 ... fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman...  Studies in Modernism - Page 231by Alfred Fawkes - 1913 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1905 - 726 pages
...perceive that the original of this ' great ecclesiastical dominion, the Papacy, is no other thing ' than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting ' crowned upon the grave thereof.' Ill Whatever judgement be formed of its embodiment, the idea of the Reformation is easily grasped.... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...original of this ?'eat Ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the apacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that Heathen Power." So much for the... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...original of this great Ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that Heathen Power." So much for the... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...original of this great Ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that Heathen Power." So much for the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1845 - 294 pages
...where. iii. 695: — the first, second, and third and last knots thereof. ibid. the papacy no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. iii. 697-8: — started suddenly out of its ruins. iii. 698. the universal king of the ecclesiastics.... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Bible - 1847 - 426 pages
...well-known expression of Hobbes, of which the truth up to a certain point will not be disputed by any, was "the ghost of the deceased Roman empire " sitting crowned upon the grave thereof V In saying thus much I have slightly outstepped the limits of the apostolic age; because, from the... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1853 - 332 pages
...submitting to confession was easily obviated, the certificate being sold for ten-pence. " The Papacy is the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave. It is a shuttle-cock kept up by the differences between princes."—Thomas Hobbes. Quakerism; or the... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power. The language, also,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power. The language, also,... | |
 | Church and social problems - 1870 - 1036 pages
...claims to have done so has most signally failed. To impartial observers "the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." The great historian of the rise and progress of Christian Rome adopts for his own the sentence in which... | |
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