 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pages
...proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back, in an unbroken series, from the...century, to the Pope, who crowned Pepin in the eighth j and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pages
...proudest royal houses are but of yesteftla;,, when compared with the line of the fuprcia< pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series from the...who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to tb>. pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; ал'. far beyond the time of Pepin the aujid dynasty ascends,... | |
 | 1843 - 784 pages
...proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. The line we trace ' back, in an unbroken series, from...until its origin is lost in the twilight of fable. [This is tantamount to saying, what the prejudices of the writer prevented him from explicitly acknowledging,... | |
 | Vanbrugh Livingston - 1843 - 278 pages
...proudest royal houses are but yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontifls. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the...beyond the time of Pepin, the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the...eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dinasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity.... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1844 - 412 pages
...amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses 14 are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Roman pontiffs. This line we trace back, in an unbroken...until its origin is lost in the twilight of fable! (Was the apostolic age "the twilight of fable ?") The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the...beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic... | |
 | 856 pages
...proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the lme of the supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the...beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from ihe and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waiing...compared with the Paradise Lost, is the Divine Comedy. till it is lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of Venice came next in antiquity. But the republic... | |
 | 1846 - 278 pages
...yesterday when compared with the line of' the supreme pontiffs. That line we trace hack in an unhroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope yrho crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far heyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till... | |
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... is left Standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the... 
