 | 1905 - 726 páginas
...perceive that the original of this ' great ecclesiastical dominion, the Papacy, is no other thing ' than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting ' crowned upon the grave thereof.' Ill Whatever judgement be formed of its embodiment, the idea of the Reformation is easily grasped.... | |
 | 1825 - 364 páginas
...consider the original of this ?'eat Ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the apacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that Heathen Power." So much for the... | |
 | 1825 - 368 páginas
...Hobbes, " consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased...Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that Heathen Power." So much for the... | |
 | 1825 - 368 páginas
...Hobbes, " consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased...Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that Heathen Power." So much for the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1845 - 336 páginas
...power begins where, iii. 695: — the first, second, and third and last knots thereof, ibid, the papacy no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof, iii. 697-8: — started suddenly out of its ruins, iii. 698. the universal king of the ecclesiastics,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1847 - 426 páginas
...well-known expression of Hobbes, of which the truth up to a certain point will not be disputed by any, was "the ghost of the deceased Roman empire " sitting crowned upon the grave thereof V In saying thus much I have slightly outstepped the limits of the apostolic age; because, from the... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1853 - 332 páginas
...submitting to confession was easily obviated, the certificate being sold for ten-pence. " The Papacy is the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave. It is a shuttle-cock kept up by the differences between princes."—Thomas Hobbes. Quakerism; or the... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 páginas
...if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased...Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power. The language, also,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 páginas
...if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased...Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power. The language, also,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1862 - 582 páginas
...It is one of the many senses in which the famous saying of Hobbes is true, that the Papacy is but " the ghost of the " deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave " thereof." His retirement from Rome may well have been in part occasioned by remorse for the crimes which he had... | |
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... fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman... 
