Historical Sketches: The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Appollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity

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B. M. Pickering, 1872 - Church history - 446 pages

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Page 38 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 86 - I was advised by a sage to humble myself before God ; to distr.ust my own strength ; and never to despise the most contemptible foe. I have neglected these lessons ; and my neglect has been deservedly punished. Yesterday, as from an eminence I beheld the numbers, the discipline, and the spirit, of my armies, the earth seemed to tremble under my feet ; and I said in my neart, Surely thou art the king of the world, the greatest and most invincible of warriors.
Page 412 - the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants.
Page 334 - If thou wilt be perfect, sell all that thou hast and give to the poor, was the answer, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and take up thy cross and follow me.
Page 210 - The vizir of Amurath reminded his sovereign, that, according to the Mahometan law, he was entitled to a fifth part of the spoil and captives ; and that the duty might easily be levied, if vigilant officers were stationed at...
Page 37 - Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; the plain was spread with pyramid* of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited : the orders of the state, and the nations of the earth, were marshalled at the royal banquet ; nor...
Page 178 - We find them brave and pusillanimous j good and ferocious ; firm and weak ; active and indolent ; passing from austere devotion to disgusting obscenity, from moral severity to gross sensuality ; fastidiously delicate and coarsely voluptuous ; seated on a celestial bed and preying on garbage. The great are alternately haughty and humble; arrogant and cringing; liberal and sordid : and in general, it must be confessed, that the qualities which least deserve our approbation are the most predominant.
Page 319 - That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...
Page 376 - We are to take great care," he tells us, " that we hold that which hath been believed everywhere always and of all men ; for that is truly and properly catholic (as the very force and nature of the word doth declare) which comprehendeth all things in general after an universal manner, and that shall we do if we follow universality, antiquity, consent.
Page 15 - Gothic historian, bore the stamp of his national origin ; and the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuk ; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short, square body, of nervous strength, though of a disproportioned form.

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