Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ...J. Booker, 1839 - Church history |
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... duke of Bavaria , and Lewis were ravaging the country with their wars when I was a student at Vienna , when scholars of both countries used to defend their respective princes in tedious combats of words . " The boy then interrupts him ...
... duke of Bavaria , and Lewis were ravaging the country with their wars when I was a student at Vienna , when scholars of both countries used to defend their respective princes in tedious combats of words . " The boy then interrupts him ...
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... Duke Lewis insulted his brother Henry , who , in revenge , wounded him with his sword , and then fled to Austria , where , with his nobles , he made war against Louis , and defeated him . How many battles do I remem- ber taking place in ...
... Duke Lewis insulted his brother Henry , who , in revenge , wounded him with his sword , and then fled to Austria , where , with his nobles , he made war against Louis , and defeated him . How many battles do I remem- ber taking place in ...
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... Duke of Austria , invited by the King of Bohemia , entered his dominions to visit the queen his sister , and similarly the King of Bohemia visited Vienna , when he was solemnly entertained , all men praising the clemency of our Saviour ...
... Duke of Austria , invited by the King of Bohemia , entered his dominions to visit the queen his sister , and similarly the King of Bohemia visited Vienna , when he was solemnly entertained , all men praising the clemency of our Saviour ...
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... duke , he says , Though armed , think of peace , love peace , and be assured that you can win no more brilliant triumph , and endow your country with no richer spoil than peace . When it is a question of war , I would use the words of ...
... duke , he says , Though armed , think of peace , love peace , and be assured that you can win no more brilliant triumph , and endow your country with no richer spoil than peace . When it is a question of war , I would use the words of ...
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... Duke of Burgundy having ordered that no quarter should be given to the Liegois , the body of the sire de Perwez who commanded them was found on the field of battle , still holding by the hand that of his son slain at his side . These ...
... Duke of Burgundy having ordered that no quarter should be given to the Liegois , the body of the sire de Perwez who commanded them was found on the field of battle , still holding by the hand that of his son slain at his side . These ...
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Page 42 - 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 396 - And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Page 96 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
Page 136 - Twere well with most, if books that could engage Their childhood, pleased them at a riper age ; The man approving what had charmed the boy, Would die at last in comfort, peace, and joy, And not with curses on his art who stole The gem of truth from his unguarded soul.
Page 96 - Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.
Page 21 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Page 371 - Lord saith: / will not the death of a sinner, but that he should be converted and live.
Page 86 - But there is yet a liberty, unsung By poets, and by senators unpraised, Which monarchs cannot grant, nor all the powers Of earth and hell confederate take away : A liberty, which persecution, fraud, Oppression, prisons, have no power to bind ; Which whoso tastes can be enslaved no more.
Page 275 - Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy : As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enow besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
Page 330 - If two men, or three, came riding to a town, all the township fled for them, concluding them to be robbers. The bishops and learned men cursed them continually, but the effect thereof was nothing to them; for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and abandoned.