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... and religion , with Politian and Mirandola . He would have listened , as a high
intellectual gratification , to the unrivalled preacher . But Savonarola felt that the
friendship of Lorenzo was more dangerous to his lofty purpose than his enmity .
... and religion , with Politian and Mirandola . He would have listened , as a high
intellectual gratification , to the unrivalled preacher . But Savonarola felt that the
friendship of Lorenzo was more dangerous to his lofty purpose than his enmity .
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But it was the monkish reformation of a church which still professed to believe
monasticism to be the perfection of Christianity , a higher gospel than that of
Christ . We have touched on his extravagances of religious passion , the rigour of
his ...
But it was the monkish reformation of a church which still professed to believe
monasticism to be the perfection of Christianity , a higher gospel than that of
Christ . We have touched on his extravagances of religious passion , the rigour of
his ...
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... on the politics and religion of Christendom . It was this feeling which gave its
bitterness to so much of Jortin ' s views of every event and dispute in Church
history . In these he read the nascent and initiatory bigotry which in later days
shed the ...
... on the politics and religion of Christendom . It was this feeling which gave its
bitterness to so much of Jortin ' s views of every event and dispute in Church
history . In these he read the nascent and initiatory bigotry which in later days
shed the ...
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For religious exercises he had no turn ; his whole soul was in letters , and in
letters according to the new light now dawning on the world . But all were hard ,
inexorable , cunning . He was coaxed , threatened , compelled . St . Augustine
himself ...
For religious exercises he had no turn ; his whole soul was in letters , and in
letters according to the new light now dawning on the world . But all were hard ,
inexorable , cunning . He was coaxed , threatened , compelled . St . Augustine
himself ...
Page 88
He must submit to harsh , capricious discipline ; to rigid but not religious rules ; to
companionship no longer genial or edifying . He was in the midst of a set of
coarse , vulgar , profligate , unscrupulous men , zealots who were debauchees ;
idle ...
He must submit to harsh , capricious discipline ; to rigid but not religious rules ; to
companionship no longer genial or edifying . He was in the midst of a set of
coarse , vulgar , profligate , unscrupulous men , zealots who were debauchees ;
idle ...
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Page 120 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
Page 355 - Vergine bella, che di sol vestita, coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole piacesti sģ 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.
Page 357 - Thus, there was a wonder in Heaven; a throne was seen far above all created powers, mediatorial, intercessory, a title archetypal, a crown bright as the morning star, a glory issuing from the eternal throne, robes pure as the heavens, and a sceptre over all.
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...
Page 452 - ... di faciant, mea ne terra locet ossa frequenti, qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter ! post mortem tumuli sic infamantur amantum. me tegat arborea devia terra coma, aut humer ignotae cumulis vallatus harenae : non iuvat in media nomen habere via.
Page 399 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
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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