History of Civilization in the Fifth Century, Volume 1Lippincott, 1867 |
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Page 278 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ; and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.
Page 81 - Earth could offer nothing more divm in the sense of a majesty at once recognized and obeyed, and Paganism did but push its principles to their consequence in deifying the Caesars ; but reason fell to the lowest depth of degradation, and the Egyptians grovelling before the beasts of the Nile outraged humanity less than the age of the Antonines, with its philosophers and jurisconsult* rendering divine honors to the Emperor Commodus.
Page 175 - Processu pelagi iam se Capraria tollit; squalet lucifugis insula plena viris. ipsi se monachos Graio cognomine dicunt, quod soli nullo vivere teste volunt. munera fortunae metuunt, dum damna verentur: quisquam sponte miser, ne miser esse queat? quaenam perversi rabies tarn stulta cerebri, dum mala formides, nee bona posse pati?
Page 75 - ... surrounded by numerous pagan edifices, supporting in air an army of gods ; and all around temples, chapels, statues, without number — in fact, the whole Roman and Greek mythology, standing in the City of the Catacombs and of the Popes ! The public calendars, preserved to this day, continued to note the pagan festivals side by side with the feasts of the Saviour and his apostles. Within the city and beyond, throughout Italy and the most remote provinces, idols and their altars were still surrounded...
Page 38 - I have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; and therefore I die in exile...
Page 116 - Omnis qui celsa scandit cenacula uulgus quique terit silicem uariis discursibus atram et quem panis alit gradibus dispensus ab altis, aut Vaticano tumulum sub monte frequentat, quo cinis ille latet genitoris amabilis obses, coetibus aut magnis Luterani adcurrit ad aedes, unde sacrum referat regali chrismate signum.
Page 174 - Saepe mihi dubiam traxit sententia mentem, curarent super! terras an nullus inesset rector et incerto fluerent mortalia casu.
Page 224 - Apostle would rein us back by charging us, even in so many words, to beware of philosophy. What then is there in common between Athens and Jerusalem, between the Academy and the Church, between Heretics and christians ? Our institution is from the porch of Solomon, who, himself, has admonished us to seek the Lord in simplicity of heart. Let those persons see to it, who have brought forward a stoical, or a Platonic, or a dialectic...
Page 22 - Augustin is never so theatrical as Jerome in the expression of his feeling, but he is equally explicit in lamenting the fall of Rome as a great calamity; and while he does not, scruple to ascribe her recent disgrace to the profligate manners, the effeminacy, and the pride of her citizens; he is not...
Page 18 - ... of light and darkness. Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes and diminish our apprehensions."— Gibbon, Vol. IV. 409 (ed. Milman). " Humanity accomplishes its necessary destiny but (being composed of free persons) with an element of liberty ; so that error and crime find their place in its course, and we behold centuries which do not advance, but even recede, days of illness, and years of wandering. . . . But mankind never entirely or irremediably errs. The light...