Mores Catholici: Books VII-IXP. O'Shea, 1891 - Civilization, Medieval |
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... grace , what had been predicted through the blind Pagans , when Eros , or Love , was the mysterious name of that city . Few , consequently , are the things of which the old instructors speak , as Alanus de Insulis observes , in his ...
... grace , what had been predicted through the blind Pagans , when Eros , or Love , was the mysterious name of that city . Few , consequently , are the things of which the old instructors speak , as Alanus de Insulis observes , in his ...
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... grace imparted by the Catholic religion , divine , and so far from being identical with natural love , that the latter might exist without there being the least approximation made towards its acquire- ment . " When any creature loves ...
... grace imparted by the Catholic religion , divine , and so far from being identical with natural love , that the latter might exist without there being the least approximation made towards its acquire- ment . " When any creature loves ...
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... more vehement in loving than grace . Yea , rather , we ought certainly to love more those whom we believe will be with us for ever * Pratum Spirituale , cap . 184 . than those with whom we are only in this present 24 MORES CATHOLICI ; OR ,
... more vehement in loving than grace . Yea , rather , we ought certainly to love more those whom we believe will be with us for ever * Pratum Spirituale , cap . 184 . than those with whom we are only in this present 24 MORES CATHOLICI ; OR ,
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... grace of God had not preserved him , he would have committed all the crimes of this per- son , having in himself the source and principle of them all.§ " From vices in every manner he fled , " says the ancient chronicle of Ansigisus ...
... grace of God had not preserved him , he would have committed all the crimes of this per- son , having in himself the source and principle of them all.§ " From vices in every manner he fled , " says the ancient chronicle of Ansigisus ...
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... grace divine , which has made them ; it is the charity of Jesus Christ which has pro- duced this supernatural society , in which men of all degrees are found , as St. Au- gustin says , serving the Lord in gladness : " not in the ...
... grace divine , which has made them ; it is the charity of Jesus Christ which has pro- duced this supernatural society , in which men of all degrees are found , as St. Au- gustin says , serving the Lord in gladness : " not in the ...
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Page 601 - 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 820 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Page 634 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 601 - 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 703 - 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 179 - I filled the jails with bankrupts in a year, And with young orphans planted hospitals, And every moon made some or other mad, And now and then one hang himself for grief, Pinning upon his breast a long great scroll How I with interest tormented him.
Page 716 - 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 537 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 236 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 547 - It is to our immortal countryman Bacon that we owe the broad announcement of this grand and fertile principle; and the development of the idea that the whole of natural philosophy consists entirely of a series of inductive generalizations, commencing with the most circumstantially stated particulars, and carried up to universal laws, or axioms, which comprehend in their statements every subordinate degree of generality, and of a corresponding series of inverted reasoning from generals to particulars...