 | 1866 - Liczba stron: 904
...bishop was the only surviving heir of this imperial past, or, in the well-known dictum of Hobbes, " the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." Again, the very remoteness of Rome from the imperial court was favourable to the development of a hierarchy... | |
 | 1867 - Liczba stron: 902
...if a man consider the original of the great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily preceive, that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased...Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." ART. IX — Dr Williams s Neiu Translation of the Hebrew Prophets. The Hebrew Prophets, translated... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1870 - Liczba stron: 1070
...bishop was the only surviving heir of this imperial past, or, in the well-known dictum of Hobbes, " the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." Again, the very remoteness of Rome 'from the imperial court was favorable to the development of a hierarchy... | |
 | James Kent Stone - 1870 - Liczba stron: 362
...to test their satisfactoriness. There is Hobbes's famous saying, for instance, that the Papacy is " the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." It is very witty, one of the most brilliant/«/,» (Tesprit I know of, but nothing more. I am going... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1871 - Liczba stron: 514
...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 upon a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.' a Again, M. Comte... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1873 - Liczba stron: 614
...apostles, " no one part has fully answered to her [the Church's] divine model. That which most loudly claims to have done so has most signally failed. To...Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.' .... Christian Rome has shaped herself after the type of her Imperial predecessor, rather than after... | |
 | 1877 - Liczba stron: 998
...that the one was the worship of Jupiter, and the other the worship of Jew Peter. The Papacy is but " the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." 'i'he proclamation of the immaculate conception of the Virgin by supernatural revelation, and with... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1877 - Liczba stron: 452
...submission which had well nigh become to it as a second nature. The new domination of Rome, ' that ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof,' as Ilobbes has so strikingly called it, with only such inevitable changes as the changed world-order... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1878 - Liczba stron: 466
...a submission which had well nigh become to it as a second nature. The new domination of Rome, "that ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof," as Hobbes has so strikingly called it, with only such inevitable changes as the changed world-order... | |
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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... 
