The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 2

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J. Murray, 1840
 

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Page 199 - Is all the counsel that we two have shared, The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us — O, is all forgot? All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
Page 468 - Salvete flores martyrum Quos lucis ipso in limine, Christi insecutor sustulit Ceu turbo nascentes rosas. Vos, prima Christi victima, Grex immolatorum tener, Aram ante ipsam simplices Palma et coronis luditis.
Page 45 - And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you; for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Page 468 - M. Beugnot has pointed out one remarkable characteristic of Claudian's poetry and of the times, — his extraordinary religious indifference. Here is a poet writing at the actual crisis of the complete triumph of the new religion, and the visible extinction of the old : if we may so speak, a strictly historical poet, whose works, excepting his mythological poem on the rape of Proserpine are confined to temporary subjects, and to the politics of his own eventful...
Page 42 - Hoc enim optimum et valde congruentissimum esse videbitur, si ad caput, id est, ad Petri Apostoli sedem, de singulis quibusque provinciis Domini referant sacerdotes.
Page 45 - The East and the West are in a perpetual state of restlessness and disturbance. Deserting our spiritual charges ; abandoning the people of God ; neglecting the preaching of the Gospel ; we are hurried about from place to place, sometimes to great distances, some of us infirm with age, with feeble constitutions or ill health, and are sometimes obliged to leave our sick brethren on the road.
Page 497 - It is to be seen every where in honour, in the private house and the public market-place, in the desert, in the highway, on mountains, in forests, on hills, on the sea, in ships, on islands, on our beds and on our clothes, on our arms, in our chambers, in our banquets, on gold and silver vessels, on gems, in the paintings of our walls...
Page 32 - ... dominetur. There are several other remarkable passages in this tract. Constantius wished to confine the creed to the language of scripture. This was rejected, as infringing on the authority of the bishops, and the forms of Apostolic preaching.
Page 295 - ... safe retirement ; or the natural love of peace, and the weariness and satiety of life, which commended this seclusion to those who were too gentle to mingle in, or who were exhausted with, the unprofitable turmoil of the world • nor was it always the anxiety to mortify the rebellious and refractory body with more advantage. The one absorbing idea of the majesty of the Godhead almost seemed to swallow up all other considerations. The transcendent nature of the Triune Deity, the relation of the...
Page 271 - Augustine, by the extraordinary adaptation of his genius to his own age, the comprehensive grandeur of his views, the intense earnestness of his character, his inexhaustible activity, the vigor, warmth, and perspicuity of his style, had a right to command the homage of Western Christendom.

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