Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ...J. Booker, 1837 - Church history |
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... received the highest sanction , were ordained to cleanness of heart as to their end . Therefore , in order to comprehend the history of those ages , we must previously learn what was understood by cleanness of heart , and what were the ...
... received the highest sanction , were ordained to cleanness of heart as to their end . Therefore , in order to comprehend the history of those ages , we must previously learn what was understood by cleanness of heart , and what were the ...
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... received , and only to be more diligent in his observance of the rule in consideration of what had occurred . Again , the same pontiff is consulted respect- ing a certain monk who , believing that he could cure a woman who had a tumour ...
... received , and only to be more diligent in his observance of the rule in consideration of what had occurred . Again , the same pontiff is consulted respect- ing a certain monk who , believing that he could cure a woman who had a tumour ...
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... received the stigmas of Christ ? But of this hereafter . " In the first degree , " saith Richard of St. Victor , " love is insuperable , in the second it is inseparable , in the third singular , in the fourth insatiable : insuperable ...
... received the stigmas of Christ ? But of this hereafter . " In the first degree , " saith Richard of St. Victor , " love is insuperable , in the second it is inseparable , in the third singular , in the fourth insatiable : insuperable ...
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... received the sacrament of the Lord's body and blood . On the next day , having called the bishops , abbots , and religious men , he caused himself to be carried into the church , and there , with his diadem on his head and clothed in ...
... received the sacrament of the Lord's body and blood . On the next day , having called the bishops , abbots , and religious men , he caused himself to be carried into the church , and there , with his diadem on his head and clothed in ...
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... received by them , as sent for their purification , adds this remarkable testimony , " those who have returned have assured me that they have seen many die there , who said , that they preferred * Gesta Dei per Francos . dying to ...
... received by them , as sent for their purification , adds this remarkable testimony , " those who have returned have assured me that they have seen many die there , who said , that they preferred * Gesta Dei per Francos . dying to ...
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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?