 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...i ecciesiasti- Constantine, which was about three hundred and cal history . . . . . , , . from the twenty years, in which there were three and thirty...age by the Jesuit Ribadineyra, who was chaplain to Philip the Second in England when he married CHAP. Queen Mary, and of whose skill in collecting history... | |
 | William M'Gavin - 1833 - 764 pages
...there were three and thirty popes, we may reasonably say, that no rivulet conveyed any thing of moment from that pure fountain — of moment to us, more...age, by the Jesuit Ribadineyra, who was chaplain to Philip II. in England, when he married Queen Mary, and of whose skill in collecting history we may... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 1851 - 512 pages
...was no collection of them till after Constantine's time. And what was afterward put in writing, has been oftentimes altered, many things having been reformed and left out, according to the sentiments of the writers. The lives of the saints, by Ribadineyra, who was chaplain to Philip II.,... | |
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... church or of churchmen ; nor does it appear from whence we have the very lives of the apostles, and other holy men, which are derived to us ; and which we have much more reason to suspect, because, as there was no collection of them in writing, till... 