The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Том 1

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J. Murray, 1840
 

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Сторінка 302 - God, have the children of my tribe forsaken me ! ' — he then advanced, with a pistol in one hand and a drawn sword in the other, resolved apparently to sacrifice his life to the offended genius of his name. He had got but a little way from his regiment, when a musket-shot brought him to the ground. A clansman of more than ordinary devotedness, who followed him, and with tears and prayers conjured him not to throw his life away...
Сторінка 139 - Son of God, clad in our flesh, hath made satisfaction for us to the justice of the Eternal Father. He who believes this, enters into the kingdom of God ; he enjoys the universal pardon ; from a carnal, he becomes a spiritual creature ; from a child of wrath, a child of grace; he lives in a sweet peace of conscience.
Сторінка 365 - The people were excited to enthusiasm, when they saw him walking in procession, barefooted and bareheaded, with the expression of unaffected piety in his countenance, and with his long snow-white beard falling on his breast. They thought there had never been so pious a Pope; they told each other how his very look had converted heretics. Pius was kind, too, and affable ; his intercourse with his old servants was of the most confidential kind. At a former...
Сторінка iv - Wer die deutsche Sprache versteht und studiert, befindet sich auf dem Markte, wo alle Nationen ihre Waren anbieten; er spielt den Dolmetscher, indem er sich selbst bereichert.
Сторінка 73 - The schools of philosophy were divided as to whether the soul was really immaterial and immortal, but one diffused through all mankind, or whether it was merely mortal. The most distinguished philosopher of that day, Pietro Pomponazzo, declared himself the champion of the latter opinion. He compared himself to Prometheus, whose vitals were preyed upon by a vulture for having stolen fire from heaven ; but with all his painful toil, with all his acuteness, he arrived at no other result than this, —...
Сторінка 225 - Visum est nobis in Domino, praeter expressum votum,quo Societas Summo Pontifici pro tempore existenti tenetur, ac tria alia essentialia, Paupertatis, Castitatis et Obedientiae, nullas Constitutiones, Declarationes, vel Ordinem ullum vivendi posse obligationem ad peccatum mortale vel veniale inducere, nisi Superior ea in nomine Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, vel in virtute Obedientiae juberet...
Сторінка 94 - We know," said he, in the instructions to the Nuntio Chieregato, whom he sent to the diet, " that for a long time many abominations have existed near the holy see ; abuses of spiritual things, excess in the exercise of authority ; everything has been turned to evil. From the head the corruption has spread into the members, from the pope to the prelates ; we have all gone astray, there is none of us that hath done well, no, not one.
Сторінка 485 - ... that Rome had nearly doubled her extent, and was again resuming her old abodes. These fine constructions on the heights were not the only works by which Sixtus distinguished himself from earlier popes. His designs were, in some respects, directly opposed to the purposes and ideas of his predecessors. Under Leo X., the ruins of ancient Rome were regarded with a species of religious veneration. The presence of a divine genius was hailed in these relics with rapturous delight ; with a ready ear...
Сторінка 9 - The statues of the rulers of the world, who had been regarded as gods, vanished and gave place to the likeness of the Son of Man — the Son of God. Local deities faded and disappeared. On every highway, on the steep summits of hills, in mountain-gorges and valleys, on the housetops, and on the tesselated floors, the cross was seen. The victory was complete and decisive. As we see on the coins of Constantine the labarum with the monogram of Christ above the conquered dragon, even thus did the worship...
Сторінка 67 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.

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