Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms Machiavelli 5.
... his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms Machiavelli 5.
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... Catholic Church . The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation . No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon ...
... Catholic Church . The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation . No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon ...
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... Catholic Church is still sending forth to the farthest ends of the world missionaries as zealous as those who landed ... Catholicism . We wish that we could think so . But we see great reason to doubt whether this be a well - founded ...
... Catholic Church is still sending forth to the farthest ends of the world missionaries as zealous as those who landed ... Catholicism . We wish that we could think so . But we see great reason to doubt whether this be a well - founded ...
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... The Hindoo mythology , for example , is bound up with a most absurd geography . Every young Brahmin , therefore , who learns geography in our colleges , 4 learns to smile at the Hindoo mythology . If Catholicism 42 Macaulay's Essays.
... The Hindoo mythology , for example , is bound up with a most absurd geography . Every young Brahmin , therefore , who learns geography in our colleges , 4 learns to smile at the Hindoo mythology . If Catholicism 42 Macaulay's Essays.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. learns to smile at the Hindoo mythology . If Catholicism has not suffered to an equal degree from the Papal decision that the sun goes round the earth , this is because all intelligent Catholics ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. learns to smile at the Hindoo mythology . If Catholicism has not suffered to an equal degree from the Papal decision that the sun goes round the earth , this is because all intelligent Catholics ...
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