv.), the manners of Eugenius IV. appear to have been decent, and even exemplary. His situation, exposed to the world and to his enemies, was a restraint, and is a pledge.

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