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 bias 
""He left a great reputation as historian, jurist, and canonist, but his theological learning was deficient, and his subservience to the royal poorer excessive. He displayed a certain inconstancy in his opinions, and too much ambition and attachment to his own interests.""

This appears to be direct copy from the Catholic Encyclopedia, with the addition of one rather un-serendipitous malapropism. I'm deleting it."