Mores Catholici: Books I-IVP. O'Shea, 1888 - Civilization, Medieval |
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... death familiar to men in ages of faith - Why this was so - What grounds for mourning at the thought of death -- The speedy judgment which follows it attested by visions - St . Augustin's opinion respecting them — The mourning for death ...
... death familiar to men in ages of faith - Why this was so - What grounds for mourning at the thought of death -- The speedy judgment which follows it attested by visions - St . Augustin's opinion respecting them — The mourning for death ...
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... death of the just ! Alas ! all are gone , and nothing remains but a desolation , the mere view of which chills the heart ; some moldering arches , which each succeeding winter threatens to lay prostrate ; a line of wretched cabins ...
... death of the just ! Alas ! all are gone , and nothing remains but a desolation , the mere view of which chills the heart ; some moldering arches , which each succeeding winter threatens to lay prostrate ; a line of wretched cabins ...
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... death of Charles VII . contrasts the life of the great with that of the poor , and says Mieux vaut liesse L'accueil et l'adresse , L'armour et simplesse Des bergiers pasteurs , Qu'avoir à largesse Or , argent , richesse , Ne la ...
... death of Charles VII . contrasts the life of the great with that of the poor , and says Mieux vaut liesse L'accueil et l'adresse , L'armour et simplesse Des bergiers pasteurs , Qu'avoir à largesse Or , argent , richesse , Ne la ...
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... death , and I have said something respecting our heavenly country , and also concerning the divinity and the rational creature . " It is in this style that Louis de Blois introduces one of his books . The prologue to the four books of ...
... death , and I have said something respecting our heavenly country , and also concerning the divinity and the rational creature . " It is in this style that Louis de Blois introduces one of his books . The prologue to the four books of ...
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... death from the hands of unjust men . Thus St. Kenelm was regarded as a mar- tyr , though all that is related of his death is as follows : " Ingulphus , abbot of Crowland , says that St. Kenelm was the son of Kenulphus , king of the ...
... death from the hands of unjust men . Thus St. Kenelm was regarded as a mar- tyr , though all that is related of his death is as follows : " Ingulphus , abbot of Crowland , says that St. Kenelm was the son of Kenulphus , king of the ...
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Page 184 - Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that ? Can it be sin to know ? Can it be death ? And do they only stand By ignorance...
Page 503 - And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, And to the house of the God of Jacob ; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths: For the law shall go forth of Zion, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 18 - ... he be old, before he shall find sufficient cause to be honest. For his knowledge standeth so upon the abstract and general, that happy is that man who may understand him, and more happy, that can apply what he doth understand.
Page 811 - Before their eyes the wizard lay, As if he had not been dead a day. His hoary beard in silver rolled, He seemed some seventy winters old; A palmer's amice wrapped him round, With a wrought Spanish baldric bound, Like a pilgrim from beyond the sea: His left hand held his Book of Might, A silver cross was in his right; The lamp was placed beside his knee.
Page 491 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 153 - II is no marvel — from my very birth My soul was drunk with love, which did pervade And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth ; Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers, And rocks, whereby they grew, a paradise, "Whero 1 did lay me down within the shade Of waving trees, and dream'd uncounted hours, Though I was chid for wandering...
Page 820 - Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel gone.
Page 772 - Avoid thee, fiend! — with cruel hand, Shake not the dying sinner's sand! O look, my son, upon yon sign Of the Redeemer's grace divine; O think on faith and bliss! By many a death-bed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this.
Page 756 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 509 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.