Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ...J. Booker, 1839 - Church history |
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... century , when some minds , not firmly settled in its doctrine , were troubled and filled with doubts as to the providential government of the world , there rose up men to repeat and develope the doctrine of St. Augustin . Such were a ...
... century , when some minds , not firmly settled in its doctrine , were troubled and filled with doubts as to the providential government of the world , there rose up men to repeat and develope the doctrine of St. Augustin . Such were a ...
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... century , we have striking testimonies as to the extent of the evil . Affecting are the complaints of Sidonius Apollinaris on occasion of the war of the Burgundian chiefs , which filled all places with confusion and dismay . Fauriel ...
... century , we have striking testimonies as to the extent of the evil . Affecting are the complaints of Sidonius Apollinaris on occasion of the war of the Burgundian chiefs , which filled all places with confusion and dismay . Fauriel ...
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... century , when these Normans assailed France with whole armies of such men , driving before them into the interior of the country the clergy , carrying the relics of the saints as their most precious treasures , when neither the ...
... century , when these Normans assailed France with whole armies of such men , driving before them into the interior of the country the clergy , carrying the relics of the saints as their most precious treasures , when neither the ...
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... century nearly the whole of Spain had been subdued by the Sarassins , who afterwards seized Sicily ; while on the opposite side of Europe the invasion of the Huns was accompanied with indescribable horror . These ferocious warriors ...
... century nearly the whole of Spain had been subdued by the Sarassins , who afterwards seized Sicily ; while on the opposite side of Europe the invasion of the Huns was accompanied with indescribable horror . These ferocious warriors ...
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... century , infested Italy . They used to plunder lands , seize solitary castles , take prisoners for ransom , and carry devastation wherever they went . So one ancient author exclaims , " O grief and shame of Italy ! The holy name of ...
... century , infested Italy . They used to plunder lands , seize solitary castles , take prisoners for ransom , and carry devastation wherever they went . So one ancient author exclaims , " O grief and shame of Italy ! The holy name of ...
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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.