Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ...J. Booker, 1837 |
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... beginning , have to traverse ground that will seem to those who are familiar with the instructions of faith , as void of any literary interest , from its appearing at the first glance to yield only what every book of devotion can supply ...
... beginning , have to traverse ground that will seem to those who are familiar with the instructions of faith , as void of any literary interest , from its appearing at the first glance to yield only what every book of devotion can supply ...
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... beginning of his eleventh volume , that the things which are here to be published respecting the admirable piety of men and women , may seem frivolous to those whose ears are accustomed to grand descriptions of republics , to narratives ...
... beginning of his eleventh volume , that the things which are here to be published respecting the admirable piety of men and women , may seem frivolous to those whose ears are accustomed to grand descriptions of republics , to narratives ...
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... beginning from their child- hood * , testimony of human reason to its own misery , which is borne also by the ancient poet , who declares " that few there are whom just God loves , or ardent vir- tue raises to the sky + . " The purity ...
... beginning from their child- hood * , testimony of human reason to its own misery , which is borne also by the ancient poet , who declares " that few there are whom just God loves , or ardent vir- tue raises to the sky + . " The purity ...
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... beginning , " then , he proceeds , " God created the heaven and the earth . " In the beginning of our conver- sion there are within ourselves two things contrary to each other - flesh and spirit , which once indeed , before we obeyed ...
... beginning , " then , he proceeds , " God created the heaven and the earth . " In the beginning of our conver- sion there are within ourselves two things contrary to each other - flesh and spirit , which once indeed , before we obeyed ...
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... beginning of wisdom ? for wisdom is called light in many places of Scripture . This fear is a light which dispels the dark- ness of obscure cogitation , and lights up the heart to the love of all virtue . Light being made , we read ...
... beginning of wisdom ? for wisdom is called light in many places of Scripture . This fear is a light which dispels the dark- ness of obscure cogitation , and lights up the heart to the love of all virtue . Light being made , we read ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abailard abbot admirable ages of faith ancient angels Aristotle ascribed Augustin authority beauty behold believe bishop blessed Catholic cause century Christ Christian church clean of heart Clement of Alexandria death demons desire disciples divine doctrine earth Epist error eternal evil eyes Fathers glory grace hear heaven Henry of Ghent Hist holy Scriptures Hugo of St human intelligence John king knowledge learned light Lord Louis of Blois magic manner Marsilius Ficinus middle ages mind miracles modern monk mystic nature never Novalis observes opinion Pagan Paris perfect Peter the Venerable philo philoso philosophy Picus of Mirandula Plato poet Pope purity quæ reason religion remarks respecting Richard of St saints saith says St scholastic scholastic philosophy Scot soul speak spirit superstition theology things Thomas thou thought tion true truth Victor Vincent of Beauvais virtue vision wisdom words writings
Passagens conhecidas
Página 320 - 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...
Página 365 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 335 - ... wicked race of deceivers, who as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Página 321 - 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.
Página 460 - 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.
Página 478 - 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.
Página 59 - Nam et si ambulavero in medio umbrae mortis, non timebo mala, quoniam tu mecum es.
Página 342 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 349 - Some eminent in virtue shall start up, Even in perversest time : The truths of their pure lips, that never die, Shall bind the scorpion falsehood with a wreath Of ever-living flame, Until the monster sting itself to death. How sweet a scene will earth become ! Of purest spirits, a pure dwelling-place, Symphonious with the planetary spheres, When man, with changeless nature coalescing, Will undertake regeneration's work...
Página 518 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?