Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 32
... took it for granted that , in providing for the strength and greatness of the state , they sufficiently provided for the happiness of the people . The writers of the Roman empire lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred ...
... took it for granted that , in providing for the strength and greatness of the state , they sufficiently provided for the happiness of the people . The writers of the Roman empire lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred ...
Page 49
... took the turn of Protestantism . The religious Italians desired a reform of morals and discipline , but not a reform of doctrine , and least of all a schism . The irreligious Italians simply disbelieved Christianity , without hating it ...
... took the turn of Protestantism . The religious Italians desired a reform of morals and discipline , but not a reform of doctrine , and least of all a schism . The irreligious Italians simply disbelieved Christianity , without hating it ...
Page 51
... took up his abode , tended the poor in the hospitals , went about in rags , starved himself almost to death , and often sallied into the streets , mounted on stones , and , waving his hat to invite the passers - by , began to preach in ...
... took up his abode , tended the poor in the hospitals , went about in rags , starved himself almost to death , and often sallied into the streets , mounted on stones , and , waving his hat to invite the passers - by , began to preach in ...
Page 56
... took possession of the parish churches . appeared , " says the Papal nuncio , " that in Poland , Protestantism would completely supersede Catholicism . " In Bavaria , the state of things was nearly the same . The Protestants had a ...
... took possession of the parish churches . appeared , " says the Papal nuncio , " that in Poland , Protestantism would completely supersede Catholicism . " In Bavaria , the state of things was nearly the same . The Protestants had a ...
Page 59
... took in the whole world . Nobody at Lambeth or at Edinburgh troubled himself about what was doing in Poland or Bavaria . But Cracow and Munich were at Rome objects of as much interest as the purlieus of St. John Lateran . Our island ...
... took in the whole world . Nobody at Lambeth or at Edinburgh troubled himself about what was doing in Poland or Bavaria . But Cracow and Munich were at Rome objects of as much interest as the purlieus of St. John Lateran . Our island ...
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