 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pages
...Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back, in an unbroken...century, to the Pope, who crowned Pepin in the eighth j and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pages
...amphitheatre. Tlie proudest royal houses are but of yesteftla;,, when compared with the line of the fuprcia< pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series...who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to tb>. pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; ал'. far beyond the time of Pepin the aujid dynasty ascends,... | |
 | Jeremiah Donovan - 1842 - 704 pages
...Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series till it is lost in the twilight of fable (a). The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy ; aud the republic of Venice is gone , and the Papacy remains. The Papacy... | |
 | Vanbrugh Livingston - 1843 - 278 pages
...amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontifls. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from...antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern, when compared with the papacy ; and the republic of Venice is gone, and the papacy remains. The papacy... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken...eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dinasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity.... | |
 | 1843 - 784 pages
...proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. The line we trace ' back, in an unbroken series, from...beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, until its origin is lost in the twilight of fable. [This is tantamount to saying, what the prejudices... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1844 - 412 pages
...proudest royal houses 14 are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Roman pontiffs. This line we trace back, in an unbroken series, from the...beyond the time of Pepin, the august dynasty extends until its origin is lost in the twilight of fable! (Was the apostolic age "the twilight of fable ?")... | |
 | 856 pages
...intellectual point of view. "The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the lme of the supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken...antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern, when compared with the Papacy."i To this however it is replied that the Papacy, properly so termed,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken...in antiquity. But the republic of Venice was modern when compared with the Papacy ; and the republic of Venice is gone, and the Papacy remains. The Papacy... | |
 | 1846 - 278 pages
...yesterday when compared with the line of' the supreme pontiffs. That line we trace hack in an unhroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope yrho crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far heyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till... | |
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The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth;... 
