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You who know so well how to appreciate the perishable things of earth , judge
not with the passionate judgement of a woman ; but , looking to truth , judge
according to reason , whether I am not right in abandoning the world . The motive
which ...
You who know so well how to appreciate the perishable things of earth , judge
not with the passionate judgement of a woman ; but , looking to truth , judge
according to reason , whether I am not right in abandoning the world . The motive
which ...
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But the Bible he felt , by the terrific power of its language , by the deep meaning of
its phrases and imagery , and by its direct application to the state of existing
things , could alone shake the perishing world around him , and beat up the ...
But the Bible he felt , by the terrific power of its language , by the deep meaning of
its phrases and imagery , and by its direct application to the state of existing
things , could alone shake the perishing world around him , and beat up the ...
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it summoned to go through the land — if these things are insanity , so far must be
admitted the madness of Savonarola . But as that madness in no way whatever
lessens his responsibility , if it tempers our astonishment , and permits our cool ...
it summoned to go through the land — if these things are insanity , so far must be
admitted the madness of Savonarola . But as that madness in no way whatever
lessens his responsibility , if it tempers our astonishment , and permits our cool ...
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I insisted on reasons of this kind ; and I dissembled the knowledge which God
gave me of these things in other ways , because men ' s spirits appeared to me
not yet in a state fit to comprehend such mysteries . In all the early sermons ...
I insisted on reasons of this kind ; and I dissembled the knowledge which God
gave me of these things in other ways , because men ' s spirits appeared to me
not yet in a state fit to comprehend such mysteries . In all the early sermons ...
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its hold on the inner soul of man ; and that soul must have something to fill its
insatiable craving after higher things . The year after his settlement in Florence (
in 1491 ) so great was his fame that Savonarola rose to the dignity of Prior of St ...
its hold on the inner soul of man ; and that soul must have something to fill its
insatiable craving after higher things . The year after his settlement in Florence (
in 1491 ) so great was his fame that Savonarola rose to the dignity of Prior of St ...
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Page 355 - Vergine bella, che di sol vestita, coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole piacesti sė che 'n te sua luce ascose, amor mi spinge a dir di te parole; ma non so 'ncominciar senza tu' aita e di colui ch'amando in te si pose.
Page 116 - Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her withered bays; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head.
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Page 448 - Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in, Praetors, proconsuls to their provinces Hasting, or on return, in robes of state ; Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power, Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road...
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Page 20 - It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power.
Page 31 - O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!
Page 449 - Meroe, Nilotic isle, and more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Black-moor sea ; From the Asian kings, and Parthian among these, From India and the golden Chersonese, . And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed, From Gallia, Gades, and the British west, Germans and Scythians, and Sarmatians north Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Savonarola, Erasmus, and Other Essays Quarterly Review |
| Author | Henry Hart Milman |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1870 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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