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... thought but a simple man , fit to preach to women . The preacher's fire soon began to kindle both himself and others ; all ranks , all orders , the artisan , the peasant , the burgher , the prince , were at his feet . The haughty wife ...
... thought but a simple man , fit to preach to women . The preacher's fire soon began to kindle both himself and others ; all ranks , all orders , the artisan , the peasant , the burgher , the prince , were at his feet . The haughty wife ...
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... thought of his father's daring embassage in his own person to the hostile court of Naples . What Lorenzo had done with bold wisdom , he would imitate with weak despair : he went as his own ambassador to the camp of Charles ; but ...
... thought of his father's daring embassage in his own person to the hostile court of Naples . What Lorenzo had done with bold wisdom , he would imitate with weak despair : he went as his own ambassador to the camp of Charles ; but ...
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... thought it prudent now to withdraw into St. Mark's ; there he still preached to the 1 Lettera di Bonsi , Marchese , p . 167. Not only had the Pope heard that the Friar declared that he would go to hell before he would ask absolution ...
... thought it prudent now to withdraw into St. Mark's ; there he still preached to the 1 Lettera di Bonsi , Marchese , p . 167. Not only had the Pope heard that the Friar declared that he would go to hell before he would ask absolution ...
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... thought not , as he descended from the pulpit , that he would never ascend it again . The Signory communicated the result of their deliberations to the Pope ; and the Pope seemed to acquiesce in the silence of his re- doubted adversary ...
... thought not , as he descended from the pulpit , that he would never ascend it again . The Signory communicated the result of their deliberations to the Pope ; and the Pope seemed to acquiesce in the silence of his re- doubted adversary ...
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... thoughts , the object either of their fond idolatry , or of their no less intense hatred : the legislator , the prophet , on whose lips they had hung ; who had swayed them in cowering terror , or in ardent admiration . And now he had ...
... thoughts , the object either of their fond idolatry , or of their no less intense hatred : the legislator , the prophet , on whose lips they had hung ; who had swayed them in cowering terror , or in ardent admiration . And now he had ...
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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 sì 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.