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... dying Empire clung close to the Church and wrought transformingly upon her . Pagan Rome did not perish without imparting an idolatrous tincture to her vanquisher . Imperial Rome did not fall without bequeathing her spirit and power ...
... dying Empire clung close to the Church and wrought transformingly upon her . Pagan Rome did not perish without imparting an idolatrous tincture to her vanquisher . Imperial Rome did not fall without bequeathing her spirit and power ...
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... died at Rome , while no one who asserts that Babylon is Rome in the epistle can deny her to be Rome in the prophecy . Bellarmine runs the risk , and maintains Peter's Babylon to be Rome ( De Summo Pontifice , lib . ii . c . 2 , in which ...
... died at Rome , while no one who asserts that Babylon is Rome in the epistle can deny her to be Rome in the prophecy . Bellarmine runs the risk , and maintains Peter's Babylon to be Rome ( De Summo Pontifice , lib . ii . c . 2 , in which ...
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... died 1465 , and whose tractate on this matter , In Donationem Constantini Declamatio ( Opera , Basileæ , 1540 , pp . 761-795 ) , is a potent piece of argumentation , as well as a most lively piece of declamation . It is especially well ...
... died 1465 , and whose tractate on this matter , In Donationem Constantini Declamatio ( Opera , Basileæ , 1540 , pp . 761-795 ) , is a potent piece of argumentation , as well as a most lively piece of declamation . It is especially well ...
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... died . The contemporary and fellow - sufferer of Boethius , the Roman bishop is forgotten , while the Roman philosopher has comforted and delighted the ages ; and the fair fame of the benignant and enlightened Theodoric has rightly ...
... died . The contemporary and fellow - sufferer of Boethius , the Roman bishop is forgotten , while the Roman philosopher has comforted and delighted the ages ; and the fair fame of the benignant and enlightened Theodoric has rightly ...
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... died , master of Arabia , and the next year the Arabs , uplifted by their pro- phet from a race of idolaters and robbers into a nation of believers , enthusiasts , and heroes , rushed forth from their wilderness upon the astonished ...
... died , master of Arabia , and the next year the Arabs , uplifted by their pro- phet from a race of idolaters and robbers into a nation of believers , enthusiasts , and heroes , rushed forth from their wilderness upon the astonished ...
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Page 478 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 469 - Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.