Mores Catholici: Books VII-IXP. O'Shea, 1891 - Civilization, Medieval |
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... relates , to purchase birds in cages for the sake of restoring them to lib- erty . When the streets of cities beheld such scenes , what might not have been witnessed in the retreats of the religious ? The reader will be able to judge ...
... relates , to purchase birds in cages for the sake of restoring them to lib- erty . When the streets of cities beheld such scenes , what might not have been witnessed in the retreats of the religious ? The reader will be able to judge ...
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... relates , that one day , being reconducted to his dungeon , he found the door of Oroboni's cell open . They had hitherto only heard one another from their respective casements . The guards were hastening to shut it , but Pellico was too ...
... relates , that one day , being reconducted to his dungeon , he found the door of Oroboni's cell open . They had hitherto only heard one another from their respective casements . The guards were hastening to shut it , but Pellico was too ...
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... relates , that the son of a certain Norman noble who had been taken prisoner by the Sarassins , being in a deep dungeon , called to memory the great festival which his father used to celebrate in his chapel on the day of St. Nicholas ...
... relates , that the son of a certain Norman noble who had been taken prisoner by the Sarassins , being in a deep dungeon , called to memory the great festival which his father used to celebrate in his chapel on the day of St. Nicholas ...
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... the collegiate church of Varzi , represented the prison of the Bastile at Paris . * Touron , Hist . des Hom . Illust . de l'Ord . S. D. tom . v . liv . 36 . Travellers in the sixteenth century relate , that in the AGES OF FAITH 77.
... the collegiate church of Varzi , represented the prison of the Bastile at Paris . * Touron , Hist . des Hom . Illust . de l'Ord . S. D. tom . v . liv . 36 . Travellers in the sixteenth century relate , that in the AGES OF FAITH 77.
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Kenelm Henry Digby. Travellers in the sixteenth century relate , that in the beautiful church of the convent of St. Leonard , near Blondo Ferensuola , in Apulia , belonging to the Teu- tonic knights of Prussia , there were suspended on ...
Kenelm Henry Digby. Travellers in the sixteenth century relate , that in the beautiful church of the convent of St. Leonard , near Blondo Ferensuola , in Apulia , belonging to the Teu- tonic knights of Prussia , there were suspended on ...
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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...