Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ...J. Booker, 1837 - Church history |
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... Mystics and scholastics not antagonists - Catholic truth one- Consequent advantage to the intellect - Force of Catholic truth ; its grandeur , its generous and ennobling influence , its warmth and expan- siveness p . 276 CHAPTER XI ...
... Mystics and scholastics not antagonists - Catholic truth one- Consequent advantage to the intellect - Force of Catholic truth ; its grandeur , its generous and ennobling influence , its warmth and expan- siveness p . 276 CHAPTER XI ...
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... mystic union of their souls with his divinity - The spiritual vision - The intellectual vision - Its organic effects attested - Testimony of the scholastic and mystic philoso- phers - Their description of the consequences of thus seeing ...
... mystic union of their souls with his divinity - The spiritual vision - The intellectual vision - Its organic effects attested - Testimony of the scholastic and mystic philoso- phers - Their description of the consequences of thus seeing ...
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... mystic vision by the great con- templatist and poet of the three worlds , who , as he re- lates , when day was sinking , appeared before him , stand- ing on the brink of the flame , with gladness in his looks . For he who traced in ...
... mystic vision by the great con- templatist and poet of the three worlds , who , as he re- lates , when day was sinking , appeared before him , stand- ing on the brink of the flame , with gladness in his looks . For he who traced in ...
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... mystic call to Ursula Benincasa was not a mere subjective fancy , for it was heard not by herself alone but by others § . " O Jesu Christ , " cries John de Avilla , " how strong is thy love , and how it converts all things to good ! He ...
... mystic call to Ursula Benincasa was not a mere subjective fancy , for it was heard not by herself alone but by others § . " O Jesu Christ , " cries John de Avilla , " how strong is thy love , and how it converts all things to good ! He ...
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... mystic philosophers , but men of every condition , in ages of faith , who might have used the words of St. Hilary which St. Thomas cites as expressing his own convic- tion , " I am conscious that I owe to God this principal office of my ...
... mystic philosophers , but men of every condition , in ages of faith , who might have used the words of St. Hilary which St. Thomas cites as expressing his own convic- tion , " I am conscious that I owe to God this principal office of my ...
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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?