Rome, as it was Under Paganism, and as it Became Under the PopesJ. Madden, 1843 - 692 pagine |
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Pagina vii
... nations , and awake , from the sleep of centuries , the Roman people and the senate , with The dead , but sceptred sovereigns , who still rule Our spirits from their urns . In the first and second books , the reader is in Rome , from ...
... nations , and awake , from the sleep of centuries , the Roman people and the senate , with The dead , but sceptred sovereigns , who still rule Our spirits from their urns . In the first and second books , the reader is in Rome , from ...
Pagina xiv
... nations of antiquity ; diffusing the arts of civilization over all the barbarous countries it subdued ; and then , by a series of unparalleled calamities , brought down to utter destruction , -this , even in the abstract , cannot be ...
... nations of antiquity ; diffusing the arts of civilization over all the barbarous countries it subdued ; and then , by a series of unparalleled calamities , brought down to utter destruction , -this , even in the abstract , cannot be ...
Pagina 2
... nations . - Embassies vieing with each other in the costliness and singularity of their gifts , and in the splendour of their retinues - envoys , even from the climes of India the most remote , * " Dusk faces with white silken turbans ...
... nations . - Embassies vieing with each other in the costliness and singularity of their gifts , and in the splendour of their retinues - envoys , even from the climes of India the most remote , * " Dusk faces with white silken turbans ...
Pagina 10
... nations a vivid presentiment and conviction of a future life . " Tribes there might have been discovered destitute not only of the elegancies , but of the most necessary arts of humanized existence , ignorant of letters and of laws ...
... nations a vivid presentiment and conviction of a future life . " Tribes there might have been discovered destitute not only of the elegancies , but of the most necessary arts of humanized existence , ignorant of letters and of laws ...
Pagina 11
... nation borrowed the * Plutarch against Colotes the Epicurean . + " Toutes les religions du monde , tant la vraie que les fausses , roulent sur ce grand pivot , qu'il y a un Juge invisible qui punit et qui recompense , après cette vie ...
... nation borrowed the * Plutarch against Colotes the Epicurean . + " Toutes les religions du monde , tant la vraie que les fausses , roulent sur ce grand pivot , qu'il y a un Juge invisible qui punit et qui recompense , après cette vie ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
Agrippina altars ancient Anicetus apostle armies atque barbarians baths beasts beheld Belisarius blessed blood body Cæsar called Campus Martius capitol catacombs celebrated CHAPTER Christ Christians church Cicero circus Daniel darkness dead death deities Diocletian disciple divine dread earth emperor empire Epicurus eternal eyes faith father Gallienus gates Gaul Gibbon glory Gnostics Greece Greek hands heaven Hist holy honour human imperial imposture Irenæus Italy king kingdom legions Lord marble Maximian Medes Misenum mountain multitude murder mysteries nations Nero pagan palace patrician Peter philosophy Pliny the elder Pompeiana Pompeii portico Prætorian priests provinces Pudens quæ Quæst quam quod reign religion Roman Rome Romulus ruin sacred says scene Scythian sects senate shore slaves stood Tacitus temple thee Thermæ thing thou Tiber tion tombs Totila triumph venerable villa whole worship
Brani popolari
Pagina 138 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Pagina 164 - For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen ; whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
Pagina 342 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Pagina 240 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Pagina 222 - But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
Pagina 195 - Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
Pagina 154 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Pagina 327 - Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Pagina 69 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Pagina 329 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.