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... Council of Trent , and the Courts of Paris , Madrid , and Rome , had before that time foreboded the emancipation of Reason . Though the middle age be chiefly memorable as that in which the foundations of a new order of D 3 OF ETHICAL ...
... Council of Trent , and the Courts of Paris , Madrid , and Rome , had before that time foreboded the emancipation of Reason . Though the middle age be chiefly memorable as that in which the foundations of a new order of D 3 OF ETHICAL ...
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... Council of Trent , to whom that assembly were indebted for much of the precision and even elegance for which their doctrinal decrees are not unjustly commended , dedicated his Treatise on Justice and Law to Don Carlos , in terms of ...
... Council of Trent , to whom that assembly were indebted for much of the precision and even elegance for which their doctrinal decrees are not unjustly commended , dedicated his Treatise on Justice and Law to Don Carlos , in terms of ...
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... Council of Trent ( A. D. 1546 ) between the Dominicans who adhered to Aquinas , and the Franciscans who followed Scotus on original sin , justification , and grace , are to be found in Fra Paolo ( Istoria del Concilio Tridentino , lib ...
... Council of Trent ( A. D. 1546 ) between the Dominicans who adhered to Aquinas , and the Franciscans who followed Scotus on original sin , justification , and grace , are to be found in Fra Paolo ( Istoria del Concilio Tridentino , lib ...
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... Council of Trent , as a corrective of the misrepresentations of the celebrated Venetian . Algernon Sidney , who knew this court historian at Rome , and who may be believed when he speaks well of a Jesuit and a cardinal , commends the ...
... Council of Trent , as a corrective of the misrepresentations of the celebrated Venetian . Algernon Sidney , who knew this court historian at Rome , and who may be believed when he speaks well of a Jesuit and a cardinal , commends the ...
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... Council of Trent , at its renewal in 1560 , and , with Car- dinal Buoncampagni , drew up the decrees of reformation . Francis Sanchez , the father of philosophical grammar , pub- lished his Minerva at Salamanca in 1587 ; - so active was ...
... Council of Trent , at its renewal in 1560 , and , with Car- dinal Buoncampagni , drew up the decrees of reformation . Francis Sanchez , the father of philosophical grammar , pub- lished his Minerva at Salamanca in 1587 ; - so active was ...
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Page 182 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 345 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 303 - ... that which renders morality an active principle, and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery : It is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal .in the whole species.
Page 487 - I do nobody no harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live.
Page 61 - The laws of nature are immutable and eternal; for injustice, ingratitude, arrogance, pride, iniquity, acception of persons, and the rest can never be made lawful. For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Page 427 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
Page 345 - of LAW there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, — the very least, as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever ; though each in a different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 174 - I have found in this writer more original thinking and observation upon the several subjects that he has taken in hand, than in any other, not to say, than in all others put together. His talent also for illustration is unrivalled. But his thoughts are diffused through a long, various, and irregular work.
Page 130 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, TIME'S NOBLEST OFFSPRING IS ITS LAST.
Page 442 - I never did else cause any such thing to be done unto any of the heretics in all my life, except only twain : one was a child and a servant of mine in mine own house, whom his father, ere he came to me, had nursed up in such matters, and set him to attend upon George Jay. This Jay did...