| Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pages
...Antioch Pontiffs ., Venice New Zealand Napoleon Papacy St. Paul's THERE is not, and there never was, on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving...of that Church joins together the two great ages of civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the time when the... | |
| 1841 - 766 pages
...which few persons will be unwilling to concur: — " There is not," says he, "and there never was, on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman-catholic church." Then follows a proposition, to which, without the need of a word of illustration,... | |
| Vanbrugh Livingston - 1843 - 278 pages
...Says an eloquent writer, in a late number of the Edinburgh Review, " There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving...of human civilization. No other institution is left Thus was the payment of the penalty which fallen man owed to the violated law, and which was discharged... | |
| 1843 - 784 pages
...appropriate, that we cannot withhold them. — " There is not, and there never was, on this earth, a work so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic...institution is left standing which carries the mind hack to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon; and when camelcopards and tigers... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...thrown far more light than any other person who has written on it. There is not, and there never was, on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the » * The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome, during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...posterity a doubtful and chequered fame. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. There is not, and there never was, on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving...Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. No other institution is left Standing which carries the mind back to the times when the... | |
| 1846 - 278 pages
...witness to its antiquity, and to anticipate its duration : — " There is not, and there never was, on this earth a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Chureh. The history of that chureh joins together the two greatest ages of Roman civilization. No other... | |
| Jaime Luciano Balmes - 1849 - 486 pages
...Mr. Macaulay, in his article on Ranke, in the Edinburgh Review : " There is not, and there never was, on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving...Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. Xo other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the... | |
| William Francis Cleary - 1850 - 240 pages
...There is not, and there never was, on chis earth an institution BO well deserving of examination ai the Roman Catholic Ch'urch. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of civilisation. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the time when the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...thrown far more light than any other person who has written on it. There is nol, and there never was, on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving...examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history ofthat Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left... | |
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