Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ...J. Booker, 1837 - Church history |
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... existence amongst men of the clean of heart . Here we stand upon a moun- tain which commands an immense prospect , for all that we have hitherto surveyed , and all that awaits our obser- vation in the subsequent pages of this history ...
... existence amongst men of the clean of heart . Here we stand upon a moun- tain which commands an immense prospect , for all that we have hitherto surveyed , and all that awaits our obser- vation in the subsequent pages of this history ...
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... existence , or to console in misery the poor diseased heart . The angel of the school saw nothing in the difference of rank and degrees established around him in the world but what he thought might have been fitting human existence ...
... existence , or to console in misery the poor diseased heart . The angel of the school saw nothing in the difference of rank and degrees established around him in the world but what he thought might have been fitting human existence ...
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... existence in itself ; " ảπò TOŨ γιγνομένου ἐπὶ τὸ ὄν † . These intellectual obscurities were not identified by the philosophers of the ages of faith , with any particular position in regard to truth ; for they knew that more or less ...
... existence in itself ; " ảπò TOŨ γιγνομένου ἐπὶ τὸ ὄν † . These intellectual obscurities were not identified by the philosophers of the ages of faith , with any particular position in regard to truth ; for they knew that more or less ...
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... existence of the thing ; and he sought , by a development of the Aristotelian theory of thought , interwoven also with the ideology of Plato and the Alexandrians , to give a better holding to this system . He develops the idea of matter ...
... existence of the thing ; and he sought , by a development of the Aristotelian theory of thought , interwoven also with the ideology of Plato and the Alexandrians , to give a better holding to this system . He develops the idea of matter ...
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... existence . In psychology he denied the real diversity of the soul's faculties , and maintained its un- limited freedom . In theology he sought to render more strict the cosmological proof of the existence of God , * Lib . I. Cont ...
... existence . In psychology he denied the real diversity of the soul's faculties , and maintained its un- limited freedom . In theology he sought to render more strict the cosmological proof of the existence of God , * Lib . I. Cont ...
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Page 320 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 365 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 335 - ... wicked race of deceivers, who as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 321 - The fountains of divine philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips : and all of great Or good or lovely which the sacred past In truth or fable consecrates he felt And knew.
Page 460 - For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood ; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.
Page 478 - ANOTHER SPIRIT. Yet, see, he mastereth himself, and makes His torture tributary to his will. Had he been one of us, he would have made An awful spirit.
Page 59 - Nam et si ambulavero in medio umbrae mortis, non timebo mala, quoniam tu mecum es.
Page 342 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 349 - Some eminent in virtue shall start up, Even in perversest time : The truths of their pure lips, that never die, Shall bind the scorpion falsehood with a wreath Of ever-living flame, Until the monster sting itself to death. How sweet a scene will earth become ! Of purest spirits, a pure dwelling-place, Symphonious with the planetary spheres, When man, with changeless nature coalescing, Will undertake regeneration's work...
Page 518 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?